Did you know that elderberry is one of the most commonly used medicinal plants in the world? It’s true! Many cultures have used elderberry for immunity.

Native Americans used the entire plant — from the berries to the leaves and roots. For example, they used the plant to treat infections, as well as reduce inflammation and heal wounds. Even Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, claimed that the elderberry plant was his “medicine chest.” Egyptians, meanwhile, relied on it for clear skin.

But is there any validity to using elderberry for immunity?

Research suggests that, yes, these benefits exist in more than just folk medicine. But first…

What is Elderberry?

It’s the fruit of the European elder tree. Also known as sambucus, it grows not only in Europe but throughout the northern hemisphere and in certain parts of Australasia and South America.

Don’t confuse it with American Elder, Elderflower, or Dwarf Elder; those are all completely different things.

Also, don’t try to go hunting for elderberries on your own in the wild, unless you know what you’re doing. The raw berries as well as the bark and leaves of the elderberry plant are mildly poisonous and can cause stomach discomfort.

Elderberry becomes edible when you (or whoever you’re buying it from) refine it, which we’ll get into in a moment.

Benefits of Elderberry for Immunity

As mentioned earlier, humans have been using this berry medicinally for centuries. More recently, however, researchers observed its medicinal benefits.

A 2011 study published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine acknowledges elderberry’s ability to combat influenza A and B viruses. These viruses cause what we refer to as the annual flu, which affects up to 20% of the population.

This study touts itself as the first to observe elderberry’s effect on combatting these viruses. The researchers go on to suggest that, based on their results, elderberry may make a great “additional and alternative” medicine for combatting these infections.

It’s worth noting, however, that the researchers behind this study tested the extract against the bacteria on lab surfaces as opposed to within the human body.

Through another study, however, researchers tested elderberry’s effect on 60 patients. The patients, aged between 18-54, were all suffering from influenza-like symptoms.

During the study, researchers gave patients either elderberry extract or placebo syrup four times daily for five days. Researchers observed the patients’ symptoms and noticed that the elderberry extract was able to relieve them an average of four days earlier. Plus, the patients who took the elderberry extract were significantly less likely to have to take medication for their symptoms following the study.

“Elderberry extract seems to offer an efficient, safe, and cost-effective treatment for influenza,” the researchers note in their abstract. In fact, we would go one step further and suggest you try elderberry for immunity the next time you have similar symptoms.

View FLCCC’s Flu and RSV Protocol

Why Does it Work?

In yet another case, an Israeli virologist tested the extract on patients suffering in the southern Israel flu epidemic of 1992/1993. Her results provide insight into why it combats influenza so well.

Within 24 hours, 20% of Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu’s patients saw dramatic improvements in symptoms such as fever, muscle aches, and coughing. By the second day, 73% of patients had improved. By day three, that number jumped to 90%.

Meanwhile, of the group that didn’t receive the extract, only 16% saw an improvement in symptoms after two days. It took nearly a week before they saw any improvement at all.

“To my knowledge, it’s the only product that can cut the flu in half, before complications have a chance of setting in,” said Dr. Mumcuoglu of her findings. Thanks to Dr. Mumcuoglu’s research, we now know that this berry functions by activating the immune system and inflammatory processes that are responsible for fighting off a virus.

Subsequent research from the European Cytokine Network confirms this, verifying that elderberries trigger inflammatory cytokines that help the immune system. Impressively, these effects aren’t just limited to people who are already infected. Even healthy individuals will receive an immune system boost.

Elderberry for Immunity: Beyond Influenza

Elderberry’s promising effects have led researchers to hypothesize about its potential to combat ailments beyond influenzas.

According to some, elderberry is rich in flavonoids that block HIV entry.

That’s powerful!

Other proposed benefits include:

• Improved digestive health
• Relief from allergies
• Treatment of urinary tract infections

How to Use Elderberry

Now, given the aforementioned toxicity of raw elderberries, you may be wondering how one should go about consuming this superfood.

Not to worry; elderberry is available in a variety of forms including supplements. Supplements are in fact the most common way to consume this superfood. They range in type from capsules to tinctures and lozenges.

Other ways to take elderberry include:

• Jelly
• Syrup
• Punch
• Tea

You can also find the berry in freeze-dried form, which allows you to make your own elderberry medicines.

Check out this clip for a walkthrough on creating your own elderberry tincture:

This article is republished from DavidWolfe.com under a Creative Commons license.

Here we go again…

“I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise,” wrote Bass. “I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters. I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives.”

