An Inexpensive Flu Remedy

I found a really awesome article about the use of baking soda to fight the effects of the flu! Why is it that totally accredited information gets pushed under the carpet and swept aside for over 100 years? Oh, I forgot simple easy remedies don't make huge amounts of money! Read this and prepare to stare in shock and wonder “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.”
Further more the article went on to state this Testimonial:
My father was a veterinarian and as far back as I can remember (I was born in 1938 so my memory goes back to maybe 1943) he would take sodium bicarbonate dissolved in a full glass of warm water whenever he felt a cold coming on. I don’t remember him ever coming down with a full blown cold. He would treat my cold symptoms likewise and I responded equally as well. He also treated farm animals for various illnesses with sodium bicarbonate via a gastric tube and they recovered quickly. So I’ve known about the benefits of sodium bicarbonate from early childhood on. Glad to see that its benefits are being more widely touted. Although my father was a doctor of Veterinarian medicine, he sometimes referred to himself as an MD (Mule Doctor). Dr. David B Winter, DO

This is all very valuable information coming from the horses own mouth, the Arm and Hammer Baking Soda Company, which sells aluminum free baking soda. Clearly they knew what they had in their hands one hundred years ago; and its long use in medicine sustains the companies published medical views:
“Besides doing good in respiratory affections, bicarbonate of soda is of inestimable value in the treatment of Alimentary Intoxication, Pyelitis (inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney), Hyper-Acidity of Urine, Uric Acid disturbances, Rheumatism and Burns. An occasional three-day course of Bicarbonate of Soda increases the alkalinity of the blood, assists elimination and increases the resisting power of the body to all Infectious Diseases.”

Magnesium chloride is the only form of magnesium that has been reported to increase immune system strength though all forms of magnesium need to be counted in this regard. When one adds magnesium chloride to ones baths, puts it on the skin like suntan screen, or takes it orally with sodium bicarbonate one supercharges their defensive perimeter or what is called the anti-pathogen factor in Chinese Medicine. Add Iodine, Selenium, Vitamin C and some healthy sun exposure or Vitamin D and we have the heart of army we need to array against viral invaders. Magnesium Bicarbonate – Ultimate Mitochondrial Cocktail is the name of one of my chapters that explains why both these essential mineral ions need to be present in sufficient concentrations.

Reposting

For the next few blogs I intend to repost some of my notes from facebook, just to get my energy and thoughts into a new realm.  So if you have already seen these, I apologize in advance.  If you haven't then I hope you enjoy.

A Great Question

A wonderful question to ask when talking about natural and alternative health is; “Has nature proven it’s self to be intelligent in taking care of business?” For instance let’s talk about our digestive system and the natural hydrochloric acid that is produced by the body. You are not what you eat, more directly you are what you are able to absorb and health care practitioners will tell you that even if you have the best dietary habits known to man you cannot sustain good health if hydrochloric acid, or common stomach acid, is missing. There is no way for your body to absorb vital nutrients from you foods if this essential part of your digestive system is destroyed by antacids, or if you were born with a genetic tendency to low stomach acid.
Nature did not put acid into our stomachs for the sole purpose of providing drug companies the ability of earning billions of dollars every year by suppressing that stomach acid. Hydrochloric acid is absolutely necessary for good health. It is designed to reduce the toughest steak into broken down “meat soup” within about an hour. Now use your imagination to determine what would happen to that steak in your stomach without the help of the acid to break it down……. It must then break down by rotting! Indigestion, bloating, “egg burps”, burning, gas and belching must then begin in order to help move digestion along. The body is so busy trying to digest and break down the meat that it does not have the time or the ability to absorb many nutrients from it. If these scenarios happen often, warning symptoms of malnutrition and slow starvation begins to manifest. The resulting symptoms can be crumbling bones, degenerative diseases, acute and chronic infections which can be caused by germs that would easily be killed by normal stomach acid. When your stomach has normal acid levels it is able to kill invading micro organisms and can break down dangerous food additives. But if your stomach lacks this vital acid element, additives can turn into cancer causing nitrosamines.
Two prominent American doctors, Jonathan Wright, MD and Lane Lenard, PhD have written a superb book, “Why Stomach Acid Is Good for You” which is highly recommended by alternative health care providers. If you think you may have acid indigestion and have been taking drugs to suppress it. The book outlines exactly what to do in order to heal your stomach from the damage anti-acids have done.
Many people are born with low stomach acid, or they develop it in childhood. Children should have an abundant supply of Hydrochloric Acid but children today are stuffed with an appalling amount of junk food, dangerous soy products and the worst kind of oils that their poor little bodies have to metabolize. Is it small wonder that increasing numbers of children have recurring infections of all kinds, miserable skin conditions and asthma. Doctors Wright and Lenard explain in their book how the children, who are brought to the Tahoma Clinic in Washington, get over some of these dreadful afflictions by improving their diets and supplementing their Hydrochloric Acid levels.
A simple supplementation to safely increase proper levels of Hydrochloric Acid is the use of apple cider vinegar. Using one tablespoon of the vinegar in an 8 ounce glass of water before every meal can improve many of the symptoms that we have been talking about.
Did you know that low production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach is associated with hardening of the arteries, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, and even tendencies for obesity? Doctor Wright warns about this in his book “repairing Your Heart and Arteries”
So to recap the situation, when you eat, if your Hydrochloric Acid is low, your stomach will hold food longer, and whatever acid is present will mix in with the food. Your stomach will begin to churn, but because it doesn’t have acid, instead of emptying its contents into your small intestines, some of the food will regurgitate into your esophagus. Then because your throat is not protected against acid with the same mucosal barrier as your stomach, your throat will begin to burn. If you treat this burning with anti-acids, the burning will stop, but you will perpetuate the problem.
A good warning is the fact that many anti-acids virtually eliminate acid in the stomach around the clock, what this means is that natural, necessary assimilation of food does not take place, and you will then slowly starve to death.
“ . . . .there is no doubt that acid suppression promotes bacterial overgrowth and that bacterial overgrowth promotes production of carcinogenic nitrosamine compounds. There is also no doubt that acid suppressing drugs increase the progression and severity of atrophic gastritis in people with such things a H. pylori infections, and that atrophic gastritis is a major risk factor for gastric carcinoma.” Carcinoma means cancer! (Why Stomach Acid Is Good for You)
One other thing to consider before ingesting your anti-acid; “antacids, drugs which so many people take frequently, are so dangerous that they would have been removed from the market if the drug cartels were not so strong. It has been known for decades that they deplete the bones of between 130 and 300 mg. of calcium each time they are consumed. They contain aluminum, and also contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease” This quote is according to the professional journal, “Orthopedic Surgeon”