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"One of these is whooping cough. Although widespread vaccination has made whooping cough uncommon in the United States, it remains a problem in other parts of the world. whooping cough, or pertussis as it is also called, is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Japanese researchers have determined that EGCG in green tea and theaflavin in black tea "might act as prophylactic agents against pertussis infection." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Shelton's fasting retreat in 1979 because the boy had whooping cough with nonstop coughing. Much to their surprise, Shelton advised that the infant fast on water only! These parents were at first concerned because he was so young, but Dr. Shelton assured them their child would be fine. After five days of ingesting only water, the baby was well! By contrast, some friends of theirs took their own baby with whooping cough for conventional treatment with medications. He took over a year to heal! Extreme Emaciation Resolved via Fasting! Dr." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"A report by Professor Gordon Stewart, which was published in 1994 in World Medicine, demonstrated that the risks of the whooping cough vaccine outweighed the benefits. The whooping cough or pertussis vaccine is by far the most dangerous of all the vaccines. DTP, the whooping cough vaccine that was used in the U.S. until 1992, contained the carcinogen formaldehyde, and the highly toxic metals aluminum and mercury. Both this vaccine and its "improved" version DTaP have never been tested for safety, only for efficacy. The new vaccine has proved to be no better than the old one." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Present until recently in virtually every vaccine children received throughout the 1990s, including hepatitis B, bacterial meningitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus, thimerosal is now the subject of a well-known heated controversy questioning whether cumulative doses in childhood vaccines may play a role in autism and other developmental delays." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"He was vaccinated for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, hepatitis A and B, influenza, pneumonia, hemophilus, and meningitis-all before he was two years old. I do not believe vaccines cause autism and I support the safe use of vaccinations, but we need to revisit how and when to safely provide them to our children. For a comprehensive perspective on this topic see Dr. Stephanie Cave's book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Vaccinations." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Let us examine reductions in death from diphtheria and whooping cough (childhood pertussis), both airborne infectious diseases, both cited by Thomas "as success" stories of medicine. Both diseases have declined dramatically. Yet 120 years of British data show declines in mortality from these two diseases account for only a small contribution to the total decline in mortality, 6.2%" and 2.6%, respectively, together accounting for 8.8% of the total reduction in mortality. Twentieth-century data for the United States tell a similar story." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "First, fatalities from whooping cough and measles, both with similar natural histories to diphtheria, began a similar decline without a correspondent prophylaxis or treatment; second, the national immunization campaign for diphtheria, which marked the first systematic and widespread use of diphtheria antitoxin in Great Britain, was not initiated until the early 1940s. Still, McKeown notes, that after this national campaign, deaths from diphtheria almost disappeared." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Indeed these declines in whooping cough mortality account for only 0.5% of the entire decrease in mortality from 1900 to 1970. Did Lewis Thomas choose the wrong example? Of airborne diseases, the great success story and exemplar of orthodoxy would seem to be tuberculosis. In England and Wales, the death rate from that dreaded disease declined from 2,901 per million in the mid-nineteenth century to only 13 per million in 1971, accounting for 17.5% of the total reduction in standardized death rates." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"While there are fewer than one hundred cases per year in the United States (usually in sick, older people), you should get it so that you don't have to worry about tetanus, especially when you travel. 2. whooping cough revaccination for all adults: one time only. Get it with your tetanus (Adacel). In adults, whooping cough isn't fatal, but it can cause coughing for months and may result in broken ribs. Yowza. 3. Shingles vaccine: everyone over sixty years old. Though expensive (about $300), it decreases the incidence of the xiber-painful condition of shingles." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"This native American herb was historically used to treat whooping cough, gout, and cancer. Some researchers speculate that red clover may have an estrogenic effect on the bone. They studied the effects of a special red clover extract, Rimostil, containing Clovone, a specific blend of isoflavones (biochanin A, formononetin, genistein, and daidzein), on serum lipids, bone density, and endometrial thickness in postmenopausal women.119 Fifty postmenopausal women were randomly assigned to receive either 28.5 mg, 57.0 mg, or 85.5 mg of Rimostil for six months, followed by two months of a placebo." