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"Vitamin C, Infections, and the Common Cold The idea that vitamin C supplementation might be of benefit against colds achieved wide popularity in the 1970s when Linus Pauling wrote a best-selling book titled Vitamin C and the common cold. Linus Pauling was a prominent chemist who won two Nobel prizes. Whether or not vitamin C helps prevent or cure the common cold remains a matter of great controversy. While supplementary vitamin C has not been confirmed to lower the incidence of colds, vitamin C consumed in fruits and vegetables is correlated with a lower incidence of colds." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"He has studied risk factors of the common cold and has found that stressful personal relationships make a person significandy more likely to get a cold. Bad relationships are as much a causal factor for the common cold as vitamin C deficiency and poor sleep.32 There is also a convincing literature that psychotherapy, which managed-care companies in their penny-pinching myopia have been so loathe to pay for, saves a lot of money in the long run." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"We'll assess the worth of diagnostic and screening tests in a few pages; in chapter 5, we'll assess the efficacy of common prescription drugs Of all maladies that bring patients to the office, the most common one is the common cold. Its treatment is where we begin. THE COMMON COLD In 1994, about one of every ten visits to a primary care physician was for treatment of this malady. In about half of these, the patient's principal symptom was "cough."7 Other common symptoms were sore throat and chest congestion." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "For the most part, antibiotics do not work. The common cold and flu are typically caused by viruses, which cannot be treated with antibiotics. An editorial in the American Family Physician recommended "restraint" in prescribing antibiotics for a variety of conditions and began its official guidelines with this explicit admonition: "Do not prescribe antibiotics for colds. "8 The guidelines then urged physicians to "develop an awareness of resistance trends in their community." "That seems clear enough to me," said Fran. "So why," I asked, "do they continue to prescribe them?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Without the immune system our bodies would not cope with such constant attacks and people would die from simple ailments like the common cold. A healthy immune system is our greatest ally and good nutrition our best ammunition. How does a healthy immune system improve asthma? In two ways. First, many people find their asthma is triggered, or worsened, by respiratory illnesses—coughs and colds. If their immune systems prevent viruses and bacteria taking hold in the body, the chances are that their asthma will improve." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Dr Linus Pauling, the Nobel prize winner, is most emphatic in his book Vitamin C and the common cold about the need to take 2000?000 mg (2? g) of Vitamin C per day for bronchial and respiratory conditions. Pauling concentrated on the effect of large doses of Vitamin C on the cold virus, but investigations have revealed that people receiving 100-200 mg Vitamin C per day show a decrease in the incidence of other conditions, for example, asthma, glandular fever, laryngitis and chronic fatigue syndrome." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "High doses of Vitamin C protect us against the common cold, asthma and respiratory conditions. Many juicing experts advise that you should not mix vegetable and fruit juices as it can cause assimilation and digestive difficulties. Although best taken on their own, various fruit juices can be combined, for example orange and pineapple, apple and prune juices. Take care with watermelon and mango—some people are allergic to them." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Viruses cause the common cold, most sore throats, the flu, and many gastrointestinal infections. In spite of this, physicians routinely prescribe antibiotics for the treatment of colds, sore throats, and stomach pain. Because these conditions are typically caused by viruses, antibiotics are useless, and these physicians are actually causing harm by increasing the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with the individual patient deriving absolutely no benefit. In fact, most viral illnesses are little more than an inconvenience that can be treated effectively with bed rest and time." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The real or virtual microbes correlated to this Terrain include those in the wide variety of families of viruses that cause the common cold and flu, so most people will at one time or another show this Terrain in their NES scan. Correcting this Terrain can bring on flulike episodes, lasting on average from a few hours to about three days, as the virtual imprint of these ubiquitous viruses tend to persist in the body-field. This Terrain also is bioenergetically linked to more virulent viral families that cause such illnesses as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Sufferers from the common cold would need to recover without their physician's help. There would be no blood transfusions or organ transplants, nor would there be emergency or critical care of any sort. Pharmaceutical companies would be gone, as would the drugs they manufacture—as would the placebo effects from those drugs! Perhaps it was the wine—a favorite bottle from the Rhone Valley— that stimulated my question. Or maybe it was the spring air. Fran and I were just finishing a lovely pasta and homemade pesto dinner on our deck, our table framed by pots of bright red geraniums." