Re: OT: Help w/Bronchitis

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>From: " Laree Kline " <lareekline@...>

>This may well do the trick:

>

>7 - 9 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced

>1 " - 2 " ginger root, peeled and sliced

>2 bay leaves

>pinch of cayenne

>2 quarts filtered water

>

>Simmer to reduce liquid, about 20 minutes. Sip as much as you can all day

>long. If it is too strong, add more water. Also, add more water as you

>remove the drink during the day.

Yech!!!!!!

It'll probably work if you can stomach it.

Since the ginger helps with nausea, maybe it'll help the concoction go down.

Maybe if you thrown in some raw organic honey, which also has medicinal

properties, it'll make it tolerable.

Ginger root helps with respiration. Tastes good with honey.

I seem to think I may be allergic to cooked ginger. But, I could drink

ginger tea or eat candied ginger, but the last couple times I cooked

something with it, I had allergic reaction (one was to pumpkin pie.)

Skipper

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First, bronchitis is generally viral, so nothing a doctor can really do for

you, unless you need a breathing treatment. Which you won't, if you take

enough Vitamin C.

Iodine used to be in many cough remedies because it thins the mucous. (Some

people in this group don't take iodine themselves, so I mention it.)

For respiratory infections, I found 5-6,000 mg of Vitamin C PER HOUR chased

them away. It works quite well. I went from having respiratory infections

for a couple months at a time, to chasing away a very serious one within 24

hours, and then simply not getting them any more due to adequate Vitamin c

intake.

This may be a bit overboard, but it illustrates the point -

http://www.doctoryourself.com/colds.html

Dr. Cathcart advocates treating pneumonia with up to 200,000 milligrams of

Vitamin C daily, often intravenously. You and I can simulate a 24 hour IV

of Vitamin C by taking it by mouth very, very often. When I had pneumonia,

it took 2,000 mg of Vitamin C every six minutes to get me to saturation. My

oral daily dose was over 100,000 mg. Fever, cough and other symptoms were

reduced in hours; complete recovery took just a few days. Bronchitis clears

up even faster. That is performance at least as good as any antibiotic will

give, and the vitamin is both safer and cheaper.

Treating respiratory infections with massive amounts of Vitamin C is not a

new idea at all. Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. and J. McCormick, M.D.

used this approach successfully for decades beginning back in the 1940's!

You will want to consult their works, listed in the Bibliography under

" Vitamin C " . Doctors who think that Vitamin C generally has merit, but that

massive doses are ineffective or somehow harmful will do well to read the

original papers for themselves. Clinical evidence confirms the powerful

antibiotic effect of Vitamin C when used in sufficient quantity

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Dr. Cathcart has said a lot about Vitamin C.

http://www.leaflady.org/lung_health.htm

I once saw orthomolecular physician F. Cathcart, M.D.,

http://www.orthomed.com, on a national TV talk show. He said that disease

names can be a waste of time. He prefers to classify illness by how much

vitamin C it takes to cure them. Bronchitis, for example, is a 60-gram (per

day) cold. Pneumonia would be a 120-gram cold. "

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When I had my last serious respiratory infection, I probably took at least

60 grams that day. Went to my thyroid doc on Monday, who was willing to

give me Augmentin because it sounded like it might be pneumonia. I had

recently been on Augmentin for six weeks , and didn't want to go on it

again. Tuesday, I went to my family doc who gave me a breathing treatment

and a chest X-ray for pneumonia. I was supposed to go back the next day,

since I had been so bad. So, they could see I was OK. The next morning, I

was better. Didn't need to see the doctor, and haven't been back for an

infection since. With my history, ordainarily the respiratory problems

would have continued all year, but one day on several grams of Vitamin C an

hour and no more respiratory infection, and none in the last 3 years.

Note, you don't just stop the Vitamin C, you wean down unless you want the

infection to recur.

Cathcart's method really does work.

