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Treating Antibiotic-Resistant Super Bugs
When it comes to antibiotic-resistant bacteria and deadly viruses, so-called alternative medi-
cine, including herbs, homeopathy, and a variety of other treatments, may well be your most ef-
fective tools for treatment and prevention. In the summer of 2001, my wife, Josie, suffered
from an antibiotic-resistant urinary-tract infection that was probably caused by the same strain
of antibiotic-resistant
E. coli
that reportedly plagued women across the country (Torassa 2001).
We spent nearly $2,000 on doctors and multiple courses of three different antibiotics, including
three full courses of the infamous Cipro, but the infection returned every time we tried to dis-
continue the Cipro, which was the only antibiotic that had any positive effect.
After nearly two months of unsuccessful medical treatment, Josie was finally able to kick
the infection in less than one week's time, once she resorted to self-treatment with a combina-
tion of grapefruit seed extract (from the health food store) and large quantities of homemade
antibiotic colloidal silver solution (roughly one quart a day).
The Low-Tech Medicine Cabinet: Simple, Effective Remedies and Supple-
ments to Have on Hand
Here are some of the more effective self-help remedies that I recommend you keep on hand.
They are readily available in your local supermarket, drugstore, health food stores, or online.
See
Prescription for Nutritional Healing,
by James F. Balch, MD, for more complete dose and
application information on many of these remedies and supplements. A few of the remedies
and procedures mentioned in the following list are, in my opinion, so valuable that I have ad-
ded full sections with detailed descriptions for those procedures and remedies, immediately fol-
lowing this list.
Caution:
For serious conditions, seek out a qualified medical physician, herbalist, and/or
naturopathic doctor.
Aloe vera gel.
The juice from the aloe vera plant has been scientifically proven to improve
the healing of burns. It is also good for healing cuts and scrapes (it is not antibiotic or antisep-
tic) and as a nutritional supplement. Use the live plant by cutting off a leaf and squeezing the
gel from the leaf directly onto the wound. Alternatively, buy the gel or juice at a health food
store.
Arnica montana.
Arnica is an herbal remedy available in a tincture or extract or in homeo-
pathic preparations. It is a useful remedy for boosting the body's healing response to traumatic
injuries, such as sprains, fractures, and bruises.
