FLU AND IT'S TREATMENT AND HISTORY
ALTHOUGH FLU HAS BEEN AROUND VIRTUALLY FOREVER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF IT WAS VERY LIMITED UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY.
in this article I am going to suggest a whole group of ways of combating the flu, as well as charting some of it's history.
WE NOW KNOW IT IS CAUSED BY A VIRUS (ALTHOUGH YOU CAN HAVE FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AS A BODY CONDITION WITH NO VIRUS INVOLVED) AND MANY STRAINS OF FLU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND GIVEN CODENAMES, such as H1N1 the 1918 Spanish flu virus.
ALL SPECIES OF ANIMALS HAVE A FLU IT SEEMS, THERE IS EVEN A SNAKE FLU, AND SOMETIMES A STRAIN JUMPS SPECIES AND CAN CREATE A NEW INTERSPECIES HYBRID.
THE MORE VIRULENT STRAINS OF FLU IN HUMANS SO FAR SEEM TO COME FROM BIRDS, AT LEAST IT LOOKS LIKE THAT ALTHOUGH THESE THINGS ARE LIKELY TO CHANGE WITH NEW INFORMATION. THE RECENT SWINE FLU APPEARS TO HAVE ORIGINALLY COME FROM HUMANS, JUMPED TO PIGS AND BACK AGAIN TO US.
THE FLU VIRUS RECOMBINES WITH VARIOUS FLU STRAINS TO CREATE NEW STRAINS, AND SO A VACCINE CANNOT STAY AHEAD OF THE GAME SO FAR BUT ONLY TRY TO CATCH UP WITH THE NEW VIRUS STRAINS.
Attempts to create a universal vaccine against all flu strains are continuing but it may be a long way off.
THE TERRIBLE 1918 Spanish FLU WAS SAID TO HAVE COME OVER TO US FROM PIGS BUT NOW IT SEEMS IT WAS PRESENT IN HUMANS AT TIMES IN THE PAST AND NOT JUST IN 1918. THE REASON IT HIT MAINLY YOUNGER PEOPLE IN 1918 WAS THAT OLDER ONES ALREADY HAD IMMUNITY FROM PREVIOUS OUTBREAKS, AT LEAST THAT IS A RECENT THEORY.
RECENT STUDIES SUGGEST IT WAS H1n1 FLU WHICH CAUSED THE TERRIBLE 1918 SPANISH FLU OUTBREAK, but why it was so virulent is still unclear. THE 1918 FLU KILLED AT LEAST 25 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. It mutated and soon became less deadly as time went on after 1919.
ACTUALLY THERE ARE STILL MANY MYSTERIES ABOUT DISEASES AND WE DO NOT HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. WHY DOES ONE OUTBREAK SEEM MILD AND ANOTHER KILLS MILLIONS, THE ANSWERS ARE STILL ELUSIVE.
WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE IMMUNE AND OTHERS NOT TO A PARTICULAR DISEASE, SO FAR IT IS HARD TO BE SURE. EVEN AIDS HAS PEOPLE WHO ARE IMMUNE, POSSIBLY DUE TO GENETIC FACTORS. THIS ABILITY TO CREATE SOME IMMUNE INDIVIDUALS MAY BE NATURE'S SAFEGUARD AGAINST TOTAL EXTINCTION OF A SPECIES DUE TO A NEW DISEASE.
The deadly Spanish Flu of 1918-1919.
THE 1918 FLU WAS AT TIMES ATYPICAL OF NORMAL FLU, ALTHOUGH AT OTHER TIMES QUITE MILD, JUST LIKE PLAGUE OFTEN STARTS OFF MILD AND THEN BECOMES FAR MORE DEADLY AS THE MONTHS PASS.
IT NOW SEEMS FROM GENETIC STUDIES THAT THE 1918 FLU WAS an H1n1 FLU strain THAT was for some reason particularly virulent. Why so virulent is not certain yet. It is thought to have circulated in previous 19th century outbreaks so that some older people had immunity in 1918.
Many flu strains SOMEHOW CROSS OVER TO HUMANS, EITHER VIA AN INTERMEDIARY ANIMAL OR DIRECTLY FROM BIRDS TO HUMANS.
