The people at Nasaleze used hypromellose alone as the placebo in their study for Nasaleze Travel. It might very well be that garlic + peppermint in Nasaleze works just as well as Citric Acid (6%) + Sodium Citrate (4%) + Benzalkonium Chloride (0.1%) + Menthol (<0.1%) but it’s not the same intervention.
Obviously, these only protect against infection through the nasal tissues, and do not affect the result of breathing viruses into the lungs.
The theory of action laid out in the Nasaleze paper is that if you breath through your nose, the nasal tissues do filter air before it enters the lungs.
Interestingly, Nasaleze does seem to hold a patent on administering hypromellose + other things nasally expiring in 2027. It’s for:
1. A dry powder intranasal composition comprising:
hydroxypropylmethylcellulose powder with a viscosity of approximately 10-20 Pas:
one or more therapeutic agents; and
a signaling agent, which together form a dry powder characterized in that the signaling agent allows a user to sense administration of the composition in the nasal cavity and is mint, spearmint, peppermint, eucalyptus, lavender, citrus, lemon, lime or any combination thereof and wherein the dry powder composition transforms to a gel upon contact with a nasal cavity.
It looks to me like Taffix gets around the patent by not using menthol instead of any of the listed signaling agents.
The people at Nasaleze used hypromellose alone as the placebo in their study for Nasaleze Travel. It might very well be that garlic + peppermint in Nasaleze works just as well as Citric Acid (6%) + Sodium Citrate (4%) + Benzalkonium Chloride (0.1%) + Menthol (<0.1%) but it’s not the same intervention.
The theory of action laid out in the Nasaleze paper is that if you breath through your nose, the nasal tissues do filter air before it enters the lungs.
Interestingly, Nasaleze does seem to hold a patent on administering hypromellose + other things nasally expiring in 2027. It’s for:
It looks to me like Taffix gets around the patent by not using menthol instead of any of the listed signaling agents.