Note this user has basically zero HN history and is shilling an expensive product in a classic scammer way. I mean, maybe it's totally innocent! Doesn't look innocent!

I mean, maybe Moringa Oil is amazing (I doubt it). It's available for much cheaper than the listed amazon link: https://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/cold-pressed-rwandan-moringa...

I'm from the region where this plant originates and it's very popular to treat various health conditions. The fruits are consumed in stews and leaves used to make specialized tea to help with things like blood pressure.

The price point on amazon is ridiculous though...makes me want to get in the business of packaging and selling this product in the future (not specific to covid).

Hey, there may be some scientific support to this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3023118/

Glad it worked for you - but it's not exactly obvious to me how it would help, or how you administered it? Especially when you were gasping for air?

Thank you, benrrio. I appreciate your telling us, and as promised I will downvote mockers. You are definitely no scammer.

N=20, and I don't think it was double blind. I don't think this helps us.

We've been giving people stents for decades without any evidence that it was a great idea, so gimme a break :-)

"An open label, noncomparative clinical study" from the Indian Journal of Pharmacology isn't doing much to disprove my point.

That seems a little racist, but in any case:

There aren't very good studies for basically anything in medicine (let alone outside of medicine). Triple/Double-blind large studies are expensive in the extreme. We don't have strong evidence for the majority of things we do.

Recent examples might be mamograms causing more cancer than it detects and stents, it turns out, are no better than a placebo.

Therefore, the lack of a decent studies isn't in itself that interesting. Neither is it illogical for people to turn to old wives tales for knowledge because the filter of history on the knowledge is more powerful than retail medicine in terms of anecdata.

You can buy moringa seeds/leaf for much, much less. There is some anecdotal evidence it helps with asthma but I agree you would want to see more studies