21SW24 - The Antiviral Materia Medica Topics>>Pain Our focus this year is

Our focus this year is on the plants that beckon to us in the garden with special emphasis on good harvesting

and other special nutrients in terms of what their actions would be if they were plants

and botanical sleep agents

botanicals offer an important strategy as

Saint John's wort

21SW24 - The Antiviral Materia Medica Topics>>Pain Our focus this year isSpeaker: Paul Bergner, CN Medicinal plants may affect viral infections in humans in three general ways: direct virucidal or inhibitory effects with topical use; enhancement of host resistance for topical or systemic infection; or reduction of inflammatory damage from viral induced cytokine secretions. We first review evidence for direct virucidal effects of some medicinal plants for topical herpesvirus infections. We then shift to the claims made