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Vaccine Free Now What Transcript Lesson 8
Vaccine Free Now What Transcript Lesson 8
Now What?
INFLUENZA
Call #8 Transcript
By Donna Powers
Donna Powers: Welcome to the Vaccine Free: Now What? 12-week teleseminar
course. This is class eight where we will be talking about the second year of life where
the vaccine is given are for the infectious illness influenza.
DP: So today's disease is influenza. It's highly infectious, highly contagious and some
of the main concerns in the conventional world are these susceptibility of influenza in
the young, in the elderly and generally the in-between population is not affected. Every
year the virus changes and it can change quickly or it can change dramatically. So I will
talk more about that in a little bit but this is the reason that there is a vaccination
program that is offered yearly. And it's because this virus has the ability to change.
DP: And I introduce this as the vaccinations in the second year of life. Babies now as
young as six-months old are being given a two-dose influenza shot. And we'll talk more
about that later on. I'll talk about particularly in Canada where you get the information
about the vaccines being used, the recommended ages and then we will move to the
signs and symptoms of flu. What's common, what's characteristic. And then I'm going
to cover quite fairly the homeopathic remedies used for the prevention and treatment
of influenza. This is one of those illnesses that I really want you to have a good handle
on the homeopathic remedies. Once you know these homeopathic remedies in a flu
situation, you will know these remedies quite well when the symptoms agree for cough,
colds, sore throats and other kinds of illnesses.
DP: So this is kind of my thing in life. As I was getting ready for today's class, I
surprised myself by realizing how excited I get talking about influenza and homeopathy.
The other infectious illnesses are very important to me simply because if you are
choosing to be vaccine free, you will want to know how to help your kids feel when
they have these illnesses because they will come back. But for some reason, influenza
is the one for me, maybe I had a past life in the 1918 Spanish Influenza, maybe I just
have an intuition or sense there is going to be another epidemic or pandemic and
homeopathy for anybody who wants to learn it, these will be your only resource for
helping your family heal.
DP: So call me weird, but this is my thing in life. I'm very happy that I have found it.
Once a year, I will be offering the influenza seminar. It will always be free. It's an
abbreviated form of what you'll actually get because you are in the Vaccine Free: Now
What? course, but it will give you the up-to-date information about which flu viruses
are being selected for the vaccines for that year. So what you are getting today is a far
more in depth study of the remedies and some other information as well. So welcome,
and I'm so glad that you're here for it and you give me a little stage to talk about this
thing that I love. Who knew.
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DP: So influenza is a virus and it's from, we've talked about previously, the different
families of viruses. This one is the orthomyxoviridae flu virus and it's included with the
Paramyxoviridae, so if you remember that's your measles, mumps, RSV which is your
respiratory syncytial virus and the parainfluenza croup. All are upper respiratory tract
infections so you've got the runny nose, the sneezing, the coughing. And both these
groups, the orthomyxoviridae and the Paramyxoviridae have very similar cell
structures.
DP: So because you know about homeopathy, and you can use it right from the
beginning and onset of illness, you may never know at all what you have prevented. It's
possible that rather than at being mumps or measles or croup or just a cough, cold, it's
possible you may have headed off the flu. This particular virus, the influenza virus has
two parts. And the parts have to deal with blood cells. The HA. So the HA has to do
with blood cells and the NA to do with the mucus. And this little piece of information is
just so that you know when you're reading the package inserts, and you have
something like the H1N1 virus. This is probably the most well known virus in recent
media history and vaccination history.
DP: So, the H would be with the blood cells and the N to do with the mucus. And they
team together, and penetrates cell barriers to replicate the viral RNA, so that they can
make more of themselves. This is what they want to do, and they can't do it on their
own. So, they do this inside of humans only when the humans have a susceptibility to
this particular virus starting to replicate itself. So remember it would need conditions to
support that kind of environment to replicate itself.
