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Glossário de Ingredientes Suspeitos
As substâncias abaixo mencionadas não são permitidas pela Soil Association na composição de produtos de higiene pessoal. Os produtos de Higiene pessoal que comercializamos NÃO contêm qualquer um dos ingredientes abaixo mencionados. Esta é uma lista em constante crescimento e actualização. TESTE OS PRODUTOS QUE USA Perca alguns minutos e analise as listas de ingredientes dos produtos que tem na sua casa-de-banho e na sua cozinha. Veja em quantos deles encontra pelo menos um dos ingredientes abaixo mencionados. Alpha Tocopherol ou D-Alpha Tocopherol: mutagénico; ligado a problemas do sistema reprodutor feminino, desde infertilidade a cancro nos orgãos reprodutores e deficiências no feto; um ou mais estudos mostram efeitos no cérebro e sistema nervoso com doses baixas; testes in vitro em células mamíferas mostram resultado positivo para mutação das células. Alkyloamides : geralmente identificados nos rótulos como: Diethanolamine(DEA); Monoethanolamine(MEA); Triethanolamine(TEA), e por vezes precedido pelo nome "cocamide": - classificados como tóxicos por alguns governos - irritante para a pele (comichão, queimadura, urticária, etc) - combinado com conservantes que contem formaldehyde torna-se cancerígeno - se misturado com agentes nitrosantes na pele ou no corpo após a absorção, pode formar compostos cancerígenos - perigoso para o ambiente (contaminação de água, ar e solos) - MEA - sensibilizador dos pulmões: pode instigar respostas do sistema imunitário, que incluem ataques de asma ou outros problemas pulmonares e das vias respiratórias ; suspeito de apresentar riscos para a reprodução humana e desenvolvimento do feto - TEA - suspeitas com evidências ainda limitadas de causar cancro Benzyl Benzoate: - fregrância química com uso restrito na UE; classificado como tóxico e prejudicial em produtos para usar à volta da boca e nos lábios; ligado a perigos para os trabalhadores que lidam com o produto, nomeadamente efeitos na saúde devido a exposição química. Benzyl Salicylate: - fragrância química com uso restrito na UE; conhecido tóxico do sistema imunitário e alérgeno para o consumidor. Complexo Chlorophyllin-copper: Persistente e bio-acumulativo na vida selvagem; testes in vitro mostraram mutações cancerígenas de células mamíferas, particularmente ao nível do sistema reprodutor feminino. Colorantes Artificiais, ou Fragrância, “Perfume”(se não for qualificado como um óleo essencial) “19% das crianças com eczema são sensíveis a fragrâncias” Vários outros estudos indicam que os constantes aumentos anuais no número de dermatites está ligado ao aumento do uso de fragrâncias químicas. Nota: Phthalates são alérgenos encontrados em certas fragrâncias químicas e vernizes de unhas – o uso de alguns está restringido a certas quantidades na União Europeia. Cocamidopropryl Betaine: sujeito a restrições no uso; conhecido tóxico do sistema imunitário; pode conter impurezas prejudiciais, nomeadamente Nitrosaminas, ligadas ao cancro; pode causar sensitização no contacto directo com a pele, com reacções alérgicas ao nível da pele e pulmões. Dimethicone (ou quaisquer outros produtos de silicone)
Hydrogenated Oils
Altamente processados e refinados, estas gorduras hidrogenadas não oferecem nenhum valor para a pele, e têm sido ligadas a doenças de coração devido ao endurecimento das artérias. Lanolin: Um produto derivado da lã de ovelha que tem sido ligado a sensibilidade da pele, devido a resíduos de pesticidas. Methyldibromo glutaronitrile: “..não foi estabelecido nenhum nível seguro de uso de methyldibromo glutaronitrile(MDBGN) em produtos cosméticos…é recomendado que não seja usado em nenhum produto cosmético” Nos últimos anos a EU tem reduzido o nível de uso permitido a este conservante para 0,1% em produtos de lavagem, mas ainda é comummente usado. Nanopartículas: Embora ainda não haja provas concretas, existem preocupações quanto a possíveis perturbações da química corporal. Parabenos (butylparaben, ethylparaben, propylparaben, methylparaben…): Para além de suspeitas de irritabilidade da pele, o uso de parabenos foi recentemente ligado ao cancro da mama, tendo sido encontrados vestígios destes conservantes em amostras de tumores. Óleo de Amendoim: Ligado a alergias agudas, interna e externamente, principalmente em crianças Óleos de Petróleo (petrolatum, parafina líquida, óleo mineral) - criam uma barreira na superfície da pele que bloqueia os poros, não deixando a pele respirar - aceleram o processo de envelhecimento da pele ao encorajar a geração de radicais livres - na União Europeia o uso de Petrolatum é muito restritivo - potencialmente contaminado com químicos ligados a cancro ou outros problemas graves de saúde (pode conter determinadas impurezas que podem causar cancro da mama) - tóxicos para o ambiente Propylene Glycol (derivado do petróleo): -irritante para a pele (comichão, queimadura, urticária, acne, alergias) - solvente de fácil absorção, altera a estrutura da pele, permitindo que outros agentes e químicos penetrem mais profundamente na pele, aumentando assim a quantidade que chega à corrente sanguínea Sodium Hydroxide ou Soda Caustica: - testes in vitro mostram mutação cancerígena de células mamíferas; irritante da pele e dos olhos; extremamente tóxico para os trabalhadores, é corrosivo e causa queimaduras severas em contacto com a pele e inflamação dos pulmões se inalado. Sodium Hydroxymethylglycinate: - pode estar contaminado com impurezas tóxicas, nomeadamente Formaldehyde, conhecido cancerígeno. Sodium Lauryl(eth) Sulphate (ou outros sulfatos) O sodium lauryl sulphate é usado em diversos estudos clínicos como um irritante da pele. Podem conter 1,4 dioxane, um potencial carcinogénico e perturbador do sistema hormonal. Fonte: Environmental Working Group |
Com 59 hormonas activas, vários alérgeneos, gordura e colesterol, a maior parte produzida mostra ainda quantidades mensuráveis de herbicidas, pesticidas, dioxinas (até 2.200 vezes o nível aceitável), até 52 antibióticos poderosos, sangue, pus, fezes, bactérias e vírus. Pode conter resíduos de tudo o que a vaca come. Inclusive coisas como restos radiativos de testes nucleares.
