Medieval common cold was potentially a terminal disease. Remedies were to prevent blood in the coughs and pains in the chest — symptoms we do not associate today with the common cold anymore, as such bad developments hardly ever happen.
Neither the ailment nor the human genome would have changed much since those times: it has been human immunity to improve, and the source for this improvement must have been in what people eat. Let us have a glimpse at a few long-known ingredients and try to reckon what their working elements could be.
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Internal cleansers
It is good to have a shower at least, if we have caught a virus. Microorganisms cling to the body to multiply, and a general ablution will help get rid of many. There are ways to freshen up internally too.
Saffron
The saffron recipe from writings by Sabur ibn Sahl, a physician and pharmacist in Iran, dates back to the ninth-century, say the ■Medievalists.net.
Tested against the low oxygen that may come with wounds and blood loss, ■transcrocetinate sodium is an experimental drug if from a lab. The principle with med labs yet basically is, try to provide what the body would have formed in circumstances better than illness.
The body can be like an organic factory. Do not forget your salt. Saffron will give ■crocin that acts as a neuroprotective, whereas saffron ■carboxyls are going to take part in bodily amides as well as ■chlorides, to impress the tongue of a “medicinal taste”. Such are bodily results after ingestion.
Rather than boil, you may pour boiling hot water on saffron and leave it immersed for a while, before adding it with the water to a soup or another dish.
Recipe
My preference is to have it .5 gram parched in boiling hot water, with salt and plain instant noodles, no spice or palm oil. Cover your bowl.
After a few minutes, like up to five, two or three slices of processed cheese will provide ■calcium enough, for the CNS, the central nervous system, to send immune particles to inflammation locales and encourage repair. Simple likewise, tomato concentrate will give the ■potassium for bodily immune negotiation. I’m usually generous on my potassium.
Mix and cover your bowl again, for a few minutes. Then, virgin olive oil may bring the temperature of the dish down a bit. Salt to taste, but make it salty. I put salt on saffron straight, and pour hot water.
Virgin olive oil in boiling temperatures or near the Celsius or Fahrenheit would lose a lot of the goodness. It is best to add it last and stir.
The bowl is going to smell and taste “medicinal” owing to saffron chlorides. Spices interact, and so I do not use whatever the sachet that comes with instant noodles.
You never need to gnaw on saffron threads. It is enough you get them into your stomach, and noodles are a nice carrier.
Everyone grown-up deserves the natural fresh “inner breath”, and to freshen up internally with saffron from time to time is a good idea. For infants and very little children, please see below.
Garlic
Raw ■garlic allyls pass into the blood, lungs, and skin, informs Wikipedia. The goodness would be lost in boiled garlic, owing to ■denaturation.
■Allicin has been studied for the common cold with success. ■Alliinase stereochemistry is part uncontrolled, giving our dear body some flexibility in interaction. This means an immune response can expel sulfur — the major reservation on garlic, though you do not taste or smell any such after eating; well, not with this recipe.
Recipe
To have our garlic without boiling or drying, we may crush it, sprinkle with salt, and immerse in virgin olive oil. Although raw, it may be agreeable to eat even after only half an hour.
Provided that salted and sprinkled, it is edible also sliced, knife and fork on the plate. It is lovely with beetroot, smoked fish or meat.
It is rather appetizing, also some time after eating, so I would “break” it with a bit of tomato or another juice, for the stomach not to hint for more.
Internal builders
Human immune defense works primarily protein, and about 10% of the human genome is “viral”, studies say. The 10th part is most likely the memory of DNA survival against infection — the acquired, natural immunity.
Meat protein
Research shows, if the body has enough free protein to interfere with viral binding, the virus cannot work (13:23 in the video here).
It is possibly the simplest of ideas, to provide the body with some extra protein. In my experience it has worked, for all flu-like symptoms, after I elaborated on the long-lived recipe for beef tartare. I don’t like beef except corned, and I don’t like eggs.
Recipe
Let us look to our plate. Garlic is bathing in olive oil; smoked bacon will do great for our extra protein. We choose it absolutely fresh and pink, dispose of all fat, rinse in filtered water, and cut into stripes, not to break the protein goodness with mincing or like. We may add ground cinnamon, cloves, or black pepper — for their taste as well as antimicrobial action. We add our garlic with olive oil and stir.
