Oxymatrine and Arbidol (umifenovir) togehter?

[JohnnyMinnesota99]

Hello everybody,

Some of you know me since I have posted some threads so far. I had an infection in June 2016 and have been suffered from CFS symptoms ever since. However, my personal recovery has been going on so that I would describe myself as an 8 out of 10 points (CFS level).

Since I have elevated antibody levels for Coxsackie B5, I have taken sodium selenite for six months and Oxymatrine for three months now. Moreover, I have taken 800 mg Arbidol per day (umifenovir) for 10 days now.

Does anybody happen to know if Arbidol and Oxymatrine can be taken togehter? Or do you know about any potential adversary effects so these two drugs might negatively affect each other's effect?

I haven't found anything negative about including selenium, but I'd like to ask you nonetheless: Any problems with taking selenium (sodium selenite in my case) in combination with Arbidol and Oxymatrine?

For all I know, both Arbidol and Oxymatrine can inhibit IL-10. Biochemically, that's all I know.

Best wishes and all the best to you all!!

Johnny Minnesota

 

[Swim15]

This is what I was going to do but my ARUP enterovirus labs turned up negative.

Oxymatrine + 800mg of arbidol a day for a minimum or 2 months was my plan

 

[JohnnyMinnesota99]

Hello @Swim15

So you think or you know that Oxymatrine and Arbidol togehter work well?

 

[Swim15]

Oxymatrine is used for enterovirus infections....Arbidol targets coxsackie virus infections. Can't think of a reason I wouldn't use them together

 

[JohnnyMinnesota99]

Thank you for your answer. Anything you know about Arbidol's limits in that it is only effective for an acute infection? Some say so, but I don't know wheter or not it is true.

 

[Swim15]

Why would that be? Honestly there isn’t a ton of literature on it, at at least no English lit. It’s effective against CV5 so I’d stay on it

 

[JohnnyMinnesota99]

Thank you for your advice. I really appreciate it.

 

[LongRanger]

Have you found arbidol to be a useful addition?

 

[JohnnyMinnesota99]

Hello... Good question. Too be honest, I don't know. It could have been the case that aridol helped me, but it's hard to tell.. I took it for approx. 2,5 months...

Best wishes

Johnny