Combustível do cancro
Das 59 hormonas do leite, uma é um poderoso auxiliar do crescimento, de seu nome IGF-1 (Insulin-like Growth Factor One - Factor de Crescimento similar à Insulina). Por uma curiosidade da natureza ele é idênticoentre vacas e seres humanos. Segundo especialistas em medicina, é concensual que o IGF-1 é um factor-chave na aceleração do crescimento e na proliferação dos cancros da mama, da próstata e do cólon. Provavelmente actua também como catalisador no desenvolvimento de outras formas de cancro.
O IGF-1 é um constituinte de todo o leite de vaca, visto que se é desejável que o recém-nascido cresça com rapidez. Evidentemente que, se entrarmos em linha de conta que uma percentagem significativa da população (50% nos USA) se debate com problemas de obesidade, a presença de IGF-1 no leite pode já não ser vista com tão bons olhos.
Um caso flagrante sobre este assunto é o da indústria química Monsanto, fabricante de produtos como DDT, agente laranja, Roundup e outros. Esta empresa gastou cerca de meio bilião de dólares para inventar uma injeção que fizesse as vacas produzir mais leite.
Infelizmente o produto final (Posilac, rbGH, injectável) revelou cinco erros que levaram à proibição do uso de rbGH no Canadá. Ainda assim, o relatório que os descrevia (Richard, Odaglia & Deslex, 1989) foi oculto pela lei de Segredo Comercial de Clinton. Os canadenses puderam, em bom tempo, ler deste relatório o bastante para proibir o rbGH em seu país. O Posilac da Monsanto leva a um acréscimo de IGF-1 no leite até 80%.
A FDA (Food and Drugs Administration - Departamento de Alimentos e Remédios dos Estados Unidos) insiste que o IGF-1 é destruído no estômago. Por outro lado, estudiosos da questão insistem que nesse caso a amamentação não faria sentido, por não ter qualquer eficácia. A afirmação da FDA é ridícula, porque é o IGF-1 que faz o bezerro crescer a uma taxa tão elevada nas primeiras semanas de vida.
Aumento do IGF-1
A fim de se entender melhor o papel deste químico, foi realizado um
estudo com dois tipos de consumidores: um bebendo 360g de leite por
dia, outro a porção recomendada pela USDA (recomendação nutricional
diária dos Estados Unidos) de 720g (três chávenas).
Neste estudo observou-se que os participantes que consumiam 360g de leite pro dia tiveram um aumento de 10% no nível de IGF-1.
Quantidade:
Todos os lacticínios em geral, por derivarem do leite, podem ser fonte do mesmo problema. O queijo, por exemplo, contém os mesmos constituintes do leite numa proporção de 10 para um. São necessários 10 quilos de leite para fazer um quilo de queijo. E quanto à manteiga, conta com cerca de 21 vezes o que estiver contido nas moléculas de gordura da mesma quantidade de leite.
Gordura:
Muita gente suspeita que a manteiga é só gordura, mas não tem idéia de quanta gordura existe no leite e no resto dos laticínios.
Os produtos que usam derivados do leite (caseína, soro, lactose) são provavelmente uma causa importante de problemas de peso e saúde.
Leite integral: 49% das calorias vêm da gordura.
Leite meio-gordo (2%): 35% das calorias vêm da gordura.
Queijo cheddar: 74% das calorias vêm da gordura.
Manteiga: 100% das calorias vêm da gordura.
Cálcio:
Uma pergunta que deve ser feita é: onde é que as vacas arranjam cálcio para terem ossos tão grandes? A resposta é simples: sim, das plantas! E as mesmas plantas fornecem-lhes ainda uma boa quantidade de magnésio, necessário para a absorção e o uso do cálcio.
O cálcio do leite de vaca é basicamente inútil. O leite tem conteúdo insuficiente de magnésio (11% do que seria necessário para a mesma quantidade de cálcio). Igualmente, para a boa absorção de cálcio é importante a presença da vitamina D, que nós, humanos, produzimos pela simples exposição à luz solar. As nações com mais alto nível de consumo de leite e laticínios também têm o maior nível de osteoporose, como atestado por um estudo desenvolvido por 78.000 enfermeiras num período de 12 anos.
Segundo a USDA, 240g (uma xícara) de leite contém:
Cálcio (Ca) - 291,336 mg
Magnésio (Mg) - 32,794 mg
A USDA recomenda 1200 mg de cálcio por dia. As três xícaras de leite diárias recomendadas pela USDA só contêm 900mg de cálcio. Alguns argumentam que só se precisa de 1/3 do magnésio. A mãe natureza parece indicar que a proporção deveria ser 1:1. Se a proporção para a absorção adequada fosse de 1/3 de magnésio para 1 de cálcio, então apenas 300mg daqueles 900mg de cálcio seria utilizável. Se, na verdade, a proporção for de 1:1... só 98,38mg do cálcio é aproveitável.
O leite pode ser considerado "carne líquida", pelo seu alto conteúdo de proteína. Na realidade, o excesso de proteínas pode que, em conjunto com outras proteínas, pode provocar a perda de cálcio do corpo. Países que consomem dietas ricas em proteínas (carne, leite e laticínios) têm as taxas mais altas de osteoporose.
80% da proteína do leite é caseína. A caseína é um aglutinante poderoso. Um polímero usado para fazer plásticos e uma cola óptima para mobílias resistentes ou rótulos de cerveja. É usada como aglutinante em milhares de alimentos industrializados, como "caseinato de _qualquer_ coisa_".
Bactérias:
Permite-se que haja fezes no leite de vaca. Esta é uma grande fonte de bactérias, como não poderia deixar de ser. Normalmente o leite é pasteurizado mais de uma vez antes de chegar à tua mesa - cada vez durante 15 segundos à temperatura de 72°C. Por contraposição, para esterilizar a água exige-se que ela seja fervida (100°C) por vários minutos. Por outro lado, à temperatura ambiente o número de bactérias no leite duplica a cada 20 minutos.
Pus:
Um centímetro cúbico de leite de vaca comercial pode ter até 750.000 células somáticas (mais conhecidas como pus) e 20.000 bactérias vivas, antes de ser retirado do mercado.
