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What's your favorite cold remedy? Does it always work for you?
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We drink Greek Mountain tea whenever a family member gets a cold. I'm not sure of the medicinal contents, but the tea helps alot with a stuffy nose and seems to shorten the duration of a cold.
Its a light herbal tea that you can get from most Greek stores. It has no caffeine that I know of, so my wife also prepares it for our daughter when she gets the sniffles.
2. If one looks at the scientific trials and evidence, vitamin C and zinc have proven to have unclear evidence that these therapies work for cold and allergies, it works in certain cases but cannot necessarily prevent an onset, see this site for details: http://www.rvita.com/conditions/cold/remedy/vitamin-c.html
3. To Nick the doctor and Amy. Want to read a good article on colloidal silver and virus written by a couple of MD's? http://www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Townsend_II.pdf Anna is correct - there are certain virus that surround themselves with fatty cells - lipids. These viruses are known as lipid viruses. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/download/figures/1471-2334-2-4-2.PDF And Jim - people turn blue by drinking too much of a too strong - usually home brewed product. Use a 10 ppm product and you can according to the EPA take 7 teaspoons per day for 70 years and still keep your color!
4. At the first sign of feeling sick and getting a cold, get some sleep, even in the middle of the day or if you have to take an afternoon off from work. This will prevent you from taking many more days off. Most people ignore the first signs of sickness and work through it. But sleep is the best thing to enhance the immune system--the immune system is much more active when asleep. A 1 or 2 hour nap at the critical moment is the best way to prevent a cold.
5. Here's a great link to why homeopathy is quackery. http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html Famous people are idiots, too. If Tina Turner is dumb enough to use homeopathy, I'm still going to listen to her music, but I'm not going to run off to the health food store to waste money on unproven remedies.
6. I'm with the doctor who knocked the lady for the "fatty cell" notion. Ridiculous. A cold will not kill you; it's the symptoms that make it awful. So, get some nasal spray and some throat spray with a mild anesthetic and get rest, use a vaporizer, etc. And certainly do not waste your money on ridiculous "remedies" like Airborne. Orac, a fantastic cancer surgeon/science blogger, wrote quite some time ago on how ridiculous it was to use a remedy because it was "invented by a schoolteacher." Oh, great. When you need your gall bladder removed, are you going to invite your son's math teacher to perform the operation?
7. Colloidal Silver turns some people blue. Look it up.
8. Mega doses of Vitamin C....2000 mg at bedtime and 500-1000 mg at each meal. I start this dosage at the first sign of a cold and it's usually gone within two days. Drinking extra OJ doesn't have enough Vit C in it to do the trick. I used to get colds every winter, but I started this treatment 7 years ago and never had a cold since. It worked well on my kids, too.
9. The medical community needs to learn that the human body's capacity to utilize C increases exponentially with viral infections. Forget oral dosages though, understanding how and when to self dose is inconvenient even for those of us familiar with it. Intravenous C is more successful because it provides a stable, consistent amount of C to the body and can be a tool in fighting the most powerful infections, chicken pox, mono, appendicitis. It is very heartening to see the research community finally start looking at larger dosages of C in earnest. 200 mg of C to fight a cold is like trying to kill a horse with a fly swatter.
10. Anna, are you a doctor? Because I am, an infectious disease specialist, and I've never heard of viruses with "fatty cells" covering them. Your cure sounds just as trustworthy as smearing feces on your nose to prevent allergies. Why don't you try that?
Submitted by: Mike M
2. If one looks at the scientific trials and evidence, vitamin C and zinc have proven to have unclear evidence that these therapies work for cold and allergies, it works in certain cases but cannot necessarily prevent an onset, see this site for details: http://www.rvita.com/conditions/cold/remedy/vitamin-c.html
Submitted by: Neil
3. To Nick the doctor and Amy. Want to read a good article on colloidal silver and virus written by a couple of MD's? http://www.imref.org/articles/pdfs/Townsend_II.pdf Anna is correct - there are certain virus that surround themselves with fatty cells - lipids. These viruses are known as lipid viruses. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/download/figures/1471-2334-2-4-2.PDF And Jim - people turn blue by drinking too much of a too strong - usually home brewed product. Use a 10 ppm product and you can according to the EPA take 7 teaspoons per day for 70 years and still keep your color!
Submitted by: Peter
4. At the first sign of feeling sick and getting a cold, get some sleep, even in the middle of the day or if you have to take an afternoon off from work. This will prevent you from taking many more days off. Most people ignore the first signs of sickness and work through it. But sleep is the best thing to enhance the immune system--the immune system is much more active when asleep. A 1 or 2 hour nap at the critical moment is the best way to prevent a cold.
Submitted by: Verdant green
5. Here's a great link to why homeopathy is quackery. http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html Famous people are idiots, too. If Tina Turner is dumb enough to use homeopathy, I'm still going to listen to her music, but I'm not going to run off to the health food store to waste money on unproven remedies.
Submitted by: Amy Alkon
6. I'm with the doctor who knocked the lady for the "fatty cell" notion. Ridiculous. A cold will not kill you; it's the symptoms that make it awful. So, get some nasal spray and some throat spray with a mild anesthetic and get rest, use a vaporizer, etc. And certainly do not waste your money on ridiculous "remedies" like Airborne. Orac, a fantastic cancer surgeon/science blogger, wrote quite some time ago on how ridiculous it was to use a remedy because it was "invented by a schoolteacher." Oh, great. When you need your gall bladder removed, are you going to invite your son's math teacher to perform the operation?
Submitted by: Amy Alkon, advicegoddess.com
7. Colloidal Silver turns some people blue. Look it up.
Submitted by: Jim
8. Mega doses of Vitamin C....2000 mg at bedtime and 500-1000 mg at each meal. I start this dosage at the first sign of a cold and it's usually gone within two days. Drinking extra OJ doesn't have enough Vit C in it to do the trick. I used to get colds every winter, but I started this treatment 7 years ago and never had a cold since. It worked well on my kids, too.
Submitted by: CAP
9. The medical community needs to learn that the human body's capacity to utilize C increases exponentially with viral infections. Forget oral dosages though, understanding how and when to self dose is inconvenient even for those of us familiar with it. Intravenous C is more successful because it provides a stable, consistent amount of C to the body and can be a tool in fighting the most powerful infections, chicken pox, mono, appendicitis. It is very heartening to see the research community finally start looking at larger dosages of C in earnest. 200 mg of C to fight a cold is like trying to kill a horse with a fly swatter.
Submitted by: Lisa
10. Anna, are you a doctor? Because I am, an infectious disease specialist, and I've never heard of viruses with "fatty cells" covering them. Your cure sounds just as trustworthy as smearing feces on your nose to prevent allergies. Why don't you try that?
Submitted by: Nick