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“usually” is a very dangerous word. It hides all the times these plants had no effect or a negative effect. Either these plants you speak of are effective and their efficacy can be demonstrated repeatedly using trials or they’re not and someone is selling superstition. That’s still a choice between medicine and not medicine.
Things are of course not black and white...
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There have been a lot of papers and investigations that suggested a link to wet markets for this and prior pandemics of respiratory diseases. Here's a paper from 2004: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067360... "Wet markets—a continuing source of severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza?" Not many parts of the world have this practice and the places that do have nasty viruses.
Thanks for sharing that particular report. There's a couple of things worth pointing out. 1. This report is also strangely claiming that the H1N1 swine flu most likely "came from a frozen source and a laboratory seems the most probable culprit", a claim that both the WHO and CDC refuted. This raises a red flag for me. 2. I appreciate you sharing the article, and I want to read it critically. Unfortuantely this articl…