try zycam
cold mist humidifier. try vitamin c
To address the stuffy nose and make you more comfortable use Robitussin PE (only PE version, others have too much stuff). We normally don't do OTC meds, but that one will help in this case, and is what we use when absolutely necessary.
To help with all your symptoms:
Mullein tea - available at health food stores or online at
http://www.iherb.com (not affiliated) Steep 5-8 minutes and drink hot with honey.
Honey, very good for cold. Have it with tea, on toast, or just by the spoonful.
Vinegar - 1 tsp with apple juice. We use vinegar at onset of any illness. It does wonders, and usually keeps us from getting sick. If already sick, it will help battle the bad guys.
Saline Nasal solution - 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp baking soda in 8 oz warm water. Use a dropper or sprayer to put some in each nostril.
Steam will work wonders - steamy shower, hot bath.
Garlic - 1 tablespoon butter, 1 fresh crushed clove of garlic, put on bread and grill. Tastes great! (don't toast as the butter could ignite). Or add the butter to your favorite noodles.
Eliminate all refined sugars. They are immune suppressants and make your body have to work harder to get well.
Other teas that will help - lemon, lemon ginger, peppermint, black pekoe (regular black tea) All tea with honey.
500 mg of Vit C 2-3 times a day (separate times as Vit C is water soluble and your body will excrete what it doesn't use. Needs to be dosed more than once a day to help with cold. Vit C is antiviral.)
I take 6000-9000milligrams of vit c a day in concert with 60 milligrams of zinc, twice the recommended for water and add a couple glasses juice. Extra rest and fresh foods, no junk. I will use a hot steam shower or bath to help with breathing, also you can get a boiling pot of water stand over it with a towel over your head and breathe in the steam, be careful not to get too close or you can burn your face!!! I will sometimes use Vick's nasal to at least help me breathe. I cant take cold medicines. they really screw me up, never know how high or ill I will get, so I do this stuff. Hope you are feelin better soon!!!!!
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Drink loads of freshly squeezed orange juice and filtered water. Orange juice is full of vitamin C which your body needs to help it recover from the cold that you have. Any over the counter cold and flu meds would only rob you of your vitamin C anyways !!
also, drink Rosehips herbal tea, which is the richest natural source of vitamin C ............ any good health food store will be able to help you. The organic loose leaf variety would be your best choice. Even though it will cost about $7.00 AUD for around 150 gms, as it is organic, the essential oils are very potent and the spent leaves can be reused 2 - 3 times..... so you really do get your moneys worth and don't get to ingest any chemicals or other nasties.
Take a multi B complex supplement including all the B's ie: B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and B12 as they work best together. The B complex of vitamins is essential for healthy immune, neural and digestive functioning and will help your body recover from the stress of being ill ......... taken on a daily basis, they will help with the stress of just daily life actually!!
Also take a powdered form of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) with bioflavonoids in it. The bioflavonoids will make the power of vitamin C 10 times stronger....... you can get this from the health food store also....... the best source of bioflavonoids are the white pithy substance inside the rind of citrus fruits such as lemons, limes and oranges. Take about 3 - 4 teaspoons per day at intervals ie: 1 teaspoon dissolved in some water and drunk each 4 hours..... when you have recovered take only 1 teaspoon to maintain immunity.
There is a product out there called Zinc fix which is a powdered combination of Zinc and vitamin C and the Zinc will increase the power of the vitamin C ten fold also. Zinc will help reduce the length and severity of colds and accelerate healing time for internal and external wounds.
Try to cut right back on the things that will rob you of your precious B's as well ie: alcohol, sodas and soft drinks, coffee and tea .............. things such as antibiotics, antihistamines, aspirin, diuretics, laxatives, tobacco and antidepressants will all rob you of your B vitamins as well.
The B complex of vitamins is water soluble and as such our bodies can neither store or produce them. Therefore we need to ingest them on a daily basis. Vitamin C is also water soluble. Things that will rob you of your supplies of Vitamin C are:- tobacco, aspirin, sleeping tablets, cough syrups, antiobiotics and fluorides.
Get into the orange juice and rosehips tea buddy!!
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Robitussin PE (expectorant/nasal decongestant).The active ingredients are Guaifenesin which is expectorant and Pseudoephedrine which is nasal decongestant.
