evidence: But anyway, all that to tell you where our Oink Tincture got its name! Sweetgum fruit (oinks) is chock full of shikimic acid… which has been proven to halt viral replication. (Whattttt?!) This basically means that a virus, when introduced to shikimic acid, is stopped from replicating itself into other cells… in essence, halting the spread of the illness throughout the body. [...] Good amounts of shikimic acid is found in 3 widely available plants, but today I am talking about another plant source, the Sweetgum fruit (gumball… or in our case, oink). Chemists found that the seeds in the sweetgum fruit contain significant amounts of shikimic acid, the starting material used to produce the main antiviral agent in Tamiflu that blocks the replication of the flu virus. This is one reason why plants and herbs with naturally-occurring shikimic acid are part of what’s called "Nature’s Tamiflu". B!gPharma has tried to replicate shikimic acid using GMO e. coli… but this lab-created GMO-laden shikimic acid causes bizarre reactions and neuropsychiatric disturbances.