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To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (406)	9/6/1996 9:00:00 PM
From: WWS	of 4342

Richard, the problem with finding treatment compounds embedded in natural substances is that, once accomplished, still about 99% of the work (and cost) remains on the road to a marketed drug. If this were not so, then why didn't the 1988 investigators carry their work further. I'll bet that they even approached drug companies, or that other drug companies, before PRLN, read the same article as we did yet "passed" on the chance to continue development. No, I think that "discovering" that a natural compound has some sort of antiviral action to be the easy part of the process. As to TCM and common cold, I've tried almost everything that my Chinese friends have recommended to me (many based on radix isatidis). But NOTHING has worked for me or my family as well as plain ECHINACEA (purple coneflower) from right here in the good old USA and available (get the tea) from any health food store in the country. Interestingly, you'll notice that Bastyr is doing work on this very topic: echinacea and the common cold. But, given the ready availability of echinacea (for 25 cents you can grow a garden of the flowers from package of seed) I doubt that there will ever be a company making a mint from this beneficial relative of the daisy.

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