“But chiropractic is just for backs!”, you may think. Not so. In fact, many people seeing chiropractors for back and neck problems find a general improvement in their health that includes fewer and less severe colds, flu and other respiratory problems.
What Causes the Common Cold?
Breathing cold viruses does not in itself cause a cold. “Experimenters have incubated cold viruses, placed them directly on the mucous lining of the nose, and found that their subjects came down with colds only 12 percent of the time.” (1) For germs to grow in you, you must first be fertile soil.
The Chiropractic Approach
Chiropractic doesn’t treat the common cold. It does, however, help awaken your inner healer – the only “cure.” Natural resistance is the only reason why your cold “goes away” rather than lasting for weeks, months or your entire lifetime!
Chiropractic care can help raise your natural resistance to disease by removing a serious interference to your proper body function: subluxations.
What are subluxations?
Subluxations are distortions in your body that interfere with your proper body function. Chiropractors perform special examinations to detect and locate subluxations in your body, and correct them by giving chiropractic adjustments. This helps restore optimal body functioning for higher resistance to disease, which, we cannot overstate, is the best defense against the common cold.
Case studies
There are numerous case histories of chronic cold and flu sufferers having fewer or no colds after chiropractic care. (2-4) In another study 92% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had improvement of their respiratory symptoms after spinal care. (5)
Benefits of colds and flu?
Hippocrates, the “father” of medicine wrote: "Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination. Symptoms are the natural defenses of the body. We call them diseases, but in fact they are the cure of diseases." For example, an elevated temperature is one of our body’s defense mechanisms, helping us destroy infection. Lowering a fever with analgesics reduces this defense against disease.
The flu vaccine and Alzheimer’s
According to Hugh Fudenberg, MD, if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots his/her chances of getting Alzheimer's disease is ten times higher than if they had one, two or no shots. (6) Dr. Fudenberg explained that the aluminum and mercury in the flu shot (also in many childhood shots) build up in the brain causing damage. Is this why Alzheimer's is expected to quadruple? (7) Note: Ethylene glycol, phenol, formaldehyde and other chemicals are also in the flu shot.
In conclusion
It is essential, if you are suffering from the flu, colds or respiratory problems, that your body structure be healthy; it could make the difference between a quick recovery and a lingering illness-even between life and death.
References:
1. Chopra D. Quantum Healing. New York: Bantam Books. 1989;142.
2. Not vocalizing well. Absence of T-cells, immune dysfunction, has colds all the time. International Chiropractic Pediatric Association newsletter. November 1996.
3. Aguilar AL, Grostic JD, Pfleger B. Chiropractic care and behavior in autistic children. Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics. 2000;5(1):293-304.
4. Bofshever H. Case history. International Chiropractic Pediatric Association newsletter. November/December 1999.
5. Goldstein M (Ed.). The Research Status of Spinal Manipulative Therapy. Bethesda: National Institutes of Health. 1975.
6. Address by Hugh Fudenberg MD at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. (Dr. Fudenberg's web site is: http://www.nitrf.org)
7. John's Hopkins Newsletter. November 1998.
