flu, colds, and vitamin C

[Guest guest]

A friend sent me the following article. I thought some might be

interested if you're concerned about flu. We've always taken a

minimum 2,000 mg. vitamin C daily, doubling that at first sign of a

cold, and can nip a cold in three days with high vitamin C and

sucking zinc.

Kim

FREE COLD/FLU REMEDY!

" By the proper intake of vitamins and other nutrients, and by

following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age

on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by

25 or even 35 years. A benefit of increasing the length of the period

of well-being is that the fraction of one's life during which one is

happy becomes greater. "

--Dr. Linus ing,

at his death at age 93, the only human being to

have two unshared Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry

Each year-end, one or more mutated cold/flu viruses, created either

by God, Omniscient Mind, or a consortium of multinational

pharmaceutical companies greedy for remedy-profits (est. annual U.S.

market, $4 billion, plus another $10 billion in lost wages and

productivity, not to mention 36,000 deaths annually--mainly the

elderly), sweeps our planet like a plague, sooner or later adding to

nearly everyone's annual Misery Index. Literally hundreds of

different viruses from several viral families cause colds. For

example, approximately 40% of all colds are caused by rhinoviruses,

which attack primarily in Fall and Spring. On the other hand,

microbes such as syncytial viruses normally attack in the heart of

Winter.

Is it just my own imagination, or does the most dangerous strain each

year seem to have been first isolated, classified and named (by the

World Health Organization) in some country the U.S. is at odds with?

During the Cold War, most all of us annually sneezed, wheezed, felt

pained and drained by headaches and stomachaches very often produced

by viruses carrying Russian names we all learned to despise. Since

then, they've often been Chinese: Shanghai, Guizhoa, Shengdong,

Nanchang, Szechuan, Beijing, the type A/Wuhan virus, more dangerous

than most of what had circulated the previous years, and this year's

H3N2 Fujian (supposedly originated in China's Fujian province), which

has already led to deadly complications in the most vulnerable among

us: the very old, the very young, and the very sick, particularly

those with weakened immune systems. Such flus can cause pneumonia and

other respiratory problems, heart failure, and heart-muscle

inflammation in infants.

For instance, during the 1998-1999 influenza season, the CDC

recommended that all U.S.-based vaccinations contain the following:

an A/Wuhan/359/95(H3N2)-like strain; an A/Bayern/7/95(H1N1)-like

strain, and finally, a B/Beijing/184/93-like strain--again, the

unfailing, overwhelming Chinese contribution to international misery.

Interestingly, during the 1999-2000 winter season, the predominant

influenza virus circulating was the A/Sydney/5/97-like (H3N2) strain,

but the A/Beijing strain was still causing misery, worldwide. . .just

as it did once again last season.

As no one is immune, some take these flu shots (another high-profit

measure), which may 1) protect, 2) infect, or 3) fail one altogether.

(For eg., Atlanta's Center for Disease Control noted in 1998 that

only 50% of U.S. flu vaccines protected against the A/Sydney flu

virus, which would fell 40% of U.S. flu victims that year.) Others

resort to expensive antibiotics, which everyone knows are powerfully

effective medicines for dealing with bacterial infections, but as

research published in the Nov./Dec., l996, Yoga Journal sadly

reveals: " Effect of antibiotics on viruses--none. Number of

antibiotic prescriptions written by American doctors for cold viruses

annually--four million. " (The same YJ also noted that colds/flus are

the second most common reason Americans visit their doctors.)

Weil, a Harvard-trained M.D. and botanist, writes in his

superb 1995 book, Natural Health, Natural Medicine, pp. 267-8: " Upper

respiratory viral infections sometimes move down to the chest,

causing bronchitis that can last for weeks. This is also a common

complication of influenza, which establishes itself in the chest to

begin with. Regular doctors often jump right in with antibiotics to

treat these problems, but that is not a good idea, unless there is

proof or good reason to suspect that a bacterial infection is

present. Bacterial bronchitis, or a secondary bacterial infection

following a cold or flu, will generally produce a lot of phlegm and

mucus, often discolored dark yellow, green, or rusty brown, along

with fever. A sputum culture will confirm the diagnosis. If bacterial

infection is not present, I do not recommend taking antibiotics. "

To circumvent most of this unnecessary, annual suffering, Nobel

chemist Dr. ing incurred the wrath of both Symptomatic Medicine

and the Pharmaceutical Industry (as has Dr. Weil and countless other

avant-garde U.S. physicians practicing the more practical and cost-

effective Integrative Medicine--combining the very best ideas and

practices of both conventional and alternative medicine, into the new

paradigm currently emerging from America's postmodern Healing

Revolution) by recommending a safe, inexpensive, simple alternative:

megadosing powdered Vitamin C (crystalline ascorbic acid, or sodium

ascorbate, or Bronson Pharmaceutical's buffered or reduced-acidity

versions. . .available at 1-, Trader Joe's, or your local

health-food store or organic supermarket; all produce some intestinal

gas, or methane, in many individuals, so kindly pass it discreetly).

Nobelist ing suggested we take 20-to-30 grams a day at the first

symptom (or, if already set in), until all symptoms are gone.

An FCI client recently got this newest misery from China, with his

wife. He instantly megadosed C, kicking it in three days without

losing work. She didn't, suffering heavily for two weeks, including

several days flat on her back, slowly developing a subliminal yet

serious 'attitude' toward all things Chinese.

REMEDY:

1 level teaspoon = 4 grams. Taking more at one time can give most the

runs, except before bed, when most can take 2-to-3 times that, as

you're prone, while sleeping. The laxative-effect differs with

individuals, so find your own tolerance.

Mix in one-third glass of water or juice. Stir until dissolved, as it

is water-soluble. Drink down--chasing with water or juice if the

aftertaste bothers you--between meals, or at their end (reduces

gas/laxative-effect in some).

Repeat every 2 or 3 hrs., until you've taken 20-30 grams each 24 hrs.

(no toxic dose).

NOTE: By short-circuiting the cold/flu in this way, your body does

not build sufficient antibodies. Thus, the virus can come back on you

later in the season, if you're once again out-of-balance. Simply

repeat the remedy, knowing that C is also the finest detox vitamin,

helping remove poisons from your system. As human bodies don't

produce C, Dr. ing took 12 g./day as a maintenance dose (after

discovering that this amount is what animals his size do produce

daily in their own bodies), outliving most all of his symptomatic

critics, finally passing away at 93. I take five.

Also, know that your mother was right when she told you to cover your

head when going outside on a cold day. As much as 80% of body heat

that's lost during cold weather goes out through the top of your

head. This, of course, overworks your body's heater, lowers your

resistance, and can throw you sufficiently out of balance to allow

this latest Made-In-China Misery to get all the foothold it requires.

So, hat up, my friends; these latest mutated viruses from Asia ain't

just foolin' around, as Sheryl Crow phrased it!--Dennis son, FCI

Founder/Director

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