virii+bacteria 2021-11-09 08:47:23 -1000

Virii + Bacteria

Further Thoughts on Health
By Anna Von Reitz

Both viral and bacterial pneumonia are most dangerous when they are transmittable by air -- meaning through the air. We've all seen the cartoons of people spewing germs when they cough or sneeze and the germs being transmitted via tiny, invisible drops of water (and whatever else) coming out of our mouths.

Sixty years ago we were taught to put our hands over our mouths when coughing or sneezing, which helps cuts down on transmission of germs via the air, but when you think about it, doesn't help much because you then turn right around and start handling fruit at the produce counter and opening car doors with hands that are now absolutely covered with germs. Right?

So what is the actual correct way to avoid both problems? Sneeze or cough into your shoulder. Just lift your arm a little and sneeze or cough into the corner of your shoulder above your armpit. Doing so will cut transmission contact both through the air and via hand contact.

Advanced studies have been done on this method and it really does work -- and not only does it help you protect others, it helps you protect yourself from re-infection or "double loading" pathogens.

Of course, when you get home, you will be stuck with a germ laden jacket, but if you wear leather or cloth or better still, a raincoat that you can wash or wipe off with disinfectant solution, that is less of a problem than you might imagine.

Door handles and toilet knobs and tanks and sinks and keyboards and chair backs and countertops are all obvious places where viruses and bacteria like to hide and they should be cleaned appropriately and then given a once-over where appropriate with some of the vinegar-salt-essential oil solution I mentioned recently. This process not only gets rid of germs outright, but leaves a protective coating on everything to kill germs that land on surfaces afterward.

Don't forget your pet's bowls! Animals can suffer from viruses and bacterial infections just like people, so do your due diligence for your animals, too. Wash their food and water bowls morning and night during any outbreak and spray/rinse them with the organic essential oil spray or with dilute vinegar solution. A drop or two of essential oil of lavendar, rose, or marjoram applied to your pet's collar or directly to the fur on their back has a calming effect and makes them sleep more soundly. Maybe it would help you insomniacs, too?

One study I read claimed that doing nothing beyond wiping down kitchen counters with vinegar solution killed germs for six (6) days afterward. You don't have to overdo the vinegar solution, either -- just a teaspoon in a cup of water will have the desired anti-microbial effect.

As I pointed out, a lot of germs get passed from the produce section at the grocery store. People in America like to handle and examine their onions and potatoes, bananas, and apples as if we were buying a horse. As a result, much produce that we buy may be covered with germs as well as pesticides and herbicides and plain old dirt.

So if you have been following along you will see why it is important during an outbreak of ugly illnesses to wash your fruits and vegetables thoroughly and repack them in clean bags or containers. There are many fruit and vegetable washing solutions on the market and available for this purpose, but you can make your own at home with a couple drops of liquid Castille soap, a drop or two of oregano oil, water, and vinegar. Rinse everything--especially green leafy vegetables-- in dilute vinegar water, and you will be amazed how long your properly cleaned and re-packed produce will last.

I am giving this information to combat microbes via simple means in general. Some people are getting freaked out by the corona virus, but the truth is that we live in a sea of microbes that are just as dangerous as any naturally occurring SARS virus. Bacterial pneumonia is just as bad or worse than viral pneumonia and you can die from it just as quick.

A SARS-type viral illness is often combined with a bacterial based secondary infection, especially if you pick up one or both at a hospital or hotel, which quickly become "distribution centers" for illnesses of either kind.

One of my personal favorite all-time cheap and very effective cleaning helps in the kitchen and bathroom is food grade hydrogen peroxide, which you can find in the dairy section of many health food stores and private pharmacies. It's harmless to pets and people, cheap, can be taken internally, applied to wounds, and kills both virus and bacteria. What's not to like?

Hydrogen peroxide is mildly bleaching and an organic solvent, so it comes in handy in the laundry room, too, but you don't need "food grade" stuff for that. Just plain old off-the-shelf Hydrogen Peroxide from Walmart will keep white and color-fast linens sparkling and germ-free. Add a quarter cup to the wash water in either one or both cycles.

Finish your laundry with a "dryer ball" -- a softball-sized wool ball available at many outlets like The Container Store or health food stores -- or a piece of felt or flannel dabbed with a drop or two of germ-fighting essential oil added to the dryer.

