Colds & Flu
Drugs For A Cold?
"Alkalinizers, multiple analgesics, antihistamines, decongestants and tranquilizers are developed for sales profit...not for the benefit of the patient."  Taking antibiotics for cold viruses is completely worthless because antibiotics work onlt on bacteria.  That was stated by Jackson GG, MD in the Textbook of Medicine

The Chiropractic Approach
Chiropractic care can help raise your natural resistance to disease by removing a serious interference to your proper body function: vertebral subluxation.  Natural resistance is the only reason why your cold "goes away" rather than lasting for weeks, months or your entire lifetime!

What Are Vertebral Subluxations?
Vertebral subluxations (VS) are misaligned spinal vertebrae that interfere with your nerves causing spinal nerve stress.  Chiropractors detect, locate and correct them by giving chiropractic spinal adjustments.  This relieves the spinal nerve sress and helps restore optimal body functioning for higher resistance to disease, which, we cannot overstate, is the best defense against the common cold. 

Go to a chiropractor for the common cold?  But chiropractic is just for backs!  Not so.  In fact, many people seeing chiropractors for spinal pain find a general improvement in their health that includes fewer and less severe colds, flu and other respiratory problems. 

The Common Cold
The common cold (acute coryza 45) is associated with viri that affect the nose, throat, larynx (voice box) and sinuses.  That means stuffed and runny nose, scratchy throat, watery eyes, stuffed sinuses and congestion but no fever.
Beathing cold viruses does not itself cause a cold.  "Experimenters have incubated cold viruses, placed them directly on the mucous lining of the nose, and found that their subjects came down wuth colds onl 12% of the time."  For germs to grow in you, you must first be fertile soil.
Case Studies
There are numerous case histories of chronic cold and flu sufferers having less or no colds after chiropractic care.  For example, when spinal motion was restricted, people tended to have more ear infections, bronchitis and/or pneumonia.  However, if motion could be maintained or reestablished, patients recovered without complications.
In another study, 92% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had improvement of their respiratory symptoms after spinal care.

Influenza
Flu symptoms include fever, backache, headache, muscle and joint pain, runny nose, congestion, sore throat and cough.  The flu can cause serious problems in those, like the elderly, who may be 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.


Benefits Of Colds And Flu   
Hippocrates, the "father" of medicine wrote: "Diseases are crisis of purification, of toxic elimination.  Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body.  We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases."  For example, an elevated temperature is one of the body's defense mechanisms, helping us destroy infection.  Lowering a fever reduces this defense against disease. 
Acute infectious diseases serve a purpose.  In one study, researchers found that a history of common colds of influenza was associated with a decreased cancer risk of the stomach, colon, rectum, breast and ovary.

Flu Vaccines
The 1976 mass swine flu inoculations, which causes 565 cases of Guillain Barre paralysis and the death of at least thirty elderly persons, first alerted the public to the danger of the flu vaccin.  J. Anthony Morris, PhD, flu researcher for the FDA reported: "There is nothing cased upon either epidemiology or controlled experiments, to chow that influenza vaccine yields a benefit towards the recipient." 

The Flu Vaccine And Alzheimer's
According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, if an individual has five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's Disease is ten times higher.  The aluminum and mercury in the flu shot (also in many childhood shots) build up in the brain causing damage.  Is this why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple?

FluMist™
Between 10 million and 100 million viral particles are forcefully injected into the nostrils with the new FluMist™ vaccine. 
Sherry Tenpenny, DO writes: "One of the most troubling concerns over the injection of this 'chemical soup' is the potential for the viruses to enter directly into the brain...."
Side effects include cough, runny nose/nasal congestion, irritability, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fever over 100° F.  Sounds like the flu, doesn't it?

In Conclusion
Keeping your spinal column free from vertebral subluxations helps your inner healer control your body and helps keep your resistance high.  Spinal care could make the difference between a quick recovery and a lingering illness--even between life and death.