The Effectiveness of Revivo Herbal Tea in Treating HIV - e

The HIV-1 virus infection which is responsible for AIDS is as virulent as ever and continues to evade both a cure or even a vaccine for which billions of dollars of research money has already been spent. In the meantime the treatment options though life-saving leave much to be desired in terms of their side effects and relatively high cost. Herbs, however may hold the solution....
As with conventional pharmaceuticals it cannot be said that any herb has been found that is a cure for AIDS or that can destroy the HIV virus completely, There are however compelling studies that have shown many herbal medicinals and their chemical constituents to interfere with the replication of the virus, and hundreds more than can deal with the associated symptoms and other side-effects of conventional AIDS drugs.
In one such study two researchers, one at the University of California at Davis and another at the Chinese University of Hong Kong screened 27 herbs against the HIV virus which are generally used within chinese medicine for the treatment of infections. Out of these 27, 5 almost completely stopped HIV in laboratory cells and 6 others showed significant inhibiting activity.
Enter Revivo, Revivo is a name given to the herbal formulation developed by Aconite Herbals based in South Africa and comprising the best of these 11 medicinals together with a host of other medicinals which are regarded as "assistants" in the formula that treat other symptoms of HIV infection and also reduce the side-effects of ARV therapy.
The Revivo formulation is a trademark of Aconite Herbals and contains the following medicinals:
Arcitum Lappa
Coix Seed
Momordica Charantia
Hypericum Chinensis
Nelumbo Nucifera
Prunella Vulgaris
Zizyphus Jojoba
From the above medicinals Nelumbo Nucifera, Arctium Lappa and Prunella Vulgaris are among the 11 that showed significant activity against the HIV virus in the laboratory study conducted by the two researchers. (R. Shihman Chang and H.W. Yeung, "Inhibition Of Growth Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus By Crude Extracts OF Chinese Medicinal Herbs", Antiviral Research, 9 (1988), pages 163-176.)
The same three medicinals have been used for centuries in Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat the following:
Infections
Sore throat
Lumps and nodules
Skin rashes
Diarrhea
Bleeding
Dizziness
Pulmonary TB
Infectious Hepatitis
The remaining medicinals have been used in Chinese Medicine for treating:
Insomnia
Muscle spasm
Diarrhea
Pulmonary abscesses
Por circulation
Abdominal pain
General pain
The herbs in the formula work by various means, some contain specific chemicals such as MAP30 and betulinic acid which interfere with HIV replication, others are used based on their understanding within the Chinese Medicine framework such as Coix Seed which is known as being Cool, sweet and bland and having the function of strengthening the digestion, clearing heat from the lungs and draining dampness. The framework of Chinese Medicine has been developed over a period of 2000 years and based on that empirical knowledge makes for a wonderfully effective healing methodology which has also been shown effective for HIV.
Users of Revivo report inceased CD4 counts, decreased viral loads and general decrease of symptoms such as night sweats, insomnia, pain etc. Though no full clinical studies have been conducted the results so far are encouraging and because of the low chance of side-effects with this herbal formula it comes as a recommendation from many complementary medicine practitioners to make use of such a formula to assist in the fight against HIV.

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