I like a combo of orange and spice or cedar wood or balsam fir and spice, but you could do lemon or cloves, eucalyptus, wintergreen, oregano (add a drop or two of marjoram to avoid smelling like a pizza), tea tree oil, or any of the other germ-fighting essential oils that please you. Not only is your laundry sanitary, it smells good, and is less attractive to moths.

There are many books on the subject of essential oils and some of the best are, not coincidentally, published by the companies that produce essential oils.

Look for and use pure food grade essential oils, not "aromatherapy" grade oils. The actual oils are more expensive, but very potent, and last a long time. You never know what you are getting with aromatherapy oils, which may smell good and suit their purpose, but don't necessarily kill germs.

If you are on a budget, just limit yourself to one or two oils that you use regularly, or in the case of citrus oil, make your own as I suggested, by boiling orange or lemon peels after you have extracted the juice for other purposes.

Since many of the worst diseases are transmitted by liquid particulates and dust, it makes sense to invest in a high quality air purifier using HEPA filters if you can afford it. Or, you can do what I do, and dot your house with Spider Plants. These plants, sometimes called "Mother Plants", [ and others, ] are [unimaginably] effective clean air processors.

Not only do they clean the air of germs, they sequester heavy metals and dangerous indoor gases and give back oxygen. They are among the easiest houseplants to grow, and they produce an endless supply of new plants to replace those that have gone senile and also to share with friends and neighbors.

I have a rolling metal rack of the kind you often see in garages and pantries, festooned with Spider Plants. This is like a miniature wall of plants that is mobile, so it can be moved from room to room. All year long, it silently cleans the air in my house and gives back oxygen. Maintenance is very minimal and if you have any gardening ability at all, this Poor Man's alternative to fancy filters and electronic gadgets may be just the ticket for you, too.

When they get dusty, I give them a shower.

Speaking for myself, it is comforting and cheering to be surrounded by living things -- plants and animals, especially in the depths of winter. The simple act of taking care of them, reminds us to take care of ourselves and of each other. I have neighbors that love to come to my house and beg a cup of tea and just sit in a sunny window among the green leaves--forget about me.

They come to bask in my indoor nature spa and sit among my plants, breathing the clean oxygenated air. And then they wonder why they always "feel better" when they come to my house? Well,now you know.

My point in sharing all this is that by adopting a fairly simple regimen, you can help insure your own health and the health of the people around you. You can ditch expensive chemical cleaners for most purposes and achieve better results for less money. So, why not do it? It just makes sense. Common sense and the other kind of cents, too.

To get you started on a pathway out of servitude to Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Proctor and Gamble and all the other dubious players, let me suggest a small, inexpensive, get-started guidebook: "Salt, Lemons, Vinegar, and Baking Soda" by Shea Zukowski. This is a basic recipe book/primer on the use of natural cleansers that are cheap and available to everyone.

Give it all some thought. Your health, your outlook, your free will and your good name are all among the most precious things you will ever possess in this life. Isn't it worth thinking about how to maximize and exercise them?


Choking and Blocking Nanobots
By Anna Von Reitz

This has been a recurring concern for many people who are aware of the burgeoning use of nanotech in our world -- what can we potentially do to short circuit and remove nanobots to keep them from interfering with our biological functions?

This potentially dangerous tech has not been overseen by any actual government. These scientific endeavors have been largely overseen only by the corporations benefiting from them. Foxes in charge, again.

So many good scientists have spent time and effort on their own to develop countermeasures against "unfriendly" nanobot technology. Some respectable people have suggested ingesting a very small amount of borax every day to "jam up" the electron transfers involved, others have championed the use of "fullerine" oils-- basically, a nano-sized carbon filtration system to trap the nano-critters and expel them naturally.

Coming from the UW-Madison, however many years ago, I am in the later camp. An inert, carbon-based blood filter that is efficiently expelled from the body makes more sense to me and is certainly safer to ingest than borax. I recently posted a respectable supplier, SES and their premier olive oil, C-60, on my News Feed.

I experimented with this stuff when it first became available and there's really no reason not to make it into a salad dressing -- a sort of Space Age Oil and Vinegar version. The oil itself is olive oil, and the nanotubule structures in it are inert carbon at a very tiny scale, so the oil winds up being a red-brown color that is not unpleasant at all. Many devotees take it straight in five ml doses.

Me, being me, I just added it to regular salad oils and vinegar and herbs and ate mine as a salad dressing. either way, sop up your bowl with a bit of bread, and you have deployed a nano-scale carbon filter.

