FLU REMEDIES
Here are suggestions for combating the flu:
1) Preventative: colon cleanse, liver cleanse, natural diet (eliminate white sugar and white flour from your diet). Your immune system cannot fight the flu as well if your body is bogged down with toxin waste.
2) Drink at least 8 cups of water a day (64 ozs.). Purified water and/or decaf green tea are the best choice. Drinking enough water flushes toxins from your body and as flu viri die toxins are massively produced.
3) DO NOT CONSUME ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET), SPLENDA, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER! These are poisons and will slow your recovery.
4) Boost your immune system: Take Vitamin C, the amino acid lysine, a high-potency multivitamin/multimineral tab, a calcium/magnesium supplement (more on magnesium below at #3), other anti-viral agents such as l-proline and l-glycine (amino acids), turmeric extract capsules, ginger capsules, garlic capsules, 15mg zinc/1-mg copper capsules or tabs, oil of oregano (organic if possible), decaffeinated green tea extract, N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) and non-GMO soy protein drink concentrate (organic is best). Read the following article (link below the quote) for warnings to pregnant mothers, dosing information, and other vital information.
"For people who have weakened immunity and are vitamin C deficient, this influenza likely kills it victims by rapidly depleting ascorbate (vitamin C) stores in the body, inducing scurvy and collapse of the arterial blood supply, causing internal hemorrhaging of the lungs and sinus cavities.
"Most people today have barely enough vitamin C in their bodies (typically 60 mg per day) to prevent scurvy under normal living conditions, and are not prepared for this kind of illness."
http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Health/09027.prep.4flu.naturally.html.
5) Vitamin D. See these articles at
http://www.relfe.com/A06/vitamin_d_deficiency_source.html,
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/h1n1-flu-and-vitamin-d.shtml,
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/21/avoid-flu-shots-vitamin-d-is-a-better-way.aspx,
http://www.uvadvantage.org/portals/0/pdf/NEJournalofMedicine.pdf, and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5bp8qb3Gck.
According to Dr. Cannell, "Stock your home's pharmacy with several fresh bottles of 50,000 IU capsules of Vitamin D3 (a medicine at this dosage, not a supplement) and if you get this flu, take 2,000 IU kg of body weight per day for a week. As I weigh 220 pounds, I would take 200,000 IU per day for seven days if I thought I had an infection with a 1918-like influenza virus." [This is an adult dosage available at https://secure.bio-tech-pharm.com/detail.aspx?product_id=20&cat_id=2&subcat_id=0.]
6) "When the flu strikes, ... electrolyte abnormalities, mainly hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia [arise and] are associated with an increased risk for complications like developing cardiac arrhythmias. Magnesium replacement reduces morbidity and prolonged hospitalization from atrial fibrillation or mortality from sustained ventricular arrhythmias. ... Due to lack of magnesium the heart muscle can develop a spasm or cramp and stops beating. Most people, including doctors, don't know it but without sufficient magnesium we die." --From Viral Poppycock, by Dr. William Campbell Douglass II at http://rense.com/general85/viral.htm.
7) Essential Oils: Lavender, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree (melaleuca alternafolia). You can diffuse these in your house and car to keep the air clean. If you get congestion or have respiratory symptoms rub Eucalyptus mixed with a little olive oil on your chest. You can also add 3-5 drops to a bowl of steaming water. Put a towel over your head and the bowl and inhale while it is steaming. Obviously, hold the bowl far enough away from your face so you do not get burned. Other oils to use are Young Living's "Thieves Oil" or make a "thieves' vinegar." There are a number of recipes. One recipe is at http://www.kitchendoctor.com/articles/four_thieves.html.
Adding to the lore mentioned on this site, there was a town in England during the black plague years that had many lavender plants around it, so the air was perfumed with the scent of lavender. The people in this town did not have the death rate of the other nearby towns, presumably because of the lavender which "scrubs" the air of bacteria, viruses, and other airborne germs. This is why sanitaria tend to be in mountainous, alpine areas.
8) Another recipe for "Thieves oil" is at http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/06_Prep_tips/090427.oils.html. We will repeat the recipe here in case the internet goes down:
Clove oil (syzgium aromaticum) 200 drops or 1/2 oz.
Lemon oil (Citrus limon) 175 drops
Cinnamon Bark oil (Cinnamoomum verum) 100 drops
Eucalyptus oil (Eucalyptus radiata) 75 drops
Rosemary oil (Rosimarinus officinalis) 50 drops
Place into a small dark-colored (brown or blue) bottle. "This blend of therapeutic-grade essential oils was tested at Weber State University for its potent antimicrobial properties. Thieves oil was found to have a 99.96% kill rate against airborne bacteria. The oils are highly anti-viral, anti-septic, anti-bacterial, and anti-infectious."
