How To Deal With A Cold
Coronavirus is really
nothing more than a common cold, a different strain, perhaps, but a
cold none the less. With what is going on in the world today, it's
vital you know how to deal with a cold. This article will help you.
It is not true that
colds are caused by viruses; that there really isn’t anything you
can do to not cause a cold; or that there isn’t anything you can do
for a cold once you get it except treat the symptoms (admittedly with
scant success).
My grandchildren have
known what to do about colds since they were just a few years old.
They know that the way to avoid colds is to avoid junk foods and
overeating; and they know that a cold can be eliminated by
withholding food completely when the first symptoms appear. They know
that if one fasts for 36 or 48 hours (or, at the most, three days),
the symptoms will usually disappear, and it will not be necessary to
contend with a seven- to fourteen-day period of suffering nor the
organic damage that can be caused to the respiratory organs or other
parts of the body by a prolongation of the causes and the symptoms.
Such cooperation with
the self-healing power of one’s own body enables the necessary
elimination of toxins to proceed with a minimum of discomfort, a
procedure which is quickly consummated.
Food Must Be Withheld
During Acute Stages
“Laboratory
experiments have demonstrated that digestion is impaired during the
acute stages of a cold, and indigestion and decomposition are
inevitable … Feeding in a cold, when indigestion is inevitable,
insures that putrefactive poisons will be absorbed into the system
where they will increase toxemia. Continued eating when there is no
power of digestion necessitates a supplementary eliminating crisis to
expel the noxious material before vital tissues are harmed. Hence, a
common cold may develop into other more serious diseases if eating is
not discontinued.”
It is not what we eat,
but what we digest and assimilate that produces health and strength.
Conditions which disturb or impair digestion produce decomposition,
thus poisoning the body instead of supplying it with nutritional
elements from the food eaten. Whether or not the individual is aware
of overt symptoms of such decomposition, insidious damage occurs.
Health and Disease
Health and disease are
interrelated. Hygienists think of health and disease as fluctuating
qualities of the living organism, as a continuum with health at the
top. As health becomes less, disease occurs, and, of course, at the
bottom of the scale is death. Between health and death are all
varieties and conditions.
In a modern
environment, it is probably not possible to attain perfect health.
The human body is exposed to many toxins daily. Under normal
circumstances, it should be possible to eliminate them from the body
rapidly. This is the function of the organs of elimination: the
kidneys, the liver, the lungs, even the skin. But when the normal
level of toxins rises above a certain point, the body is overloaded
and the vital energy drops below normal. The organs of depuration,
which are regulated by the nervous system, are then unable to
maintain their functional efficiency, and the internal environment
becomes less stable.
At this point, the
condition may be considered a mild functional disturbance, but some
remedial steps must be taken to reduce the toxemia. If the individual
recognizes the condition and decides to fast and rest, the efficiency
and integrity of the body is speedily restored; otherwise, the
organism itself takes remedial steps.
Vicarious Elimination
First, the actions of
the normal channels of elimination are intensified. Next, channels of
vicarious elimination are employed—most commonly, the mucous
membranes, with a deluge of mucus in the upper respiratory tract.
When a full-blown remedial activity is in progress, fasting and
resting are even more certainly indicated, but recuperation of the
body’s energies will now require more time.
Acute Diseases Are
Self-Limiting
Acute diseases, such as
colds, are debilitating, but they are self-limiting. Most people
eventually recover without any treatment, or in spite of the
treatment. For that reason, almost anything seems to be a “cure.”
When it is fully
understood that a cold, or any disease, is body action and not an
attack by an external entity, attempts are not instituted to suppress
the body’s own defensive and remedial processes.
If the body is allowed
to continue its cleansing actions, the person will feel much better
afterwards. The only helpful means of aborting or shortening the
duration of a cold is through fasting, keeping warm, getting plenty
of fresh air and as much bed rest as possible.
This methodology will
increase elimination of toxic materials through the regular channels
of excretion, and will decrease the necessity for vicarious
elimination through the nose, throat, eyes, etc. The headache and
fever will subside and the other uncomfortable symptoms will be
reduced and gradually disappear.
Too Many Housecleaning
Episodes Are Exhausting
People who have
frequent colds are conducting beneficial and necessary eliminative
processes. Other people, equally toxic (or more toxic) may not have
the energy to conduct such housecleaning and may, instead, undergo
insidious degeneration.
The wise Hygienist will
avoid toxemia, and avoid the necessity for so many housecleaning
episodes. If such episodes are too frequent, damage to the channels
of vicarious elimination will be inevitable.
Dr. Sidhwa says, “It
must be pointed out that too frequent use of the same paths of
vicarious elimination will lead to atrophy and degeneration of any
path of elimination, as well as a gradual wearing down of the
strength of the glands themselves. Although disease, especially acute
disease, is a life-saving process, it is also a life-consuming
process. Frequent stimulation leads to exhaustion, leading to further
enervation of the whole system.”
Rationale of Modern
Medicine
The medical profession,
for the most part, regards diseases as organized entities that attack
the body from without and that must be destroyed. That is why medical
students spend such a great percentage of their time studying the
pharmacopoeia, the thousands of drugs which are the weapons of choice
against the little beasties—the “disease germs” and the
mysterious viruses (the drugs that destroy the kidneys, that threaten
life itself).
Modern medicine employs
the word “virus” to mean an ultra-minute form of life that
infects cells and causes maladies. They know not exactly what the
viruses are—plants, chemicals, animals or parasites?
Boyd’s medical
textbook states that “the virus seems to exist in the dim
borderland between living things and chemical compounds. It is a
submicroscopic unit containing nucleic acid and protein. Unlike
bacteria, viruses are “not capable of supporting” life on their
own, owing to a lack of enzymes. In order to exist and multiply, they
must occupy living cells which provide them with necessary material
and energy. It is evident that a virus is a perfect example of a
parasite.”
Boyd admits that most
normal persons can harbor viruses without developing the disease the
viruses are supposed to cause, and that enervating influences
overcome the body’s protective functions and “permit the viruses
to usurp the biological activities within the cell.”
Interferon
Interferon,
manufactured within the organism in response to colds and other
so-called “virus diseases,” is the body’s means of protecting
itself, but it can only operate when we supply the necessary
materials and influences which promote health and protection.
In recent years,
interferon has been publicized as the bright new hope to fight cancer
and “virus diseases.” But, although pharmaceutical firms invested
millions in synthesizing interferon, the results (as with other magic
bullets) have been disappointing and inconclusive.
In 1978, scientists
were hailing interferon as a true miracle drug, a century after it
was identified. But it has not lived up to its advance billing.
Although the price tag for interferon research has hit four hundred
million dollars, an FDA spokesman said (May 1983), “There are no
real answers yet … This drug affects a lot of systems in the body
and has produced some side effects that include nausea, vomiting,
flu-like pains, fevers and chills, confusion and high blood
pressure.”
Boyd’s writings
exemplify the medical attitude. Instead of thinking in terms of
health improvement, so that the cells can heal themselves, they are
seeking a chemical panacea to destroy the virus. Chemicals only make
the host more susceptible and less able to deal with toxins in the
organism.
Bacteria and Viruses
Are Secondary or Tertiary Factors in Disease
When the body is
undergoing a crisis of elimination, virulent bacteria (or viruses)
may become involved as secondary or tertiary factors. The use of
drugs may produce mutant, more resistant strains. Edwin W. Schultz,
M.D., in an article in the Cyclopedia of Medicine, states, “It is
well established that viruses do undergo variations … in virulence,
in antigenic structure, and in the character of lesions induced …
sometimes of a stable mutation type.”
All the newer knowledge
about bacteria and viruses substantiate the Hygienic viewpoint: A
healthy body will eliminate virulent or threatening influences,
making disease unnecessary. Hygienists understand that disease
originates inside the body as a result of poor eating and living
habits; of physical, mental and emotional practices which subtly and
insidiously weaken the organism.”