In initial experiments at UW-Madison back in the early 90's, rats that ingested Fullerine Oil-- doubled their lifespan. Now, you and I are not rats. Our metabolism is significantly different. But, rats are mammals, and thirty years of use of C-60 by many people in the scientific community, has at least prove that nothing has come amiss by their use of "Buckyballs" aka, Fullerine Oil, named after Buckminster Fuller.

A guy who weighs 180 lbs and who wants the therapeutic effects needs to take about 5 mls -- between a teaspoon and a teaspoon and a half per day. C-60 comes with its own measurement syringe and instructions, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not inexpensive to produce and clean the "fullerine" nanotubes and get them saturated into the oil, so 120 ml bottle costs around $70.

But, if we are ever faced with a nano-assisted bio-weapon attack, that will be $70 well-spent, and in the meantime, it makes great salad dressing. Or, many people enjoy dipping French and Italian bread in flavored oils....? Put it in mayo and apply to a sandwich.... lots of ways to avoid the de rigeur of the True Believers who shoot a teaspoon of the stuff every morning and still get the benefits.

Lypsomal Vitamin C is another scientific advancement we can take advantage of. Many people have heard about the Chinese using intravenous Vitamin C to combat the current corona virus outbreak, but intravenous methods are not safe in a home environment absent competent medical supervision. Taking Vitamin C in a concentrated lyposomal form is the closest you can get over the counter. The advantage of the lyposomal liquid version is that it is immediately available and going to work in the bloodstream with little or no waste or time delay.

It's not the tastiest thing in the world, but it works like magic. If you are really sick, this is the way to get a concentrated bio-available blast of Vitamin C.. If your system is compromised in any way by cancer, heart disease, limited liver function, etc., -- this is the way to go. I keep it on hand for bad colds and infections when simply eating oranges or drinking lemonade isn't enough.

LiveOnLabs.com is the patriarch in development of lyposomal supplements and they are the company I am most familiar with. A new company, LipoNaturals, has a competing product. For long term storage and occasional use I prefer the individual packets available from LiveOnLabs and keep them on hand. The LipoNaturals version comes in a large pouch and you simply dispense your dosage yourself.

Remember that although Vitamin C is a safe, water-based vitamin that won't accumulate in your system and become toxic if you overdose, it will give you the runs at high dosages. If you are already suffering this as a flu symptom you are in danger of dehydration and don't want to make things worse, so the smart money is to take Vitamin C on a regular basis now, before any serious infection hits, and figure out how much you can take without suffering very loose stools.

Immodium A-D is a very effective over the counter anti-diarrhea drug that puts most things to rights in about twenty minutes. I never leave home without it.

When dealing with hemorrhagic fever, traditional Chinese medicine relies on Tien Qi Ginseng; the fact that the Chinese Government is not using it is most likely a reflection of budget constraints. There are several kinds of gingseng and again, the liquid based extracts are most expensive, but also longest lasting, most concentrated, and most effective.

Tien Qi has the salutary effect of inhibiting hemolysis -- stopping bleeding and the rupture of red blood cells in general, which is obviously important if you are dealing with internal bleeding in the lungs and blood vessels.

Viewing this problem from the reverse side of the issue -- how can you strengthen your lung and vascular tissue? Ladies, here is a good excuse to do something for your skin, hair, and nails, too -- (1) Eat gelatin. A bowl of Jell-O a day keeps the doctor away; (2) Take collagen supplements; (3) Take Biotin, one of the lesser B Vitamins.

Biotin has many strange properties and benefits, not the least of which is as a water purifier. It drops gunk out of water like you wouldn't believe, which means that it purifies your lymph system and aids in the removal of cell debris and foreign substances.

Your skin and your hair may suffer a (to you) inexplicable turn for the worse when you first start taking Biotin. This is what is called a "healing crisis symptom" because the Biotin is de-clogging your system and forcing all manner of metallic elements and other gunk out of your body-- and your skin and hair are in fact excretory organs.

One of my Native friends developed a noticeable greenish streak in her black hair that had to literally grow out, as if it were dyed. This is most likely the result of getting rid of copper oxides she picked up on the job. She was rewarded with absolutely gorgeous hair and better overall health from there on.

These are just things that I and my friends have known and used ourselves successfully over the years, not a doctor's prescription, and bear in mind that everyone's biology and job and other parameters are different. What works for me might not work for you -- but, there is a logic behind each of these suggestions that has stood the test of time and shared experience.

