The COVID-19 pandemic is still happening around the world. Although many kinds of COVID-19 vaccines have been established, most of them are not effective against the virus variants. A study by China Medical University in Taiwan pointed that an alkaloid, peimine, which is extracted from Fritillary plants, has a preventive effect from some virus variants, and has the potential to be developed as a drug or health food. This research was published in the Journal of Food Biochemistry in July 2022.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many vaccines have been introduced to the market. The research team pointed out that Among them, the mRNA vaccine has a preventive effect of up to 95 percent on coronavirus. However, many studies have shown that the effectiveness is lacking toward certain virus variants….