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So I was thinking about how Tamiflu was used to treat the swine flu scare...Being bored from self isolation I figured since I have Anise Extract and Household Clear Ammonia (probably very dilute ammonium hydroxide, label hardly says anything) I would attempt to make aminoshikimic acid, a precursor to Tamiflu. I don't know if this method would even work.

>~45ml of Anise extract
>Added 2 full small eye drop vials of Clear Ammonia, ouzo like effect precipitated to the bottom but no solids formed
>Decanted out the clear solution at the top from the ouzo white soapy sludge at the bottom into a different container.
>nothing noticable or solid from the white ouzo precipitate liquid, all of it basically evaporated away
>took the anise extract/ammonia clear solution and put it on a hotplate at 400F until all liquid evaporated. It went from clear to white ouzo to white ouzo with some weird oils until only some stuff was caked to the bottom of the glass beaker.
>scraped with a knife, super tiny yield of whatever pic related is. I figured there wasn't much shikimic acid content.

Do you think it would be safe to eat? Probably just takes like licorice.
What do you think I made?
Do you think a Tamiflu precursor like aminoshikimic acid could help stop Coronavirus? Or possibly a derivative?