Further Discussions On Antiviral Oils by Dr. JB Lim

The blogger’s note:  Further to the articles written by Dr. JB Lim and posted earlier in this blog, he further elaborated as follows:

25/05/2021 @ 10.07 pm

I only gave a list of few common antiviral oils you may choose. You need not buy all of them.

You need to choose just a few more common and cheapest ones rather than using one stand alone oil.

The best one is tea tree oil that has a very wide spectrum against all pathogenic organisms including fungi, bacteria and all viruses. This oil has been used very effectively against a wide spectrum of infections.

Tea tree oil is moderately expensive, but not as expensive as RM 300 for 10 mls, maybe just RM 5 per ml.

But the cheapest and the most common antivirals is the eucalyptus oil traditionally used for the common cold caused by more than 250 different strains of rhinoviruses. You can buy this oil from any pharmacy or Chinese medicine shop. They call it “fong yew” (air oil) – the “chap tiga kaki” brand.

Often they mix eucalyptus oil with camphor oil which is just as good for the common cold caused by these families of rhino viruses.

What we need is the synergistic actions of a few of them against the virus. Understandably these aromatic oils are very expensive as a lot of their leaves and flowers need to be chosen, crushed, boiled and distilled just to extract out a few drops.

I suggest mix tea tree oil with eucalyptus and oils of camphor will do for a start as camphor oil is also very cheap which you can buy online from the Internet.

My problem, not yours is this:

What I am trying to find out now is how many molecules of these antiviral oils in a cubic metre of air would be needed to coat the protein spike of this coronavirus? This is my problem.

The mechanism of how this virus enters into the cells of our body (to explain this in very, very simple layman’s language) is, this coronavirus has protein spikes all over its crown which are actually protein-digesting enzyme which they then use to drill (proteolysis) a hole into the protein membrane of our cells to gain entry.

What I am trying to find out is, how to block these protein-digesting enzymes by coating these spike proteins with a lipid layer from these essential oils so that there is a barrier between their lipid and protein layers, and our own cellular protein layer.

In order for us to do this, we need to have the data of their spike surface areas and how many spikes each virus carries and how many of these there are in every cubic metre of air.

Next, is for us to know the composition the oil, its molecular mass and the density of each oil, the Avogadro numbers, and from there it is easy to calculate out its volume.

Once we get its volume it is easy to calculate out the molecular volume of each of these oils that is needed to cover the surface area of each virus to act as a lipid barrier between this virus and the surface area of our human lung cells through which they drill their holes to gain entry into to multiply.

Once we have this data, it is easy for us to calculate out their molecular sizes and amounts of these oils needed per cubic metre of air to block a set density of the coronavirus.

What we are lacking is data on the number of protein spikes on each virus, without which we cannot proceed further.

You leave this problem to me. I shall proceed to work this out once I have the preliminary data. This problem rests entirely on my shoulders.

Your problem is merely to buy the cheapest essential antiviral oils in the market, mixed them (amount to be calculated out) with an appropriate amount of water and use a nebulizer to atomize the vapour into the air into your bedroom.

Actually instead of a nebulizer, you can also put the oils mixture into a kettle of water and boil out the vapours into the air as you do for steam inhalation although this has a risk of fire when the water boils dry.

Even using an electric kettle can cause a fire and electric short circuit if the kettle boils dry, besides the high cost of fuel and electricity.

Why must scientists in big drug companies keep talking only about their vaccines and all kinds of drugs to make untold billions of dollars when antiviral vapours in the air depositing droplets onto the walls, doors, bedrooms, clothes, cupboards..etc, etc are just as effective.

 

Lim jb

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28/05/2021 @ 12.57 am

A hypothesis on the mechanisms of antiviral oils

I think what is crucial in the sprays of antiviral oil aerosols into the air I proposed earlier, would be our ability to cover up the entire surface areas of the coronavirus, specifically the spike protein regions where the pathogenic sites are located. 

This is the zone over their crown to the best of my understanding that their protein-digesting enzymes are positioned through which their proteolytic action would act over the protein cell membrane of our human host cells to gain entry. 

The principle behind my hypotheses is for us to establish a barricade in the region between their proteolytic layers and our cellular membranes with a coat of molecular layers of these oils.

These layers would also effectively overlap their protective lipid layer. This is what I hypothesize would be their Achilles’ heels.

Our problem is how much coverage by these aromatic antiviral oils at molecular levels would be needed such that there is almost no chance for the virus to dislodge the layer with their own lipases, or cause them to mutate to break down the antiviral essential oils? Bear in mind these viruses are so teeny-tiny that we need to scale down our oils to molecular levels.

We can also spray an aerosol of alcohol, either ethanol (ethyl) or methanol (methyl) alcohol into the air. It is just as good to dissolve their protective lipid layer, but this is highly NOT advisable as alcohol is highly inflammable and the house can catch fire and explode. Furthermore alcohol vapours are so volatile they do not last long in the air.

Please do NOT use alcohol for this. This is just for academic interest. This is my WARNING. Extreme Care!

Bear in mind the RNA are very smart molecules that were the first pre-life fragments to evolve over 4,000 million years ago, and hence they are extremely adaptable and resilient to any threats to their continuing existence. They are constantly evolving into various families.

Consequently we must be extremely careful how we are going to handle them.

I have searched the literature for data on their surface areas that is their crucial Achilles heels, but unfortunately no finding has been published so far.

Without their data, it is very difficult to proceed with the calculations. It is not a problem to calculate out the volume and surface areas of a single molecule of any of the aromatic oils I suggested earlier in this chat group. 

We only need to know the composition of each of these oils, their molecular formula, types and numbers of the atoms in the compound and their densities.

Once this is available, from there it is easy to work out their molecular mass using the Avogadro number, volume and hence surface area of each molecule. 

Once we can establish the surface area of a single molecule of the antiviral oils, it is easy to determine how much oil is needed to envelope the entire spike areas on each virus.

This is not a problem for us, not sure for others?

Another set of data missing is, we have no information on the viral density per cubic metre of air say in a room, house, building or in the outside environment. 

Once such data is available it can be worked out how much aerosol droplets would be needed to cover the entire surface area of a single virus, and in each cubic metre of air in the house or environment.

This data is crucial for us to ensure we can handle this virus appropriately and with care, because as I emphasized earlier above, we should not allow this virus to mutate when we confront them with any agent adverse to their existence. 

I think fighting with this virus to me is like a relay race where one runner passes on a baton to the next runner.

In this race, I am just another runner standing in front with my body bent forward and my hands stretched out behind my back ready to receive the baton of the runner racing behind me.

Once I can have a hold of this baton, I can immediately work on it as I race forward to the next runner in front or myself to the finishing line. We work as a team in research

Though I am not a virologist to determine the volume and surface areas of the spike protein, but if I am forced to take up this job, it is actually quite easy to measure their volume and surface area.

What is needed is a high powered electron microscope with a crosshair scale measuring the size of the virus and its structures in microns (one micron is 0.000001 metre).

We can then calculate out the surface areas of the clone shape of its spike protein using the equation: 

s = √(r2 + h2), where s = surface area, r = radius at the base, and h = height

I can work this out if I am forced to, provided I have access to an electron microscope. But I would rather prefer to leave this to a virologist. 

We work as a team each sharing each other’s expertise in this race.

 

Lim jb