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The primary reason for using dietary supplements was to achieve self-care goals, as a means of ensuring good health, alleviating depression, and for "medicinal" purposes to treat and prevent various illnesses, including the common cold and flu [243]. Epidemiologic and clinical studies that have evaluated dietary supplements in the prevention or treatment of disease are inconsistent, showing little or no benefit. Nevertheless, the few beneficial results obtained in some studies likely influence the public's attitude toward the use of dietary supplements. A." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Whether or not vitamin C helps prevent or cure the common cold remains a matter of great controversy. While supplementary vitamin C has not been confirmed to lower the incidence of colds, vitamin C consumed in fruits and vegetables is correlated with a lower incidence of colds. There are many other excellent nutrients in fresh produce that may contribute to fewer colds. Vitamin C taken as a supplement in doses totaling one gram or more daily has been correlated with lessened severity and slightly shorter duration of colds in some studies." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Richard Besser from the Centers for Disease Control told an audience of physicians in May 2000, "because doctors are pressured to prescribe antibiotics for the common cold and inner ear infection, yet we know that it is not prudent to do so." A month later, doctors from the World Health Organization voiced a similar alarm. The group published a report that said the world risked losing its lifesaving medicines because of their overuse. The report explained how the world's major infectious diseases were slowly but surely becoming resistant to the antibiotics that had cured them." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Common Cold This article reviewed data from 10 studies on the use of zinc in treating the common cold. Results showed consistent beneficial effects when zinc was administered in the form of zinc gluconate lozenges. —J.C. Godfrey, et al., "Zinc for Treating the Common Cold: Review of all Clinical Trials Since 1984," Altern Ther Health Med, 2(6), November 1996, p. 63-72. Results of this double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that that zinc gluconate taken in the form of a lozenge every two hours containing 13.3 mg significantly reduced the duration of symptoms of the common cold. —S.B." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"In 2005, researchers from Germany looked into the effect of probiotics on the common cold. They randomly divided a group of 479 healthy adults into two groups; one got a placebo and the other a probiotic combination of Lactobacillus gasseri PA 16/8, Bifidobacterium longum SP 07/3, Bifidobacterium bifidum MF 20/5 five times a day, at dosages of 10 million (107) CFUs for three months." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "You can fight the common cold with probiotics. • Probiotics may positively affect mental health. • Probiotics have detoxification benefits. • Engineering may make probiotics into an HIV protection agent. • Probiotics can be carriers of treatments. • Some probiotics may help promote youthful skin. • Kidney stones may be prevented with probiotics. • Current research focuses on mechanisms of action. • New probiotic species are likely to be discovered in the future." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Gastroenteritis and antibi- irritable bowel syndrome is reported as the otic use are currently thought leading cause of work absenteeism, second to be environmental risk fac- only t0 the common cold. tors for developing irritable bowel syndrome. Researchers have noted a link between the onset of irritable bowel syndrome and a recent episode of gastroenteritis where the person used antibiotics. Inflammation disturbs the natural reflexes or movements of the intestinal tract, according to human and animal studies." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "This prevalent consumer belief that antibiotics can treat the common cold may explain the high use of antibiotics in developed countries. Also, physicians are over-prescribing antibiotics. When asked, 53% of Canadian consumers said they had been prescribed an antibiotic in the previous three years. That is a lot of antibiotic use. Antibiotics are very effective at killing bacteria in the body; however, you will recall that antibiotics do not kill just the bacteria that is making you sick. Antibiotics kill both the bad and the good bacteria." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Virtually all of us have experienced the symptoms of a common cold coming on and used our intentional inner voice to say, "Not now!" thus initiating a complex immune response that wards off the virus. Some of us have dampened pain, calmed our digestion, quelled panic, overridden fear, and created alertness. We may have slowed our heart rate, lowered our blood pressure, and turned down our stress response. With wondrous results like these, Intention may feel magical, but it isn't wizardry. It's tangible." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Although these drug reactions appear to be uncommon, I have personally evaluated two cases of psychosis induced by this common cold medication.) The other nonprescription medication was a steroid preparation (an-drostenedione/androstenediol mixture). On March 11,2005, the FDA issued a warning to manufacturers to stop distributing products containing androstenedione because of its steroidal effects. Like prescribed steroids, the mixture was causing aggression and extreme mood swings. Unfortunately, the removal of the preparation from drugstore shelves took place too late for Vernon." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"For example, there are at least a hundred remedies for the common cold. However, if there are a few strange, rare and peculiar symptoms, it can cut that list down considerably. For example, people who have a cough who need the remedy Bryonia, tend to be very irritable and want to be left alone. They are thirsty and don't want to be moved. These symptoms are unusual for a cough and are found in only four remedies. That cuts the list down considerably. By reading the description of the remedies you can then differentiate between them." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Examples of viral infections include the common cold, influenza, tonsillitis, measles, certain bladder infections, smallpox, encephalitis, croup, AIDS, cold sores (herpes virus), and mononucleosis. Enzymes can be used to improve digestion and support nutrient absorption, to promote protease in the bloodstream that the immune system can use to break down the protein-based viruses, and balance the body's pH levels to promote overall health." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"But it has only been with the help of more recent and sophisticated lab techniques that scientists have been capable of pinpointing how certain viruses, called enteroviruses, second only to the common cold as the most common cause of viral infections, incite some cases of type 1 diabetes. Enteroviruses, those ordinary viral infections that keep young children home from day care or school with cold and flulike symptoms and sometimes fever and muscle aches, cause an estimated 10 to 15 million infections a year in the United States." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"As I was writing this chapter, newspapers were reporting negative results from a large trial of the nutraceutical echinacea for the prevention or treatment of the common cold. I'll give you another example that pertains to fatigue in the next section of this chapter. The problem with any negative study, on the other hand, is that it cannot absolutely prove the negative. One can always say that if the study had been done differently, a different (and more positive) outcome might have occurred." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "There's often more than one way to administer a drug; even if it could cure the common cold, I doubt you'd want to inject yourself with chicken soup. NCCAM and Clinical Research More research is seldom a bad idea, which is why I'm happy that our government is using taxpayer money to fund NCCAM, whose mission is to support research on using alternative and complementary approaches to develop new treatments for disease. The institute was headed until recently by a smart clinical researcher who was heavily involved in CFS research prior to taking charge of this new institute." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "We still can't cure viruses that range from the common cold to the ones causing SARS or HIV. But while most medicines are not curative, they certainly can help the patient, either by beating back the cause of the disease or by reducing symptoms. The new medicines for HIV disease are illustrative. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). If this virus is left untreated, more than 90 percent of the people it infects will die." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"SIGNING OFF Primary care physicians—family physicians and internal medicine specialists—can diagnose and treat many nasal problems, from the common cold to allergies. But many nose problems are related to other medical conditions that require special training to evaluate and manage. Keep in mind that if you have nasal pain or excessive bleeding, you should call your doctor right away. So, who knows the most about noses?" - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"The ancient Greek physician Dioscorides boasted of hazelnut's ability to quiet chronic coughs, fight the common cold, and even grow hair in bald areas of the head. Throw Me a Lifesaver! HEART HEALTH: A small human study showed that men with elevated cholesterol who were fed a diet containing hazelnuts for eight weeks had decreased plaque-promoting lipids and increased HDL ("good") cholesterol compared to the control group. Tips on Using Hazelnuts SELECTION AND STORAGE: • If they're in the shell, choose nuts that are heavy and full." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "It battles villains inside and outside the body from vampires to the dreaded "evil eye" (malocchio in Italian) to the common cold. Egyptian slaves were fed garlic to keep their strength up. Roman soldiers ate garlic to inspire them and give them courage. Throw Me a Lifesaver! ANTIMICROBIAL/ANTTFUNGAL AGENT: Louis Pasteur demonstrated how, under laboratory conditions, garlic killed bacteria and acted as an effective antibacterial." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Home Remedies Oranges, orange juice, and orange rind have been used as home remedies for a variety of conditions including coughs and the common cold, constipation, toothaches, cataracts, and anorexia. Orange is applied topically for acne. Throw Me a Lifesaver! HEART HEALTH: The Food and Drug Administration advises that "Diets containing foods that are good sources of potassium and low in sodium may reduce the risk of high blood pressure and stroke." WEIGHT CONTROL: Fibers found in the white layer of an orange curb appetite and suppress hunger levels for up to four hours after eating." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

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