The true role of germs
is as scavengers, breaking up and consuming dead and dying cells and
other debris. Bacteria perform the same function in the toxic body as
they do everywhere in nature.
Viruses, which the
medical profession has been incriminating more and more as the cause
of so many diseases, are not even living entities in the same sense
as bacteria. Bacteria are microorganisms which have the ability to
act. A Virus on the other hand, is not a living entity.
The poisonous materials
called viruses have no existence apart from a living organism. They
are actually the debris of spent cells—the genetic material or
nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) from these spent cells. Viruses are in no
sense alive, nor do they have any ability to act, but their presence
in the body is as toxic as any other retained body waste material,
favoring the surfacing and multiplication of bacteria.
Actually, humans live
symbiotically with bacteria. We adapt to, and are dependent on,
bacterial flora. Health and disease are not antagonistic to each
other. Disease does not attack the body, but rather is produced by it
as a means of restoring health.
It was clearly
demonstrated that bacteria do not produce disease; that there are no
“disease-producing” bacteria, germs, microbes, bacilli or
viruses; and that the opposite is the fact. It is the environment—the
host—the disease condition—that determines the type of bacteria
that proliferate. The germ does not produce the disease. The disease
produces the germ by changing nontoxic bacteria into toxic bacteria
in a septic environment. This concept is discussed in detail in
Lesson No. 66.
No Bacteria in Early
Stages of a Cold
During the early stages
of a cold, the nasal secretions are completely void of bacteria. None
are found in the thin watery secretion the first two or three days of
the cold. When the thick purulent secretion begins, then pneumococci,
staphylococci, or streptococci make their appearance.
Dr. Vetrano says,
“Since bacteria are so conspicuously absent at the beginning of a
cold, another cause had to be found. The unpopular idea that a person
could change his life habits and not develop colds was too
preposterous to entertain. The virus saved the day.” People don’t
have to change their ways of life as long as they believe their colds
are caused because they “picked up” a very malignant virus.
Why More Colds Develop
in Cold Weather
Colds may develop at
any time of the year, but the summer months show fewer colds because
most people get more fresh air, sunshine, and exercise, and commonly
eat less. As indicated in Lesson 66, the first colds of early winter
are not “caught” from someone else with a cold but develop in
those most susceptible because of the way they have been living and
eating. The added stress of cold temperatures further checks
elimination, adds to the general toxemia and enervated condition, and
precipitates a crisis.
Leslie Thomson says,
“To many people a ‘chill’ and a ‘cold’ are almost
synonymous. It is an easy error, all the more so because it is not a
complete fallacy; rather it is a seriously misplaced emphasis. Many
people do develop a cold after an unpleasant incident in bad weather,
but one should ask a few questions. In most cases the feelings of
chill and the development of a cold are only different aspects—or
successive stages—of a bodily springcleaning. When the body reaches
a state in which retained wastes seriously impede normal vital
functioning, the process has been so slow that the individual is only
dimly aware of being substandard. Then some circumstance presents his
system with an unusual challenge and the tolerance of his vital
system is exceeded.” There is an inability to keep warm because the
normal physical and chemical processes are so retarded that the heart
is unable to maintain adequately free circulation. The body must, and
does, organize for a thorough cleansing and rejuvenating
“crisis”—uncomfortable, to be sure—but necessary—and
eminently worthwhile. If no stupid interference occurs, “this
wonderfully complex process achieves in a few days a massive ejection
of waste and a burning up of combustible rubbish.”
The True Cause of Colds
A summation by Dr.
Vetrano is concise and eloquent: “Colds develop and are not
‘caught.’ Bacteria and viruses have nothing to do with the
development of coryza. They may be complicating features or function
as saprophytes feeding on the debris. They arrive on the scene when
tissues and fluids are abnormal and survive as long as the tissues
remains abnormal. They help clean up the debris. Our enervating way
of life is the true cause of colds.”
