Doctors Report Vitamin C Cures Shingles

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Doctors Report Vitamin C Cures Shingles

 

 

 

SHINGLES [Herpes Zoster] TREATMENT THAT WORKS

(Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, June 15, 2005)

 

OMNS - Shingles can be cleared up by using a safe, convenient,

inexpensive, nonprescription treatment of vitamin C. Vitamin C is

anti-viral

and anti-toxin and inactivates the virus that causes shingles. If you

have shingles and want relief, you can try this:

 

Go to a discount store and buy a large bottle of 1000 mg vitamin C

tablets. The cost should be less than $15.

 

Begin when you wake in the morning by taking 3000 mg of vitamin C every

30 minutes and continue until you have a single episode of loose stool

(not quite diarrhea). If you haven't had loose stool after 15 hours on

this dosage, increase the vitamin C to 4000 mg every 30 minutes.

 

After you have a loose bowel movement, reduce the dosage to 2000 mg of

vitamin C taken every hour. You will quickly find the dosage that is

right for you. Adjust the dosage of vitamin C downward to stay below

the dosage that will cause loose stool and adjust it upward to relieve

shingles symptoms. Continue the oral vitamin C therapy until the shingles

disappear.

 

It sounds too simple to be true, doesn't it? But it works in the

majority of cases, as recently reconfirmed by Thomas E. Levy, M.D.,

J.D. (1)

 

Sometimes it's necessary to take vitamin C intravenously (IV) for

massive shingles outbreaks. (2) Much higher concentrations of vitamin

C in

the blood can be achieved intravenously than when taken orally. As

early as 1950, the medical literature reported that one physician had

confirmed intravenous vitamin C curing shingles in 327 patients within 72

hours. (3) Ask your doctor if he or she offers vitamin C IV and, if

not, ask friends or search the Internet to find a doctor or facility that

does offer this treatment.

 

Vitamin C blood serum levels of individuals fall during periods of high

stress and they develop sub-clinical scurvy (depleted vitamin C

levels). This situation can set the stage for a shingles attack.

 

Remember, a vitamin can act as a drug, but a drug can never act as a

vitamin.

 

With vitamin therapy, at any given quantity, frequently divided doses

are more effective than one large single dose.

 

The reason one nutrient can cure so many different illnesses is because

a deficiency of one nutrient can cause many different illnesses.

 

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

 

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as " the treatment of

disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially

the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human

body. " Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy

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References:

 

(1) Levy TE. Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins. 2002: Xlibris.

www.xlibris.com. p 80-85.

 

(2) Klenner FR. Observations on the dose and administration of ascorbic

acid when employed beyond the range of a vitamin in human pathology.

Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1971. Vol. 23, No. 3 & 4.

http://yost.com/health/klenner/klenner-1971.pdf

 

(3) Zureick M. [Therapy of herpes and herpes zoster with intravenous

vitamin C.]

J Prat Rev Gen Clin Ther. 1950 Nov 30;64(48):586. PMID: 14908970.

 

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