All expectorants and decongestants will rob your body of vital vitamin C ......... which is what your body needs in the first place to heal......... ??? ***
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depends: if your nose is runny, try sudafed or some other anihistimine. If it's stuffy, take drixoral or anothe decongestant. It it's really stuffy, use afrin, unless you don't like nose spray. If you're not sure, hey, just use nyquil and sleep it off. good luck!
The following information is educational in nature. Consult your physician for treatment of disease.
Cold and Flu are viruses. Some vaccines are available but risky due to contaminations, side effects, etc.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Len+Horow... http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+St..."Blood electrification" (BE) is a form of electro-medicine based upon electroporation (EP). EP has many applications. Pub-Med papers by Dr. James C. Weaver, MIT-Harvard related to EP list some of these.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez... "Very early studies demonstrated non-thermal killing of microorganisms by electric field pulses which are now associated with electroporation"--J.C.Weaver
Low-power EP can be used to drive ionized medications through the surface of your skin into your body instead of using a needle. The same levels of electrical current (1-7 milliamperes at about 25 to 30 Volts bi-phasic square wave) are typically used in BE. Research via Google "Robert C. Beck" (Dr. Bob Beck). There are Google videos about "Suppressed Medical Discovery" that are Bob Beck's video lecture taken in 1998 or so at the Granada Forum.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%2...Another Google video of a Bob Beck video lecture from Ventura College California is
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Be... At age 77, Dr. Robert C. Beck, DSc., Physics, died in 2002 as a result of a fall that resulted in a head injury, later resulting in cardiac arrest.
One of the more recent set of videos (Vintage 2000) can be found via
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Th... A version of the BE device schematic diagram of the circuit used is located
http://www.sharinghealth.com/images/Beck... The electrical current / power used by BE devices is typically less than that used for the TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator) units. They are typically sold as consumer devices as long as they do not make any medical treatment claims.
Some archived information salvaged from a deleted Wikipedia article on Bob Beck is here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Beck+olds... The Beck Protocol consists of 4 treatments: BE, PEMF, drinking ionized colloidal silver water (3-7 ppm) made from 99.99% silver + distilled (de-mineralized) water, and drinking chilled ozonated water.
The target of the Beck protocol was initially the HIV AIDS virus, but it was said in patents made by Drs. William Lyman and Steven Kaali that "ALL pathogens" could be eliminated from bodily and synthetic fluids so treated.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Steven+Ka...Further info:
http://www.rife.de/use_of_electrotherapy...The crudest form of BE can be done via 3 x 9 volt batteries (20 to 30 volts total), a fixed resistor of about 1 k-Ohms, and a variable resistor of about 250 k-Ohms (adjusted for comfortable current flow levels). The DC current should be conducted onto the skin via stainless steel electrodes like kitchen utensils: knife, fork, or spoon. The electrode contact points (should be over the radial and ulnar arteries--the pulse points of your wrist), however, these will begin to accommodate the current flow, and ions in the blood and tissues will tend to migrate to the electrode contact points, thereby forcing you to periodically change the polarity of the applied voltage to reverse the current flow through the electrodes (to undo the collected ions). Electrodes can be held in place by Velcro stretched neoprene straps or suitably adjusted elastic bands (so as not to cut off blood circulation). Recommended electrification treatment duration time per day ranges initially from 10 minutes eventually to 2 hours depending on your initial health.
Details of the PEMF (magnetic pulser circuit) can be found here:
http://keelynet.com/biology/thumind.htmand a more advanced model / specification with circuit diagram can be found here:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/20..."Pulsed-electric field (PEF) treatment is a nonthermal pasteurization technique which inactivates microorganisms (15, 20) by irreversible structural changes in the membrane, resulting in pore formation and loss of the selective permeability properties of the membrane (6, 13, 17). The extent of the permeability increase depends on the strength and duration of the electric field pulse (2, 6, 11, 19, 20). An imposed electric field causes polarization and subsequently accumulation of free charges at both sides of the cell surface, leading to an increased transmembrane potential difference and a reduction of the membrane thickness which finally results in pore formation (2, 19). Since nisin and PEF both act on the membrane, an additive effect might be expected." --Pulsed-Electric Field Treatment -- Irene E. Pol, Hennie C. Mastwijk, Paul V. Bartels, and Eddy J. Smid --Agrotechnological Research Institute (ATO-DLO), 6708 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands --from American Society for Microbiology
Ozone is an oxidizing agent that will combine up with impurities and oxidize them. Ozone therapy is used a large amount in Germany, Cuba, Japan, Mexico and similar places where large pharmaceutical companies have been unable to argue with the excellent results in treating diseases like cancer, HIV AIDS, and so on. Ozone primarily acts as a cleansing agent that marshals dead pathogens to the kidneys, etc, to facilitate the body to get them out with the other waste products. Studies not conducted with funding from pharmaceutical companies have found that elements in the blood mitigate the oxidizing effect of ozone on normal tissue while exposing pathogens and cancer cells to the body's immune system.
