Vitamin C: Powerfully Effective Viral Treatment

by Michael Gerber, MD, HMD, Homeopathic Medical Practitioner |

This past June, a Las Vegas resident died after being diagnosed with the Swine Flu. At this day in age it is intolerable that people are still dying from cold and flu viruses! Especially with all of the scientific research proving that simple preventative methods could have been used.

Antioxidants, such as vitamin C, strengthen our bodies against these viruses. A healthy immune system could have saved many killed by this flu. This knowledge should bring attention to the fact that nutritional and integrative practices have yet to be embraced by our hospitals. It is important to note that all other species can make vitamin C except primates (humans), Guinea pigs, fruit flies and fruit bats. Many people are in a state of sub-clinical scurvy, a sign of vitamin C deficiency. A goat makes 13,000 mg of vitamin C daily in its liver, while we make none.

All viruses exert their damage via free radical mechanisms and the best free radical absorber is vitamin C. both orally and intravenously administered, vitamin C is very powerful in protecting against viral injury. Thomas Levy’s MD, JD Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins details over 1200 scientific references confirming vitamin C’s efficacy dating back to 1948, when Fredrick Klenner, MD of North Carolina successfully treated polio and other viral diseases with vitamin C.

Meyer’s cocktail, named after John Meyer, MD in the 1950’s, is a great flu treatment. It contains 50 cc IV of calcium, magnesium, B5, B6, B12, B complex, 5,000 mg of vitamin C and 5 cc of low dose cortisol followed by a 3 percent solution of hydrogen peroxide with manganese and magnesium.

This markedly improves non-resolving flu immediately. With severe illness, increase vitamin C intake to 25,000 mg or 50,000 mg in the Meyer’s cocktail and then follow with the peroxide IV. Viruses and bacteria are killed inside white blood cells by peroxide. The nutrients in the Meyer’s IV empowers the peroxide IV to work better. This combination has been used for over 50 years and it is very safe and effective.

If one begins to get sick with a cold or flu the amount of oral vitamin C that is tolerated is dramatically increased. If one takes two thousand mgs of vitamin C on a daily basis it is possible to take many times that amount when under attack by viruses, often 10,000 mg to 30,000 mg or more. According to Dr. Cathcart’s Rule, as soon as you reach the diarrhea point cut back your dose.

There are many wonderful antiviral strategies available from the realms of nutrients, herbs and homeopathic remedies. Oxidative therapy via peroxide, ozone and ultraviolet light has been used in Germany since the 1920’s. Ozone and peroxide were used in the great equine encephalitis pandemic in Germany and were credited with saving 80 percent of patients’ lives. Oxidative therapy is Mother Nature’s viricide. It turns on the TH-1 immune system of the body, promoting an increase the immune cells cytokines and lymphokines. This turns on the white blood cells and the circulating immune system.

Vitamin A and D as well as zinc and many American and Chinese herbs are wonderful preventives and treatments for the flu. Cassava root and Tapioca root contain buffered, non-acidic vitamin C and are also terrific when taken on a regular basis. Isopathic remedies from Germany are homeopathic remedies made from parts of fungi and bacteria. They marvelously stimulate the immune system and have no toxicity. Others include Penicillium notatum, freqentens, roqueforti and Bacillus firmus. Notatum was the first penicillin discovered by Alexander Flemming in 1929 when the bread mold flew through his laboratory window and killed all the bacteria on a Petridish.

Keeping your immune system strong, no matter what the season, goes a long way in preventing colds and flu’s.

References:

1. Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, & Toxins by Thomas E. Levy, M.D., J.D. Xlibris Corporation
2. Nutritional Influences on Illness second edition by Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D. Third Line Press

For more info, contact Michael Gerber, MD, HMD of the Gerber Medical Clinic at (775) 826-1900.