Cold remedy

[abcdefz]

....so I slept about 2 1/2 hours too long on Sunday. This morning I woke witha tickly throat and a bit of pressure in my head. And two co-workers showed up flat-out sick.

Did an internet search and, besides dosing with major vitamin C, I've been putting peroxide in my ears for a few minutes. (The theory being that that's where virus gets in and starts to percolate.)

Funny enough -- other than being drowsy as all get out, this really seems to be working: hourly doses of vitamin C, and peroxide in the ears every couple hours.

Anyone else ever heard of this?

Subquestion: what else has worked for you?

[mp-seventythree]

Ginseng once I actually have a cold. If I feel one coming on I dose up on Echinacea, and that usually makes the whole thing a lot less unpleasant.

[abcdefz]

Well, I doesed with C all day yesterday (every hour or two) and did the peroxide-in-the-ear thing about as often; went home and promptly slept for 11.5 hours and today I feel much better. No irritated throat, etc. I'm at roughly A- health, which is great.

It would be cool if anyone else, right as they began to feel a cold coming on, tried this measure as well, just to see if it works for them. I'm still taking C, but I think I might might might have beat this cold.

Also, I demand more replies and home remedies to this thread. One would think that this thread would be of pivotal importance everywhere in the northern hemisphere right now. Indeed, it should be stickified for the good of all mankind. But, you know: whatever.

[mp-seventythree]

Well next time I feel like I have a cold coming I'll definitely try the peroxide thing. But I'm definitely with you on the general shoddiness of the members of the board not posting here.

Shame on them all

[ms.peachy]

Massess and masses of fresh grated ginger and lemon tea.

Lots and lots of sleep.

[zippo]

oh i drug myself for everything, ive learned from my mommy, my brother says that if you stuck needles in her arms she wouldnt feel it, she usually suggests the medication to the doctor and the doctor agrees

[fucktopgirl]

prevention of a cold

you can built your immune system by eating a lot of garlic
a lot of fresh fruits
taking vitamine c supplement is ok during the cold season
cayenne pepper is a good germ killer,so cooking with it help
colloid silver(natural antiobiotic)

helping a cold to go away

taking golden seal
echinace
vitamine c
chicken soup
taking cough sirup herb that contain somewhere(mullein leaf,wild cherry bark,peppermint leaf,eucalyptus oil)

[Bob]

how does the peroxide thing work? do you just apply it to a q-tip and then use it like you normally would, swabbing in and around the ears? or is there a special method?

[fucktopgirl]

you jsut pour drop in your ears

[cosmo105]

i've never heard the peroxide thing. that's interesting.

when i feel something coming on i take tons of olive leaf extract, vitamin c, and an herbal immune formula every 3 hours or so.

by the way - on the c? be careful you don't overdo it. you can take a lot of it daily. i usually take at least a gram, sometimes more. but if you take too much it can cause diarrhea. supposedly the test for your tolerance is to take it hourly until you develop said poopyness, and however many you took is your dose. for most people that's several grams a day! but 500mg - 1000mg is plenty for most of us.

[fucktopgirl]

you have to take a lot to have diarrhea
like a bottle!

anyway when you have enought vitamine c in your body
you just gona pee it

[beastiegirrl101]

I have done the peroxide in the ear thing...kinda fizzes and bubbles...but i thought this was just to clean your ears. Didnt know you could do this for being sick.

[abcdefz]

helping a cold to go away

taking golden seal
echinace
vitamine c
chicken soup
taking cough sirup herb that contain somewhere(mullein leaf,wild cherry bark,peppermint leaf,eucalyptus oil)




...you do all of this if you've caught a cold?

What's the regimen, exactly?

[abcdefz]

I'm definitely with you on the general shoddiness of the members of the board not posting here.

Shame on them all


*Sally Fields impersonation*

You feel me; you really feel me!

[cosmo105]

chicken soup doesn't do anything for a cold.

i take this (http://www.iherb.com/wellness.html) during the flu season pretty regularly and whenever i feel something coming on. it's good stuff, and if you take it every few yours it'll knock it right out of you. even if you've already got it.

[abcdefz]

how does the peroxide thing work? do you just apply it to a q-tip and then use it like you normally would, swabbing in and around the ears? or is there a special method?



