the common elderberry may
prove to be the answer for some
international travellers who
frequently have post travel cold
and flu-like symptoms according to
new work out of Griffith’s Menzies
Health Institute Queensland (MHIQ).
Associate Professor Evelin
Tiralongo and Dr Shirley Wee
from MHIQ completed a clinical
trial showing the positive effect of
taking an elderberry supplement.
The trial used capsules containing
300mg of a standardised,
proprietary membrane-filtered
elderberry extract.
The Griffith study follows recent
European research published in
the open access journal Current
Therapeutic Research which
suggests that a combination of
echinacea herb and root extract
supplemented with elderberry can
be as effective as the conventional
antiviral medicine Tamiflu for the
early treatment of influenza, the
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