Isso chega a espantosos 20 milhões de bactérias bem vivinhas e a 750 milhões de células por litro.
1 chávena = 236,5882 cm3 (centímetros cúbicos) ~ 177.441.150 células de pus e 4.731.600 bactérias
A ingestão diária "recomendada" para um adulto é de três vezes esta quantidade.
A Comunidade Europeia e o Canadá só permitem 400.000.000 (quatrocentos milhões de) células de pus por litro. Em geral esses níveis são mais baixos, mas PODEM chegar a este nível e ainda assim chegar à tua mesa.
Colesterol:
O conteúdo de colesterol de três chávenas de leite é igual ao de 53 fatias de bacon. Não muito dietético, concerteza!
Vitamina D:
A vitamina D (essencial à fixação do cálcio nos ossos) é geralmente derivada de um animal. A reação à luz do sol que converte 7-dehidroicolesterol em vitamina D-3 é uma reação química "pura" que acontece em determinadas células da pele. (Daqui a importância acrescida para os veganos da exposição ao sol).
A vitamina D-3 vem, tipicamente, de quatro fontes diferentes: pele de porco, pele de ovelha, fígado de peixe cru e cérebro de porcos. Na maior parte dos casos a vitamina D-3 é extraída da pele de porcos e vendida a fábricas de laticínios.
Existe também vitamina D-2, produzida em laboratório, que pode ser ou não de origem animal.
Constituição do leite:
água: 87%
gordura: 3,25% (se for leite completo, ou gordo)
caseína: 4%
outras proteínas: 1%
outras substâncias: 4,75%
Referências:
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/030799.html (Artigo sobre o estudo das 78,000 enfermeiras)
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092098.html (Sobre cálcio e doenças dos ossos)
http://www.notmilk.com/badbones.html (Sobre doenças dos ossos)
http://www.notmilk.com/bonehead.txt (Sobre doenças dos ossos)
http://www.notmilk.com/calcium/index.html
Fonte: http://www.centrovegetariano.org/Article-10-Leite%2Bde%2Bvaca.html
Swine Flu: Prevention and Treatment with Homeopathy!
sexta-feira, 20 de novembro de 2009
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Cold and Flu Remedies
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See also Flu Remedies Chart by Miranda Castro
Read more about Oscillococcinum and Influenzenum
See also Sore Throat Remedies
Homeopathy Has a 200 Year History of
Successfully Treating
Many Types of Epidemics!
One amazing success was during the
Flu Pandemic of 1917-18. While the mortality rate of people treated by regular
doctors was up to 30 percent, while those treated by homeopathic
physicians had mortality rate of approximately 1% percent.
Homeopathy medicine treats the
PERSON with Swine Flu. Homeopathic treatment of the swine flu - or any
flu - is a highly individualized form of healing, and each epidemic has one or
two remedies that are specific for that form of flu. Details that aren't
considered by conventional medicine become important in choosing a homeopathic
remedy.
Until a homeopath somewhere in
the world is actually able to observe person suffering from this particular
version of the flu, we can only guess which remedies
might be helpful.
As a preventative, the homeopathic
remedy Arsenicum and also
Oscillococcinum which is good to take at
the beginning stages of any flu can be purchased at your local health food
store.
What is Swine Flu?
from
http://www.hpathy.com/diseases/Swine-flu-symptoms-treatment.asp
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a
respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly
causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of
illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses
may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during
the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical
swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig
in 1930.
Why is there so much panic
about Swine Flu? After all it's just a flu!
The most significant flu pandemic
occurred in 1918-1919. The global mortality rate from the
1918-1919 pandemic is not known, but is estimated at 2.5 to 5% of those who were
infected died. With 20% or more of the world population suffering from the
disease to some extent, a case-fatality ratio this high would mean that about
0.5-1% that 50 million to 100 million people worldwide were killed. In
1957, an Asian flu pandemic infected some 45 million Americans and
killed 70,000. Eleven years later, lasting from 1968 to 1969,
the Hong Kong flu pandemic afflicted 50 million Americans and caused 33,000
deaths, costing approximately $3.9 billion. In 1976, about 500
soldiers became infected with swine flu over a period of a few weeks.
The scare and panic about the bird
flu and swine flu have occurred because people now know what a simple flu can
lead to and are afraid of the consequences - not just to the human capital but
also to the global financial health.
Swine Flu Symptoms
The symptoms of swine flu in
people are expected to be similar to the symptoms of regular human seasonal
influenza and include fever, lethargy, lack of
appetite and coughing. Some people with swine flu also have reported runny nose,
sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Symptoms of Swine flu
may including all or some of the following:
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Fever
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Muscle aches
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Lethargy
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Coughing
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Headache
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Sore throat
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Runny nose
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Nausea
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Vomiting
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Diarrhea
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Lack of appetite
Complications Of Swine Flu
Those at higher risk of catching
influenza in general include those with the following:
* Age of 65 years or older
* Chronic health problems (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease)
* Pregnant women
* Young children
* Chronic health problems (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease)
* Pregnant women
* Young children
But the past epidemics and
pandemics of flu have shown that during pandemics most people that are affected
are healthy young adults.
Complications of Swine Flu can include:
* Pneumonia
* Bronchitis
* Sinus infections
* Ear infections
* Death
* Bronchitis
* Sinus infections
* Ear infections
* Death
Transmission of Swine Flu (How is Swine Flu spread?)
As with other flu like illnesses,
Swine flu is spread as follows:
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Coughing
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Sneezing
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Kissing
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Touching infected objects
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Touching nose, mouth and/or eyes with infected hands
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Swine flu does not spread by eating pork.
Treatment of Swine Flu
Swine Flu Vaccination / Swine Flu Shot
The protective ability of
influenza vaccines depends primarily on the closeness of the match between the
vaccine virus and the epidemic virus, so the presence of non reactive H3N2 SIV
variants suggests that current commercial vaccines might not effectively protect
pigs from infection with a majority of H3N2 viruses. The current vaccine
against the seasonal influenza strain H1N1 is thought unlikely to provide
protection. The director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases said that the United States' cases were found to be made up
of genetic elements from four different flu viruses—North American swine
influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza A virus subtype H1N1,
and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe.