...the store didn't have any ear droppers, so I stopped at Carl's Jr. and snagged a straw.

Dip the straw into the bottle about 1 1/2 inches, finger atop the straw to hold the liquid in; tilt head, position straw over ear canal, and release finger, allowing the peroxide to drop right in.

Keep head tilted for a couple minutes until fizzing (if any) stops. Supposedly, if there is no fizzing, you've got no virus action going on. My fizzing stopped after about the third dose yesterday, but I'm continuing the remedy today because I missed a day of lifting and don't want to screw up my program any further. (y)

[fucktopgirl]

hell yea its work chicken soup,you let the bone while the soup is cooking,there good stuuf in there to help you!

a chicken soup with tons of garlic,cayenne pepper,onion
that take out and kill the freaking germ!

[Bob]

...the store didn't have any ear droppers, so I stopped at Carl's Jr. and snagged a straw.

Dip the straw into the bottle about 1 1/2 inches, finger atop the straw to hold the liquid in; tilt head, position straw over ear canal, and release finger, allowing the peroxide to drop right in.

Keep head tilted for a couple minutes until fizzing (if any) stops. Supposedly, if there is no fizzing, you've got no virus action going on. My fizzing stopped after about the third dose yesterday, but I'm continuing the remedy today because I missed a day of lifting and don't want to screw up my program any further. (y)

that's very interesting. that sounds like it ought to be bad for some reason, i was always under the impression you were supposed to keep liquids OUT of your ear. except for maybe ear drops. so i guess that does make sense. i'll have to remember that next time i get a cold, thanks.

[cosmo105]

if people ate better in the first place they wouldn't need the extra crap in chicken soup. sure, it's not bad for you, and it helps some as far as nutrition...but it's just like any other soup.

in fact, the pasta noodles in chicken noodles soup are really bad for you in the long run. bleached wheat flour = awful.

[abcdefz]

i've never heard the peroxide thing. that's interesting.






Here's where I got the peroxide thing; paranoia tossed in for free... :rolleyes:



*Hydrogen Peroxide*

"Curing the common cold and flu <http://cat007.com/cold.htm>. - This
works 80% of the time

In 1928 Richard Simmons, M.D. hypothisized that colds and flu virus
enter through the ear canal. His findings were dismissed by the
medical community. *According to Dr. Simmons, contrary to what you
may think or have been taught about how you catch the flu or the
cold there is only one way that you can catch the two, and that's
via the ear canal not through the eyes or nose or mouth as most have
believed. Keeping your fingers out of your ears will greatly reduce
your chances of catching them, but then again these two are
microscopic and can be air-born and may land on or even in your ear.
Once they have entered the inner-ear (middle-ear) there they begin
their breeding process, and from there they have access to every
avenue throughout our body to travel to and to infect and make us
sick. *

In 1938 German researchers had great success using hydrogen peroxide
in dealing with colds and the flu. Their data has been ignored
(maybe surppressed) for over 60 years.

For many years people, in the know, have been attacking the
Influenza(s) Virus & Common Cold where they begin their breeding
process and not where they have already have spread to and that's
the inner-ear (middle). /*It IS important to begin treatment as soon
as symptoms appear. */

We have found remarkable results in curing the flu & cold within 12
to 14 hours when administering a few drops of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
(h2o2) into each infected ear, (sometimes only one ear is infected)
The h2o2 starts working within 2 to 3 minutes in killing the flu or
cold; there will be some bubbling and in some cases mild stinging
occurs. Wait until the bubbling & stinging subside (usually 5 to 10
min) then drain onto tissue and repeat other ear. A bottle of
Hydrogen Peroxide in 3% solution is available at any drug store for
a couple of dollars.

To cure the flu *you'll need to repeat this process two or more
times at one or two hours intervals until there is no more bubbling
when putting hp in ear(s)*

For experiences of others see:

More on Hydrogen Peroxide for the Cold and Flu
<http://www.mercola.com/2002/mar/27/hydrogen_peroxide.htm>

Finally Zinc Acetate is the most effective form of Zinc lozenges to
take. Some formulations of Zinc actually make the cold worse! For
more information see:

See:

Quick Review of Published Data for Common Cold Cure
<http://www.coldcure.com/html/review.html>

[cosmo105]

hahaha! Richard Simmons, M.D.!

that's pretty interesting, a-z. i'll have to do some more research about that.


there are so many things out there that people will swear by...it's difficult to wade through the sea of options. i can think of one off the top of my head - Grapefruit Seed Extract, also called GSE. very, very potent stuff. a little old lady once told me that she took a few drops of it as soon as she felt a cold coming on and she never got completely sick. she loved it.

that and Noni Juice. granted, most noni sellers are part of pyramid schemes, but i know people that take it for years and never get sick. there are worse things on which you could spend your money.

