I just wanted to give a little testimony on my use of CS. I read the following excerpt below in an article on mercola.com. Having allergies and colds my experience exactly mirrored what the Dr. said. Most times my 1st symptom of a cold coming on was that my nose beagn to pour mucous. Assuming this was "bad" I began to take decongestants which stopped the "pouring" of the mucous but more times than not turned into a sinus infection.....antibiotics. You know the drill. This last go around about 2 months ago got me researching CS and if it could work on my sinus infections. Well about 2 weeks ago I woke up at 4 AM with my nose pouring mucous. This time (armed with my knowledge from the article and my CS) I decided to change my strategy. Instead of the decongestants I sprayed several shots of CS up my nose and drank about an oz holding it under my tongue for several minutes. I went back to bed and woke up the next morning with no runny nose and best of all no eventual sinus infection. So I guess it does work on sinus infections even better by preventing them? Praise the Lord! AG Excerpt from Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects by Ron Rosedale, MD "If you have a cold and you go to the doctor, you have a runny nose. I did Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) for 10 years so I know what the common treatment for that is, a decongestant. I can't tell you how many patients I saw who had been given Sudafed by their family doctors for a cold who then came to see me afterward because of a really bad sinus infection.
What happens when you treat the symptom of a runny nose from a cold and you take a decongestant? Well, it certainly decongests you by shutting off the mucus, but why do you have the mucus? ItÂ’s because your body is trying to clean and wash out the membranes. What else is in mucus? Secretory IgA, a very strong antibody to kill the virus. If there is no mucus, there is no secretory IgA. Decongestants also constrict blood vessels, the little capillaries, or arterioles, that go to those capillaries, and the cilia, the little hair-like projections that beat to push mucus along to create a stream. They get paralyzed because they don't have blood flow, so there is no more ciliary movement. What happens if you dam a stream and create a pond? In days you've got larvae growing, but if the stream is moving, you are fine. You need a constant stream of mucus to get rid of and prevent an infection. I am going into this in some detail because in almost all cases, if you treat a symptom you are going to make the disease worse. The symptom is there as your body's attempt to heal itself." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
