Qina (herbal immune booster)

[drew50]

Qina has been advertised in the gay press here for some time as being useful for hiv patients but when you visit the website (www.hivqina.nl) it's all very vague and suggests quack homeopathy. Has anybody ever heard of, or used Qina and does it work?

[redhotmuslbear]

... has been advertised in the gay press here for some time as being useful for hiv patients but when you visit the website it's all very vague and suggests quack homeopathy.

Being advertised or touted in press releases is very different from having objective clinical proof.  If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's almost certainly a duck.  If you search the 'net for the product name and HIV, you hit a ton of sites run by the firm or spewing the firm's press crap.  There is an exception, a piece describing the action of South African activists attempting to shut down its advertising of unproven claims as an HIV cure:

http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73042

[water duck]

[quote author=redhotmuslbear link=topic=14087.msg175213#msg175213 date=118528289  If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's almost certainly a duck. 

Well, not necessary !! 

Qina, sound so chinese, i guess , the thing that is useful , it that it is filling up someone's pocket 

[Merlin]

It's from S.Africa. Parent office in Australia. I doubt they use real chinese water ducks..probably fake ones I reckon. Quack! .

Best save your $17/bottle for some good old raw fruits and Vege juice instead. Throw in the duck rice to go mate!