Sounds like an apology, right? A bonafide “mea culpa”—wouldn’t you agree?

Uh, not so fast. It was not. In fact, it was anything but an “Aw, shucks…I’m sorry, folks.” In fact, it was more like the “non-apology” essay that pleaded for pandemic amnesty penned several months ago by Professor Emily Oster.)

In a brilliant new essay, A Midwestern Doctor pulls back the curtain on what was REALLY meant in that Newsweek Op-Ed.

“I believe the goal of this piece is to test out soundbites that could be used to address the major issues that the medical establishment has created for itself through analyzing how COVID-19 was handled. The goal essentially is to have their cake (say something nice that makes everyone happy) and eat it (not have to actually admit what they did wrong or relinquish any of their power by changing the core problematic policies they put forward).”

Dr. Pierre Kory, writing on Substack, said that, “If you are like me and thought Newsweek’s decision to publish an article like that was a genuine reflection of changing sentiment among not only the scientific community but also political and industry leadership, then please read the below essay. It wasn’t. At all. We are still getting played, but, at the same time, I think the decision to publish that article shows they are getting desperate.”

Read Dr. Kory’s entire essay on the issue HERE.

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In an Op-Ed on Fox News, our Dr. Pierre Kory writes that, “If new White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients has any hope of rebuilding trust with Americans, he needs to acknowledge past mistakes.”

Here, says Dr. Kory, are five places to start.

• First, admit promises about experimental mRNA vaccines fell short. 
• Second, acknowledge that re-purposed generic drugs should play a role in the ongoing fight against COVID. 
• Third, scrap plans for annual COVID-19 vaccinations.
• Fourth, immediately remove all pandemic mandates.
• Finally, concede that vaccine injuries are real, and call off the merchants of doubt.

Right 💯, Dr. K.!

Last week, we told you about the bombshell undercover interview of Pfizer director Jordon Walker obtained by Project Veritas in which Walker disclosed that Pfizer is conducting what they call “Directed Evolution” to see if they can mutate the virus as a way of making their future COVID vaccines more potent.

Now, in a new segment of that same undercover interview, Walker, who is the Director of R&D within the company’s mRNA division, expressed concern over how the COVID-19 vaccine may be affecting women’s reproductive health.

Said Walker:

“There is something irregular about the menstrual cycles. So, people will have to investigate that down the line. The [COVID] vaccine shouldn’t be interfering with that [menstrual cycles]. So, we don’t really know…I hope we don’t discover something really bad down the line…If something were to happen downstream and it was, like, really bad? I mean, the scale of that scandal would be enormous.”

The scandal “would be” enormous, Walker? Indeed, the scandal IS ALREADY enormous.

Sixteen state Attorneys General have sent a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy demanding that Congress end the COVID State of Emergency immediately, instead of waiting until spring, when the State of Emergency is scheduled to end.

The letter reads, in part:

“We encourage the new Congress to move quickly to limit HHS’ and FDA’s ability to unilaterally declare an emergency and approve unproven drugs that could cause harm to Americans, override any remaining emergency use authorizations for COVID vaccines, consider reforms to the sweeping liability shield created in 2005, and ensure that our liberties and system of government are robustly protected against any such future attempts at medical tyranny.”

President Biden has declared the pandemic over. Indeed, why the holdup?

 

In Episode 42 of Long (COVID) Story Short, Dr. Been explores the role of magnesium for Long COVID and Vaccine Injury. Magnesium is an essential mineral/nutrient required for more than 600 enzymatic actions in the body. Magnesium levels are also tied closely with the activation of vitamin D. Magnesium is involved in smooth muscle relaxation, neuroprotection, innate arm modulation, gut microbiome modulation, and much more. Thanks, Dr. Been, for sharing your indispensable knowledge!

This is Reuven’s account of the treatment his wife Ruth received when she was hospitalized for COVID-19.

“There was overwhelming evidence of malpractice throughout Ruth’s medical records.”

This heartbreaking story and so many others just like it remind us everyday of the myriad reasons why we must never retreat from the fight to PUT PATIENTS FIRST— no matter what. May Ruth’s memory always be for a blessing.

This woman was puzzled, then annoyed, that her government was advising people of her age to hibernate indoors. Instead, she went outdoors and took walks in the sun! Watch her MyStory HERE.