What You Can Do to Prevent Swine Flu?
There are everyday actions people
can take to stay healthy.
* Cover your nose and mouth with a
tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
* Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
* Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
* Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
* Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
Try to avoid close contact with
sick people.
* Influenza is thought to spread
mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
* If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
* If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
Above all. Don't get
stressed by the fear of getting the swine flu. Stress can undermine your
immune system. The flu doesn't kill everyone and in most cases may prove
benign. Mild exercise, meditation or yoga and healthy nutritious diet can help
keep your immune system in good condition and able to ward of any infections.
Not every 'infection' becomes a full blown 'disease'. Most infections are taken
care of by your body even before you know that you were infected. Most
infections affect gravely those people who are vitally deranged. So instead of
panicking about the swine flu, stay calm and focus on becoming a healthy 'you'.
Homeopathy was very successful in
dealing with the 1918-19 flu pandemic. Here is a quote from the famous historian
Julian Winston:
Perhaps the most recent use of homeopathy in a major epidemic was during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. The Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy, May, 1921, had a long article about the use of homeopathy in the flu epidemic. Dr. T A McCann, from Dayton, Ohio, reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05%. This last figure was supported by Dean W.A. Pearson of Philadelphia (Hahnemann College) who collected 26,795 cases of flu treated with homeopathy with the above result.
The most common remedy used was Gelsemium, with occasional cases needing Bryonia and Eupatorium reported. Dr. Herbert A. Roberts from Derby, CT, said that 30 physicians in Connecticut responded to his request for data. They reported 6,602 cases with 55 deaths, which is less than 1%. Dr. Roberts was working as a physician on a troop ship during WWI. He had 81 cases of flu on the way over to Europe. He reported, "All recovered and were landed. Every man received homeopathic treatment. One ship lost 31 on the way."
Considering that the Swine Flu
virus produces symptoms similar to the human influenza virus, the following
homeopathy medicines may prove useful in cases of swine flu:
Gelsemium
This remedy corresponds to the commencement of the trouble, when the patient is weak, tired and aches throughout the body. It removes speedily the intense aching and muscular soreness. There is constant chilliness and the patient hugs the fire; the fever is less acute than that of Aconite, and the cough is hard and painful. There are paroxysms of sneezing with excoriating discharge, and great torpor and apathy. An extensive experience with this remedy in the great Epidemic of 1918 proved its usefulness. Simple cases were speedily cured. Aconite will sometimes prove the better remedy for children, but the drug will never be a prominent one in influenza. Still it may be prescribed when indicated; it will, perhaps, soothe and moderate the subsequent attack, but its action is not quick here as in simple fevers, as we have to do with a blood affection.
This remedy corresponds to the commencement of the trouble, when the patient is weak, tired and aches throughout the body. It removes speedily the intense aching and muscular soreness. There is constant chilliness and the patient hugs the fire; the fever is less acute than that of Aconite, and the cough is hard and painful. There are paroxysms of sneezing with excoriating discharge, and great torpor and apathy. An extensive experience with this remedy in the great Epidemic of 1918 proved its usefulness. Simple cases were speedily cured. Aconite will sometimes prove the better remedy for children, but the drug will never be a prominent one in influenza. Still it may be prescribed when indicated; it will, perhaps, soothe and moderate the subsequent attack, but its action is not quick here as in simple fevers, as we have to do with a blood affection.
Baptisia.
Influenza with marked gastro-intestinal symptoms may need this remedy, especially when there are present putrid diarrhoea stools. Clarke considers this remedy the nearest specific for the disease; he prefers the 30th potency. Hughes also praises it, but uses it in the 1x and 2x dilutions, which seem to have more extensive testimony as to their efficacy.
Influenza with marked gastro-intestinal symptoms may need this remedy, especially when there are present putrid diarrhoea stools. Clarke considers this remedy the nearest specific for the disease; he prefers the 30th potency. Hughes also praises it, but uses it in the 1x and 2x dilutions, which seem to have more extensive testimony as to their efficacy.
Eupatorium perfoliatum.
This remedy has much soreness and aching of the entire body; hoarseness and cough, with great soreness of the larynx and upper respiratory tract. Coryza with thirst and drinking causes vomiting. The cough is a very shattering one, hurts the head and chest, and as in Drosera, the patient holds the chest with the hands. The breakbone pains are characteristic of the remedy. Add to these symptoms acute bilious derangements, and it is all the more indicated. Many physicians rely on this remedy in influenza / flu almost exclusively in the early stages.
This remedy has much soreness and aching of the entire body; hoarseness and cough, with great soreness of the larynx and upper respiratory tract. Coryza with thirst and drinking causes vomiting. The cough is a very shattering one, hurts the head and chest, and as in Drosera, the patient holds the chest with the hands. The breakbone pains are characteristic of the remedy. Add to these symptoms acute bilious derangements, and it is all the more indicated. Many physicians rely on this remedy in influenza / flu almost exclusively in the early stages.
Sabadilla
Sneezing is the great keynote of this remedy. Sneezing and lachrymation on going into the open air. The throat is swollen and the pain is worse on empty swallowing; the sneezing is excessive, shaking the whole body. Shudderings, with gooseflesh chills creeping upwards, are also prominent symptoms. Frontal headache, dryness of mouth, without thirst and cough, worse on lying down, are additional symptoms. It suits well many cases of the catarrhal form of flu; other remedies having sneezing are Cyclamen and Euphorbia.
Sneezing is the great keynote of this remedy. Sneezing and lachrymation on going into the open air. The throat is swollen and the pain is worse on empty swallowing; the sneezing is excessive, shaking the whole body. Shudderings, with gooseflesh chills creeping upwards, are also prominent symptoms. Frontal headache, dryness of mouth, without thirst and cough, worse on lying down, are additional symptoms. It suits well many cases of the catarrhal form of flu; other remedies having sneezing are Cyclamen and Euphorbia.
Arsenicum
This remedy covers more phases of flu than perhaps any other remedy. Hughes believes that it will cut short an attack, especially when there is a copious flow, prostration and paroxysmal coryza. Its periodicity makes it suitable to epidemics, and it suits the early symptoms when the affection is in the upper portion of the respiratory tract. The burning dryness and copious watery excoriating secretion and the involvement of the conjunctiva are unmistakable indications. Langour and prostration are prominent symptoms.
