Arm & Hammer Booklet on Therapeutic Uses of Baking Soda (1924)

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Though Baking Soda is not best used for long-term alkalizing of the body it can

be a very powerful tool to use in dealing with colds and the flu.:

" Over 150 years ago Dr. Austin Church formed a business to produce and

distribute Baking Soda. ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda is derived from a natural

occurring mineral called trona. It is 100% pure, safe, and natural. Baking Soda

(also known as sodium bicarbonate) is a substance that is found naturally in all

living things. Its purpose is to maintain pH balance in the bloodstream, which

is necessary to sustain life. Due to its chemical and physical properties,

sodium bicarbonate has unique medicinal capabilities that every healthcare

practitioner, doctor and patient needs to know about.

The only problem is that Arm & Hammer Baking Soda

 can replace many more expensive medicines and this

 does not make the medical industrial complex happy.

 

     In today’s modern world of medicine the FDA just will not let

companies that sell products make medical claims about them unless they have

been tested at great expense and approved as a drug. But this was not always the

case and as we can see in the information in this chapter, which is from a 1924

booklet,[1] published by the Arm & Hammer Soda Company. On page 12 the company

starts off saying, “The proven value of Arm & Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda as a

therapeutic agent is further evinced by the following evidence of a prominent

physician named Dr. Volney S. Cheney,   in a letter to the Church & Dwight

Company:

“In 1918 and 1919 while fighting the ‘Flu’ with the U. S. Public Health

Service it was brought to my attention that rarely any one who had been

thoroughly alkalinized with bicarbonate of soda contracted the disease, and

those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild

attacks. I have since that time treated all cases of ‘Cold,’ Influenza and

LaGripe by first giving generous doses of Bicarbonate of Soda, and in many, many

instances within 36 hours the symptoms would have entirely abated. Further,

within my own household, before Woman’s Clubs and Parent-Teachers’

Associations, I have advocated the use of Bicarbonate of Soda as a preventive

for “Colds,†with the result that now many reports are coming in stating

that those who took “Soda†were not affected, while nearly every one around

them had the “Flu.â€

     Recommended dosages from the Arm and Hammer Company for colds and

influenza back in 1925 were:

During the first day take six doses of half teaspoonful of Arm & Hammer

Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water, at about two hour intervals.

During the second day take four doses of half teaspoonful of Arm and Hammer

Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals.

During the third day take two doses of half teaspoonful of Arm and Hammer

Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter

half teaspoonful in glass of cool water each morning until cold is cured.

“Well the sodium bicarbonate cure for colds and sore throats.

A friend called as I was reading about it, I told her to try it.

She is rapt! Relief in a few hours, and she went to work the

 following day! And she was miserable and could hardly talk,[2]

 had just woken with it full on, and was planning on missing work.â€