👀 👀 We now have “printables” (and more) available online — including this visual guide (below) to early treatment of COVID-19! From postcards and business cards to how-to videos and posters, it’s easy to share ways to stay healthy with friends and family! 👀 👀

The Biden administration has announced it will finally end the COVID-19 public health emergency — in May! The order has been renewed every 90 days since January 2020, even as the disease waned and life in most places returned to normal. But the federal government needs more time to unwind the mess it created.

And so, for another four months, it will be business as usual for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, pharmacies, and everyone else gaming the health system to keep the emergency funds rolling in.

When the sun finally does set on this dark chapter of American history, will there be an honest accounting of the mistakes made? We wouldn’t count on it. But our fearless leader, Dr. Pierre Kory, is more optimistic.

Writing in FoxNews, Dr. Kory lays out five mistakes that Jeff Zients, Biden’s newly installed White House Chief of Staff and coordinator of his disastrous coronavirus response, should admit to in order to rebuild trust with the public. Here are some highlights from the op-ed:

First, admit promises about experimental mRNA vaccines fell short. As Americans were learning how to pronounce “omicron” in December 2021, Zients delivered a dire warning from the White House briefing room…Since Zients’ declaration, the percentage of COVID fatalities among the vaccinated in the U.S. has steadily climbed…In a more recent report from the health department of New South Wales, Australia, which covered the last two weeks of December 2022, of the 1,415 hospitalized patients with known vaccination status, none were unvaccinated…

Second, acknowledge that re-purposed generic drugs should play a role in the ongoing fight against COVID… Numerous meta-analyses along with firsthand reports from clinicians around the world have found that safe, affordable medicines like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and fluvoxamine (among others) reduce COVID hospitalizations and deaths…

Third, scrap plans for annual COVID-19 vaccinations… Setting aside questions about efficacy, shocking new video footage showed a Pfizer executive discussing his company’s plans to mutate future strains of COVID that would require a new vaccine… Pfizer can deny the claims in the video all they want, but the numbers don’t lie. Analysts expect the company’s 2023 revenue to drop 26% as demand for the vaccine wanes.

Fourth, immediately remove all pandemic mandates… Healthcare workers who were fired for exercising medical freedom should be re-hired, and military service members who lost recruitment bonuses and salary should be made whole.

Finally, concede that vaccine injuries are real, and call off the merchants of doubt… I care for many people battling vaccine injuries, like Angelia Desselle. No one should be forced to endure the suffering she and so many others have gone through, only to become targets of media derision…

The House Republican majority has oversight responsibilities and subpoena authority. The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled its first hearing for early February. If the executive branch is unwilling to admit past mistakes, Congress should force its hand.

You can read the whole piece here.

You’ve probably seen the headlines by now…and you have questions. We did too. So, we’ll bring you what we know and how we know it here.

“It’s pretty good for the industry to be honest,” Walker told the reporter. “But it’s bad for everyone else in America.”

Oh, good to know, dude. So what you’re saying is that by using “selected structure mutations” (your words, Walker), you can make vaccines more potent…but then you keep doing that year after year to control “nature” (before nature happens) to sell more vaccines into the 90th century and well beyond. Do we have that right?

Walker: “It’s going to be a cash cow. COVID is going to be a cash cow for us going forward.”

Gotcha.

But wait! There’s more!

“Gain-of-function” research is not only dangerous, it’s illegal. It’s kind of like pouring gas on the entire earth and lighting a match—because with it comes the very real probability that something could be created, escape the lab, and infect most every person on the planet. (Sound familiar?) That’s probably why Walker was careful to say this wasn’t gain-of-function. It’s just “directed evolution”. See how we did that?

Here is more of what Walker had to say. (And by the way, here’s how we know Walker IS indeed a Pfizer exec— despite those who call him an “alleged” exec. Also, see image below.)

“Well, one of things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it ourselves so we could create preemptively new vaccines, right? So we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of, as you can imagine, no one wants to be having pharma company mutating f**king viruses. You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn’t create something like, you know, that goes everywhere. Which is the way the virus started in Wuhan to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere.”

And then there’s this little tidbit:

“Pfizer is a revolving door for government officials. Once they stop being a regulator for our drugs, they want to go to work for the company, they are not going to be as harsh on the company where they’re getting their job.”

Wow. Regulatory capture at its finest. A good example of this is former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who, when he left that job, he moseyed right into the board room at Pfizer. Made himself right at home there like the wolf who’s guarding the henhouse.

There’s no doubt Walker knew he was going to be in hot water by spilling all this tea on a date. So how did he react when Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe confronted him? This, you’ve GOT to see with your own eyes!! He said he lied just to impress a date, called the police, locked James and his colleagues in a restaurant, smashed an iPAD on the ground, and more.)