This remedy covers more phases of flu than perhaps any other remedy. Hughes believes that it will cut short an attack, especially when there is a copious flow, prostration and paroxysmal coryza. Its periodicity makes it suitable to epidemics, and it suits the early symptoms when the affection is in the upper portion of the respiratory tract. The burning dryness and copious watery excoriating secretion and the involvement of the conjunctiva are unmistakable indications. Langour and prostration are prominent symptoms.
Arsenicum iodide
Chills, flushes of heat and severe fluent coryza, discharge irritating and corrosive, sneezing and prostration. It corresponds to true influenza and is highly recommended by Hale. Sanguinaria nitrate is especially valuable when the trachea and larynx are affected.
Chills, flushes of heat and severe fluent coryza, discharge irritating and corrosive, sneezing and prostration. It corresponds to true influenza and is highly recommended by Hale. Sanguinaria nitrate is especially valuable when the trachea and larynx are affected.
Phytolacca
Specific when the throat is inflamed and spotty, with great hardness and tenderness of the glands.
Specific when the throat is inflamed and spotty, with great hardness and tenderness of the glands.
Dulcamara
This is one of our best remedies in the acute form; the eyes are suffused, the throat is sore and the cough hurts because of the muscular soreness. If brought on by damp, cold changes in the weather, so much the surer is Dulcamara indicated.
This is one of our best remedies in the acute form; the eyes are suffused, the throat is sore and the cough hurts because of the muscular soreness. If brought on by damp, cold changes in the weather, so much the surer is Dulcamara indicated.
Bryonia
The trouble here is largely bronchial and going down. When a person is very grumpy and feels miserable with the flu, wanting only to lie still and be left alone, this remedy is likely to be useful. Headache, muscle aches, and cough or stomach pain may be the major symptoms. Everything feels worse from even the slightest motion. The person’s mouth usually is dry, with a thirst for long cold drinks.
The trouble here is largely bronchial and going down. When a person is very grumpy and feels miserable with the flu, wanting only to lie still and be left alone, this remedy is likely to be useful. Headache, muscle aches, and cough or stomach pain may be the major symptoms. Everything feels worse from even the slightest motion. The person’s mouth usually is dry, with a thirst for long cold drinks.
Phosphorus
May be indicated, especially when the trouble moves towards the chest. It is a very useful remedy for the debility following la grippe, as it is usually of the pure nervous type. It is the great post-influenza "tonic."
May be indicated, especially when the trouble moves towards the chest. It is a very useful remedy for the debility following la grippe, as it is usually of the pure nervous type. It is the great post-influenza "tonic."
Rhus toxicodendron
Influenza, with severe aching in all the bones, sneezing and coughing. The cough is worse evenings and is caused by a tickling behind the upper part of the sternum. Especially is it useful in cases brought on by exposure to dampness. There is much prostration and depression, and the patient may have some symptoms which are suspicious as pointing towards typhoid fever, such as burning tongue, stupor and delirium. Aching pains, nightly restlessness are keynotes symptoms. Causticum, like both Rhus and Eupatorium, has a tired, sore, bruised sensation all over the body and soreness in the chest when coughing, but it has in addition involuntary urination when coughing.
Influenza, with severe aching in all the bones, sneezing and coughing. The cough is worse evenings and is caused by a tickling behind the upper part of the sternum. Especially is it useful in cases brought on by exposure to dampness. There is much prostration and depression, and the patient may have some symptoms which are suspicious as pointing towards typhoid fever, such as burning tongue, stupor and delirium. Aching pains, nightly restlessness are keynotes symptoms. Causticum, like both Rhus and Eupatorium, has a tired, sore, bruised sensation all over the body and soreness in the chest when coughing, but it has in addition involuntary urination when coughing.
Allium cepa
Profuse catarrhal coryza; the nose runs freely, there is sneezing, irritability cough, the face is swollen and looks inflamed. Camphora. This remedy is often sufficient at the outset to cut short an attack, or at least modify the severity.
Profuse catarrhal coryza; the nose runs freely, there is sneezing, irritability cough, the face is swollen and looks inflamed. Camphora. This remedy is often sufficient at the outset to cut short an attack, or at least modify the severity.
Sticta
Nasal catarrh; headache, thirst, nightly expectoration, great watering of eyes, running at nose, hoarseness of voice, frontal headache and depression of whole system. Tuberculous subjects attacked by influenza. "There is no better remedy," says Dr. Fornias, "for the incessant wearing, racking cough of this class of patients." Tuberculinum is an excellent prevention of recurring attacks of influenza /flu in those who have annual attacks.
Nasal catarrh; headache, thirst, nightly expectoration, great watering of eyes, running at nose, hoarseness of voice, frontal headache and depression of whole system. Tuberculous subjects attacked by influenza. "There is no better remedy," says Dr. Fornias, "for the incessant wearing, racking cough of this class of patients." Tuberculinum is an excellent prevention of recurring attacks of influenza /flu in those who have annual attacks.
Ipecac
Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate; tongue clean or slightly coated. Nausea: with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping. Low thirst. Cough: dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. Difficult breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach. Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring; threatened suffocation from mucus. Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces.
Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate; tongue clean or slightly coated. Nausea: with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping. Low thirst. Cough: dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. Difficult breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach. Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring; threatened suffocation from mucus. Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces.
Veratrum album
Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse. Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab. ); with nearly all complaints. Thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold. Diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after. Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration: < by drinking ( Ars. ); by least motion ( Tab. ); great weakness after.
Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse. Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab. ); with nearly all complaints. Thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold. Diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after. Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration: < by drinking ( Ars. ); by least motion ( Tab. ); great weakness after.
The Current Swine Flu Epidemic or Possible Pandemic
It has been reported that in the
current Swine flu epidemic, the gastrointestinal symptoms (Nausea, Vomiting) are
pronounced. Considering this remedies like Baptisia, Arsenic-album or Ipecac may
work as Genus epidemicus or as prophylactic treatment for the current Swine
influenza epidemic.
If the patient has mild flu like
symptoms (runny nose and watery eyes etc) but no other peculiar symptom but is
anxious if it might be swine flu - think about Aconite.
