Date:   12/24/2009 11:46:12 AM ( 16 y ago)
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I was JUST reading this. If you put in an internet search for "coxsackie TCM" there are chinese studies on herbs that work on coxsackie. There are different strains of coxsackie, and I've found several studies, with different herbs studied. It's interesting! I was reading an article last night, talking about Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs, and formulas that have been studied to be effective against West Nile Virus, and Avian Flu.

http://www.acupunctureproducts.com/Fratkin_The_Potential_Avian_Flu_Epidemic.html


I found most of the anti-viral herbs named in the article here:
http://www.chineseherbsdirect.com/


Coxsackie Virus and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Coxsackie=polio too.
http://acupuncture.com/conditions/cfids_me.htm


Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is becoming more and more widespread in Western countries. ME is the name most commonly used in the UK, while in the USA it is now called Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS). This condition is also variously called "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome," "Postviral Syndrome," or "Postviral Fatigue Syndrome." I personally make a distinction between "true" ME and "not true" ME which I call "Postviral Fatigue Syndrome," and this distinction (and its significance) will be explained shortly.

Western View
ME is still not generally accepted or recognized as a "disease" in Western medicine. The main reasons for this are that there is no accepted test for it and that the same condition may result from a number of different causative factors (e.g. enteroviruses, Epstein-Barr virus, etc.). However, several doctors are researching the aetiology and pathology of ME. In Britain, there seems to be general agreement among those who are researching ME that it is a chronic viral infection. The virus implicated is thought to be a Coxsackie virus, which belongs to the family of enteroviruses. Other researchers think that all the enteroviruses discovered in the last 30-40 years, of which there are 72, are no more than variations of the polio virus, and they believe that ME is nothing but a form of polio. In the acute stage, enteroviruses cause a fever and swollen glands; if not neutralized by the body's immune system, they cause a chest infection and then settle in the intestines where they form a reservoir of infection (hence their name, as entero stands for "intestines"). From the intestines, these viruses display a particular tropism towards nerve and muscle cells therefore settling in the muscles and brain: this explains two of the major symptoms of ME, i.e. poor memory and concentration, and muscle ache. Muscle biopsy samples of 140 patients with clinical symptoms of ME showed that 24% of subjects were positive for the presence of enterovirus RNA. This may not sound like a high percentage but it becomes very significant when compared with a control group of 152 subjects, none of whom showed the presence of enterovirus RNA in their muscle biopsies. Statistically, this is a highly significant finding as P=<0.00001. In the USA, research seems to be oriented more towards the Epstein-Barr virus (the one that causes mononucleosis or glandular fever) as a cause of ME.

 

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