DP: So, the body creates antibodies and this is the long-term immunity to both the H
and the N. So, when you have a natural experience of flu, you develop these antibodies
to it, whatever the strain is. Now, there are three types of influenza virus and they go by
alphabet letters. So A, B and C. And they all have varying strains or differences in the
HA and NA, so this is why some years you'll see H3N2. At the Centre for Disease
Control and the World Health Organization, they are monitoring in the Southern
Hemisphere to see which are the most common or the most virulent strains of influenza
in the Southern Hemisphere.
DP: Based on that surveillance information, they then make a prediction that these will
be the flu strains circulating in the Northern Hemisphere in the following fall and winter.
So, just remember our seasons are reversed, South and North. And so, it's a
mathematical guess. They are not even sure that they are going to have it right. This is
why in some seasons you will have the flu vaccine come out and lo and behold there
are epidemics in part of North America and Europe. And what you will hear is that the
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DP: So the complications mostly that I would want you to know about is a secondary
bacterial pneumonia, so the lungs are all juicy and wet. So the staph and strep are
already inside of our bodies but because the body is now dealing with this virus that is
replicating and dumping its own toxins in it, that means there's more food for the strep
and the staph and this is where you get the complications coming in if left to run on its
own. There's lots of other common sense things you can do for the flu and we'll talk
about that a little bit as well.
DP: So the staph and the strep also can have other diseases, but it is part of the
problem or can be as a secondary complication with influenza. One of the problems
with staph infections these days is you have something called methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, multi-drug resistant. This is the MRSA. They tend to develop in
the hospital and it's a good reason also to not go to the hospital in an influenza
epidemic or pandemic. Not only will you be turned away, but if you happen to be
hospitalized the potential for this MRSA infection is quite high with the Staphylococcus
resistant antibiotic.
DP: And this is what has happened with overuse of antibiotics. Is that these strains are
now resistant and not only are they resistant, there's a brand of drug being used,
fluoroquinolonesI think it's what they're called. I'll send you a link for that from
Mercola. It's an excellent, excellent research article. But what's happening with those is
that people are having permanent complications, neurological damage from the drugs
themselves. So yes, you don't have the secondary complications of the flu virus or the
staph infection, but you have permanent damage done by the antibiotics themselves.
DP: So now I'm going to go into the signs and symptoms of influenza and this is an
opportunity for me to continue showing you how it is that homeopathy works on what
is characteristic about the flu with the person rather than what is common. And once
you get this concept really ingrained, you will know what to look for whether it's a baby
or a preverbal child, a healthy in between those ages and stage of person or in the
elderly. Sometimes we have to observe symptoms. With an influenza pandemic, one of
the big fears is that normal, healthy people... By normal I mean functioning, no chronic
illness, no susceptibility that is known to any illness in a pandemic, that is the group
that that will possibly be susceptible to a new strain of flu.
DP: So the common symptoms, they usually begin about two days after exposure to
the virus are fever, chills and headache, muscle aches, dizziness, loss of appetite,
tiredness, cough, sore throat, runny nose, nausea or vomiting, weakness, possibly ear
pain, possibly diarrhoea. So infants with the flu might also seem fussy all of the sudden
or just not look right. Those are the common symptoms. So we're not talking about a
cold. We're not talking about, some people like to call this, stomach flu. What we're
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DP: Eupatorium perfoliatum. This is from the Compositae daisy family. And the daisy
family has Arnica in it, but eupatorium perfoliatum is just a great remedy for the flu. This
is the flu that the shins will hurt, the shin bones will hurt, the backbones will hurt, all the
bones feel as if broken. If you have anybody saying, "It feels like every bone in my body
has broken," you can pretty much take that one to the homeopathic flu kit and pull out
eupatorium. They will be lying on the bed moaning and groaning. They complain
bitterly about the intensity of their pain, they're very restless. If not complaining, they
move around in the bed groaning and moaning, and are very sorry for themselves.
DP: They're chilly and they feel cold and shivery and are sensitive to any draft of air
and often have a sensation of chilliness spreading up the back. So if you're thinking,
"Oh, gosh is this Gelsemium or is this eupatorium?" What you're listening for, for
somebody who might need eupatorium is this as if every bone in the body is broken or
as if they're back is broken and there's moaning and groaning. Gelsemium won't have
that kind of energy, they won't be moving around on their bed. They'll be sitting still,
sort of like Bryonia but they'll have a different look to them. Again, it's a look as if
they're just stupefied or drunk. Besotted is the old-fashioned word in the homeopathic
Materia Medica.