If the flu patient is listless,
prostrated, indifferent, has offensive diarrhoea and the parts rested
upon feel sore and bruised - think about Baptisia.
If the flu patient is restless,
anxious or fearful, thirsty but drinks small quantity and often,
prostrated, diarrhoea after eating or drinking and nausea on
seeing/smelling food, burning pains - think about Arsenicum-album.
If the nausea is more
pronounced, the patient is thirstless and has pain felt in bones - think
about Ipecac.
If the gastrointestinal symptoms
are not marked but the patient has deep pains as if bones are aching - think
about Eupatorium perf.
If the flu patient is feeling
dull, dizzi, drowsy, has low thirst, feels chilly, esp
in back - think about Gelsemium.
Many people believe that the
current virus strain matches closely to the 1918/1919 flu pandemic, although it
is not exactly alike.
In the 1918/1919 flu pandemic,
people without symptoms could be stricken suddenly and within hours be
too weak to walk; many died the next day. Symptoms included a blue tint
to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the
lungs. In some cases, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that
filled the lungs, and patients drowned in their body fluids (pneumonia). In
others, the flu caused frequent loss of bowel control and the victim
would die from losing critical intestinal lining and blood loss.
If such symptoms present
themselves in the current pandemic, the remedies that may prove useful would be
Arsenic-album, Cantharis, Phosphorus, Cuprum-met, Camphora,
Veratrum-album, Ipecac or Carbo-veg.
Ars-alb, Phosphorus, Ipecac and
Carbo-veg may seem to have a more pronounced action on lungs/respiratory
symptoms in the above mentioned symptom group. Cantahris, Phosphorus, and Carbo-veg
seem to cover the bloody stools better. Camphor and Verat-alb cover the acute
collapse with bluish discoloration better.
Note
Homeopathic remedies need strict
individualization and are given as specifically prepared, non-toxic, micro-dose
homeopathic potencies. Please consult a qualified homeopath before taking any
homeopathic remedy for Swine flu / influenza
Reference for Swine Flu
Information
1. Center for Disease Control
(CDC), USA
More About the Swine Flu
(by Dr. Mercola www.mercola.com - April 28, 2009)
(by Dr. Mercola www.mercola.com - April 28, 2009)
On Monday April 27, 2009, the
World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to four on
its six-level threat scale, which means they've determined that the virus is
capable of human-to-human transmission. The initial outbreaks across
North America reveal an infection already traveling at higher velocity than did
the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
The
number of fatalities, and suspected and confirmed cases across the world change
depending on the source, so your best bet -- if you want the latest numbers --
is to use
Google Maps' Swine Flu Tracker.
Several nations have imposed
travel bans, or made plans to quarantine air travelers that present symptoms of
the swine flu, such as:
- Fever of more than 100
- Coughing
- Runny nose and/or sore throat
- Joint aches
- Severe headache
- Vomiting and/or diarrhea
- Lethargy
- Lack of appetite
Much Fear Mongering Being Promoted
I suspect you have likely been
alarmed by the media's coverage of the swine flu scare. It has a noticeable
subplot - preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as
well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.
On April 27, Time magazine published an article
which discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a
result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to
use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of
the entire country.
Despite
acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu
outbreak”, the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have
to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease”.
WHO
and CDC Pandemic Preparedness Seriously Broken
The pandemic warning system has
failed as it simply doesn't exist, even in North America and Europe. To improve
the system, massive new investments in surveillance, scientific and regulatory
infrastructure, basic public health, and global access to common sense
interventions like vitamin D optimization are required.
According to the Washington
Post, the CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after Mexico
had begun to impose emergency measures. There should be no excuses. The paradox
of this swine flu panic is that, while totally unexpected, it was accurately
predicted. Six years ago, Science dedicated a major story to evidence
that "after years of stability, the North American swine flu virus has jumped
onto an evolutionary fast track".
However, maybe this is precisely what public health
authorities desire.This is NOT the First Swine Flu Panic
My guess is that you can expect to
see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future. But the key is to remain
calm -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu.
The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember
it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.
Do you happen to recall the result
of this massive campaign?
Within a few months, claims
totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from
the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.
However, several hundred people
developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the
swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.
And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized.More People Died From the Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!
It is very difficult to
forecast a pandemic, and a rash response can be extremely damaging.
As of Monday April 27, the
worldwide total number of confirmed cases was 82, according to WHO, which
included 40 cases in the U.S., confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control.
But does that truly warrant the feverish news headlines?
To put things into perspective,
malaria kills 3,000 people EVERY DAY, and it's considered "a health problem"...
But of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions
of dollars in a short amount of time.
One Australian news source,3
for example, states that even a mild swine flu epidemic could lead to the deaths
of 1.4 million people and would reduce economic growth by nearly $5 trillion
dollars.
Give me a break, if this doesn't
sound like the outlandish cries of the pandemic bird-flu I don't know what does.
Do you remember when President Bush said
two million Americans would die as a result of the bird flu?
In
2005, in
2006,
2007, and again in
2008, those fears were exposed as little more than a cruel hoax, designed to
instill fear, and
line the pocketbooks of various individuals and industry. I became so
convinced by the evidence AGAINST the possibility of a bird flu pandemic that I
wrote a New York Times bestselling book,
The Bird Flu Hoax, all about the massive fraud involved with the
epidemic that never happened..
What is the Swine Flu?
Regular swine flu is a contagious
respiratory disease, caused by a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs. The
current strain, A(H1N1), is a new variation of an H1N1 virus -- which causes
seasonal flu outbreaks in humans -- that also contains genetic material of bird
and pig versions of the flu.
Interestingly enough, this version
has never before been seen in neither human nor animal, which I will discuss a
bit later.
This does sound bad. But not so fast. There are a few reasons
to not rush to conclusions that this is the deadly pandemic we've been told
would occur in the near future (as if anyone could predict it without having
some sort of inside knowledge).Why a True Bird- or Swine Flu Pandemic is HIGHLY Unlikely
While in my opinion it is highly
likely factory farming is responsible for producing this viral strain, I believe
there is still no cause for concern.
You may not know this, but all
H1N1 flu's are descendants of the 1918 pandemic strain. The reason why the flu
shot may or may not work, however, from year to year, is due to mutations.
