HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN C FIGHTS ASTHMA

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HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN C FIGHTS ASTHMA

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, August 9, 2005

 

ASTHMA TREATMENT THAT WORKS

 

(OMNS) People with severe asthma have low blood concentrations of

ascorbate (vitamin C), particularly men [1] and children [2].

 

Effective asthma treatment is readily available with cheap, safe and

convenient vitamin C. The only requirement is to take enough vitamin C

to be effective. Typical dietary quantities and low supplemental doses

do not work. Robert F. Cathcart III, M.D., who has treated many asthma

sufferers, says “Asthma is most often relieved by bowel tolerance

doses of ascorbate (vitamin C). A child regularly having asthmatic

attacks

following exercise is usually relieved of these attacks by large doses

of ascorbate. So far all of my patients having asthmatic attacks

associated with the onset of viral diseases have been ameliorated by this

treatment.â€[3]

 

If you want asthma relief, consider trying this:

 

Go to a discount store and buy a large bottle of 1,000 mg vitamin C

tablets. The cost should be less than $15.

 

Beginning when you awake in the morning, take 1,000 to 2,000 mg of

vitamin C every 30 minutes and continue doing so until you have a single

episode of loose stool (not quite diarrhea). If you haven’t had loose

stool after 15 hours on this dosage, increase the vitamin C to 3000 mg

every 30 minutes.

 

After you have a loose bowel movement, reduce the dosage to 2,000 mg of

vitamin C every hour. You will quickly find the dosage that is right

for you. Adjust the dosage of vitamin C downward to stay below the

dosage that will cause loose stool and adjust it upward to relieve asthma

symptoms. The usual maintenance dosage to remain asthma-free is 15,000

to 50,000 mg of vitamin C per day taken in eight equally divided doses.

 

People with asthma should also avoid tobacco smoke, minimize stress in

their lives and minimize their consumption of junk foods, meat and

dairy products.

 

Remember:

Vitamin C replaces antibiotics, antihistamines, antipyretics,

antitoxics, and antiviral drugs at saturation (bowel tolerance)

levels. It

reduces inflammation.

 

A vitamin can act as a drug, but a drug can never act as a vitamin.

 

The reason one nutrient can cure so many different illnesses is because

a deficiency of one nutrient can cause many different illnesses.

 

There is not even one death per year from vitamins. Pharmaceutical

drugs, properly prescribed and taken as directed, kill over 100,000

Americans annually. Hospital errors kill still more. Unlike drugs, with

vitamins, the range of safe dosages is extraordinarily large.

 

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

 

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as " the treatment of

disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially

the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human

body. " Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy

to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

 

Take the Orthomolecular Quiz at

http://www.orthomolecular.org/quiz/index.shtml

 

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and non-commercial informational resource.

 

Editorial Review Board:

 

Abram Hoffer, M.D.

Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.

Bradford Weeks, M.D.

Carolyn Dean, M.D. N.D.

Eric Patterson, M.D.

 

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D., contact person. Email: omns .

 

 

References:

 

[1] Misso NL, Brooks-Wildhaber J, Ray S, Vally H, Thompson PJ. Plasma

concentrations of dietary and nondietary antioxidants are low in severe

asthma. Eur Respir J. 2005 Aug;26(2):257-64. “Low plasma

concentrations of specific antioxidants are associated with more

severe asthma.

Increased antioxidant intake may help reduce the burden of severe asthma,

particularly in males.†PMID: 16055873

 

[2] Harik-Khan RI, Muller DC, Wise RA. Serum vitamin levels and the

risk of asthma in children. Am J Epidemiol. 2004 Feb 15;159(4):351-7.

“(L)ow vitamin C and alpha-carotene intakes are associated with asthma

risk in children.†PMID: 14769638

 

[3] Robert Cathcart, MD, “Vitamin C, Titrating to bowel tolerance,

asascorbemia and acute induced scurvyâ€, Medical Hypotheses,

7:1359-1376. PMID: 7321921

http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm