Thoughts On Health & Medicine

I can’t remember the last time I had a cold or the flu, and as far as I can tell there are two things that have kept me well throughout these Northeastern winters: Vitamin D-3 and colloidal silver.

Colloidal silver was my cold remedy of choice when I first discovered that colds live and die within your nose. Most colds are caused by the rhinovirus, and rhino means nose.

Have you ever wondered why your nose gets congested and stops up when you have a cold, forcing you to breathe through your mouth? It’s to allow your nose to heat up and kill the virus.

Cold viruses need a temperature lower than 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit in order to live, and the nose, being air cooled and somewhat outside the body, provides the virus with an ideal environment. So by having your nose stop up, your body shuts down the cooling system within your nose and the virus is, in effect, ‘cooked.’

However, I found that by spraying colloidal silver into each nostril at bedtime at the first signs of a cold and then laying back and letting it drain into my throat, I would wake up the next morning symptom free.

Colloidal silver is a powerful antimicrobial agent. Not only does it kill bacteria, it also kills viruses and fungi. The only thing I didn’t like was the small amount of unpleasantness associated with doing this, but that was nothing compared to staving off a cold.

Some years ago, however, I learned that people get colds and the flu during the winter months because they don’t get enough sunshine due to the angle of the sun and the shortness of the days; in effect, because of a Vitamin D deficiency.

For several years, now, since I’ve started taking Vitamin D-3 capsules, I can’t remember the last time I’ve had a cold or the flu, and have stopped having to use the colloidal silver spray, as well.

So if you want to avoid colds or the flu for the rest of this winter, I suggest giving Vitamin D-3 a try. Just like not all drugs work for everyone, there is no guarantee Vitamin D-3 will help you. But D-3 is inexpensive and far safer than taking a flu shot. The last flu shot I was forced to take while in the military made me very ill almost immediately, and my wife’s grandmother, a perfectly healthy women, died suddenly after taking one.

And from my experience you don’t really need that much. I began with a single 1000 IU capsule daily, then moved to the 2000 IU, not because I felt I needed to take more, but because that was the only dosage the store had on the shelf when I went to resupply. During the summer months, when I’m spending a lot of time outdoors, I don’t use D-3 at all.

First they stole the word. Now they are using it to steal your money.

Remember, “health care is what you do; sick care is what they do” — or are supposed to do.

But dealing with the sick can be messy. And a lot of sick people don’t have the kind of insurance the sick care industry can take advantage of — not if there is an easier way.

So sick care providers have tried to create a new, false image for themselves as “health” care providers to take advantage of all the insurance money out there, including Medicare and Medicaid, though health care is far removed from what they actually do.

Yes, dealing with sick people is messy and time consuming. And costly, in the sense that you can’t get enough money out of them if they don’t have adequate illness insurance, something that the Obama plan seeks to remedy for the insurance companies.

It’s so much easier to process healthy people with good insurance and fool them into returning periodically, by calling it “health” care. That isn’t messy, it’s good for the bottom line, and can possibly turn them into victims in need of sick care.

For example, bogus cholesterol testing has been a big seller. And side effects from cholesterol reducing medications can mean more visits, followed by more medications, followed by more side effects and a sick patient of the kind they prefer — an unaware, cooperative patient who pre-qualified with good “health” insurance.

Beware and be weary of the coming swine flu shots. All indications are that the swine flu vaccine, quickly produced in accordance with preexisting patents in the face of pure, pandemic hype, should be avoided at all costs.

First of all, experts are saying that this exotic flu’s curious combination of bird, pig, and human flu components was NOT the result of a natural genetic process but was certainly manufactured in a laboratory. The question is, for what and by whom?

Answering that is not something I will get into, here, because the answers we are seeing are almost too sinister for those who might still have a little faith in their government to believe. Yes, it’s that bad.

Add to that the fact that this ’swine flu’ — a purposeful misnomer — started in the wrong place and at the wrong time, Mexico, in the spring rather than Asia in the fall, and that it did not originate with any herd of swine but suddenly and most mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and has killed relatively few people, including maybe 200 Americans, and that those reportedly dying from it are people with existing conditions that already compromised their health and that the symptoms are no worse than the common cold, and you begin to wonder WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON, HERE?!

When you consider that between 36,000 and 37,000 Americans die of the regular seasonal flu each year, and that since about April, this virus has killed only about 200, of us, why is this pandemic — NOT EPIDEMIC — being hyped by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) — and that, AFTER the definition of ‘pandemic’ was changed to accommodate this creation?!

Something really STINKS, and I suspect it’s the crap they are feeding us about this flu!

Now, the vaccine tests have been rushed in order to have this series of THREE vaccines ready in time for the fall. Of course, the manufacturers will make a lot of money while being protected from legal action by the government so they take no risks. The tests are probably mostly for show so they can say the vaccines were tested. But whether the tests were made with safe but inexpensive saline, rather than with the intended vaccine, we will never know. NO ONE in such a position can be trusted.

Of special concern is what is added to this vaccine, particularly squalene, an adjuvant that makes the vaccine ‘work’ more effectively so that less of the vaccine can be used allowing whatever amount is produced to go farther.

Squalene is now known to be what caused the mysterious “Gulf War Syndrome” among returning military personnel. Autoimmune diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis have been linked to squalene and squalene can cause brain damage, paralysis, and death.

Though some states are making the swine flu vaccine mandatory, Massachusetts, for example, has some draconian measures to assure compliance, many health professionals including a large percentage of nurses in New York State say they will refuse to take it.

The fact is that ANY vaccine is dangerous and that even the effectiveness of vaccines such as tetanus is unproven and doubtful. That the use of this vaccine by pregnant women, targeted as among the first to receive it, is contraindicated, doesn’t seem to bother the people with dollar signs — or worse — in their eyes.

Yes, something is rotten in Denmark and throughout the European Union — and the US, Australia, Canada and most everyplace else, as well.

Who is to be trusted with your health? Certainly not the WHO!

What you ultimately do, you will have to decide for yourself, but I hope this encourages you to look farther before you make up your mind and simply do as you are told.

While moving things around a couple of years ago, a number of posts to this blog were deleted. They have been located on another database and I am trying to restore them, here, though they obviously won’t bear the original date of entry, which is unknown. Have added the category “The Lost Posts” to make finding them easier.

After a hectic time during which it stayed dormant and in the shadows, our weblog, Thoughts On Health & Medicine is making its reappearance. We hope you find the posts here, both past and future, helpful and informative.

[This little article is more than a couple of years old, but the cold weather is still with us, so I’m reposting it here.]

Does cold weather bring on colds?

Were you ever told to bundle up on a winter day so you wouldn’t catch cold?

Have you ever said this to your children?

Our daughter has been visiting the snow belt she once called home. The other day she remarked it was nice we kept the house warm, after seeing some friends who kept the temperature relatively cool. She was afraid the baby would catch cold in that environment.

Of course, cold weather doesn’t cause colds. As her husband quickly pointed out, colds are caused by viruses.

But this got me thinking. Why is it that we suffer from colds in colder weather?

Is it because we are more confined and the cold virus is more easily spread when people gather in closed quarters?

This is a common assumption and there might be a little bit to it, but no more than a small, contributing factor.

Is because cold weather is harder on us and brings our resistance down? Maybe there’s something to that, as well. Or maybe it’s having the cold that brings our resistance down.

But I think there’s something else, something that’s overlooked. Something I’ve never heard mentioned that makes a lot of sense when we look at what we do know about colds. Cold weather simply makes it easier for the cold virus to survive.

In fact, as Dan Lee Dimke has demonstrated in his cold cure procedure, cold viruses can be destroyed and colds cured with the proper application of heat and humidity.

As a practical matter, I’ve found that using colloidal silver is faster and easier than the process he describes, but heat and humidity address the issue of colds and why we usually get them during the winter months and not during the summer.

To better understand this, let’s look at how a cold works. A cold is basically a nasal infection. It can lead to sore throats and other things, but a cold lives and dies in your nose. The rhinovirus, strains of which account for most colds, gets its name from that fact. Rhino means nose.

Cold viruses thrive at temperatures slightly cooler than the 98.6 degrees considered normal. So when faced with this invader, your body’s first defense is stuffiness. Why? Because breathing through your nose keeps your nasal passages cooler and the virus alive. But when you get stuffy and are forced to breathe through your mouth, your nose, no longer air cooled, reaches a higher temperature and becomes a much less friendly environment for the virus. The virus dies, and after your body does some necessary cleanup and repair work, you’re good as new.

So what does cold weather have to do with it? Well, Dr. Watson, cold, dry, winter air is just what the virus needs. Even in the snow belt, here, summer temperatures are generally in the 80’s and 90’s, the humidity is high, and breathing warm air makes it hard for the nose to stay cool while the rest of you is sweating. During the winter, with most thermostats set below 70 degrees, probably in the 65 to 68 degrees range, the nose, which isn’t dressed to stay warm, becomes an easy breeding ground for the cold virus. And of course, the dry, winter air helps it along.

It’s been a bad week for some of the “medicines” allowed by the FDA.

First, it was reported Monday that the cholesterol drug Vytorin had no effect in removing the plaque that clogged arteries.

If that wasn’t enough it was followed within a day or two by a report that antidepressants such as Zoloft were ineffective.

Today, the FDA followed-up recent news from the medical profession that over-the-counter cough medications were not only a danger to children under two, but had no effect in relieving their coughs.

The curious thing about the latter is that it begs the question “are they effective when given to children over two?” Yes or no? Why or why not?

Do children over two understand that it’s “medicine” and that it’s supposed to be good for them? Is a placebo effect all that is derived from these pricey products?

Finally, a law firm has been running TV commercials soliciting contact from loved ones of anyone who might have attempted suicide or committed suicide as a possible result of using the anti-smoking drug Chantix. Before the week was out, a news story about the dangers of suicide from using Chantix, followed.

Remember, what the FDA sanctions is supposed to be good. And since it doesn’t sanction natural remedies they are, by default, supposed to be bad.

Where you take your chances is ultimately up to you because there are natural and/or holistic approaches to the problem every one of the above, botched, “medicines” was designed to “fix.” You just have to do your research and find them since natural remedies generally can’t be advertised as such.

The posts referring to “The Cure” have now been placed in sequence, compiled into an article, and given their own page. They’re much easier to read that way. You can find “The Cure” by clicking on it.

NOTE: If you haven’t yet read the July 18th, July 20th, and July 26th entries, you might want to do that first, and it that order.

So what would “The Cure” consist of? Since white framing was important in Stearn’s book, I knew it had to be white. It also had to be a liquid, and not too runny a liquid. Maybe something that had the consistency of cream.

The bottle my imagination conjured up was unusual, too. A funny old bottle from the 1940’s or 1950’s with a rather plain label that had a green, hand-drawn border and “The Cure” printed on it in large, orange letters on two lines. This was kept in a part of my workshop that looks like a doctor’s office, in a cabinet near an examination table. And there is plenty of it available. It’s just there.

So twice daily, usually before going to bed and again before getting up in the morning, I would enter the alpha-state, go down to my workshop, and take the cure. I would just visualize myself getting the bottle from the cabinet and pouring some of it into a small plastic cup while sitting on the examination table, taking a swallow, then lying down and watching or directing it through my system, bathing everything in white along the way.

While the cure was taken orally, it did have special properties and did not just follow the digestive tract but traveled everywhere as directed by my mind.

So I would swallow it, watch it coat my throat and esophagus, and direct it to my lungs, liver, heart and surrounding arteries, and all the organs, sometimes naming them, sometimes just imagining them, with special emphasis on the site of the abdominal pain. Everything would be covered, then I would imagine it draining into my legs, where it would be exhausted.

Sometimes I would let the first swallow travel up into my brain and bathe that in white, then drink some more and continue with the rest of the organs.

I don’t remember how long it took, this was a couple of years ago, but the pain symptoms eventually went away and I stopped using “The Cure.” I must add, that I continued to use a variety of anti-oxidants and supplements and do some lymphosizing and did not rely on “The Cure,” alone. So if you decide to put something like this to use, I would suggest using it in addition to, not instead of whatever else you are doing. I also see this as a preventative, which is why I would have it bathe all the organs and not just the problem area. It had a nice effect on the brain, too.

NOTE: If you haven’t yet read the July 18th and July 20th entries, you might want to do that first, and it that order.

So following what Stearn suggested, I entered the Alpha-State and built my workshop. It’s very elaborate with plenty of room, but so far, I’m only familiar with a small part of it. He suggests and elevator to go up into it, but I enter mine by going down a wide flight of stairs next to a large set of windows that overlook the seashore. Sometimes I stop to watch the gulls and sailboats or the people on the beach before going down.

I began by using a projection screen, as the method suggests. It’s just a screen on which you view whatever it is you want to work on. You are supposed to surround this screen with a white frame.

At the time, I was having some abdominal pain, so I’d go to my workshop and try projecting the area onto the screen to see what was happening while surrounding the screen in a white frame to help affect a cure. I did this twice daily, as best I could, but found it to be too abstract to be projecting and framing. I also tried projecting white onto the problem area instead of using a white frame, but that was still too abstract.

That’s when I decided to do something different, to go into my workshop and create a cure I could take. And since Stearn’s book mentioned having helpers, I eventually brought in a nurse to administer it, from time to time, mostly for effect.

No more projection, nothing abstract outside of me. I put my cure into a bottle that was labeled “The Cure” and began to use it. And it worked very well.

To be continued.