About eight decades have passed since a serendipitous laboratory breakthrough by Dr. Fleming meant that the scourge of bacterial infections could be treated efficaciously and economically. Since then important advances have been made in treating selected viral infections (especially HIV and hepatitis C chronic infections) but the medical community is still researching a treatment for viral infections as wide-ranging and economical as penicillin was for bacterial infections. Here we describe our success in using a simple combination of two naturally-occurring substances with excellent clinical success in treating different types of viral infections. Currently we are making efforts in trying to detail the cellular pathways used by this treatment and testing its efficacy in different viral infections.