THE 1918 SPANISH FLU VIRUS GRADUALLY MUTATED IT SEEMS TO BECOME LESS SEVERE IN HUMANS AND PERSISTED FOR DECADES AFTER 1918 PROBABLY IN A MILDER FORM. THIS IS PROBABLY THE USUAL VIRUS ADAPTATION TO A NEW HOST, AS KILLING THE HOSTS LEADS TO THE DEATH OF THE VIRUS AS WELL.
IN THE 1918 EPIDEMIC HOMEOPATHY AND CHIROPRACTIC HOSPITALS HAD A DEATH RATE AROUND 1% WHILST WESTERN ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE HAD A DEATH RATE AROUND 30%.
EVEN THOUGH ASPIRIN WAS KNOWN TO MAKE FLU WORSE THE DOCTORS CONTINUED TO USE IT CAUSING HUGE NUMBERS OF DEATHS.
IN HOMEOPATHY AN EPIDEMIC IS EXAMINED TO FIND A GENUS EPIDEMICUS OR PATTERN FOR THE EPIDEMIC, ALLOWING A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF STANDARDIZATION OF REMEDIES FOR THE EPIDEMIC. USUALLY HOMEOPATHY PRESCRIBES ON THE TOTALITY OF THE INDIVIDUALS SYMPTOMS BUT THE GENUS EPIDEMICUS APPROACH ALLOWS LAYPEOPLE TO PRESCRIBE WITH SUCCESS AND QUICKER TOO.
IN THE 1918 OUTBREAK GELSEMIUM AND BRYONIA WERE THE MAIN EPIDEMIC HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES USED, AND WITH GREAT SUCCESS. A FUTURE EPIDEMIC MIGHT HAVE DIFFERENT REMEDIES OF COURSE DEPENDING ON ITS SYMPTOMS AND EXPERIENCE.
Black Elderberry or Sambucol.
AN OBVIOUS CHOICE FOR ANY FUTURE FLU EPIDEMIC IS THE BLACK ELDERBERRY OR SAMBUCOL, WHICH IS A TRADITIONAL REMEDY AND KILLS ALL FLU STRAINS INCLUDING H5 BIRD FLU IN VITRO EXPERIMENTS. IT IS READILY AVAILABLE AND MORE RELIABLE THAN TAMIFLU OR OTHER ANTIVIRALS.
IN AN EPIDEMIC IT CAN PARTIALLY BE USED AS A PREVENTATIVE, AS PEOPLE ARE INFECTIOUS BEFORE SYMPTOMS APPEAR ON THE THIRD DAY OF INFECTIOUS CONTACT WITH THE FLU VIRUS. IF USED QUICKLY SAMBUCOL PREVENTS THE VIRUS LATCHING ONTO THE CELLS AND CAN PREVENT SPREAD TO THE LUNGS.
OF COURSE A REALLY VIRULENT FLU LIKE THE H5 VIRUSES MAY STILL KILL IN SOME CASES DUE TO THE BODIES CYTOKINE STORM OVERREACTION IN CONTACT WITH A NEW VIRUS. AGAIN HOMEOPATHY OR ORIENTAL MEDICINE
HAS OTHER METHODS TO TRY AND LIMIT THIS CYTOKINE STORM REACTION.
BECAUSE THE ISRAELI SCIENTIST WHO ISOLATED THE ANTIVIR ACTIVE AGENT IN BLACK ELDERBERRY DELIBERATELY DID NOT PATENT IT, THE DRUG COMPANIES ARE NOT LIKELY GOING TO ALLOW ITS USE AGAINST FLU IN ORTHODOX MEDICINE AS THEY ONLY EXIST TO SELL PATENTED HIGH PROFIT MEDICINES. THIS CAPITALIST SITUATION LIMITS AND CRIPPLES WESTERN MEDICINE UNTIL TODAY SADLY.
SAMBUCOL OR SAMBUCUS (ITS SCIENTIFIC NAME) IS AVAILABLE AT ANY PHARMACY, I SUGGEST STOCKING UP WITH A BOTTLE OR TWO AS A FLU EPIDEMIC COULD START SUDDENLY AND OVERWHELM THE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM ANYWAY AS IT DID IN 1918.