DP: The runny nose in Eupatorium. This one will have the feeling as if the nose is
completely stopped up. And then it's accompanied by a very runny nose with violent
and incessant sneezing. So sometimes you're going to have to measure and see what
the symptoms are. They will not do well with too much ice water, ice cream, or cold
drinks. They will get an upset stomach with that. So if you've got that happening, it
may be an indication for you. So even though they have a very strong thirst with a
desire for cold drinks and for ice cream because of the burning in the throat, their
stomach won't do very well with it.
DP: Phosphorous has that symptom too, craving ice cold water and as soon as the
water hits the stomach, it gets vomited right up again. So if you see that happening
with the bone pains as if broken, you'll know that it's likely Eupatorium. So you're child
asking for ice cream? Or cold water? You wanna make sure that they're doing alright
and then up it comes or they end up having stomach problems with that.
DP: The coughs can be very violent and it hurts them from head to toe. The Bryonia
cough will be like that as well. And what is worse for the Bryonia person or the person
needing Bryonia, is that it's the motion that is affecting them. Whereas in Eupatorium
it's just this violence. So you think of the pain with Arnica and it's similar to the
Eupatorium. And they try and control the cough because it's just going to be so painful.
So it's an aching pain as if they are being broken not the sharp stabbing pain of
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DP: Rhus Tox can look like Arsenicum. And we've talked about that before. I'm not
going to talk about Rhus Tox today. We may cover that for yet something else. But if
you think this is Rhus Tox and the Rhus Tox doesn't do anything, you can give
Arsenicum. You can often think of Arsenicum at the end of a flu where there's still a lot
of weakness, chilliness, and restlessness, burning pains that are better for heat. Those
are you keynotes for Arsenicum. So they start to sound fairly similar to Rhus Tox. Rhus
Tox, they're not really thirsty, but they do like little sips of water to moisten the dry
mouth and throat. Arsenicum typically will want hot drinks. So even though they're hot,
burning pains they will want hot drinks. This is how one of the ways you will be able to
differentiate with Rhus Tox.
DP: I'm not going to talk about Pyrogen. Pyrogen is made from septic meat, rotten
meat and very, very severe symptoms. If you are in a flu state like that or one of your
family members, you will be wanting to talk to your homoeopath, especially if you can't
get in for medical help. It's possible that you might need Pyrogen with that. And
Pyrogen, Pyrogenium would be well indicated in a flue where you have a secondary
infection, where it's moving into a septic state. So that's like a blood poisoning and it's
a very good remedy for that and may just turn things around very quickly. But I do want
to mention Merc Sol, Mercurius Solubilis, and it's similar to the Pyrogen. So that's why
I would prefer to go with Merc. A damp sweat, it's a little bit oily looking, the patient
looks a little bit greasy even and they tend to be hurried. A lot of anxiety and
restlessness.
DP: Mercury, the state will be often like the old fashioned thermometers. They'll be up
and down, the fevers and the chills and it will be much worse at night. And they'll have
a rise in temperature and sweet more and that's more discomfort and then they'll have
the chills and then they'll be sensitive to draft. So they'll take off the covers and they'll
need to put them back on. They'll be a lot of smelliness as well with the Mercury. The
throat is likely to be the area. So we talked about Merc Sol with mumps. So it's
possible that the throat will be the biggest symptom that your prescribing on with this
particular flu.
DP: Everything is watery and everything burns and everything smells and there's green
and there's puss and always worse at night. A lot of drooling and it's a keynote of
Mercury. So you'll see that the hands become shaky and all fine movements are a bit
trembly and how you will distinguish between that and Gelsemium is simply because of
the smell. Gelsemium won't have the smelliness that Baptisia will have and the Merc
Sol will have.
DP: And we're at the end of our time together, so hopefully that gives you an idea. I
would never wish the flu on anybody, but when it comes this is a good opportunity for
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