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So, You've Got the Flu?
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- Charles Spender
- Pubblicato:
- Nov 8, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781310782947
- Formato:
- Libro
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This text describes water treatments of influenza, such as the adapted cold shower, head shower, and nasal washings. The proposed techniques reduce pain, fever, weakness, nasal congestion, and the duration of illness. The biological mechanisms are also explained.
Informazioni sul libro
So, You've Got the Flu?
Descrizione
This text describes water treatments of influenza, such as the adapted cold shower, head shower, and nasal washings. The proposed techniques reduce pain, fever, weakness, nasal congestion, and the duration of illness. The biological mechanisms are also explained.
- Editore:
- Charles Spender
- Pubblicato:
- Nov 8, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781310782947
- Formato:
- Libro
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So, You've Got the Flu? - Charles Spender
SO, YOU’VE GOT THE FLU?
Charles Spender
Distributed by Smashwords
SECOND EDITION, February 2021
Copyright © 2013 Charles Spender
ISBN: 9781310782947
Table of Contents
Cold-water treatment: a little history
Moderately cold showers are safe and cannot cause an illness
The adapted cold shower: an unstressful and easy procedure
The many benefits of adapted cold showers during influenza illness
Reduction of fever
Reduction of pain
Enhancement of antiviral immunity
Reduction of nausea
Reduction of fatigue and weakness
Head showers for headache
Nasal washings for the runny nose
Healthy people should not use cold showers regularly
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Cold-water treatment: a little history
Scottish botanist and military physician William Wright (1735–1819) published one of the first scientific reports of cold-water treatment of fever. His article in London Medical Journal was titled Remarks on malignant fevers; and their cure by cold water and fresh air.
The approach was unusual at the time because most doctors believed that fever should be assisted so that agents of a disease leave the body along with sweat. This is what Dr. Wright wrote in 1777 about one of his first experiments with a feverish illness that he caught on a boat near Jamaica:
September 9th, having given the necessary directions, about three o’clock in the afternoon I stripped off all my cloaths, and threw a sea cloak loosely about me till I got
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