For brilliantly written context on all of this, please take a few moments to read an outstanding Substack essay written by A Midwestern Doctor. Says the good doctor, “Opening the market for mRNA therapies and permanently establishing another annually required vaccination for all Americans could provide so much future income to the medical industry so it was a foregone conclusion that anything which threatened this outcome would be targeted by every one of our institutions.”

As you may know, the infrastructure to push these vaccines on the entire population is now being rolled out to the entire healthcare system—in lockstep with the FDA’s pivot towards annual COVID-19 vaccinations.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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*** BREAKING NEWS UPDATE ***

Pfizer has just released a statement about the undercover video. In the statement, Pfizer seems to deny having dabbled in either Gain-of-Function or “Directed Evolution” research—goings on that Walker unequivocally disclosed to the undercover reporter. But with surgical precision, Jeff Childers—who writes the “Coffee & COVID” Substack—dissects Pfizer’s statement and peels back the deceptive dermis to reveal the underbelly of what was really said in the pharmaceutical-maker’s statement.

Childers writes: “Pfizer’s statement was packed with lawyerly sleight-of-hand and misdirection. But there are three key admissions, each successively more damning for the pharma company, but obscured by tricky rhetorical legerdemain. Let’s pull the curtain back.”

We’re following this VERY closely. Stay tuned to FLCCC.net. MUCH more to come.

This week, The Daily Caller published an opinion piece by our Dr. Pierre Kory entitled, “A War Is Still Being Waged Against Doctors Who Question COVID Orthodoxy.”

According to Dr. Kory’s recent Substack summarizing article, he said, “I argue that the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government should be ground zero for investigating how the administration is using COVID-19 to wage war on doctors who won’t follow its orthodoxy.”

“Unrelenting reports of people in largely perfect health, out in society doing routine or pleasurable activities and then dropping dead or unconscious, often being captured on television studio sets, auditorium stages, subway platforms, street surveillance cameras, playgrounds, sporting events, athletic fields, and even broadcaster desks. To date, I am not aware of a single newspaper report (even from tiny local papers) which openly implicates the vaccine as a even a possible cause let alone an almost certain one. An unimaginably dystopian nightmare all around us… while society seemingly carries on as normal,” writes Dr. Kory.

Dr. Kory concludes that, “This campaign must be stopped, its origins and evolution must be thoroughly documented, and it must never be allowed to recur. Physician autonomy must be restored lest all patients suffer.”

Dr. Pierre Kory appeared on The Highwire this week to do something he never thought he would have to do: Defend the vaccine injured from journalists and social media posts who have vilified them as “fakers.”

“When are they going to stop?” said Dr. Kory. “This has all the hallmarks of propaganda. The reason they’re doing this is that it is the most convenient way to characterize the millions of people who’ve been injured or died as just making this up. The entire medical system that has propagated and promoted the most toxic medical intervention in history had to find a convenient way to make them go away by discrediting them and saying they are faking their injuries.”

A lot of my patients have experienced spasms, contortions, convulsing, uncontrolled tingling, weakness and numbness. They don’t need to dramatize this. These people are sick. The suffering they have to undergo, and then to have the media gaslight their injuries. This leaves me speechless.”

According to Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on Twitter, a judge just granted a preliminary injunction in the Hoeg v. Newsom lawsuit, the one about  AB 2098—the gag order on California medical providers. This effectively means this terrible law cannot be implemented while the case is being tried. Dr. Kheriaty is one of the plaintiffs.

The law declares that “It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”

Though this is just a preliminary injunction, Kheriaty has high hopes that he and the other plaintiffs will prevail if the case comes to trial.

“The ruling bodes well for our case: it indicates that our arguments that this law is unconstitutional have strong pre-trial facial plausibility. Not to get ahead of ourselves, of course, or try to predict the final outcome of the case, but this is a very positive development.”

Below is a portion of the judge’s ruling. The entire ruling can be found HERE.

Wednesday’s FLCCC Weekly Webinar, ‘Controlled Narrative: Lawsuit Against the “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI)’, featured host Betsy Ashton in conversation with guests Christine Dolan and Todd Wood from CD Media; and Daniel O’Connor from Trial Site News.

The panel discussed the recent lawsuit filed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and other plaintiffs against the Trusted News Initiative (TNI). According to The Children’s Health Defense, “The TNI exists to, in its own words, “choke off” and “stamp out” online news reporting that the TNI or any of its members peremptorily deems “misinformation.”

