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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE

t long last a
cure for in-
fluenza may
be as near as
your pharmacy shelf.
researchers at the
Hebrew University-
Hadassah Medical
Center in Jerusalem
have found what
they believe is the
answer to the in-
fluenza virus in the
humble Sambucus
nigra, better known
as the black elder-
berry.
The story began
when Hadassah vi-
rologist Madeleine
Mumcuoglu em-
barked on her doc-
toral research.
"I was looking for
a topic," she says.
Madeleine Mumcuoglu may have
"My supervisor, Pro- Israeli researc her
effective remedy for flu.
d iscovere d
fessor Jean Linden-
man, the man who discovered zyme neuraminidase, which
interferon, suggested elderber- helps break down the cell wall.
ries. They have possibilities,' he The elderberry inhibits the action
said. 'In any case, I've got 10 ki- of the enzyme. My guess is we'll
los of them in my deep-freeze.' " find that elderberry acts against
With medicinal plants in- viruses in other ways, as well."
While there are several elder-
creasingly under the scrutiny of
scientists, the elderberry, with its berry-based remedies on the mar-
long and honorable history in folk ket, none contained the active
healing, was an attractive choice. principle Dr. Mumcuoglu had iso-
Dr. Mumcuoglu began by cata- lated. So she developed her own
loging the elderberry's proteins, syrup which does have the es-
isolating their active princi- sential ingredient, and called it
ples,and trying to see what they Sambucol. In the lab, it worked
against different strains of in-
contained.
Because the elderberry has fluenza virus. The time had come
traditionally been used to cure for a clinical trial, and Helsinki
coughs, colds, influenza and committee approval was ob-
rhinitis, she tested the proteins tained.
"In the winter of 1992-93 an in-
first against the influenza B virus
— and found that two of them fluenza epidemic broke out on a
combated it very effectively in- kibbutz in southern Israel," Dr.
Mumcuoglu says. "We took
deed.
"They actually prevent the serum samples from everyone
virus from invading the cell," she there, and eliminated from the
says. "As viruses can't replicate study those without influenza an-
themselves outside living cells, tibodies. We then gave half the
they have to invade cells to sur- patients four teaspoons of Sam-
vive. If you can stop them enter- bucol a day, and the others a
ing cells, you've defeated the placebo."
Each day, symptoms were
disease."
checked
and further serum sam-
The influenza virus invades
cells by puncturing the cell wall ples taken. Within 24 hours, the
with the tiny spikes of hemmag- symptoms of 20 percent of the
glutinin that cover its surface. Sambucol patients had signifi-
The active ingredient in the el- cantly improved (fever, cough,
derberry disarms the spikes; it muscle pain) . After the second
binds to them, thus stopping day, 73 percent declared them-
them from piercing the cell mem- selves cured. Among the placebo
group, only 16 percent were im-
brane.
"This was the first discovery," proved after two days, and it took
Dr. Mumcuoglu says. "Next we most of them six days to feel well
found evidence that elderberry again.
The next stage was to patent
proteins fight the influenza virus
in another way, too. The viral Sambucol. Because it contains
spikes are covered with the en- only elderberries, Dr. Mumcuoglu