Natural cold and flu busters unlikely to do the trick but could do harm
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“We’re not worried about the turmeric in a latte or a foul-tasting coffee,” Professor Moses says. “But the tablets and capsules [people] buy, they are not natural any more, they have been made in a factory. And that’s where we worry.”
Professor Moses also lists black pepper, schisandra fruit, goldenseal root, green tea, guarana and yerbe mate as known to alter the way conventional medicines work. But there are many others.
Of the common alternative remedies, she nominates zinc as one that might actually work. “I believe in that one.”
In studies, zinc appears to cut cold length by a couple of days – but with significant side effects.
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