CANCER CURED: Re: [cancercured] Vitamin C /was Re: Kind of discouraged

My aunt is 101, eats nothing natural except whatever greens might go with an Italian meal, has no idea what Ascorbic Acid is but has no idea what a Pap smear is either. The word doctor is not in her vocabulary.

It is what it is. There are exceptions to everything and while there may be generalities, there are enough exceptions to throw a lot of questions to which there are only guesses.

For example the comment was made about "beating colds". Perhaps the only thing being beaten is the symptom of a 'cold' and of course nobody wants cold symptoms but what we see when we are ill are symptoms. We rarely see disease itself. We see the results. When someone has something internally the body wants to get rid of and they have diarrhea and then take something to stop the runs, have they done anything but stop a symptom? That's a question that could be answered no and a good argument can be made for that answer. Worse, they have actually stopped the body from helping itself and we do it all the time.

Got a headache? Take an Aspirin......it stops. What stopped? The symptom. BTW, I'm happy to be symptom free aren't we all? Wasn't it Pasteur himself that said, finally, "it isn't the germ, it's the terrain" and even if he didn't say it, many subscribe to that thought. I do. So, we beat 'colds', the 'flu', but what are we beating? Symptoms.

We are an odd lot. We claim naturalness and yet we do not give the body credit for trying to heal itself except we often hear, "only the body can heal". So we stop its efforts and call it, "beating the cold". Now, if one is helping the body eliminate or negate what is bugging it, that's another story isn't it? This takes a lot of thought and once one accepts this thought, everything about health and sickness changes in how we look at it. People will continue, however, to gulp down their NyQuil and 'beat their colds', but are they beating anything but their body? Well, they are beating down those nasty symptoms. My how we have strayed subject wise. Guilty as charged but all of us like to pontificate from time to time.

Joe C.

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