I made one of the BE units from the circuit diagram. Then I purchased 3 of the 4 treatment machines. For the stainless steel electrodes, I used wrist watches with stainless steel wrist bands. The sensation when using it is a bit of mild stinging every time the circuit changes polarity at the 4 Hz frequency.
When I feel a cold coming on, I connect myself up to the BE machine, and the cold goes away after one treatment of 2 hours or so. This is not good news for any doctors or biologists reading this advice because it will permanently drive away anyone who gets any kind of infection.
My mom had an infection festering on both sides of her face in her cheeks. Doctors did not know what it was and said that they thought it was an allergy and did not give her a prescription for any medication, so it got worse. I gave my mom my home-built circuit; she connected one electrode to her wrist watch band (stretchy stainless steel via small alligator clip), and the other one (a table spoon attached via small alligator clip) she touched to her cheeks while wearing a light pair of leather gloves (to prevent her hands conducting electrical current when handling the spoon electrode). She touched for a few minutes each contact point both inside her mouth and her face with the spoon and with current set for a very mild sensation. Whatever the infection was, it was gone by the end of her session. I asked her the next day if she had missed a spot or anything that would permit the soreness to return / re-grow, but she said the pain and infections were gone.
In one of the "The Beck Protocol" videos, one Q & A session person, the man, said that he used the electrodes of his pre-built BE machine to treat either side of his gums inside his mouth with BE to try to eliminate some infected soreness that was developing. He said that within a couple of treatments, the infection was gone. Bad news for his dentist--right? (More negative votes for this article because dentists lose business also!).
The circuit or equipment once built and at your disposal can be used periodically on an on-going basis to maintain "wellness." So if you start to get a cold--you zap your blood and tissues with BE treatments, et voila the troubles go away very quickly. More negative votes for this suggestion by any doctors out there.
It is said that a Mexican hospital nominated Robert C. Beck for a Nobel (some spell it Noble) prize for his treatment protocol for its 100% effectiveness against the HIV AIDS virus.
Probably some extra components can be added onto this Beck Protocol to help with overall health such as restricted diets like the Gerson Therapy for Cancer that will have you drinking lots of freshly juiced drinks, and lots of cooked vegetables of a particular variety.
There is a Google video on Gerson, but it has a static picture of text, and is a recording of a radio interview show about it. The Gerson discussion starts at about 1h:07m through that 3 hour "video."
G. Edward Griffin has a Google video "A World Without Cancer." It describes how cancer cures have been suppressed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+worl..."Hoxsey-How Healing Became A Crime" is another Google video about a cancer treatment that was also suppressed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hoxsey+%2...Dr. Royal Raymond Rife had a "beam ray" frequency instrument device that could radiate a patient's body with radio frequency (radio waves) energy of between 50 and 500 Watts power. Supposedly it could zap various viruses, mycoplasma, fungi, mould, bacteria, etc to target and irradiate various diseases. Some post-Lyme disease sufferers use a version of the Rife principles to treat themselves (a Doug machine)--They typically use a tuned circuit composed of a very large toroidial, air- or liquid- cooled coil, and a capacitor bank, that is energized by a rock concert 2 kilowatt audio amplifier that has as its input a lab audio function generator that has a frequency counter built-in. Rife frequency charts are consulted and used to target various pathogenic causes of disease.
A good thing I do without medication is use a vaporizer in my bedroom when i sleep. It humidifies the room and I can breathe when I wake up.
Or try sudafed behind the pharmacy counter for the stuffy nose... as long as you dont have high blood pressure! One or two pills for one or two days should help! And remember to get the real stuff, behind the counter. None of that phenylephrine crap.