Other non drug methods of treatment.
There are other ways of combating flu, just as simple manipulations were used in 1918 in Chiropractic hospitals to help the lungs and other organs, with great success.
The Bowen technique has similar manipulations and could greatly assist in an epidemic, as could something like Shiatsu.
Reflexology also helps, hand, ear or foot reflexology is simple and can help fight flu. All these simple techniques are free and so are ignored and attacked by the orthodox medicine cartel, but they work. Reflexology books and websites can show you what to do.
Hand Mudras also help, and can be done even if you are ill in bed. with Prithvi Mudra and Shankh mudra being simple ways to help the body for example in flu.
A good Mudra website can easily explain these simple Mudra hand positions, remember to do them only for the required time, as too much of anything is too much. Generally 5 to 15 minutes three times a day is recommended, but some may differ.
The brain mudra is simple and relieves anxiety and stress and anything like brain fever, it is very useful in something like flu.
Flu can also be helped by the Apaan mudra,the prithvi Mudra and Shanka mudra amongst others.
The famous Bach remedies can also help, by assisting the emotions to handle the situation. The rescue remedy for example combats fear and panic and should not be underestimated in helping the physical handling of the disease too.
A NEW SERIOUS FLU EPIDEMIC IS SAID TO BE OVERDUE (PREVIOUSLY THEY ARE SAID TO HAVE OCCURRED ABOUT EVERY FIFTY YEARS) AND THIS COULD PERHAPS MEAN IT WOULD BE A VIRULENT ONE. THE PEKING FLU OF THE LATE SIXTIES WAS THE LAST VERY WIDESPREAD PANDEMIC.
Increased Surveillance.
IN RECENT YEARS HONG KONG HAS RAMPED UP SURVEILLANCE OF AVIAN FLU OUTBREAKS AND POSSIBLY CONTAINED A PANDEMIC BY SLAUGHTERING ITS POULTRY STOCKS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS IN THE NINETIES AND EARLY 2001 -2003 PERIOD FOR EXAMPLE, TO CONTAIN THE NEWLY RECOMBINED BIRD FLU VIRUSES.
OF COURSE WHILST WE ARE MONITORING BIRDS WE MIGHT MISS A VIRUS COMING OUT OF LEFT FIELD FROM ANOTHER ANIMAL RESERVOIR OF THE FLU VIRUS, OR ANOTHER STRAIN COMPLETELY THAT HAS NEVER SEEMED DANGEROUS UNTIL NOW.
ASSUMING THAT THERE WILL BE A FUTURE flu PANDEMIC, PREPARING STOCKS OF SAMBUCOL AND GELSEMIUM AND OTHER TYPES OF HERBS KNOWN TO FIGHT FLU SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT by governments, BUT UNDER THE PRESENT MONEY DOMINATED system SUCH PREPARATIONS WILL perhaps NEVER BE CARRIED OUT.
A GERM WARFARE ENGINEERED VIRUS ALSO PRESENTS A THREAT AND THIS POSSIBILITY HAS BEEN WELL KNOWN SINCE THE FIFTIES. SUCH A POSSIBILITY
LED TO MANY SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, AND SCIENCE FICTION OFTEN COMES TRUE LATER ON.
THE FLU SPREADS THROUGH THE AIR BY COUGHING, BUT ALSO BY CONTACT SUCH AS SHAKING HANDS OR TOUCHING DOOR HANDLES AND OTHER OBJECTS. SO HYGIENE SUCH AS HAND WASHING IS very IMPORTANT.
Although I have mentioned Black Elderberry (Sambucol) there are of course many other traditional antiviral herbs, such as the famous Neem tree from India, spices such as Cinnamon and numerous others. Trawl the internet for information and you will soon learn a lot about these important matters.
Neem leaf is available in capsules from Nature's Way company for example. Neem leaves are suitable for internal usage in the correct doses, but seed and bark Neem oil should not be used internally. Neem leaf is used against flu and lots of other diseases and is said to be very effective.
Neem leaf is available in capsules from Nature's Way company for example. Neem leaves are suitable for internal usage in the correct doses, but seed and bark Neem oil should not be used internally. Neem leaf is used against flu and lots of other diseases and is said to be very effective.