Thursday, March 04, 2010

Baking Soda as an All Natural Remedy

My younger son, Prabhjyot, visited a pediatrician early this week. He was prescribed some antibiotics for his throat infection and two different syrup mixture for his cough and cold.
Why do they get it at all? I asked myself. Could it be that his immune system is weak?  could it be that the weather outside is too hot?  i don't know the answers to these questions ...yet.  I am quite happy to take the medicines and leave the clinic.

Then I began to recall an article i read sometime  ago on a cost effective remedy for common flu (and other types of flu).

Overlooked 150 Year Old Household Cleaner a Remedy for Swine Flu?


In today's modern world of medicine the FDA just will not let companies that sell products make medical claims about them unless they have been tested at great expense, and approved as a drug. But this was not always the case.

In a 1924 booklet published by the Arm & Hammer Soda Company, the company starts off saying, "The proven value of Arm & Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda as a therapeutic agent is further evinced by the following evidence of a prominent physician named Dr. Volney S. Cheney, in a letter to the Church & Dwight Company:

"In 1918 and 1919 while fighting the 'Flu' with the U. S. Public Health Service it was brought to my attention that rarely any one who had been thoroughly alkalinized with bicarbonate of soda contracted the disease, and those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild attacks."

Recommended dosages from the Arm and Hammer Company for colds and influenza back in 1925 were:

  • During the first day take six doses of half teaspoonful of Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water, at about two hour intervals
  • During the second day take four doses of half teaspoonful of Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals
  • During the third day take two doses of half teaspoonful of Bicarbonate of Soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter half teaspoonful in glass of cool water each morning until cold is cured

for full article , visit http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/15/Baking-Soda-Used-to-Treat-Swine-Flu-85-Years-Ago.aspx

as for me, i will try out the remedy on myself first. Let the adventure begin!

Hot Weather

Hot weather continues unabated. Was driving my car out to lunch today and noticed that the temperature gauge read 42 deg Celcius. That is really hot.
How are we living? How can we live like this?