Therefore, there's no vaccine available for this current hybrid flu strain, and
naturally, this is feeding the fear that millions of people will die before a
vaccine can be made.
However, let me remind you of one
very important fact here.
Just a couple of months ago,
scientists concluded that the 1918 flu pandemic that killed between 50-100
million people worldwide in a matter of 18 months -- which all these worst case
scenarios are built upon -- was
NOT due to the flu itself!4
Instead, they discovered the real
culprit was strep infections.
People with influenza often get
what is known as a "superinfection" with a bacterial agent. In 1918 it appears
to have been Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Since strep is much easier to
treat than the flu using modern medicine, a new pandemic would likely be much
less dire than it was in the early 20th century, the researchers concluded.
Others, such as evolutionary
biologist Paul Ewald,5
claim that a pandemic of this sort simply cannot happen, because in
order for it to occur, the world has to change. Not the virus itself, but the
world.
In a previous interview for
Esquire magazine, in which he discusses the possibility of a bird flu
pandemic, he states:
"They think that if a virus mutates, it's an evolutionary event. Well, the virus is mutating because that is what viruses and other pathogens do. But evolution is not just random mutation. It is random mutation coupled with natural selection; it is a battle for competitive advantage among different strains generated by random mutation.
For bird flu to evolve into a human pandemic, the strain that finds a home in humanity has to be a strain that is both highly virulent and highly transmissible. Deadliness has to translate somehow into popularity; H5N1 has to find a way to kill or immobilize its human hosts, and still find other hosts to infect. Usually that doesn't happen."
Ewald goes on to explain that
evolution in general is all about trade-offs, and in the evolution of infections
the trade-off is between virulence and transmissibility.
What this means is that in order
for a "bird flu" or "swine flu" to turn into a human pandemic, it has to find an
environment that favors both deadly virulence and ease of transmission.
People living in squalor on the
Western Front at the end of World War I generated such an environment, from
which the epidemic of 1918 could arise.
Likewise, crowded chicken farms,
slaughterhouses, and jam-packed markets of eastern Asia provide another such
environment, and that environment gave rise to the bird flu -- a pathogen that
both kills and spreads, in birds, but not in humans.
Says Ewald:"We know that H5N1 is well adapted to birds. We also know that it has a hard time becoming a virus that can move from person to person. It has a hard time without our doing anything. But we can make it harder. We can make sure it has no human population in which to evolve transmissibility. There is no need to rely on the mass extermination of chickens. There is no need to stockpile vaccines for everyone.
By vaccinating just the people most at risk -- the people who work with chickens and the caregivers -- we can prevent it from becoming transmissible among humans. Then it doesn't matter what it does in chickens."
Please remember that, despite the
fantastic headlines and projections of MILLIONS of deaths, the H5N1 bird flu
virus killed a mere 257 people worldwide since late 2003. As
unfortunate as those deaths are, 257 deaths worldwide from any disease,
over the course of five years, simply does not constitute an emergency worthy of
much attention, let alone fear!
Honestly, your risk of
being killed by a lightning strike in the last five years was about 2,300
percent higher than your risk of contracting and dying from the bird flu.6
I'm not kidding! In just one year (2004), more than 1,170 people died from
lighting strikes, worldwide.7
So please, as the numbers of
confirmed swine flu cases are released, keep a level head and don't let fear run
away with your brains.
So is the
Swine Flu Getting More or Less Dangerous?
On Sunday, April 26, The
Independent reported that more than 1,000 people had contracted the swine
flu virus in Mexico,
8
but by the afternoon that
same day, Mexican President Calderon declared that more than two-thirds of the
1,300 thought to have contracted the disease had been given a clean bill of
health and sent home.9
Additionally, the number of actual
confirmed cases appears to be far lower than reported in many media outlets,
leading me to believe that many reporters are interchanging the terms "suspected
cases" and "confirmed cases."
Interestingly
Mexico is the ONLY country in the world where
someone has actually died from this disease.Mexico has reported 152
fatalities in flu-like cases in recent days, seven of which have been confirmed
as swine flu. Another 19 patients have been confirmed as having swine flu but
surviving. About 2,000 people have been hospitalized with symptoms.
By contrast,
the United States has had 64 confirmed cases, five hospitalizations and
no deaths from US Citizens. On
April 29th CNN reported the first swine fatality in the US, however this was
actually a child from Mexico that died in Texas.
According to the
World Health Organization's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response site;
as of April 27, there are:
-
64 laboratory confirmed cases in U.S. -- 0 deaths (reported by CDC as of April 29)
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26 confirmed cases in Mexico -- 7 deaths
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6 confirmed cases in Canada -- 0 deaths
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1 confirmed case in Spain -- 0 deaths
Additionally, nearly all suspected
new cases have been reported as mild.
Personally, I am highly skeptical.
It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.
But it does raise serious
questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from,
especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and
has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird
flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just
that lucky, or... what?
Your Fear
Will Make Some People VERY Rich in Today's Crumbling Economy
According to the Associated
Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of
Tamiflu sales in the near future10
-- and that's without a pandemic outbreak.
More than half a dozen
pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline
and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a
rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if
the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.
As soon as Homeland Security
declared a health emergency, 25 percent -- about 12 million doses -- of Tamiflu
and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile.
However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to
be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than
willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are
you?
Remember, Tamiflu went through
some rough times not too long ago, as the dangers of this drug came to light
when, in 2007, the
FDA finally began investigating some 1,800 adverse event reports related to the
drug. Common side effects of Tamiflu include:
-
Nausea
-
Vomiting
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Diarrhea
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Headache
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Dizziness
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Fatigue
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Cough
All in all, the very symptoms
you're trying to avoid.
More serious symptoms included
convulsions, delirium or delusions, and 14 deaths in children and teens as a
result of neuropsychiatric problems and brain infections (which led Japan to ban
Tamiflu for children in 2007). And that's for a drug that, when used as
directed, only reduces the duration of influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days,
according to the official data.
But making matters worse, some
patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections
when on Tamiflu. And secondary bacterial infections, as I mentioned
earlier, was likely the REAL cause of the mass fatalities during the 1918
pandemic!
Where did
This Mysterious New Animal-Human Flu Strain Come From?
Alongside the fear-mongering
headlines, I've also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true
nature of this virus. And rightfully so.