[abcdefz]

chicken soup doesn't do anything for a cold.






...the pasta's not too good for you (unless you make your own), but it's the enzymes in chicken broth that a lot of nutritionsits say does the helping.

I've made a garlic acadian soup that's absolutely outrageously good, but it's not on my diet right now, so ixnay on the oupsay.

[fucktopgirl]

if people ate better in the first place they wouldn't need the extra crap in chicken soup. sure, it's not bad for you, and it helps some as far as nutrition...but it's just like any other soup.

in fact, the pasta noodles in chicken noodles soup are really bad for you in the long run. bleached wheat flour = awful.


yea i dont put noodle in it

brocoli,onion,carott,garlic,potatoe,green onion,cayenne,pepper,salt
sometime i had rice!

the chicken soup is good the decongestion and warm the body
i mean for shure if you are sick like hell,its not the soup not gonna cure ya!

[cosmo105]

you should be eating shit like that daily anyway. it bothers me that people only eat healthily/care about their health when something's wrong. i suppose that's human nature. but thanks to our lovely pharmaceutical industry, we focus more on the cure (actually, the abatement of symptoms) than prevention.

[abcdefz]

you should be eating shit like that daily anyway. it bothers me that people only eat healthily/care about their health when something's wrong. i suppose that's human nature. but thanks to our lovely pharmaceutical industry, we focus more on the cure (actually, the abatement of symptoms) than prevention.



I hear what you're saying, but don't put that shit on me. My daily diet is impeccable. (y)

[cosmo105]

oh, i know you're a healthy man, a-z. you're one of the better sort. (y)

[fucktopgirl]

you should be eating shit like that daily anyway. it bothers me that people only eat healthily/care about their health when something's wrong. i suppose that's human nature. but thanks to our lovely pharmaceutical industry, we focus more on the cure (actually, the abatement of symptoms) than prevention.


i am eating shit like that everyday!

yea you litteraly take out the words of my mouth
prevention is the key

[abcdefz]

oh, i know you're a healthy man, a-z. you're one of the better sort. (y)


*makes a muscle; coughs*

[cosmo105]

which way did you leave your olympic swimming medals again?

[abcdefz]

which way did you leave your olympic swimming medals again?



Clockwise.

[abcdefz]

....so I slept about 2 1/2 hours too long on Sunday. This morning I woke witha tickly throat and a bit of pressure in my head. And two co-workers showed up flat-out sick.

Did an internet search and, besides dosing with major vitamin C, I've been putting peroxide in my ears for a few minutes. (The theory being that that's where virus gets in and starts to percolate.)

Funny enough -- other than being drowsy as all get out, this really seems to be working: hourly doses of vitamin C, and peroxide in the ears every couple hours.

Anyone else ever heard of this?

Subquestion: what else has worked for you?




For the record: I've been doing this all winter whenever I've started to get signs of a cold, and it's WORKING.

I haven't been sick a single day this winter. I've never been able to say that before in my life; usually I get bronchial infections or walking pneumonia every single winter, so I'm bringing up phlegm and coughing until my ribs crack for six to eight weeks a year.

THIS IS GREAT! (y)

[marsdaddy]

Sleep, fluids, vitamin C. Someone told me Zinc the last cold I had, but it didn't seem to do much.

Did I mention sleep?

[enree erzweglle]

When I feel the cold coming, I make myself sweat. A lot. Through physical exertion. Not a steamroom.

[enree erzweglle]

And does it work?
It seems to work for me.

With that approach, colds MIGHT come, but they'll be gone in a day or so. Whereas if I don't do the long and hard sweating, it seems that a cold that visits me in, say, January might stay for weeks on end.

I've had pneumonia and bronchitis in each of the years when I didn't concentrate on sweating hard. In the years when I have concentrated on it, my colds were easier or missing altogether.