Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections
$ 0.99
Price: $0.99
(as of Mar 20, 2025 02:50:51 UTC – Details)
Viruses are smart, mutating and becoming resistant to antiviral pharmaceuticals. Global crises such as COVID-19, SARS, and dengue fever spread more quickly than we can develop medicines to fight them. Herbalist and bestselling author Stephen Harrod Buhner has studied the antiviral properties of plants for many years. In this comprehensive guide, he profiles the plants that have proven most effective in fighting viral infections and provides in-depth instructions for preparing and using formulations to address the most common infections and strengthen immunity, safely and naturally.
This updated second edition includes an expanded guide to COVID-19, including a review of the most up-to-date medical research and the plant medicines that have been found to be most potent in preventing infection, lessening the impact of the virus on the body, and addressing longer-term effects and co-infections.
Customers say
Customers find the book provides detailed information on plant medicines and how they can be used. They describe the writing as clear, easy to understand, and down-to-earth. The author’s humor is praised as humorous and not dry. Many readers appreciate the antimicrobial properties of the herbs discussed in the book. However, opinions differ on whether the recipes are suitable for novice herbalists.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
8 reviews for Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections
Add a review
Related Products
$ 0.99
Pod –
Superbly Usable Reference Book
This is not your grandmother’s little book of home remedies. This is 408 pages of superbly organized clinical information on the state of the medical arts’ research and findings about emerging viruses, respiratory viruses, encephalitis viruses, CMV, Dengue, Shingles, Epstein-Barr just to name a very few, and the treatment protocols the author is using with varying degrees of success, how successful or not the protocols are proving themselves to be, the recommended forms and dosages for combining with amino acids, vitamins, protein supplements, and just about anything common sensical you can do to help yourself heal. It was published in 2013, so it’s reasonably current. Pages 122-259 are a materia medica of common and highly accessible, antiviral herbs, alphabetically organized, including the plant taxonomy identification by family and species used specifically for medical applications, the parts of the plants used for acute vs chronic conditions respectively, the best forms for the conditions, the prep of these forms if you can’t find it and have to make your own, possible side effects, herb/drug interactions, herb/herb interactions, cultivation and collection, and habitat and appearance. And if that isn’t enough info on your herb of choice, there’s a list of actions, a huge list of viruses and bacteria it’s active against, what it’s most frequently used successfully to treat, the not-so-commonly known uses it can be beneficial for, some vendor sources for finding it, an explanation of how the plant chemistry works in the body, and how and what the herb is used to treat in Traditional Chinese Medicine, indigenous peoples’ medicine, Western Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine. Finally, there’s a rundown of the state of research regarding the herb in lab studies and human medical trials as of 2012-13. There are 42 pages devoted to 3 commonly employed herbs for strengthening the immune system. Appendix A includes many home remedies for the things you really need help with, like childhood fevers and diarrhea. Appendix B has 10 sources for acquiring in bulk or having custom medicines made for you. There is a superlative bibliography (52 pages) in the back, and a 22-page Alphabetical Index to the book in the back.I bought this book last month, because I have had chronic fatigue syndrome since 2003, coming and going in varying degrees of severity. All our American doctors know to do is prescribe a pill for a symptom. That isn’t healing; that’s palliative treatment. That’s what they do to keep you comfortable until you croak. The last 5-1/2 years, especially, as I approach 60 years of age, have been a down-hill slide into increasingly broken health. Three weeks ago I started the author’s protocol for Epstein-Barr systemic infection and infection of the cornea of the eye. I also added the Sacred Seven mushrooms in powdered form once daily in my coffee and hyaluronic acid eyedrops and MSM eyedrops. In just 10 days, I’ve seen a rather dramatic upward curve in my health. The systemic inflammation is down by probably 75% after 15 months of rheumatic hell. My corneas are still touchy, but the virus is not active and they are stable for the first time in over 1 year. Today, I went out in the 96-degree Texas heat and humidity and used a heavy pole saw to cut a big, fallen pecan limb off my telephone line and garage roof, so I can take pics and file a claim for roof repair. The fact that I had the muscular strength to hoist a pole saw 14 feet into the air is remarkable. The additional fact that I felt only temporary muscle fatigue that faded after I showered and rested an hour and that I am not utterly exhausted and, in fact, feel good…like cooking a meal and practicing my musical instrument kind of feel good…is enough to bring tears to my eyes. Thank God for this author and this book, and for all the external sources he has pointed me toward. I feel better than I’ve felt in over 10 years. It’s not a fragile shift toward the better. It’s a roaring into the straightaway, clear- and bright-eyed, glowing-complection kind of shift. We don’t build resistance to healing plant and food substances like we do pharmaceuticals. There’s no reason to fear this immune-building protocol will stop working for that reason. My fingers are crossed, and I’m hopeful. I may actually get my life back. Please God, let it be so!
