Vitamin C Beats Bird Flu and Other Viruses, Too

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 26, 2005

 

 

 

 

Vitamin C Beats Bird Flu and Other Viruses, Too

 

 

 

(OMNS) High dose vitamin C is a remarkably safe and effective

treatment for viral infections. [1,2] In high doses, vitamin C

neutralizes free radicals, helps kill viruses, and strengthens the

body's immune system. Taking supplemental vitamin C routinely helps

prevent viral infections.

 

The Avian Flu (or Bird Flu), so often mentioned by newspapers,

magazines and other news sources, is a particularly severe form of

influenza. It should probably be called Poultry Flu, since almost all

of the 150 or so human infections have come from domestic poultry. [3]

Interestingly, the symptoms of avian flu include hemorrhages under the

skin, and bleeding from the nose and gums. These are also classical

symptoms of clinical scurvy, which means a critical vitamin C

deficiency is present.

 

This means that vitamin C (ascorbate) is needed to treat it. Severe

cases may require 200,000 to 300,000 milligrams of vitamin C or more,

given intravenously (IV) by a physician. This very high dosing may be

needed since the Avian Flu appears to consume vitamin C very rapidly,

similar to an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, somewhat like an Ebola

infection.

 

What should you do if you think you have a viral infection - any viral

infection - coming on and IV vitamin C is not readily available? Nobel

laureate Linus Pauling said that as soon as you feel the symptoms of

sniffles, a cold or the flu, take oral doses of thousands of

milligrams of vitamin C.

 

For best results, take vitamin C in evenly divided doses during the

waking hours. Continue taking vitamin C on this schedule until,

Pauling says, you have loose stool (just short of diarrhea). After

having loosened stool, reduce the vitamin C dosage reduce by about 25

per cent. If you have another loose stool, reduce the vitamin C again,

but if the symptoms of the viral infection begin to return, increase

the dosage. You will quickly learn how much vitamin C to take; even

children can learn to do this. Continue until you are completely well.

Vitamin C greatly shortens the severity and duration of viral illnesses.

 

Vitamin C expert Robert Cathcart, M.D., specifies very high

therapeutic doses of vitamin C. For a severe cold: 60,000 to 100,000

milligrams/day. [4] For most influenza (flu), 100,000 to 150,000

mg/day. [5] For Avian (Bird) Flu, 150,000 to 300,000 mg/day.[6]

 

Remember:

 

Vitamin C replaces antiviral drugs at saturation (bowel tolerance or

loose stool) levels.

 

The reason very high doses of a vitamin can cure an illnesses is

because a disease-induced deficiency of that vitamin can be a cause of

the illness.

 

As for the safety of this approach: There is not even one death per

year from vitamins. Pharmaceutical drugs, properly prescribed and

taken as directed, kill over 100,000 Americans annually. Hospital

errors kill still more. Unlike drugs, with vitamins, the range of safe

dosages is extraordinarily large.

 

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

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References:

1. Gorton HC, Jarvis K. The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing

and relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections. J

Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1999 Oct;22(8):530-3. " Vitamin C in

megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold and flu

symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in the test population

compared with the control group. "

2. Smith L. (Ed) Clinical guide to the use of vitamin C. (Also

published as: Vitamin C as a fundamental medicine: Abstracts of Dr.

Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.'s published and unpublished work) 1988. F.

R. Klenner, M.D., " reports cases of influenza, encephalitis, and

measles easily cured with Vitamin C injections and oral doses. "

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm

3. webmd.com/content/article/112/110522.htm

4. Cathcart RF. Vitamin C, titrating to bowel tolerance, anascorbemia,

and acute induced scurvy. Medical Hypotheses, 7:1359-1376.

http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm

5. Cathcart RF. Treatment of the flu with massive doses of vitamin C.

http://www.orthomed.com/mystery.htm#treatment

6. Cathcart RF. Avian (bird) flu. http://www.orthomed.com/bird.htm

 

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