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Routine vaccination for polio, smallpox, and whooping cough meant that losing a child to infectious disease was no longer the norm but a rarity. Hospitals were no longer simply warehouses for the sick and dying, where little more than comfort could be offered; they had become factories whose product was miracles—"gleaming palaces of medical science," as sociologist Paul Starr puts it, where doctors were in the midst of pioneering work that would soon allow them to mend damaged hearts with open-heart surgery, transplant organs, and routinely postpone death with kidney dialysis." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Although widespread vaccination has made whooping cough uncommon in the United States, it remains a problem in other parts of the world. whooping cough, or pertussis as it is also called, is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Japanese researchers have determined that EGCG in green tea and theaflavin in black tea "might act as prophylactic agents against pertussis infection." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"In the case of whooping cough, croup, asthma or bronchitis, it acts as an expectorant, loosening mucus from the surfaces of the air passages and rapidly clearing them and the lungs of sticky foreign matter. Lobelia is a strong herb and should never be prepared from home-grown plants. It is available in manufactured remedies from pharmacies. Some over-the-counter anti-smoking preparations and cough mixtures contain lobelia." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Steam inhalations with refreshing oils such as eucalyptus, lavender, wintergreen or thyme effectively clear nasal passages and relieve congestion, catarrh, asthma, croup and whooping cough and improve skin conditions such as acne by opening facial pores and sweating out impurities. Saunas or sweat baths using eucalyptus or other essential oils relieve colds, flu, catarrh or bronchial conditions and may even alleviate an asthma attack. Of course, a sauna or sweat bath should be followed by a tepid bath or shower to lower the body temperature gradually and avoid catching a chill." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Mass vaccinations against tetanus and whooping cough also began in many countries in the 1940s, and were followed by outbreaks of the "so-called provocation poliomyelitis."18 The evidence appears very clear that vaccinations are an unnatural assault on the body, which compromises and weakens the immune system. The long-term effects of all vaccines are unknown. Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, author of The Medical Mafia, is very blunt regarding health authorities' claims that vaccines protect us against contagious illnesses and epidemics. She calls this "the big lie." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It is also of enormous interest that the Spleen-Omentum Driver has a robust bioenergetic link to the following varieties of bacteria that may infect both the peritoneal cavity and the lungs: Bordetella pertussis (cause of whooping cough), Haemophilus influenzae (cause of chest infections), Klebsiella (some types may cause pneumonia), and Moraxella catarrha-lis (cause of upper-respiratory infection). Normally, Klebsiella bacteria are harmless in the gut and abdominal cavity, although they become dangerous in the chest cavity, where they can destroy lung tissue." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The early triple vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus has been shown beyond doubt to cause paralytic polio in some children to whom it was administefed. The incidence of polio in children vaccinated with this shot was statistically greater than in unvaccinated children. This scandal broke in Britain during 1949, an epidemic year for polio; other reports soon followed from Australia. Problems That Can Occur with the Immune System Problems that can occur are: 1. The Immune System is overwhelmed by too many invaders 2." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Although widespread vaccination has made whooping cough uncommon in the United States, it remains a problem in other parts of the world. whooping cough, or pertussis as it is also called, is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Japanese researchers have determined that EGCG in green tea and theaflavin in black tea "might act as prophylactic agents against pertussis infection." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Today, every child in the USA is vaccinated against whooping cough, hepatitis, chickenpox, measles, polio, diphtheria, mumps and tetanus. In fact there are 40 recommended childhood immunizations in all as of January 2002. If parents resist, they come into conflict with the law. Vaccinations, so it seems, are the great unquestionable victory of modern medicine. And it is true: millions of lives have been saved because of vaccinations. Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Emil von Behring and many other researchers are heroes." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"By contrast, some friends of theirs took their own baby with whooping cough for conventional treatment with medications. He took over a year to heal! Extreme Emaciation Resolved via Fasting! Dr. Shelton related the story of one young man who was so emaciated that the medical and naturopathic doctors attending him for months while getting no results were at their wits' end. Dr. Shelton was called in for consultation as a last resort. To the astonishment of the doctors, Shelton recommended a fast, to which they reluctantly agreed." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"In adults, whooping cough isn't fatal, but it can cause coughing for months and may result in broken ribs. Yowza. 