The portion does not have to be big. A dollop the size of ice-cream will do, though you can have more if you like. It digests easy.
Naturally, we chew. Part the absorption will be in the mouth. I like to chew smoked bacon, whereas mince without the ■adipose catches oxygen and changes very fast.
Whether our protein is pork, beef, or mutton, for immunity, we have it always absolutely lean, or lean as possible. Virgin olive oil is plant in origin, whereas some viruses might bind to animal lipids. Eggs can be conducive of microbial proliferation too, so we do not have them.
Use the essence properly
Cloves are a natural painkiller and antiseptic. Dentists use clove oil for local analgesia. I have cloves ground with tea; the ■FDA have reasons to discourage ingestion of essential oils.
Whereas used grit is just as coffee dregs, useless, clove tea is generally excellent de-stress. You can make it in jugs ■like here.
Infants
Always ask your doctor. Mint and chamomile infusion, two teabags of each for 50 ml water; garlic as above, in olive oil for 30 minutes with salt; then we grind it or mash, squeeze the juice, and add with the infusion to feeding milk, like no more than 5% of the garlic formula. For 100 ml, there would be 0.05 ml of it, all in all with herbs.
Viruses can cause bowel unrest. The formula is unlikely to cause anything of the sort, because it would contain olive oil, mint, and chamomile.
The usual recommendation for garlic is 10-12 months, yet again, always ask your doctor. In situations as life or death, waiting for the kid to grow big enough might not be an option. Increasing the dosage gradually, from the very small to any bigger, might help the tiny digestion accommodate.
Infants and saffron
Saffron is high in chlorides, and these factor in ■metabolic acidosis. Chloride is basic in cellular balance, and the organism does not expel it just like anything else it might have in excess.
Cl− does not follow the electrochemical equilibrium in most mammalian cells. In several cells, including primary sensory neurons, leukocytes, epithelial, sympathetic ganglion, and muscle cells, intracellular Cl− is maintained above equilibrium levels — we can learn from ■PubMed.
In my recipe for grown-ups, saffron is “broken” with calcium and potassium, cheese and tomatoes; no acid harm.
To compare, garlic would only do its airs in digestion and respiration, under the metabolic balance all the time. Anyway, always ask your doctor.
Immune learning
For our health, we usually look around for vitamins. The virus has a DNA, and we may feel like boosting ours.
Vitamins B
■Vitamins B are wonderful in boosting the bodily learning to be immune. Right after we have eaten, we have one 50 mg pill, forte, of B compositum slow release. The label may be also saying B complex, or time release.
Metabolism may remove high levels of vitamins from the body, hence the slow release. The level is moderate and over a time span. Let us now look what this is vitamins B can work.
How the body can learn
Vitamin B1 is coenzyme in catabolism of ■amino acids. Innate or acquired immunity, the process is intelligent, ■informs the PubMed. It may starve pathogens or increase fetal tolerance during pregnancy.
Vitamin B2 is a must for ■flavoprotein reactions. Flavins are part in redox signaling, the process to embrace DNA immune memory too. Plus, it can help against the blues, ■says the National Library of Medicine. Hardly anybody is happy with flu.
Vitamin B3 is part in ■electrochemical proton gradients across cellular mitochondrial membranes. This means it encourages fine-tuning or gradient-tuning of cellular existence, and the truth about the body is, if the tissue is altered, whether it is from bacteria or viruses, the body needs to decide what to do with it. It was likely your success with B3, if you ate in the evening, woke up in the morning, coughed up and was fine.
Vitamin B5 is part in sequencing as ■precursor to coenzyme A, against viruses too. Colloquially it might be associated with dermatology, yet in truth it is pro-epithelial, and the epithelium is ■quite some story, about immunity of course too. It is enough to think about a running nose. Plus, vitamin B5 can do in recycling for ■taurine. Neurodegenerative disorders show reduced brain taurine concentrations, say the people at the link.
The brain is important to immunity. With flu or the common cold, there is probably nothing worse than burying yourself in linens. Much as possible of course, it is better to keep up intellectual and motor activity.
Vitamin B6 loves enzymes. This means it loves all other vitamins B, because they all encourage enzymes, although none is an enzyme itself. More, B6 supports T-cells directly.
