Colchicine: another potentially promising COVID-19 treatment
This comes courtesy DuckHK whose well-sourced videos and articles I highly recommend. As reported by The Jserusalem Post:
An ancient Greek drug derived from the saffron plant could improve the treatment of people with severe COVID-19 and reduce the COVID mortality rate by as much as 50%, according to a report published earlier this month in the European Journal of Internal Medicine by an Israeli researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical School.
The drug, colchicine, dates back thousands of years to ancient Egypt, where it was known for its special healing properties. It is one of a few medicines that survived until modern times. Most recently, it has been used to treat and prevent inflammation caused by gout that can lead to painful arthritis and Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), which is common among Jewish people of North African descent.
Let us hope this one will actually see wide use. Given the history thus far, I am not particularly optimistic. It is almost as if some powerful forces don't want people to get effective treatment for COVID... but that is a bigger topic.
References
January 2, 2022 News Roundup
DuckHK, 3 January 2022
Ancient Greek drug could cut COVID-19 deaths - Israeli scientist
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, The Jerusalem Post, 14 December 2021
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BEER.I know Colchicine. It is used here for the treatment of FMF to reduce the febrile seizures and to protect the organs, kidneys particularly.
It is interesting to see that it might be used for Covid treatment.
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I have never heard of colchicine before but it definitely sounds like a highly useful compound.