Treating a cold with a hot bath

All drugs are poisons.

The drugs your doctor prescribes for you are toxic poisons, or you could go to the grocery store and buy them. Even stuff like cold medicine, sleeping pills, over the counter headache medicine, can kill you if you take too much. The doctor has to give you small amounts of a drug to deal with your problem, without killing you with an overdose.

Drugs can never cure you. For example, if the cause of your diarrhea is you ate spoiled food, how is paralyzing your intestinal tract going to fix the problem? That’s what several diarrhea medicines do; they paralyze your digestive system, so your diarrhea stops. However, the spoiled, rotten food that is causing the problem is still in your digestive tract, isn’t it? The drug didn’t deal with the problem; it just dealt with the symptom.

I am not suggesting that you give up all drugs today. Some of us are taking drugs for blood pressure or heart that we need to live. However, if you are taking 8 or 10 pills a day, I bet you could get rid of half of them if you could lose some weight. Your blood pressure, heart, diabetes medicine, is all because you are too fat. Why are you killing yourself? Why are you taking these poisons just to live? Become a vegan! Don’t stop using any drug without your doctor watching your progress. But if you have a doctor that all she wants to do is keep your medicine cabinet full, find another doctor! You want to be healthy, not keep the pharmacist rich.

There are many natural treatments you can use instead of drugs for treating many diseases. Herbs, hot baths, moist heat packs, charcoal, poultices, massage – people have been using these things to get well for hundreds of years. The problem with these treatments is: A. They take work and effort. B. You can’t eat junk food, sugar, and garbage and expect simple things to cure you, they are not as powerful as drugs, and they are slower. C. You have to learn how to do simple treatments. So it is easier for your doctor to give you drugs, rather than explain what herbs, massage, or whatever that you need. Your doctor needs to get you in and out of his office in less than 20 minutes to see 25 people a day, and make enough money to drive a Jaguar or BMW. So it is up to you to learn. Well, stick with me, because I lived with several doctors who used natural treatments, and wrote books about them.

So today I am going to tell you how to use your bathtub to treat a cold, flu, or anything you would need an antibiotic for, like pnunomua. You start by bringing a bowl of ice and a cloth to the bathtub. This is for your head, to keep you from getting heat stroke or over heated. Fill the tub half full with hot water. Get in the tub, and gradually increase the water temperature until you are sweating and your heart is pounding. As soon as you feel too warm, put the ice on your head. Wipe your face, the back of your neck, with ice. You will stay in the bath for 30 -45 minutes. If you have a mouth or bath thermometer, you want the bath water about 105-110, and you want to get your oral temperature up to 102 or 103. You are artificially giving your body a temperature. After 30 - 45 minutes in the hottest water you can stand up slowing, and support yourself so you don’t get dizzy. Finish your hot bath with a cool or cold shower for 30 seconds.

Dry off quickly and rub your body hard with the towel. Then go to bed and sweat for a half hour. Bed is part of the treatment, don’t skip it! The first few times you do the treatment, have someone else stay with you, and monitor your body temperature.

So how does all this work? When you put your hand in hot water it turns red, from the blood coming to the surface of the skin. Most of your white blood cells are within a ¼ inch of your skin. Taking the hot bath forces your blood to circulate past the white blood cells faster, cleaning your blood of bacteria. But the fever also causes the bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. So all of your body’s soldiers are chanting “fight, fight, fight!” in unison. Your sweating causes you to clean your system, and doesn’t a hot bath just feel good when you are sick? Somehow you know it’s what you need to get better. The cold shower at the end helps to close your pores and increase your circulation even more.

Now the one way to destroy the benefit of this treatment is to get out of the bed and drink a soda, or even vitamin water or 20% juice drink. What drinking does to soldiers in the military, sugar does to your white blood cells, so they kill fewer germs. Because sugar gets your white blood cells drunk, and they cannot focus on killing bacteria. But more about that another day.

But if you behave yourself, eat healthy, and avoid sugar, you should be able to keep a cold or flu under control with one or two hot bath treatments a day for the first few days you are sick. But why get sick at all? Do the hot bath when you feel the first tickle of a sore throat, or the first sniff of a cold. Don’t wait! If you do it fast enough, and hot enough, you will not get sick at all, or it will be a much milder illness.

Reading list:

Home Remedies by Agatha Thrash, M.D.

Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss
Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin

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