lysine/astragalus

[Guest guest]

These supplements are used to boost the immune system. My understanding is

that it is to be taken long term unlike echinacea. My only experience with

lysine is from a vet who prescribed it when I had a cat who had a fever and

seemed to have an upper respiratory infection.

Is there anyone who can give me the bottom line on these supplements. Do

you take one or the other and how to choose. That sort of thing.

Thank you.

Denise

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Denise;

Lysine can have some additional importance because arginine amino

acid accentuates the symptoms of an attack of the herpes type of

virus [McCune]. Thus an attack of shingles, which disease is a

resurgence of chicken pox virus from the pain nerves near the spine

where they have been dormant, will be accentuated and perhaps even

triggered by foods high in arginine. These foods are said to include

peanuts (peanuts are 50% higher than cashews, but which last are

substantial nevertheless), other nuts and non grass seeds, and

chocolate (see here for a table which gives lysine and arginine

values by weight of food and lysine\arginine ratios). Lysine helps to

mute the effects of the virus, significantly reducing the occurrence

(when taken routinely during the disease), severity, and healing time

of herpes simplex virus [Griffith]. You can recognize shingles by

large patches of a painful rash which appears on one side of the body

in people under emotional stress [irwin], older people, or people

whose immune system has been compromised.

The links are available in;

http://members.tripod.com/~charles_W/arthritis9.html

 

McCune MA, Perry HO, Muller SA, O'Fallon WM 1984 Treatment of

recurrent herpes simplex infections with

L-lysine monohydrochloride. Cutis Oct;34(4):366-73.

 

Sincerely, Charles Weber

[Guest guest]

So lysine is used for herpes? I was under the impression that it was an

immune builder in general.

Denise

 

 

> Dear Denise;

> Lysine can have some additional importance because arginine amino

> acid accentuates the symptoms of an attack of the herpes type of

> virus [McCune].