Search This Blog

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Information to Help with the Coronavirus and even the Common Cold

The best Vitamin D pill!
I've been checking out information for fighting the coronavirus in a natural way. I don't claim any particular medical expertise, but most of the sources I've been reading are doctors.

Of course your own medical professional is the best source of advice for your particular situation. (Or at least he or she may be. As my somewhat cynical dad used to say, "They call it the practice of medicine because they're practicing on you!")

I'm sure many people are already taking Vitamin D and Vitamin C as immune  boosters. That's an absolute given. In fact, as this article points out, the quarantines may backfire if people don't get out in the sunshine. Consider the folks on the cruise ships restricted to inside cabins for weeks! No wonder so many got sick!

Three common sense rules: wash your hands frequently (21 seconds, the length of a Hail Mary), stay well hydrated, and get plenty of sleep. A few others? Eat nourishing food and cut out the junk, stop smoking, and limit alcohol. Those are all-around good suggestions for supporting your immune system and staying healthy all the time. (One suggestion in the article that I personally will not follow is getting a flu shot.)

My husband and I drink an anti-inflammatory tea every evening made with decaf green tea, a tablespoon of lemon juice, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, honey to taste and big sprinkle of cinnamon. I like vinegar so I find the taste pleasant, especially with the cinnamon.

There are other strategies for addressing the virus.

If the video below is accurate, doing the heat treatment could be a good preventive and perhaps a prescription for minimizing the impact if you actually get the virus. I'm going to give it a try myself by doing the hair dryer heat treatment once a day before I go to bed (since I don't have access to a sauna). And if I start to feel sick I'll do it more often. I already treat colds and chest congestions with hot toddies and a heating pad on my chest. This past winter I headed off two chest colds with that strategy. Symptoms disappeared within in a few days instead of my ending up with a full blown extended illness which I've had in the past. I also raised the heat on my C-pap machine last night and actually slept better than normal.



Another interesting discovery is the impact of a common malarial drug on the coronavirus: An effective treatment for the coronavirus. If I get the virus, I'll ask my doctor about chloroquine since it's a prescription-only drug.

My husband and I are in the higher risk group because of our age, but also some other factors. Men have more receptors for the virus and are extra vulnerable if they take drugs for high blood pressure as my husband does. On the plus side he's blood type O which appears to be more resistant to the virus. People with blood type A appear to be more susceptible and that's my blood type. Obviously there's nothing you can do about your blood type, but knowing your risks can impact your decision about how much social distancing you want to practice.

Actually, our routine involves relatively minimal exposure to large groups. We don't fly, rarely go to the movies or the mall or other places with large numbers of people. Those who must work don't have the luxury in many cases of social distancing. I stopped at CVS this morning which was nearly empty (not unusual in normal times) and the clerk mentioned that she couldn't take time off work to take her daughter to her grandfather's winter home in Florida. Many will continue working and others will be badly hurt financially by the shut down. I think of the waitresses at the two diners we go to for breakfast on Tuesday and Thursday with friends. I'm sure they heavily depend on tips. I hope President Trump's assistance package will tide them over. When the diners open again we'll be leaving more generous tips than usual. It's a way to do charity while respecting the independence of workers. Fr. John Hardon used to recommend that.

The best advice is prayer to stop the plague, prayer and penance. How slow we are to respond to Mary's Fatima message. Is chastisement really a surprise?

I have to say that a world where tens of millions of babies are murdered in the womb every year in abortion facilities, not to mention the even greater number killed by so-called contraceptive drugs that are actually abortifacient (and not counted), that we entirely deserve this chastisement. Even those of us who call ourselves pro-life do little enough to stop the mass slaughter and protect God's precious least ones. Call for God's mercy through the intercession of Mary. As the saying goes, work as if all depends on you; pray as if all depends on God. And especially pray for our priests and for health care workers who are on the front lines in this battle.

3 comments:

  1. 140 degrees F is what is needed to kill a corona virus. The common cold is a corona virus

    ReplyDelete
  2. On March 15th, Fr. de Rosa offered this prayer at the end of our Mass at St. Anthony's in King George. Father named the Coronavirus at the appropriate spot in the prayers.


    DEPRECATORY BLESSING AGAINST PESTS
    (mice and rats, locusts, worms, etc.)

    The priest vests in surplice and purple stole, and coming to the field or place infested with these creatures, says:

    Antiphon: Arise, Lord, help us; and deliver us for your kindness' sake.

    Ps 43.1: O God, our ears have heard, our fathers have declared to us.

    All: Glory be to the Father.

    P: As it was in the beginning.

    All Ant.: Arise, Lord, help us; and deliver us for your kindness' sake.

    P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.

    All: Who made heaven and earth.

    P: Lord, heed my prayer.

    All: And let my cry be heard by you.

    P: The Lord be with you.

    All: May He also be with you.

    Let us pray.

    We entreat you, Lord, be pleased to hear our prayers; and even though we rightly deserve, on account of our sins, this plague of mice (or locusts, worms, etc.), yet mercifully deliver us for your kindness' sake. Let this plague be expelled by your power, and our land and fields be left fertile, so that all it produces redound to your glory and serve our necessities; through Christ our Lord.

    All: Amen.


    Let us pray.

    Almighty everlasting God, the donor of all good things, and the most merciful pardoner of our sins; before whom all creatures bow down in adoration, those in heaven, on earth, and below the earth; preserve us sinners by your might, that whatever we undertake with trust in your protection may meet with success by your grace. And now as we utter a curse on these noxious pests, may they be cursed by you; as we seek to destroy them, may they be destroyed by you; as we seek to exterminate them, may they be exterminated by you; so that delivered from this plague by your goodness, we may freely offer thanks to your majesty; through Christ our Lord.

    All: Amen.

    Exorcism

    I cast out you noxious vermin, by God + the Father almighty, by Jesus + Christ, His only-begotten Son, and by the Holy + Spirit. May you speedily be banished from our land and fields, lingering here no longer, but passing on to places where you can do no harm. In the name of the almighty God and the entire heavenly court, as well as in the name of the holy Church of God, we pronounce a curse on you, that wherever you go you may be cursed, decreasing from day to day until you are obliterated. Let no remnant of you remain anywhere, except what might be necessary for the welfare and use of mankind. Be pleased to grant our request, you who are coming to judge both the living and the dead and the world by fire.

    All: Amen
    .
    The places infested are sprinkled with holy water.

    https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/roman-ritual-part-2-11883

    ReplyDelete
  3. May it protect all in King George. I wish all our priests would do Eucharistic processions and offer prayers of protection.

    ReplyDelete