Tokarev believes that further clinical studies are needed, since the compounds contained in wormwood "may be unsafe for humans."
“They can have side effects.
Therefore, it is too early to draw conclusions so that there is no such thing that people rushed for wormwood, as they did earlier for ginger and garlic, ”he said.
At the same time, Alexei Agranovsky, professor of the Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, in an interview with the radio station "Moscow speaking" called the effectiveness of wormwood extract against coronavirus unlikely.
“It's not a stomach virus, it's a pulmonary virus.
A virus that infects a number of organs.
Suppose wormwood somehow has a beneficial effect, I do not exclude this, but how?
How is wormwood extract delivered to the lungs? "
- said Agranovsky.
Earlier, scientists from Denmark and Germany said that during a study they found that the substance artemisinin contained in wormwood can suppress the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.