Vitamin B7, for all its fondness of sodium, helps immune association with plasma membranes in platelets; the process is known as ■carboxylation. B9 and B12 both partake in ■DNA methylation as well.
As garlic ■allyl methyl sulfide is working and vitamins B encourage DNA methylation, a new cornerstone in human immunity may become achieved. Compare the ■NCBI.
Minerals and vitamins have been used as placebo in studies on psychoactive drugs. They are not placebo in human immunity.
Does it work?
In my experience, all flu-like symptoms have been gone with this dish and vitamins by the morning. With the asymptomatic spell I had after COVID 2019 outbreak, I took one pill B6 extra, for the possibility of ■enzymatic methylation. 37.7 Celsius day one, some 37.5 the next, and my normal 36.6 in day three. I didn’t get to cough or sneeze, and medics swab-tested me negative for COVID twice, after the spell.
Children and vitamins
According to ■JAMA, 2.3 million children had developed COVID and 209 died — a statistic much lower than for adults — but children get vitamins to grow, and vitamins B are a prominent ingredient.
It is certainly reasonable to give vitamins to children. It is unreasonable not to have vitamins yourself. You’d have to eat tons of food, to provide as much as supplements. One pill vitamin B might compare with one whole chicken.
Vaccines
Kids can learn to eat raw garlic. I learned when I was little, with yoghurts and such. It is only important that garlic gets safely into the stomach, portioned or ground for easy digestion. Parents hesitate to jab their kids.
The decision
We may feel like sleeping it over, to decide on our COVID jab. ■Postvaccination myocarditis is a risk for all age groups. Skin reactions to COVID vaccines can be ■morbilliform rash, ■pernio, ■pityriasis rosea, and ■erythema multiforme, says the US ■NCBI.
Vitally, vaccines are excellent where the pathogen does not evolve. The ■mandate by George Washington to inoculate against ■smallpox was proper: smallpox is the same as it was hundreds of years ago; so is tuberculosis. There is no jab for the common cold because it may come in so many shapes.
Update
The November 2021 wave of COVID had the death rate in Irish ICUs at ■one in four, although ■Ireland vaccination rollout had been praised as one of the most successful.
Human T cells need to see, to win
■T cells only recognize antigen fragments from proteins predigested by ■macrophages; they cannot distinguish between a specific antigen fragment that comes from an infecting microbe and the same antigen fragment that comes from a vaccine, say the NCBI for human ■Immune Response to Vaccine Antigens.
Although the immune systems of two people may respond to the same protein in a vaccine, their T cells may respond to different portions of that protein, add the NCBI.
T-cell central tolerance
The body prevents destroying own tissues. Until some time around puberty, people have the thymus gland for T-cells and immunity. Excess immune cells are destroyed in the gland, owing to what is known as ■central tolerance. There is “innate / adaptive interplay” and “significant T-cell and other cross-talk”, say the NCBI.
■Thymus involution is developmental. There is no grown-up with a thymus gland. Adult immune tolerance is wider, because the body still doesn’t want to attack itself. We do not have to hanker for the early years if we have vitamins B. Grown-up immunity is stronger than that of a child, on the other hand.
Natural and injected immunity
If I have that methylated immunity, and all immunity in the DNA is the methylated type, I reject external strings as non-me.
If I would get jabbed, my immunity would have to learn to do bio-talk in order not to hurt itself. Somehow, it looks a weakness in comparison with natural immunity, and no improvement.
Invasive-mediated tolerance
COVID injections have been of circumstance to undue immune tolerance. As a medical method, injections are classed as invasive.
Daniels, a pulmonologist who helps set the hospital’s coronavirus policies, said he’s particularly worried about omicron’s ability to evade antibodies and infect the vaccinated — including the doctors and nurses whom Mayo desperately needs to deliver care, ■The Washington Post reports.
Non-invasive vaccination
The gut can give that “long-term biological memory”. ■Bronchovaxom is indicated for improved function of ■dendritic cells. These are described as antigen-presenters in communication between human innate and adaptive immune systems.
I had Bronchovaxom years ago, the recommended two courses. It made my health permanently better than before, but I do not know if you take Bronchovaxom in the hope to recover from COVID.
