A bit weird. Germans and U of Kentucky researchers looking at whether extracts from wormwood plant and coffee have some beneficial effect against covid-19
A. annua leaves ( wormwood plant) from a cultivated seed line grown by ArtemiLife Inc. in Kentucky, U.S., when extracted with absolute ethanol or distilled water, provided the best antiviral activity. The addition of either ethanolic or aqueous A. annua extracts prior to virus addition resulted in significantly reduced plaque formation. The ethanolic extract of both A. annua and coffee was found to be most active.
However, artemisinin plant (famous as a treatment for Malaria) alone does not present much antiviral activity.
"I was surprised to find that A. annua extracts worked significantly better than pure artemisinin derivatives and that the addition of coffee further enhanced the activity," says Klaus Osterrieder, professor of virology at Freie Universität Berlin who conducted all activity assays. End quote
Good News for Perhaps Coffee Drinkers Out There ??