The corona virus and other serious hemorrhagic fevers are characterized by fever in over 90% of the cases, and if not fought off, will lead to bleeding lungs and leaking blood vessels -- hence the description, "hemorrhagic fever". In this recent outbreak in China small sample studies are saying that about 50% of patients suffer vomiting and diarrhea, too.

Remember the old adage, "Feed a cold, starve a fever."?

A lot of bodily energy goes into digesting and deploying your food every day, and you do need good food to keep your strength up, but during a fever it makes good sense to reduce your digestive activity and increase your liquid and semi-liquid intakes.

Think simple vegetable soups and traditional broths, gelatin desserts, green tea, apple sauce, ginger tea, hand-squeezed orange juice, smoothies, lemonade, finely cut up steamed vegetables, scrambled eggs, soda crackers, oatmeal -- eat as if you were a small child again.

Eat frequently, but in small portions, and don't tax your liver by loading it down with dairy products, fats, and oils.

Most over-the-counter fruit juices are "from concentrate" or otherwise loaded down with sugar and should be avoided, because sugar is, technically, a poison to your weakened metabolism. It puts stress and push where none is needed. A small amount of concentrated fruit juice added to water to lightly flavor it is fine, but don't overdo it.

Remember that both fever and diarrhea result in dehydration which is one of the chief dangers of the first symptoms of a hemorrhagic fever. Put some gel ice packs in the freezer in case you need to use them to bring a fever down.

Remember that your head/skull is the chief heat radiator for your whole body. If you have a bad fever and can't stand the thought of a cool bath to bring the temperature down, applying ice packs to the big arteries in your neck and to the top of your head can have much the same effect. So can applying water to your chest and turning on a fan to stimulate evaporation.

When you have a fever you often feel cold, even though in fact you are burning up. Try to find way to cool your body down that isn't horribly uncomfortable-- something that achieves a middle ground.

Remember also that most over-the-counter fever reducers including aspirin and ibuprofen, thin the blood, which is not something you want to do with a hemorrhagic fever. Rely on mechanical means (see above), limited amounts of acetaminophen, and traditional herbal teas like Feverfew, instead.

Finally, remember that the reason that winter is "flu season" is not the cold. It's the dryness. When you keep the relative humidity in your home above 43%, the chance of airborne infections decreases dramatically.

This is part of the reason why "Grandma" kept a bubbling pot of water on the back of the wood stove, and often threw in a handful of herbs or citrus peels for good measure. A humidifier that combines ultrasonic humidity with essential oil delivery is the best of all worlds.

Here's an example of the kind of "industrial model" I am talking about, available through Amazon and (maybe) at your local hardware store or health food store or even supermarket: Everlasting Comfort Humidifiers for Bedroom (6L) - Humidifier with Essential Oil Tray (White).

Smaller diffusers work fine for essential oil delivery in a sick room, in a bathroom, or office cubicle, but they have to be refilled every hour or so on the hour and don't significantly improve overall humidity in a large house or for prolonged periods of time. To deliver the maximum benefit all winter long and to literally cover your home in a blanket of unseen essential oil defense, you need one or two of these Big Boys working in 12 hour shifts.

After the fever phase of a severe influenza or hemorrhagic fever, you often have a hard time resetting your body thermostat, so having an electric blanket or heating pad can be a real blessing, allowing you to self-adjust your own micro-climate day to day and hour to hour as you recover.

When you are sick, your body needs rest, appropriate nutrients, a good mental attitude, and time to heal. Do everything you can to provide that and your body will fight off the invading germs for you, no questions asked.

As I said before, I suffered from pneumonia for five years straight before I learned to use an ultrasonic diffuser and appropriate essential oils to combat it. It has taken me over sixty years and multiple intense "health crisis" experiences with pets, children, friends, and family to solidify what I just shared with you.

Thinking about your health and hygiene now can save you -- literally -- later. Laying in a few supplies, learning how to use a few new tools, knowing what to do in advance -- can save your life or the lives of people you love. It can keep you from going to the hospital in desperation and keep you and your loved ones out of the long lines at these overwhelmed and germ-filled centers during flu season.

Think about it, change your habits, change your cleaning regimen, and before you know it, you will be enjoying better health now and be better prepared for any health crisis later.

And please pause a moment to think of all those in China who are suffering and not able to buy or find even their traditional medicines as a result of expense and quarantine. Send them love. Send them prayers. It is at times like this, when we remember what the real enemies of mankind are.


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