Polyporus Antiviral Spray

[Charles Gavette]

The Birch Polypore Complex has been used in Scandinavian, and especially
Finnish folk medicine for a very long time for colds and flu. In vivo,
hydro-extracts and ethanolic extracts of this fungus have potent antiviral
activity (see the Italian journal Phytoterapia). There may be an application
of these extracts for use as an antiviral spray for surfaces in the rearing
of lepidoptera. The type fungus occurs all over the temperate world. The
birch polypore, then, may have multiple uses. As far as I know, no one has
attempted a study on this.  




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