Jim wrote: > While I cannot get a herx from cs, I CAN get a herx from grapefruit > seed extract. 30 drops in a glass of orange juice will bring on a > slight temp increase and obvious increase in sweating, very mild > headache comes and goes. Goes away in a few hours. > > The point being: gfse must kill bugs my cs is not getting. Either > it goes places the cs is not going, or is better at killing some > bugs. It may be an observation worth remembering for those who have > experienced bugs which seem very hard to control completely. > > Has anyone else had thoughts on this?
Wow, Jim. I was going to make a report on my recent experiences in this regard. Your timing is amazing. I've been using CS of one sort or another for over two years now. In that time I have avoided any serious upper respiratory infections and ended my chronic bronchitis. I have not needed antibiotics at all in that time, even though I used to average 2 or 3 courses a year. I've gotten the occasional cold, but by avoiding the secondary bacterial infections I could recover quickly and completely as the virus would run its course. Even my allergies were less severe. So, I've demonstrated to my satisfaction that CS is good stuff. I've been very busy and under some stress for a while. In the crush of things I've not been making or using CS very much. Two weeks ago, like a bolt out of the blue, I had a couple of *extremely* allergic days. I started with sneezing fits that would go on for minutes at a time, eyes watering, sinuses exploding, nose running all over the place, coughing and hacking, the whole maximum histimine reaction. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was the most extreme reaction of this sort I can remember. This is not the time of year I have allergies, either. My biggie is ragweed, which doesn't come out until late August in our area. I came out of it all with a deep cough, sore throat, and headache that has persisted since then. The cough has made my chest sore and raw. My sinuses have continued to be painful. The glands in my neck are swollen. The phlegm builds up in my lungs at night and takes a while to clear out in the morning. Sleeping has been difficult due to the cough. I've treated symptoms with acetaminophen for the headache and sore throat, and OTC cough suppressant, expectorant, decongestant cough syrup or capsules to break up the phlegm and let me rest. By the second day I began taking CS which is probably in the 3-7 ppm range, several ounces per day, a tablespoon at a time whenever I thought about it throughout the day. I put the CS in a spray bottle and would just give myself a few squeezes into the mouth and swish it around for a minute or two before swallowing. Whatever I have has not gone away with just the CS. It reminds me a *lot* of the viral pneumonia I had three years ago that led me to find CS to begin with, though without the bacterial infection on top of it that nearly caused my throat to swell shut! Late last week I bought some grapefruit seed extract at the health food store. I tapered off on the CS over the weekend and started building up the GfSE to the max recommended 40-some drops per day, divided into several doses (to keep the taste tolerable!). Now, only after 4-5 days I'm starting to see signs of improvement. The pain in my throat around the larynx and glands is starting to lessen, the cough moderate, the headache diminish. I can feel myself just beginning to heal. I was very concerned that I wasn't getting better, and worried that I might have picked up one of those rare bacteria that CS does not work against in addition to some virus. So I figured I would just switch gears to the GfSE and hit it from another direction. I *might* have been just as successful doubling and re-doubling my dosage of CS, or just waiting it out. I'm also drinking more juice than usual in order to administer the GfSE, and resting more now than I did at the beginning. So anything or nothing might be making me better. There's no way to know exactly what's going on. You can't do a good clean experiment in this kind of situation, unfortunately, because there is no way to do a control. I'm just glad that I've learned so much from this list. It makes sense to try something different when what you're doing does *not* seem to be working after you've given it a decent chance. Knowing about GfSE gave me another option to try. One of our members mentioned that the GfSE stopped working for her after a few weeks or months, so I plan to keep going until whatever I've got is gone, then go back to a maintenance dose of CS. I figure it's good to have more than one weapon in the arsenal. Be well, all! Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
