How Traditional Plant Medicine Can Cure H1N1 Flu Virus?

As the H1N1 flu continues to spread all over the globe, people are concerned with exactly how effective all the vaccines developed to provide protection against the flu really are. The Tamiflu is barely tested and is therefore not 100% reliable and provides no guarantee for effective treatment and protection against the flu. However, a group of Chinese scientists have suggested treating the H1N1 flu with the use of simple and natural therapies using a plant remedy that is considered to be ancient and has been used for many centuries. A plant called Ferula assa-foetida has roots, which were used long ago to fight the pandemic of the Spanish influenza has been documented by a group of Chinese scientists as a possible cure for the H1N1 swine flu. Scientists have actually discovered that the roots of this same plant are able to kill the H1N1 flu virus and can thus provide a proper solution to effectively treating the H1N1 swine flu. This antidote for the swine flu is said to be much more powerful than prescription antiviral drugs as the plant contains some chemical compounds which have proven to be very potent against the H1N1 influenza. Thus is the discovery of a new cure for the dreaded H1N1 flu, and that too, only using natural products. The roots of the Ferula assa-foetida have been used to treat influenza for many years, alongside cases of cancer and have been used as a natural antibiotic, antispasmodic, diuretic treatment and much more. The plant mainly grows in Afghanistan, Mainland China and Iran and tastes a lot like onions when cooked and is known to give off a very bad smell when raw.