Could a mixed animal-human mutant
like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?
Not one to dabble too deep in
conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to
support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who
stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.
Just last month I reported on the
story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under
investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different
countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were
probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a
pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security
protocols of that virus.
The H5N1 virus on its own is not
very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more
easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological
weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the
public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.
There is a name for this mixing of
viruses; it's called "reassortment," and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses
are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak --
the 1977 Russian flu -- was started by a virus created and leaked from a
laboratory.
Another example of the less
sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of
dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American,
and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was
tainted with the AIDS virus.
So while it is morally unthinkable
that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu
virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has
already happened more than once.
But there seems to be no
repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of
morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and
behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to
produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?
Baxter!11
Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from
their should-be-criminal "mistake" against humanity.
According to other sources,12
a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the
deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that
the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that
suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military
biological warfare weapon.
The UN expert believes that Ebola,
HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.
In addition, Army criminal
investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing
from biolabs at Fort Detrick -- the same Army research lab from which the 2001
anthrax strain was released, according to a recent article in the Fredrick
News Post.13
In February, the top biodefense lab halted all its research into Ebola, anthrax,
plague, and other diseases known as "select agents," after they discovered virus
samples that weren't listed in its inventory and might have been switched with
something else.
Factory Farming Maybe Source of Swine Flu
Another theory as to the cause of
Swine Flu might be factory farming. In the United States, pigs travel coast to
coast. They can be bred in North Carolina, fattened in the corn belt of Iowa,
and slaughtered in California.
While this may reduce short-term
costs for the pork industry, the highly contagious nature of diseases like
influenza (perhaps made further infectious by the stresses of transport) needs
to be considered when calculating the true cost of long-distance live animal
transport.
The majority of U.S. pig farms now
confine more than 5,000 animals each. With a group of 5,000 animals, if a novel
virus shows up it will have more opportunity to replicate and potentially spread
than in a group of 100 pigs on a small farm.
With massive concentrations of
farm animals within which to mutate, these new swine flu viruses in North
America seem to be on an evolutionary fast track, jumping and reassorting
between species at an unprecedented rate.
Should You
Accept a Flu Vaccine -- Just to be Safe?
As stated in the
New York Times14
and elsewhere, flu experts have no idea whether the current seasonal flu vaccine
would offer any protection whatsoever against this exotic mutant, and it will
take months to create a new one.
But let me tell you, getting
vaccinated now would not only offer no protection and potentially cause
great harm, it would most likely be loaded with toxic mercury which is used as a
preservative in most flu vaccines..
I've written extensively about the
numerous dangers (and ineffectiveness) of flu vaccines, and why I do not
recommend them to anyone. So no matter what you hear -- even if it comes from
your doctor -- don't get a regular flu shot. They rarely work against seasonal
flu...and certainly can't offer protection against a never-before- seen strain.
Currently, the antiviral drugs
Tamiflu and Relenza are the only drugs that appear effective against the (human
flu) H1N1 virus, and I strongly believe taking Tamiflu to protect yourself
against this new virus could be a serious mistake -- for all the reasons I
already mentioned above.
But in addition to the dangerous
side effects of Tamiflu, there is also growing evidence of resistance against
the drug. In February, the pre-publication and preliminary findings journal
called Nature Precedings published a paper on this concern, stating15:
The dramatic rise of oseltamivir [Tamiflu] resistance in the H1N1 serotype in the 2007/2008 season and the fixing of H274Y in the 2008/2009 season has raised concerns regarding individuals at risk for seasonal influenza, as well as development of similar resistance in the H5N1 serotype [bird flu].
Previously, oseltamivir resistance produced changes in H1N1 and H3N2 at multiple positions in treated patients. In contrast, the recently reported resistance involved patients who had not recently taken oseltamivir.
It's one more reason not to bother
with this potentially dangerous drug.
And, once a specific swine flu
drug is created, you can be sure that it has not had the time to be tested in
clinical trials to determine safety and effectiveness, which puts us right back
where I started this article -- with a potential repeat of the last dangerous
swine flu vaccine, which destroyed the lives of hundreds of people.
Topping the whole mess off, of
course, is the fact that if the new vaccine turns out to be a killer, the
pharmaceutical companies responsible are immune from lawsuits -- something
I've also warned about before on numerous occasions.
Unfortunately, those prospects
won't stop the governments of the world from
mandating the vaccine -- a scenario I hope we can all avoid.
For now, my point is that there
are always going to be threats of flu pandemics, real or created, and there will
always be potentially toxic vaccines that are peddled as the solution. But you
can break free of that whole drug-solution trap by following some natural health
principles.
I have not caught a flu in over
two decades, and you can avoid it too, without getting vaccinated, by following
these simple guidelines, which will keep your immune system in optimal working
order so that you're far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with.
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Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I've previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu -- not the flu virus itself.
This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. I would STRONGLY urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50-70 ng.ml and done by a reliable vitamin D lab like Lab Corp.
For those of you in the US we hope to launch a vitamin D testing service through Lab Corp that allows you to have your vitamin D levels checked at your local blood drawing facility, and relatively inexpensively. We hope to offer this service by June 2009.
If you are coming down with flu like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell, believe the dose could even be as high as 1000 units per pound of body weight for three days.
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Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice.
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Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night's Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest.
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Have Effective Tools to Address Stress . We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness.
If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma. You can check out my free, 25-page EFT manual for some guidelines on how to perform EFT.
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Exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. You can review my exercise guidelines for some great tips on how to get started.
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Take a good source of animal based omega-3 fats like Krill Oil. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.
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Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap for this -- antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.
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Eat Garlic Regularly. Garlic works like a broad-spectrum antibiotic against bacteria, virus, and protozoa in the body. And unlike with antibiotics, no resistance can be built up so it is an absolutely safe product to use. However, if you are allergic or don't enjoy garlic it would be best to avoid as it will likely cause more harm than good.
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Avoid Hospitals and Vaccines In this particular case, I'd also recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds, and could be one of the likeliest places you could be exposed to this new bug. Vaccines will not be available for six months at the minimum but when available they will be ineffective and can lead to crippling paralysis like Guillain-Barré Syndrome just as it did in the 70s.
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