This is interesting. My serum magnesium has always been high, but -

http://www.leaflady.org/lung_health.htm

It has been found that most people who struggle with respiratory dis-eases

have low serum magnesium

Skipper

>From: " Laree Kline " <lareekline@...>

>This may well do the trick:

>

>7 - 9 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced

>1 " - 2 " ginger root, peeled and sliced

>2 bay leaves

>pinch of cayenne

>2 quarts filtered water

>

>Simmer to reduce liquid, about 20 minutes. Sip as much as you can all day

>long. If it is too strong, add more water. Also, add more water as you

>remove the drink during the day.

>

>

>Laree

>

>

>

>

>Iodine

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Bronchitis often starts as a nasal infection, and in fact bronchitis can be a mis-diagnosed nasal infection. A couple of drops of iodine in a bottle of saline (Ocean saline spray, for instance) works wonders for sinusitis.

-- On 12/24/06, Ives <mmives@...> wrote:

Of course, on Sunday Christmas Eve, I wake up with a nasty case of bronchitis this morning. All my books are packed away and I can't find them anywhere, and obviously I can't get to a doctor until Tuesday at the earliest.

Does anybody have any references or home remedies for bronchitis?

Best,http://www.ChestnutHillDesigns.com

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse

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Thanks for all the help, everyone. I have a 10:30 doc. appt., and I have not been to the doc. for other than thyroid meds for probably 15 years, so that should tell you how poorly I'm feeling. I had a 103F temp. yesterday (when my normal is 97.5), so that was a pretty hefty fever. Fever seems gone today, I did cave and take some ibuprofen last night around 11 pm so I could sleep, the headache was unbearable, but the fever was already dropping and down to 100 by then.

But this coughing has made my entire body ache, and my chest is so wheezy and tight, despite all my essential oils, Vitamin C, herbal tea, etc. etc. I'm afraid it may be bronchitis or pneumonia.

Best,http://www.ChestnutHillDesigns.comhttp://www.CurlyRescue.comView my Blog ~ http://shellyct.blogspot.com/

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse

[Guest guest]

Sending you HEAPS of good energy for finding a way to heal. Be kind to yourself...it takes time to recover from such a bad bout of illness! Ives <mmives@...> wrote: Thanks for all the help, everyone. I have a 10:30 doc. appt., and I have not been to the doc. for other than thyroid meds for probably 15 years, so that should tell you how poorly I'm feeling. I had a 103F temp. yesterday (when my normal is 97.5), so that was a pretty hefty fever. Fever seems gone today, I did cave and take some ibuprofen last night around 11 pm so I could sleep, the headache was unbearable, but the fever was already

dropping and down to 100 by then. But this coughing has made my entire body ache, and my chest is so wheezy and tight, despite all my essential oils, Vitamin C, herbal tea, etc. etc. I'm afraid it may be bronchitis or pneumonia. Best,http://www.ChestnutHillDesigns.comhttp://www.CurlyRescue.comView my Blog ~ http://shellyct.blogspot.com/ If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse __________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

Thank you. Doc. gave me ZPak and cough syrup w/codeine. Didn't even take my temp :-/ I knew it was high, it was 101 when I left the house, and I was sweating in the waiting room for 45 minutes.

Best,http://www.ChestnutHillDesigns.comhttp://www.CurlyRescue.comView my Blog ~ http://shellyct.blogspot.com/

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse

Sending you HEAPS of good energy for finding a way to heal. Be kind to yourself...it takes time to recover from such a bad bout of illness!

[Guest guest]

I HATE going to the docs' office! Take lots of Vitamin C if you're not already...lemon juice in water helps too!Thinking about cha. Ives <mmives@...> wrote: Thank you. Doc. gave me ZPak and cough syrup w/codeine. Didn't even take my temp :-/ I knew it was high, it was 101 when I left the house, and I was sweating in the waiting room for 45 minutes. Best,http://www.ChestnutHillDesigns.comhttp://www.CurlyRescue.comView

my Blog ~ http://shellyct.blogspot.com/ If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse Sending you HEAPS of good energy for finding a way to heal. Be kind to yourself...it takes time to recover from such a bad bout of illness! __________________________________________________