The 100-page complaint was filed this month in a US District Court in Texas. The defendants are the BBC, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Reuters, among others.

In this week’s edition of Long (COVID) Story Short, our Dr. Been discusses Melatonin and Near Infrared Light and reviews why being in the morning and evening sunlight and being in the green places should be an important part of life. Watch the episode HERE.

And don’t miss this special message from Dr. Been marking his 40^th episode!

The FLCCC community provided guidance and support for this woman and her husband in bleak times—giving them hope. Watch this uplifting MyStory from Canada HERE.

Our second Medical Education Conference is happening April 28-29 in Fort Worth Texas! CLICK HERE to make sure you’re on the list to be notified the moment details are announced. Learn about emerging therapies for spike-protein-related diseases from outstanding physicians, scientists and researchers from around the world who are developing new and effective ways to treat patients.

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Ed Dowd, founding partner of Phinance Technologies and the author of ‘Cause Unknown’, joined Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Pierre Kory and host Betsy Ashton on the FLCCC Weekly Webinar for a timely discussion on ‘The Epidemic of Sudden Death’ that we are all witnessing.

Said Dowd, “We are literally living in a time where corporate fascism is real and human life is cheap. And that’s where we are. And what’s going on is a systemic problem as well as a humanitarian crisis.”

“When people ask me, ‘What can we do?’, I name your organization, the FLCCC. So your organization is the beginning of the new way.”

A completely engrossing discussion.

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Of interest, on his Coffee & COVID Substack earlier this week, Jeff Childers wrote about the scourge of excess deaths around the world.

“Europe as a whole is getting shellacked. As of January 14th, official data aggregator Euromomo showed 2022 excess deaths rivaling those for 2020 — the year with the deadliest covid variant and without vaccines or any officially-approved treatments other than a kidney-destroying remdesivir injection and the vent.

A 35-year veteran OB/GYN — who goes by the name “Brandon is not your bro” on social media — shares stories of his experiences throughout the COVID pandemic and its aftermath.

One such story involved Marie — a pediatric nurse practitioner who experienced heart arrhythmia and angina after her fourth COVID injection. The doctor tried to warn her, and she responded by saying, “But everyone was getting it and thought it was ok!” He told her about the FLCCC and suggested she make an appointment with a provider in the FLCCC Alliance. Then, he asked her if she noticed all the abruptions and pre-term deliveries that were happening… and that’s when the lightbulb went on for her. “Oh my!” she said. “I never put it together!”

My, that’s one bright light.

Judge Gerard Neri, a state Supreme Court judge in Syracuse, New York, struck down a statewide mandate for medical staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The ruling stipulated that Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state’s health department exceeded their authority.

In his ruling, the judge declared the statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for medical staff ‘null, void, and of no effect.’

The mandate, said the judge, was “arbitrary and capricious” and he cited evidence that COVID-19 vaccines don’t prevent the spread of the virus, which undercut the basis for the mandate.

This week, Florida Governor DeSantis announced a package of proposed legislation captioned, “Permanent Protections Against the COVID-19 Biomedical Security State.”

Under the new laws, employers would not be able to discriminate against employees based on their COVID injection status, nor can masks be required outside industrial settings where necessary to protect employees apart from COVID. Governor DeSantis said that the new package of laws will also provide “the strongest speech protections for doctors in America.”

Our irreverent (and quite humorous) “Here’s a Thought” columnist Jenna McCarthy asks why people believe what they believe, and why many people blindly follow so-called ‘experts’ without question.

“I love it when people ask me why running naked through Times Square carrying a live porcupine would be preferable to rolling up my sleeve for the experimental hokey pokey.

“I’m so glad you asked,” I say. “Pull up a chair.”

Jenna also explores disarming ways to discuss prickly issues with what she calls “FFDs” — Folks who Feel Differently. Everyone could use a heaping helping of Jenna’s irresistible voice about now.

This week, our Dr. Been leads a timely discussion looking at the latest study on Long COVID symptom clusters and their proportions on this, the 40th (!!!) episode of his popular video series, Long (COVID) Story Short. The findings are fascinating.

Watch now.

What are the most common symptoms of Long COVID? Sadly, many healthcare providers don’t know how to recognize the symptoms and many patients are suffering silently. Learn more about Long COVID with this short video!

Deb treated her 83-year-old dad with the FLCCC I-CARE protocol. After just 2 doses, he started to recover. Watch her full story HERE.

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