Jeff - The active ingredients of licorice root wipes out SARS, HIV, and any other virus hands down. There've been 30 year studies from Japan to China and other countries regarding this.

Here are links to the licorice data:

From Nature:

Liquorice may tackle SARS After trying all sorts of compounds researchers say root extract looks promising.

"High doses of the liquorice extract, called glycyrrhizin, practically wipe out the SARS virus in infected monkey cells, find virologist Jindrich Cinatl of Frankfurt University Medical School, Germany and his colleagues. The drug is more potent than ribavirin, the most commonly used treatment for SARS."

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030609/030609-16.html

And others:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/457203

http://www.aegis.com/pubs/atn/1990/ATN10302.html

http://dreampharm.com/milk-thistle/milk-thistle-center-8.asp

http://www.aids.org/immunet/atn.nsf/page/a-017-01

http://www.naturalhealthnotebook.com/Herbs/Phytochemicals/Glycyrrhizin.htm

http://www.aids.org/immunet/atn.nsf/page/a-103-04

http://archive.mail-list.com/hbv_research/msg01073.html

http://www.dr-zhang.com/formulas/glycyrrhizin.htm

Those articles are just the tip of the iceberg. I truly believe that the licorice root combined with the proper vitamins and minerals is a cure for numerous maladies. The Chinese herbalists know...