Things
you can do to ward off a cold, or
at
least lessen its effects. 
Take
5 grams of powdered vitamin C. Mix a heaping teaspoon of crystalized
vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in a large glass with 1/4 teaspoon of baking
soda and a tablespoon of honey or sugar syrup. Add a small amount of
tasty liquid. Stir. Wait until it froths up and then goes back down
again to mostly liquid. Drink it with a small glass of tasty liquid
nearby as it will still taste terrible and you will want to wash the
taste away.
 Alkalyze
your body. This means taking lot of minerals. Baking soda is mostly
carbon and sodium. It is a good alkalyzer in the short term, although
you would need to add other full array minerals in the long term.
Edible clay is a good source of mixed, full-array minerals. "A lot"
means taking them by the tablespoonful, not by the gram.
Take a large,
time-released vitamin C
tablet every hour.
Make
a poultice of French green clay and hot water and put it on your neck
and behind your ears as close to where you feel any scratchiness
indicating a cold is coming on.
Drink
lots of water. Drink at least an ounce of water for every pound of body
weight per day when you are coming down with a cold, for example, if
you weigh 128 pounds, you would drink 128 ounces of water or two
gallons. 160 pounds, you would drink 2 1/2 gallons. Put large soda pop
bottles of water by your bed so you can continue drinking as much water
as you can during the night -- drink as much as you can every time you
wake up.
Sleep more when you have
a cold coming
on, preferably in a room as dark as you can get it, or put face masks
or other clothing over your eyes if you cannot completely blacken the
room..
Put a
drop of 3% hydrogen peroxide in each ear and let it drip down, holding
head sideways or lying on your side. It will fizz, indicating it is
meeting and killing bacteria. Hydrogen peroxide contains oxygen and
oxygen is poisonous to the bacteria (anaerobe) that make us sick.
Hydrogen peroxide can be bought at any pharmacy or drug store but you may
have to ask for it in some places where it is not sold over the counter
in plain sight.
Keep warm and breathe
fresh air. If
you can stay
warm enough with heating pads, blankets etc. open a window in your
bedroom to get fresh air while sleeping. Sleep outside in a tent if
it's warm enough. Wear a hat, scarf and mittens or gloves while
sleeping if necessary. Wear extra clothes during the day or better yet,
stay in bed, keeping warm, while drinking your extra gallon of water.
Practice
jala neti (saline nasal irrigation) every four hours when you feel a
cold coming on.
Take several antibiotics
[see below],
regardless of whether
conventional medicine
says it is caused by a virus or bacteria.
Take a few drops of oil or oregano, or put some on your wrist and rub in or put a drop in each nostril.
Keep your ears
covered to keep
out germs that may cause colds. (You can do this all the time
especially in cold and flu season, and not wait until you feel a cold
coming on.) Wear a hat and scarf, or make yourself a balaclava.
Our
Earth Our Cure: A Handbook of Natural Medicine for Today by Raymond
Dextreit.
Fire
Your Doctor! How to Be Independently Healthy by Andrew W.
Saul
Sacred
and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen
Harr Buhner
The
Cure Is in the Cupboard Using oil of oregano
for better health.
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Natural
Antibiotics
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Garlic
Echinacea,
take 1 capsule twice a day to help prevent a cold, more
often up to every 4 hours if you already have a cold.
Colloid
silver. (That really won't help if you feel a cold coming on. You need
to take the silver on a regular basis.)
Iodine
Magnesium
chloride.
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Old
Man's Beard extract (Lichen)
Umeboshi
plums (naturally fermented, actually apricots)
Red clover
Blue cheese
Moldy bread (see penicillin)
Burdock flowers
Goldenseal
Coconut oil (lauric acid)
Oil of oregano
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Fish Antibiotics
In
the US, antibiotics can be purchased in some large pet shops in the
aquarium department. You have to read the fine print on the back of the
boxes, but some of the pills for water treatment are plain penicillin,
erythromycin or tetracycline. They are made in the same plants that
make human abx and are chemically identical. This is provided for
informational
purposes only, and does not constitute a recommendation that you should
take antibiotics not labelled for human use. disclaimer
(Questioning
The Narrative About Antibiotics)
After finishing any kind of
antibiotics, it is helpful to
take probiotics to replenish the gut. This can be from foods such as
yogurt, kefir, cultured cream, raw sauerkraut, lacto-fermented sodas or
nutritional supplements. Probiotic nutritional supplements can be found
in health food stores or ordered online from Soil-Based Organisms
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It's
not that you wear cotton rags
Or
clothes of finest
silk,
It's
cause you got e. coli
bug
From
drinking past'rized milk.
--after
an Irish children's rhyme. Enterobacteria ("e. coli") are kept in check
by lactobacilli, a probiotic found in raw milk. You may not be able to
avoid e.coli, but you can be sure to have plenty of lactobacilli around
to knock them out by drinking raw milk or culturing pasteurized milk to
to restore the living microbes killed by pasteurization.
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