3. Shingles vaccine: everyone over sixty years old. Though expensive (about $300), it decreases the incidence of the xiber-painful condition of shingles. Some insurance companies may reimburse for this shot. Check with your insurance provider, and if it's covered, ask for the insurance code and provide it to your doctor—you may find this number makes it easier for all. 4. Pneumovax: for people over fifty. Repeat at sixty-five years old (if five years since first one)." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"INDICATIONS AND USAGE Internally, Horehound is used as a sedative in cases of hysteria and hypochondria, as a spasmolytic for stomach cramps and complaints, for whooping cough, and to increase bile flow. Horehound is also used to treat nervous, upset stomach, nausea and vomiting. In France, it is traditionally used in the symptomatic treatment of nervous disorders in adults and children, especially for mild sleep disorders and for the symptomatic treatment of coughs." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"However, the laugh was soon on the other side, for they all had a peaceful night, and in the morning the whooping cough had gone, and didn't return. Many similar successes could be described—much to the discomfiture of the skeptics. The cures have been so swift that the usually unbelieving Thomases in most cases refuse to believe that the attacks were whooping cough at all. They seemed to be obsessed with the idea that it must "run its course." A correspondent writes: "You may be interested in this. When I was a young child, I had whooping cough." - Richard Melvin Lucas, Miracle Medicine Herbs (Reward Books) (Get the book.)

"INDICATIONS AND USAGE Daffodil is used for irritation of the mucous membranes such as bronchial catarrh, whooping cough, colds and asthma. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. The plant possesses a weak potential for sensitization, a condition called "daffodil itch". OVERDOSAGE Overdosage or accidental intake of the bulbs, (instead of cooking onions), can lead to poisonings." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis, whooping cough is a disease that is rarely fatal, with a 99.8% recovery rate. It is most serious and life-threatening in children under six months of age, but there are many excellent alternative methods of treatment available.26 The vaccine is most often given in conjunction with diphtheria and tetanus (DPT).This vaccine may cause whooping cough, pneumonia, convulsions, inflammation of the brain, and death associated with pertussis." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"While these are not insignificant reductions in mortality—each life saved might be seen as extraordinary—neither can they be considered in and of themselves a "great achievement."13 The organism that causes diphtheria was identified in the 1880s, and antitoxin was first used—though not widely—in the early 1890s. Fatalities in England and Wales began a precipitous and continuous decline in the 1890s, coincident with the introduction of antitoxin, which would seem to support the orthodox position. Yet there are two cautionary notes." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"DTP, the whooping cough vaccine that was used in the U.S. until 1992, contained the carcinogen formaldehyde, and the highly toxic metals aluminum and mercury. Both this vaccine and its "improved" version DTaP have never been tested for safety, only for efficacy. The new vaccine has proved to be no better than the old one. Both versions cause death, near-death, seizures, developmental delay, and hospitalization. DTaP (formerly DTP) is given to babies as young as six weeks old, although the vaccine has never been tested on this age group." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Among the 17 potential health problems caused by the whooping cough vaccine is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). According to an estimate from the University of California at Los Angeles, 1,000 U.S. infants a year die as a direct result of receiving the vaccine. These and other vaccines have never been tested for safety on humans; they are only tested on animals. Vaccines cannot be proven safe until they are given to humans, for the first time. Giving vaccines to human turns them into human "guinea pigs." It is not possible to predeict what reactions they will have." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Among the causes of anaphylactic shock are immunizations for diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, and whooping cough. A young person's immune system hasn't typically matured enough to be effective against this type of onslaught No less dangerous is the Guillain-Barre syndrome which leads to paralysis and is caused by immunizations for measles, diphtheria, influenza, tetanus, and the oral polio vaccine. This is hardly surprising when one considers the high toxicity of the vaccines." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Asthma (page 32) Bronchitis (page 80) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (page 114) (COPD) Cough (page 139) Indigestion (page 260) Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies) Traditionally, herbalists have used elecampane to treat coughs (page 139), particularly those associated with bronchitis (page 80), asthma (page 32), and whooping cough.1 The herb has also been used historically to treat poor digestion and general complaints of the intestinal tract. Active constituents Elecampane root and rhizome contain approximately 1—4% volatile oils." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

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