Vitamin C Beats Bird Flu and Other Viruses, Too

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Gen Smedley Butler won TWO (2) MEDALS of HONOR, and deserved another; Linus

Pauling won TWO (2) NOBEL PRIZES. I trust their insight over today's politicians

or media or " our " DEPT. Homeland Security.

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Vitamin C Beats Bird Flu and Other

Viruses, Too (OMNS) High dose vitamin C is a remarkably safe and effective

treatment for viral infections. [1,2] In high doses, vitamin C neutralizes free

radicals, helps kill viruses, and strengthens the body's immune system. Taking

supplemental vitamin C routinely helps prevent viral infections. The Avian Flu

(or Bird Flu), so often mentioned by newspapers, magazines and other news

sources, is a particularly severe form of influenza. It should probably be

called Poultry Flu, since almost all of the 150 or so human infections have come

from domestic poultry. [3] Interestingly, the symptoms of avian flu include

hemorrhages under the skin, and bleeding from the nose and gums. These are also

classical symptoms of clinical scurvy, which means a critical vitamin C

deficiency is present. This means that vitamin C (ascorbate) is needed to

treat it. Severe cases may require 200,000 to 300,000 milligrams of

vitamin C or more, given intravenously (IV) by a physician. This very high

dosing may be needed since the Avian Flu appears to consume vitamin C very

rapidly, similar to an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, somewhat like an Ebola

infection. What should you do if you think you have a viral infection - any

viral infection - coming on and IV vitamin C is not readily available? Nobel

laureate Linus Pauling said that as soon as you feel the symptoms of sniffles, a

cold or the flu, take oral doses of thousands of milligrams of vitamin C. For

best results, take vitamin C in evenly divided doses during the waking hours.

Continue taking vitamin C on this schedule until, Pauling says, you have loose

stool (just short of diarrhea). After having loosened stool, reduce the vitamin

C dosage reduce by about 25 per cent. If you have another loose stool, reduce

the vitamin C again, but if the symptoms of the viral infection begin to return,

increase the dosage. You will quickly learn how much

vitamin C to take; even children can learn to do this. Continue until you are

completely well. Vitamin C greatly shortens the severity and duration of viral

illnesses. Vitamin C expert Robert Cathcart, M.D., specifies very high

therapeutic doses of vitamin C. For a severe cold: 60,000 to 100,000

milligrams/day. [4] For most influenza (flu), 100,000 to 150,000 mg/day. [5] For

Avian (Bird) Flu, 150,000 to 300,000 mg/day.[6] Remember: Vitamin C replaces

antiviral drugs at saturation (bowel tolerance or loose stool) levels. The

reason very high doses of a vitamin can cure an illnesses is because a

disease-induced deficiency of that vitamin can be a cause of the illness. As

for the safety of this approach: 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

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References:

1. Gorton HC, Jarvis K. The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing and

relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections. J Manipulative

Physiol Ther. 1999 Oct;22(8):530-3. " Vitamin C in megadoses administered before

or after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the

symptoms in the test population compared with the control group. "

2. Smith L. (Ed) Clinical guide to the use of vitamin C. (Also published as:

Vitamin C as a fundamental medicine: Abstracts of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner,

M.D.'s published and unpublished work) 1988. F. R. Klenner, M.D., " reports cases

of influenza, encephalitis, and measles easily cured with Vitamin C injections

and oral doses. "

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm

3. webmd.com/content/article/112/110522.htm

4. Cathcart RF. Vitamin C, titrating to bowel tolerance, anascorbemia, and acute

induced scurvy. Medical Hypotheses, 7:1359-1376.

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

5. Cathcart RF. Treatment of the flu with massive doses of vitamin C.

http://www.orthomed.com/mystery.htm#treatment

6. Cathcart RF. Avian (bird) flu. http://www.orthomed.com/bird.htm (end)

 

 

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