COLDS & FLU
In fact, many people seeing chiropractors for spinal pain find a general improvement
in their health that includes fewer and less severe colds and other respiratory
problems.
Breathing in cold viruses does not in itself cause a cold. "If you try
to give someone a cold, for example, it takes more than a virus. Experimenters
have incubated cold viruses, placed them directly on the mucous lining of the
nose, and found that their subjects came down with colds only 12 percent of
the time." For germs to grow in you, you must first be fertile soil.
Too many of us know the classic symptoms of the flu: fever of 101-103 degrees,
backache, headache, muscle and joint pain, runny nose, congestion, sore throat,
and cough that may continue irregularly for three to four days. The flu can
cause serious problems in those, like the elderly, who are very weak and
have little resistance; in some cases it may develop into pneumonia. Yet
for most of us, the flu is little more than an annoying illness.
Orothodox medicine offers no cure for the common cold or the flu, and almost
every drug usually prescribed is useless: "The numerous compounded remedies,
including those with vitamins, bioflavonoids, quinine, alkalinizers, multiple
analgesics, antihistimines, decongestants, and tranquilizers, are developed
for sales profit in a large market of uninformed and uncritical people and
are not for the benefit of the patient or his physician." Taking antibiotics
for colds is completely worthless because colds are associated with viruses
(antibiotics work only on bacteria). Giving antibiotics "just in case" or
because the doctor feels obligated to give the patient "something" has
been criticized in the medical literature as unnecessary and dangerous.
The effectiveness and potency of flu vaccines are subjects of
great debate. Many doctors feel due to the fact the flu strain
changes every year, a vaccine
is impossible. Some people have allergic reactions to the flu shot or get
sick as a result of receiving the shot. Neurological disorders
have also been linked
to the flu shot vaccine. The Center for Disease Control discredited the vaccine
as a failure in protecting nursing home patients from influenza B.
Chiropractic does not treat the common cold. However, chiropractic patients
have noticed that their natural reistance to colds increases and chiropractors
have often heard patients tell them that, "I haven’t had a cold
(or if I get a cold I get over it much faster) since I’ve been under
chiropractic care." Natural resistance is the only reason why your cold "goes
away" rather than lasting for weeks, months, or your entire lifetime!
Chiropractic care can help raise your natural resistance to disease
by removing a serious interference to your proper body function:
vertebral subluxation.
Keeping your spinal column free from vertebral subluxations helps keep your
natural immunity high. Whatever else you do for yourself, it is essential,
if your are suffering from the flu, colds, or respiratory problems, that
your spinal column be healthy: it could make the difference
between a quick recovery
and a lingering illness (even between life and death) |
