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. 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.
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 so far 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.
THE TERRIBLE 1918 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. Perhaps there was some small difference though which made it more deadly.
Possibly 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 AN H5 BIRD FLU WHICH CAUSED THE TERRIBLE 1918 SPANISH FLU OUTBREAK. THE 1918 FLU KILLED AT LEAST 25 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE.
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 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 H5 BIRD FLU THAT SOMEHOW CROSSED 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.
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.
INDEED A NEW SERIOUS FLU EPIDEMIC IS SAID TO BE LONG 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.
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 PANDEMIC AND PREPARING STOCKS OF SAMBUCOL AND GELSEMIUM AND OTHER TYPES OF HERBS KNOWN TO FIGHT FLU SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT BUT UNDER THE PRESENT MONEY DOMINATED DRUG CARTEL SUCH PREPARATIONS WILL 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 IMPORTANT.
ALTHOUGH FLU HAS BEEN AROUND VIRTUALLY FOREVER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF IT WAS VERY LIMITED UNTIL THE 20TH CENTURY. 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.
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 so far 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.
THE TERRIBLE 1918 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. Perhaps there was some small difference though which made it more deadly.
Possibly 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 AN H5 BIRD FLU WHICH CAUSED THE TERRIBLE 1918 SPANISH FLU OUTBREAK. THE 1918 FLU KILLED AT LEAST 25 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE.
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 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 H5 BIRD FLU THAT SOMEHOW CROSSED 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.
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.
INDEED A NEW SERIOUS FLU EPIDEMIC IS SAID TO BE LONG 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.
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 PANDEMIC AND PREPARING STOCKS OF SAMBUCOL AND GELSEMIUM AND OTHER TYPES OF HERBS KNOWN TO FIGHT FLU SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT BUT UNDER THE PRESENT MONEY DOMINATED DRUG CARTEL SUCH PREPARATIONS WILL 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 IMPORTANT.