Roger B, thanks for that link a while back to a YouTube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTXSTGGRvKY> regarding Vitamin C. I had no idea what ascorbic acid could do, but after researching it quite a bit, we ordered a bunch from www.tradeingredients.com <http://www.tradeingredients.com> in Great Britain (better deal than we could find here, even after shipping) and tried taking it to "bowel" tolerance as suggested by those who've worked a lot with it. Wow, is it ever effective at nearly eliminating cold/flu symptoms-in minutes.
While fighting the flu that everyone around here seems to have, we've taken 1/8-1/2c CS in the morning (helped a lot on its own once we started doing this, but not quite so dramatically quickly as ascorbic acid), and then follow up 30 minutes later with ascorbic acid powder mixed with water and chased with more water to wash it off the teethe. We repeat the ascorbic acid every three hours for five doses over the course of the day-for us ~30g seems to be about what our bodies want at the moment-would hate to pop 30-120 typical vitamin C pills to get the same amount! We also take smaller amounts of CS now and then, but try to keep it separate from the ascorbic acid. Kids ask for the ascorbic acid now as they feel so much better (back to their usual bouncing off the ceiling selves) with it :) Thanks again for the link. I thought I'd pass our experience so far on in case it is helpful to anyone else. Walter