We suggest that you invest in a nebulizer with a timer and keep it running day and night during the flu season. Our favorite nebulizer is showcased at http://www.aromatherapeutix.com/catalog/category8/product168. It's good to have a spare because you don't want to be in the middle of a pandemic and have your nebulizer break (though ours has been running nightly for years and hasn't broken yet) or worse, the electricity goes out, you can also put the oils in a small spray bottle and mist the air in your home, around your work space, and in your car. Another idea the article suggests is to place the mixture in a pan of water (or, we add, a teakettle used for humidifying the air) and place on a wood stove.
If you get ill, apply a few drops of the Thieves oil to the bottom of your feet or on your abdomen and rub it into your skin 2-3 times a day. Remember: oil and water do not mix. If an oil burns you, rub olive oil (or some other non-essential oil) where it burns and that should relieve it. Flushing it with water will not work.
9) New Super Silver Solution or ASAP Silver Solution (both patent pending and doctor-tested). ASAP is at http://www.beprepared.com and Super Silver Solution info is at http://www.survivalcenter.com/asap.html.
10) Sambucus (Sambucol), available at http://www.vitacost.com/Natures-Way-Sambucus-Syrup-Original. This was developed by a virologist and tested against the bird flu (in birds). It was found to be very effective (for birds). Read the human reviews.
NOTE: Survivalblog.com posted this WARNING about elderberry syrup (Sambucol or Sambucus) inducing cytokine storms (which is what the flu might do): http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/04/letter_re_sambucol_and_the_cyt.html.
The fluwiki.com link no longer works but the pertinent part was copied to survivalblog. In case the internet goes down, it is repeated here: "However, elderberry also increases cytokine production. One specific concern with H5N1 infections is the possibility that this strain of flu may induce cytokine storm, leading to ARDS and the high mortality associated with it. It is unknown if the increased circulating cytokines that elderberry and other alternative medicines induce could increase a victim's risk of cytokine storm. Medical science does not currently know the exact mechanism that triggers cytokine storm. We cannot say if increased cytokine levels before or during infection is a risk factor for ARDS or an effect of some other mechanism that begins the inflammatory cascade that results in it. High cytokine levels are documented to be associated with ARDS, but causation is unknown..."
11) Sauerkraut!
Sauerkraut could fight bird flu, say scientists
By Jasper Copping, originally at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/13/nsauer13.xml
It was found to cure bird flu in birds.
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Home-made sauerkraut recipe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GFM5VUDZSQ 4BHQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/13/nsauer113.xml
(Filed: 13 November 2005)
To make your own sauerkraut, follow this recipe, which should give you up to 30 servings.
You will need a large pot and a plate that fits inside it, a cloth and large weight (approx 8lb)
• 5lb of cabbage
• 3 tbs salt (use sea salt)
• 3 apples
• 10 cracked juniper berries
For flavour, you can add onions, garlic, seaweed, grated carrots, Brussels sprouts or turnips.
Shred the cabbage and mix with the salt - the salt draws water from the cabbage and creates the brine in which it ferments and sours without rotting.
Next add slices of apple and cracked juniper berries.
Put the mix into the pot, leaving 2in at the top. Cover with a wet linen cloth and place the plate on top.
Put the weight on top of the plate. This will force the brine to rise high enough to reach the cloth.
Leave the sauerkraut to ferment, but skim off the scum from the surface every other day.
Replace the damp cloth frequently.
At 16C (60F), the fermenting process will take at least a month. A higher temperature will speed up the process, but the flavour will not be as good, so it is best to leave your sauerkraut in a cellar or larder.
Once fermentation is finished, place the sauerkraut in a pan and bring to the boil over a medium heat.
Remove from the heat and ladle the hot sauerkraut into jars.
The finished product can be eaten cold, but is more often warmed up. A traditional serving suggestion is to heat sauerkraut with pieces of bacon and a liberal dollop of goose fat.
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12. The 5 Best Antiviral Products at http://www.naturalnews.com/RR-FiveBestAnti-ViralProducts.html.
13. Homeopathy. Read this article: http://www.drbuttar.com/blog/2009/05/swine-flu-and-the-great-flu-pandemic-of-1918-19-the-similarities-and-what-history-can-teach-us/. We use Washington Homeopathy Products at http://www.homeopathyworks.com/. A flu remedy called Oscillococcinum is widely available at pharmacies and elsewhere.
14. Survivalblog's Protecting Your Family From An Influenza Pandemic at http://www.survivalblog.com/asianflu.html. Note: This has an oral rehydration solution recipe, repeated here in case the internet goes down (and you have printed this Guide):
1/2 TEAspoon of salt
2 TABLEspoons honey, sugar, or rice powder
1/4 TEAspoon potassium chloride (table salt substitute)
1/2 TEAspoon trisodium citrate (can be replaced by baking soda)
1 quart of clean water
15. Information from Survivalblog from people who have worked with the N95 Respirator/Masks at http://www.survivalblog.com/2009/07/three_letters_re_n95_masks_for.html.
