a cold or similar illnesses affects your etheric body quite a while bevor it manifests in your physical body. So it's better to eradicate any disorder there, before it goes "down" to the physical. It is useful to develop consciousness at the etheric level of your being, because it's the part that gets affected the most i.e. because of energy-draining and polluted people/crowds. I think techniques like qui-gong or tai-chi help one to gain some consciousness at etheric level. I did develop it without any traditional technique. Now that your physical body is ill, you seem to have to go through it, I guess... The means already stated will surely help - garlic is indeed a miracle cure. Remember it's said to
be protective against vampires.
A meditational technique I practice when I feel energetically weakened and polluted is 1. breathing through the etheric body. It cleanses and strengthens it. 2. grounding! I do it that way: focus your consciousness at the soles of the feet, locate the root-chakras. keep concentrating on them until the feet become warm. You aditionally can imagine light floating from all sides into the chakras, making them grow... Then, imagine shining "roots" from the chakras that grow deep into earth.  You'll perhaps already feel a difference... Then, I say hello to mother earth and ask her to take the "dirt" off of me. One can intensify the process through imagination - guide the pollution out of your body. If you feel it's enough you can turn the process around - gently suck fresh energy up to you, whether by imagination or through direct guidance of energies (similar to aura-breathing). That's it. Don't detach the connection - from my point of view it's a natural state. "Mother earth" nourishes us anyway - if physical or by etheric energy.
In principle one could suck energy in through every chakra, but one have to be cautious because that may cause disbalances/disorders. I regard it being safe as I described above - one can also do the process by utilizing the base/root chakra.

Many claims are made for these, including curing cancer... all I know is that it really works for preventing colds.

Colloidial silver never really worked for me BTW. I used it religiously for a year or so and still caught a flu.

~Dave

AVOID sugar and flours like the plague until better a teaspoon of sugar shuts down the immune system for about 5 hours.

I sure don't follow the following advice but have in the past (hard to follow when you have Kids)

Dr. Roy Walford researches diets based on Calorie restriction, one is optimum the other is adequate nutrition (CRAN  /  CRON ). Lots of research to base it one. Results of it are to :

Decrease / heal disease
increase immunity (Anorexics in the early stages rarely get sick because of the wbc effects)
longevity(proposed hard to measure in humans)
Among other things.

Just some thoughts.

Auendove, are you saying that meditation may strengthen the virus?

I think if my meditation is focused on clearing out foreign virus it kind of helps me calm down. i pretty much meditate before going to sleep, just to flush my mind and help me relax to go to sleep.

z,

I'm very sorry for the confusion. No, I'm not saying that meditation in and of itself as you've described is going to strengthen the virus... I guess I should've kept my mouth shut, or more to the point my fingers idle .

What I'm trying to convey is that if you in your meditation are evoking the White Light, as a healing modality, with the impression that it in itself will destroy the virus that this may be a misnomer.

As well, maybe "White Light" has become an antiquated term... even for myself it's been quite awhile since I've used the term in this fashion.

When, and even if, I can locate the information the C's conveyed about this I'll post it here.

I'm sorry lovey, I hate to think I've caused you anymore discomfort than you're already feeling .

just some heat flashes every now and then with some mucous buildup in my throat. my lower chest also hurts from coughing.

ive been downing alot of OJ

also got headaches that come and go.

ill feel really good, almost fine, then in a few hours ill start feeling queezy/sick.

Auendove, are you saying that meditation may strengthen the virus?
I think if my meditation is focused on clearing out foreign virus it kind of helps me calm down. i pretty much meditate before going to sleep, just to flush my mind and help me relax to go to sleep.

thanks all, you guys are really great!
z

So sorry to hear you aren't feeling well. We had this flu bug around here in my area about a month or so ago... I know how miserable it can be. Unfortunately, it seems as if it's something that has to run its course. I didn't get it so bad, only in my ear for five days, but it knocked my mate on his butt for almost a month... but he wouldn't/couldn't quit smoking so that impeded on a quicker recovery I'm sure. If you smoke try not to, drink lots and lots of water and put fresh squeezed lemon in it if you tolerate lemon juice. manyeagles suggestion of drinking grapefruit juice is an excellent one as well. There's a lot of good advice having been suggested here. Constantly flushing your system with a vitamin C enriched drink and/or lots of clean water has at the least got to help... you don't want the by-product toxins of the virus to build up in your system.

If per chance you develope an infection, such as bronchitis or sinusitis, get yourself a phytobiotic herbal product if you have an aversion to antibiotics. You'll have to ingest them at a greater rate, even taking more than is suggested on the label, and maybe for a longer period than an antibiotic, but it's been my experience that they do work, and there isn't the nasty side affects like with antibiotics.

Have you tried calling a local Herbal shop to see what they may suggest?

Your young and otherwise healthy so hang in there, and I sure hope you feel better soon darlin' .

Oh yeah, when I meditate I breath in through the nose and out the mouth. Make sure you are pulling the breath deep into your abdomen. To ensure you're doing as much put your hand over your belly button, as you deep breath in your hand should rise. If it doesn't then you are breathing too shallowly.

Oh gosh, and as well, if you're doing a meditation and envoking the White Light for healing remember that the power of that light is going to go to the virus as well. I hesitated to say as much because other healers may disagree with me, but I was feeling irresponsible for not saying as much. And of course, you need to mete out what's best for yourself, but give some objective thought to what I'm suggesting. Indeed, I was once working with a cancer patient and inquired to the C's about whether or not healing energy discriminates between what we know as malevolent disease and the person, and I'm pretty sure they intimated that healing energy doesn't discriminate between one life force and the other. I know that sounds unlikely, but at the same rate it kind of makes sense.

lyra thanks for the link

yes, i do not neglect the spiritual part of this entire situation, i am resting alot, meditating alot and just trying to get rid of this nasty cough thats left from the cold

i have a really trivial question, i hope i dont sound like a complete newbie;

-whilst meditating, are you supposed to breathe  out thru mouth? or breahte in and out thru nose ?

of course don't neglect the "spiritual" aspect of illnesses, otherwise you're going to get ill again under another form.

where and how ?!

Well, here's a thread at NR from awhile back regarding this, including Montalk's link to how to make a colloidal silver generator.  It's good to make your own for pennies at home versus paying money for it at a health food store.   But here's the link for more info:

http://montalk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=144