Posted on 11/10/2008 2:14:06 PM PST by yankeedame
Did the guy have a way to tap your own sinuses at home to drain them? Everything is clogged, it even hurts behind my eyes.
Has anyone proved his belief false, or have they merely shown poor support for his beliefs? I’d certainly say that Vitamin C SEEMS to help me cut a cold short, but I have to recognize that my own anecdotal experiences are far short of a well-controlled experiment.
How’s your health?
I know how you feel. Hubby brought a cold home from work and I’m on my peak day today. My aches have pains!
I take Vit C daily, but it didn’t help this one.
His beliefs and research are AT LEAST as bonafide as the Statin claims we have been seeing for the last 10 years.
With Vitamin C, a cold only lasts a week. Without it, a cold lasts 7 days.
My observations are anecdotal, but there is NO doubt that taking goodly quantities of Vitamin C cuts a cold short with my wife. The moment she starts feeling the scratchiness coming on, she doses up. The vast majority of the time, it never goes any further.
With me, it's not as effective as it is with her, but it does help some.
MM (in TX)
My remedy is not scientific but it works for me. At the first sign of a cold (sniffles, etc.) I start drinking a shot of whiskey every four hours to six hours.
Has been working for me for ten years.
Besides, I can’t take over the counter stuff.
I’m an avid reader of Arthur Robinson. Arthur Robinson worked with Pauling from 1961-1978 and co-founded the Pauling Institute. The two had a falling out in 1978 over the the effects of Vitamin C and cancer.
“He was not willing to accept the experimentally proved fact that vitamin C in ordinary doses accelerated the growth rate of squamous cell carcinoma in these mice. At the time, Linus was promoting his claim that “75% of all cancer can be prevented and cured by vitamin C alone.” This claim proved to be without experimental foundation and not true, although the possibility that modest doses of vitamin C somewhat improve resistance to cancer has never been adequately tested.”
http://www.nutritionandcancer.org/view/nutritionandcancer/s99p1074.htm
I really do wish I could believe some of the “science” that is coming out of science. The trouble is that science depends on the integrity of the people doing the research. Whatever you may think about Intelligent Design, Ben Stein’s movie showed some pretty unsavory people acting like high priests guarding the temple, instead of open-minded researchers willing to entertain new ideas. I don’t trust them.
The same quacks who admit on record that the drugs they push rarely help more than half the people that take them?
Shucks, if I did that I could have pneumonia and I wouldn’t know it. Sounds like a fantastic remedy. I think I’ll start my regimen right now! Thanks.
Cold-Eeze brand lozenges work well at the first sign of a cold. I’d also try the Zicam products that Rush advertises. I have no monetary interest in either.
Cancer thrives in a body whose pH is acidic. Refined carbs and refined sugars tilt the body from it’s normal slightly alkaline pH to acidic.
So it seems that the diet restrictions would make sense. Cancer needs sugars/carbs to fuel it, and eating veggies and some fruits (simple unrefined sugars) would really cut off the fuel supply. Without fuel the cancer cells can’t sustain themselves.
Actually both of those have worked for me in the past. I just didn’t have any on hand and decided to play the martyr so guilty hubby could wait on me for a change!! roflmao
Nothing helps cure a cold except time and many days in bed watching TV, sleeping, reading and drinking lots of hot tea heavily laced with fresh lemon juice, honey and a good heavy shot of brandy, cognac or whiskey.
Rinse and repeat many, many times till the pain goes away or you pass out. You'll be better in a week or 7 days, whichever comes first.
If you're Jewish, try chicken soup. A nice big matzoh ball is an extra added attraction.
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