16. Note: Paragraph # 11 above mentions that airborne viruses are small enough to pass through the N100 respirator/masks. The masks are good to stop airborne spittle, which is some help, but a cheaper cloth mask can do the same thing.
17. And if you are forced to take the vaccination, instructions from a doctor on how to mitigate (lessen) the adverse (bad) effects are in this article: Russell Blaylock, MD: What To Do If Forced To Take A Vaccination at http://rense.com/general87/vaccin.htm.
Comments
Since we stopped getting the flu shots, no one in my family got sick with it anymore. I've read somewhere that trwo this shots they are inserting something to the people to make them sterile. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that there are lots of couples arround me that had to get artifisial fertilization and insamination to have kids, including me. We wanted to have more that 2 kids, and started trying 10 years ago, we even tryed artificial insamination too, without resoults. Eventually, I give up, and felt thankful that at list we have 2 beautiful and healthy sons. When I asked the doctor what is the cause of the increasing infertility, he told me that it's happening mostly to men and no one knows exactly wy. There are some theories that it's caused because of all the chemicals added to our food and watter, or stress or pollution...
I belive it's a way for the elite to reduce the population in the world.
Thanks for sharing this Mariana.
My husband got the worst flu he ever had in his life about 2 months after he received a flu shot (became very ill January 08). It wasn't immediate, but I think the flu shot set him up to get really ill once exposed to another flu virus in the environment. It seemed to have weakened his immune system temporarily. I did tell him I thought his illness was related to his flu shot - I hope he heard me - I hope he isn't dumb enough to get another flu shot.
Exelent blog Cheryl!! I took note of a lot of thitngs to do from your list .
I've being taking vitamin D for some time now. My doctor advised me to do that because of myalgya. Believe it or not, in sunny Israel, there is an increasing problem of vitamin D deficiensy, being in the seccond place in the world for skin cancer (after Australia), we don't spend much time in the sun, and when we do, it's with sunblock protection, which blocks the production of the vitamin too.
I started to take and give to my kids vitamin C a couple of days ago, as I do every year in the fall.
I desided to stop with the flu vaccination of all the family 2 years ago when after gettin the vaccine, I got sooo sick, I've never being that ill in my life, and I haven't recovered my full strengh since then. I use to be an healthy and (not femeninely) strong woman before that, the kind that does not need a guy to open bottels for her, and abble to do almost all fisical works any man can do, but not anymore, since then.
About a week after getting the vaccine, I started to have a very high fever (about 41C, 105.8F), a bad head and body ache and a weeckness that I could barely moove. But I didn't had the most common flu simptoms like a running nose or coughing. My doctor was complitely clue less, she didn't know if it was the swine flu, the avian flu or meningitis. She prescribed me the Tamiflu anyway (wich didn't help anyway). The fever and headache desapeared about 5 days latter, but the weekness and muscle and joints pain took much longer to go.
A few days latter, my hole body got covered by red scratchy splotches and my skin hurt, even with the slightest tuch. I still don't know what happened to me then.
The rehydration solution recipe is exelent, and it doesn't taste bad, I've used it before, when my kids got a bad case of diarrea. If you add to it 1 cup of lemon juice, you'll get a very nice efervescent veberage, and if you add some natural coloring, your kids will think they are drinking soda. Just be careful to leave enogh place in your recipient for the reaction between the baking soda and the lemon, otherwise it will spill all arround.
A great and simple remedy for the flu, cold, cough is: chop a medium sized onion in small pieces and cover it with 1 - 2 table spoons of honey. In minutes the onion will start to segregate a juice that mixes with the honey. Take a ts of this juice every few hours. It tastes great too.
A few years ago, my younghest son cought the whooping cough. He allmost choked with phlem. I immidietly mixed 1 tea spoon of honey with 1 tea spoon of olive oil and made him swallow it. It made him cough the phlem out (and vomit) and he was relieved right away.
An other thing that I usually make when someone is got some bug is what we call "the jewish pwnicilline": chicken soup. Yes, you read right, chicken soup. There even have being some doctors that resrerched that and confirm this as true, they sayed that it helped people to recover theyr strengh and fell better.
My recepy:
1 kg of chicken (all parts) or turkey necks without the skin and fat (it's tastier with it but we don't need it)
3-4 carrots
1-2 white carrots
1 big chopped onion
5-6 hole garlic tooths
1 chopped selery head and leaves
1 chopped fennel head
a handfull of parsley
salt and condiments as liked
Put all the ingredients in a pot (exept for the parsley) and cover it with water. Let boil for 2-3 hours. About 10 minutes before turning the fire off, add the parsley. During the coction, add water if needed. Bon apetite!!
Thanks for the reminder, I need to stock my pantry with these essential oils.
How bout good old fashion Soup beans & Cornbread by Pam from:
http://www.topix.com/forum/ca/edmonton-ab/T72HFC4CT9N7J8RA0/p547