
Beating the Flu
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Be Prepared to Beat the Flu!
Every year, 36,000 Americans die of the flu and one million die worldwide. The possibility of a super flu pandemic is frightening. If no one has immunity, it could cover the globe in 250 days and conceivably infect twenty percent or more of the world's population of 6.6 billion. The 1918 Spanish flu killed 675,000 Americans and at least fifty million worldwide. The death toll from the bird flu virus-with a 50% kill rate in adults and a frightening 89% in children-could reach an apocalyptic 360 million. Worse yet, without a vaccine (or adequate supplies), and without enough antiviral drugs, modern medicine doesn't have a specific, effective, and safe treatment for the flu. This nightmare scenario may not happen, but if it does, it's essential that individuals and families arm themselves with up-to-date information.
Dr. J. E. Williams is an oriental and natural-medicine expert who has used herbs and vitamins to treat influenza and other viruses for more than two decades. In Beating the Flu, he begins not by telling you how to treat the flu bug, but how to avoid it altogether through a combination of good hygiene and super foods that offer the quick boosts your immune system needs to ward off the virus. Should you get sick, Dr. Williams also offers a "natural medicine cabinet" of vitamins, herbs, and minerals that work best against any kind of flu-along with the clinical evidence to back up the remedies.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: What You Will Learn in This Book
- Chapter-by-Chapter Overview
- Additional Material to Help You Beat the Flu
- Author's Note on Citations
- Part I-The Danger: Pandemic Influenza and Inadequate Protection
- 1. Phase Seven: The Makings of a Super Flu
- What's a Pandemic?
- The Infection of the World
- What Makes a Super Flu?
- Are We Prepared?
- 2. The Perfect Plague: Why Influenza May Be Nature's Most Successful Virus
- What's Influenza?
- What Causes the Flu?
- Symptoms of the Flu
- Is It a Cold or the Flu?
- How Is the Flu Diagnosed?
- What's the Conventional Medical Treatment for Flu?
- What Are the Complications of the Flu?
- 3. Masters of Mutation: How Viruses Evolve and Make Us Sick
- What's a Virus?
- How and Why Do Viruses Mutate?
- Pass the Genes
- To Drift or Shift
- How Efficient Is Influenza at Making Us Sick?
- The China Connection
- The Environmental Dimension
- 4. Prelude to a Pandemic: Why H5N1 Avian Influenza Is So Dangerous
- What's the Bird Flu?
- How Can a Chicken Virus Infect People?
- How Sick Can You Get?
- How Fast Does Bird Flu Spread?
- Year of the Bird Flu
- 5. Run and Hide: The Shortcomings of Quarantine and the Importance of Avoidance
- Are We Ready for a Pandemic Super Flu?
- Quarantine
- Isolation
- Meeting the Global Challenge of a Super Flu Pandemic
- 6. Flu Wars: The Double-Edged Sword of Vaccination and Antiviral Drugs
- Vaccines
- From Hen to Hospital
- Antiviral Drugs
- Is There Anything Else?
- Overkill
- 7. Lessons from SARS: What We Learned from an Epidemic
- From Plate to People
- All in the Mix
- The Chinese Medicine Experience
- What Did We Learn?
- Part II-The Solution: Natural Prescriptions for Survival
- 8. Viral Immunity: Enhance Your Body's Defenses against the Flu
- What's Viral Immunity?
- Who's Most at Risk?
- Bird Flu Immune Alert
- Build Up Your Immunity
- Natural Immune Modulators
- 9. The Food Factor: Kitchen Health to Beat the Flu
- Chicken Soup
- Umeboshi Plums
- Kimchi
- Garlic and Onions
- Green Tea
- Flu-Fighting Condiments, Flavorings, and Spices
- 10. Natural Flu Solutions: How to Beat the Flu Using Natural Medicines
- Evidence-Based Natural Medicine
- Beating the Flu Naturally
- Immune-Boosting Antiviral Supplements
- Vitamins and Minerals to Help Beat the Flu
- Natural Antibiotics
- Antiviral and Anti-inflammatory Herbal Medicines
- Broadspectrum Anti-Influenza Herbal Remedies
- Antiviral Homeopathic Medicines
- Traditional Chinese Antiviral Herbal Medicines
- 11. Maximize Your Strategy to Beat the Flu: Doctor-Assisted Solutions
- Opening Nature's Medicine Chest: Biological Immunotherapies
- Intranasal Mists and Nebulizers
- Injectable Homeopathic Medicines
- Injectable Chinese Herbal Medicines
- Blood Purification: The Hemopurifier
- 12. Outsmart the Flu: The Importance of Personal Preparedness
- Personal Hygiene: Your Best Chance
- Action Tips
- Emergency Preparation
- Prevention
- Recognition of Flu Symptoms
- Early Intervention
- Know the Right Treatment
- 13. Family Matters: Taking Care of Children and Seniors
- Protecting Your Children
- Care and Treatment of Seniors
- 14. Survive and Recover: A Plan to Beat the Flu
- A Comprehensive Approach
- Anti-Flu Prescription 1: A Healthy Foundation
- Anti-Flu Prescription 2: Early Treatment
- Anti-Flu Prescription 3: Maximum Intervention
- Anti-Flu Prescription 4: Full-Spectrum Therapy
- Anti-Flu Prescription 5: Healing and Recovery
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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