Non-evolving vaccination
Tuberculosis vaccines were devised for “induction of adaptive immune patterns endowed with long-term memory” that stimulate innate immunity, we can read from ■NCBI.
Workers who had received BCG (tuberculosis) vaccinations in the past — nearly 30% of those studied — were significantly less likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in their blood, say the ■Cedars Sinai.
COVID: an evolving and invasive vax
Israeli health authority published ■vaccinated Delta new cases at 50%. High for that virus DNA factor too, where the half of it goes otherwise, not some 5 percent.
For patients who required ECMO, ■JAMA noted it was unknown whether vaccinated patients would have a clinical course different from those who never had the vaccine. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECMO is the last resort for pulmonaries.
In simple words, vaccinated or not — it could be no difference in intensive care. There might be something wrong with that COVID vaccination.
Update
The variant of COVID spreading in 2026 has some 70 ■spike protein mutations, which is called an “immune escape”, reports the ■Financial Express. Vaccinated people may fall ill.
Human cases
Jedidiah Bila decided not to have the COVID jab. Thousands of people had died in the USA because they did not get the vaccine, and Jedidiah would be anti-vax, said the hosts of the View.
Ms. Bila consulted physicians about her immunity, and it got described as natural and multi-tier. Quite probably the jab really would be greater risk to her — compromised T-cells? — yet she got almost shouted off the show.
Ms. Goldberg never mentioned any immune dietary support, though an honest research would have brought Sabur ibn Sahl at least.
Meat without cooking or raw garlic might not be the habit, yet I doubt people would rather die than eat. You give people choice, anyway; only this can be fair.
One of the show hosts lost her parents in law to COVID. She said, both were doctors and very careful, so you might assume they decided to get jabbed. Were they ever offered an immune dollop at least?
Religion and health
I do not mean any predestination, but when I look to the “organic factory” the human body can be, and how all in detail works for the whole organism to be well — within the possibility of course — I become affirmed in my belief that there is some design in life, and you’re no better off if you go against it.
In India, vegetarianism may have become a matter of regret. ■NBC reported mass cremations.
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About the habitat, Honeybee believed the Master Creator of Earth was benevolent.
Wild life is wild, he said, but the design is to sustain, while easy for early humans already to see that man is superior to animals, and that man may eat.
The UK approved ■a human challenge on COVID, in pursuit of natural immunity.
NOTE: there have been horror movies about people eating people, but this wouldn’t be immune nutrition; it would be ■speciate misunderstanding. ■Pygmy tribes quite possibly do show some of the ■chaperone discord.
Let us sum up
Salted garlic imbued with virgin olive oil has much less pinch. It does not damage or impede the tongue muscle; speech remains the same and kids can have it too, gradually learning to eat.
We never just gnaw on garlic. We only press on it time and again between our teeth, releasing some of the juice and aerosols. The latter go into the nose and lungs straight, yet all is tolerable if the garlic has been imbued and we have other food in the mouth too.
Without the oil, I’d rather chop garlic and swallow it in tiny bits with much liquid, but then it wouldn’t do the immediate job in the mouth, nose, and lungs.
The food does not involve any risk at all, provided you buy fresh and from certified providers, which mostly everyone does today.
■Blended directly before administration — to avoid nutrient oxygenative change — meat, vitamins, and herbs could be even ■tube-fed, with medical supervision of course.
Against a pandemic, we do all we should
I don’t believe my food would work only for me, so if you do not try and recommend trying dietary remedial, you cannot honestly say you have done all that you should.
If you don’t like the taste of salty saffron or fresh raw garlic with meats, you may persuade yourself that not all cures are sweet: people held it against fish oil before it came in capsules.
As long as there are no capsules with garlic aerosols, fresh is the best.
Nightie night
If you’ve “caught something”, a good night’s sleep is very important. Feel welcome to share this post, also while sipping tea, black or roobois with mint, ■nigella sativa or a generous pinch of ground ■cloves — precious for the generally ■antiproliferative properties of the ■crategolic acid (though renamed to maslinic).
We switch our salt lamp on, with our ■Olbas cup filled. A spray of ■lavender with ■camphor is likely to bring a nice cool on your pillow. Nightie night.
