Heavy doses 2-3,000 units of vitamin C, 2-3 times a day, and at least 200 units of Zinc, once a day, and normal doses of vitamin A. All these help to keep viruses down, and allows your body to fight them. Also the old saying about Chicken soup, is true, but actually any hot liquid will help. Every time my Girlfriend gets a cold or flu, she calls me to make her some of my anti viral soup.
I think she just likes the soup. I just make homemade chicken, or turkey soup, with lots of fresh diced garlic, a couple dashes of Cayenne, pepper, salt and pepper, and a couple dashes of cajun seasoning, Mc Cormicks, original chicken season, now called pinch or something like that, poultry seasoning. Old bay, or Cajun seasoning, they are all basically close in flavor, and ingredients. I also season to taste, with these ingredients, and garlic powder, and onion powder, fresh onions (Vidalia) or other sweet onions. I put the diced onions in near the end of the cooking, and the garlic in last, so they are still somewhat raw, and have more good antiviral ingredients available. It is heavy on the garlic, but she is like me, heavy on the garlic is fine. She feels better, and will eat it for a couple of days, as I make a big batch. I have to have a bowl for me too. Any warm, or hot soup, or liquid will help to break up a stopped up nose, and free up the phlegm in the chest. But the soup just tastes better. Hot tea, coffee, or apple juice, fresh is best, is good also. I very seldom get any of the seasonal virus, or colds, as I take at least 9,000 units of Vitamin C a day. I will take 3,000 units in the morning, and about 2,000 units of Vitamin E, and 200 units of Zinc. In the evening, I will take the last 3,000 units of Vitamin C, with either fish oil, and krill oil, or vitamin A Palminate. Also 5,000 units of vitamin D3, and vitamin K2, and magnesium. Magnesium, helps to absorb the D3, and the K2 helps to keep the bones somewhat flexible. Without it, the bones do get thicker, but are more brittle than with the K2. Do not take vitamin E, with any A, or Fish oil, or Krill oil, or Vitamin D.
They are what they call Antagonists to Vitamin E. So that is why, I take one in the morning, and the other in the evening. No I don't worry about over dosing. I would have to take a whole lot more, to do so. The only ones that I would have to worry about, is A, D, Zinc, and E, but it is a LARGE amount. With the doses, I take, I have been fine, and seldom sick. When I do catch something nasty that is going around, when others are taking two weeks or more, to get well, I go maybe two days, and it is very mild. I only had one time, when a particularly nasty virus was going around, I went like 3 days, and was uncomfortable, but not to the extent that I was house bound. I just didn't feel like leaping tall women, or buildings, But after the third day, I pretty much was back to normal, while my Friends still have it pretty bad for a couple of weeks or more, and having a rough time of it. I am a firm believer in Vitamins, and minerals, and fresh fruits and veggies, most of them raw. Fresh raw juices also.
Any who, that is my regimen for the flu and cold season. I do get occasional sinus drainage, and post nasal drip. But I have always had that. Not as bad as I used to though. I believe in taking Vitamins, and even an antihistamine at the first signs of a cold or flu. I believe it gives the body a helping hand, to bolster it's own natural defences, and bolsters the "T" cells. Big pharm might call me wrong, but I am not making half a trillion a year, on harsh chemical pseudo treatments either.
Wayne
