Head Colds

MD Cause: The Rhinovirus. 

MD Rx: Tylenol or Advil or Aspirin to manage the fever.

ND Cause: Space aliens. Alright! It’s not space aliens – just wanted to make sure you were paying attention… A weakened immune system.

Discussion: Apparently the medical doctors’ inability to prevent or to treat the common cold effectively is of no cause for concern amongst the intellectual scientific elite. We are perfectly fine giving the MDs trillions of dollars to come up with a cure for cancer, even though they are clueless as to what to do about the common cold! Science progresses one funeral at a time. 

It is not the presence of the virus in the body which causes the common cold. It is the bodies inability to deal with the stress of the virus that causes the common cold. I have noticed that, regardless of the stress in my life, when my body is replete with the 90 Essential Nutrients, when I have eliminated the 12 bad foods, and when I pursue my yoga and meditation routines regularly, I never get a cold or the flu. Even before I started in earnest my medical nutrition program, I would never get a cold or the flu as long as my meditation and yoga practice was regular. There is something about the practice of yoga and meditation which makes it difficult for the body to get sick with an infectious illness. I do not know the mechanism. I can only tell you from my own personal experience that this is so. This experience speaks to a larger question which the medical doctors believe is a fiction, but is one which is worthwhile asking anyway – What is the relationship between the body/mind and the genesis of disease?

My Rx: In addition to the 90 EN:

·     Argentyn 23 nasal spray: 3 sprays to each nostril every 3 hours while awake.

·     Good Herbs Super Olive Health: Acute dosage defined in Part 2, Chapter 4.

·     SLEEP as much as possible.

·     Avoid sugar (even orange juice and honey) as it suppresses the immune system when you are sick.

·     Eat PROTEIN as much as you can. Your immune system is Made From protein. Perhaps the easiest to absorb proteins when you are sick are those found in soups: Egg-Drop soup; Chicken soup.

·     Do your best to RIDE out the fever without suppressing it with herbs or drugs. See my write-up on Fever.