Jeffrey Dach MD –
Herbal Antivirals Are More Effective Than Drugs – This is the Definitive Book
Herbal AntiVirals By Stephen Harrod BuhnerIt was about twenty years ago, and I still remember vividly an anxious middle aged man on oxygen sitting up on his stretcher in the waiting area of the Hospital Xray department outside my office. He was there for his daily chest Xray to follow his viral pneumonia. After a few days, he stopped coming down, and the hospital staff informed me he had succumbed to his illness. This was a bitter lesson. Although we doctors have effective antibiotics for bacterial pneumonia, we have no such drugs for viral pneumonia, and in fact, we have very little to offer these unfortunate people except supportive care. And yes, some die from viral pneumonia.Although modern medicine has made considerable progress in antiviral drug discovery such as Acyclovir for Herpes virus, most cultures and ethnic groups on the planet have successfully used anti-viral medicinal plants for thousands of years for prevention and treatment of a viral disease. The mechanism is fusion inhibition, which prevents attachment of the viral capsule to the host cell membrane, thus preventing entrance of virus into the cell where replication takes place.Buhner’s Herbal Antivirals book has an excellent discussion of the Influenza epidemic of 1918 and discusses various herbal treatments for various viral diseases as well in depth discussion of each herbal. I must say the book is impressive for a number of reasons. One is the extensive reference to the medical literature as well as the ethnic herbal literature, pulling usually separated sources together. My only quibble is that reference numbers are missing in the text, so one is forced to search through the bibliography to find the reference if interested in reading it. According to Dr. Buhnerâs book, the three top candidates as anti-viral herbals are Elderberry, Licorice Root and Chinese Skull cap. Perhaps the most widely available of the antiviral botanicals is Black Elderberry Syrup, which can be found at most health food stores and markets.’ This is just the thing for little kids who pick up a new bug every week at child day care.Licorice Root is widely available at most health food stores as capsules or tinctures. One must be careful to avoid the DGL (deglycyrrhizinated licorice root) as this form has the active ingredient removed. Douglas Labs offers lDouglas Laboratories® – Licorice Root-V (with Glycyrrhizin) which Dr Buhner recommends: standardized to 12% glycyrrhizin per each 500 mg capsule. I have given this product to family members during viral illness with good results. Licorice Root is also available from various herbal apothecaries as tinctures.Chinese Skullcap is one of Buhner’s favorite anti-virals. Dr Buhner reminds us to avoid the American Skullcap which is a different species and less effective than Chinese skullcap which contains the active ingredients Baicalin and Baicalein. American skullcap is called Scutellaria lateriflora whereas the correct one, the Chinese skullcap, is called Scutellaria baicalensis. The Chinese Skullcap comes as a dried root, and best used as a tincture prepared in alcohol. Dr Buhner lists a number of herbal apothecaries that he likes for the tinctures.As an added bonus in the book, Buhner provides his favorite sources for the herbal preparations mentioned in the book. This list of herbal anti-virals is by no means final, as there are perhaps hundreds more, such as ginger, Olive Leaf, Garlic, Artemisinin, Berberine, Monolaurin, Humic Acid, Lactoferrin, colostrum etc.One should remember the importance of replenishing vitamin C and selenium levels in the critically ill patient with pneumonia as discussed in my previous article. A good Vitamin D level prevents viral infection as mentioned in my previous article.Jeffrey Dach MD
Gynnie C. –
Very well written
Power packed. with some hints of ways to treat different problems. the average person gets some ideas of what products will be a more natural way to treat this or that common ailment. In an age when many folks run to the dr for a first sneeze, some common sense is needed. There are some things for what to use if you have shingles..and I find it amazing that many doctors seem to say there is no treatment., and I was under the assumption onece you have had them that is it…no more, but find they reoccur..and tells you what might build up your body’s immunity againts reoccuring Having had shingles as a teen I remember shingles did run its course but there were things lkek cream to relieve the blisters and pain some. This even has a cream you can make yourself that I have not yet made but intend to. The bk tells you do not eat this because it would flare up the problem, it tells you what the suggestions will do, will not do…very down to earth..and even tells you where some sources of where you might purchase from. While a very small child I remember a book my parents used since going to doctors was not always an option. This books talks about many ailments but the information on shingles is worth the price of the book of itself. My advice: If your health books do not include this book, get it. There are some parts that seemed just extra words to me, but as I read, those words I thought of as extra better explained something so were needed.to understand other information.
Lena Manuylova –
Love this series. Super rich in information
Fin –
a good book to complete my phytotherapy studies.it is difficult to find any book that is not written in allopathic tecno babble.this book discusses the action and method of a virus.and then offers naturopathic remedies for various infections.it is technical only where it needs to be.unfortunetly, in the world we now live in most of the remedies suggested are not permittedin many EU countries due to big Pharma control, and patents.essentially if it aint described as food, you cant have it.good ol EU-ROPE tying everything up.well,at least this book gives knowledge, and knowledge is power.an excellent resource
Susan –
The book arrived in the shape that was expected. The info will have me digesting for a long time. And here I thought I knew a lot before. What has distracted me from the excitement was the delivery. It got here a day early but was prepared for this morning. The delivery person did not ring or knock at the door but stuck it in the back yard. WHY?
Enrico Fröhlich –
Als Mediziner finde ich alle Bücher des Autors lesens- und bedenkenswert. Der Autor schreibt in einem Stil, den auch interessierte Laien gut verstehen können. Speziell hervorheben will ich die Darstellung der Zusammenhänge zwischen Ãkologie und den Viruserkrankungen. Ausserdem gibt der Autor viele praktische Ratschläge und Anleitungen.
vijay –
loved it great work!