I'm looking for a good alternative. Likewise, does anyone have some info on how to make your own HCQ? I believe I read somewhere that HCQ can be made at home with grapefruit peel. Thanks.
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NO. The answer is NO to both.
I have made the grapefruit peel and lemon peel remedy slow boiled with tonic water (lid on the entire time). It is a good tonic and provides quinine, which is a natural tonic, but it's NOT a substitute for HCQ.
I'm not a doctor... and am increasingly growing to despise most doctors anyway... so this is not medical advice. I believe a good, easily available substitute for HCQ is Quercetin, taken with zinc supplements. One of HCQ's main benefits is that it helps the body readily absorb zinc (which a body normally doesn't absorb easily.) Most of a zinc supplement you take never gets absorbed into your system, but is flushed out as waste. HCQ changes that and helps you to absorb the zinc. Quercetin does the same thing. It may not have some of the other benefits of HCQ, but that's the main one... so is a reasonable substitute in emergency.
Quercetin is available on-line, or is carried at some health food stores. You can order it through Amazon. Kroger grocery stores don't carry it, but you can order it from Kroger on-line and they will have it in their store for you in 2-days. It's also inexpensive... like $14 for a 60-pill, or $19 for a 90-pill bottle. I think Walmart.com also has it and can deliver it to the store for you to pick up. Same basic price no matter where you go.
The whole grapefruit & lemon peel in quinine is a great way to get extra quinine and vitamin C in your system, but I would look into the Quercetin. It's much closer to what you are looking for.
Don't forget adding in horse paste to your "human like pony's" diet. Cheap at your local Tractor Supply store and if you get apple it tastes good per my pony.