This section is provided for qualified healthcare practitioners as professional education. It summarises selected ingredient-level and traditional-use research. It does not represent additional ARTG indications for AV/AT.
Traditional heat-clearing and symptom support
AV/AT contains selected traditional Chinese medicine ingredients used in heat-clearing and damp-heat pattern contexts.
This information is provided as professional education only and should not be interpreted as a claim that AV/AT is an antiviral, antibacterial, antimicrobial treatment, antibiotic substitute, or treatment for serious respiratory disease.
Ingredient research highlights
Andrographis paniculata
Traditionally used in Chinese medicine and discussed in professional literature relating to common cold symptom support and heat-clearing traditional-use contexts.
Lonicera japonica
Traditionally used in Chinese medicine and discussed in literature relating to heat-clearing and sore throat symptom support contexts.
Taraxacum mongolicum
Traditionally used in Chinese medicine and discussed in literature relating to heat-clearing and damp-heat traditional-use contexts.
The above information is provided to support professional understanding of selected ingredients and traditional use. It should not be used to promote AV/AT for multi-drug resistant infections, bacterial infections, viral infections, SARS, H1N1, Epstein-Barr virus disease, herpes zoster, Enterovirus 71, pneumonia, influenza, liver disease, chronic infections, cancer protocols or any other indication not included in the ARTG entry.
References available to registered practitioners on request.