Prevention of Flu, Colds & Other Airborne viral diseases.

In 1984, when I was in my early forties, I had lost the lower lobe of my right lung, due to the Army and an early tobacco addiction, and frequent pneumonias. These resulted in bronchaictasis, a distention of the alveoli allowing the stagnation of mucossal secretions.

This was fertile ground for infected pockets to develop in my lungs which could ultimately be life-threatening if I kept coming down with my frequent colds, flu and pneumonia. Having quit smoking during the space program was very beneficial to my overall health, but my respiratory system was still my weakest link, and was still on the verge of killing me at any point in time that an opportunistic infection took hold.

Had I not developed the following prophylaxis, I would very likely have died in the 1980's. Since then, many thousands of people have learned how to do the procedure. My calculations indicate that a much smaller number, on the order of six to ten thousand people do it regularly and consistently, reaping the maximum benefit. Not a big number yet, but the rate of increase in the numbers of people doing it, continues to increase.

The sad truth is though, that most people will not incorporate even a simple two-minute procedure into their daily hygiene routine, even for effective protection against life threatening disease. Even in the SARS crisis of a few years ago and with the potential for an H5N1 (avian Flu) pandemic still threatening, the numbers of people who actually get into the firm habit of doing the procedure regularly, on a daily basis, have not exceeded a third of those taught. That is sad indeed.

Even the fact that THE PROCEDURE ALSO CUTS ALLERGIC RESPONSES TO AIRBORN ALLERGENS BY HALF has not increased those numbers. I did not begin teaching large numbers of people outside my circle of family and friends until 1990. By the mid-nineties, I had heard from a great many allergy-prone individuals, of this serendipitous side-effect. What a pleasant surprise!

But now, without further preamble, here is what you do:

While in the shower, take a couple of Q-tip style cotton swabs, saturated with (nothing but) clear warm water. NO SOAP OR ANY OTHER LOTION ON THE SWABS. Swab the nasal passages as high as you can comfortably reach. Do this gently but be thorough. I rinse the swabs perhaps a half dozen times during this swabbing. The purpose here is to clean out the great bulk of the detritus. You are only going up perhaps an inch or an inch and a quarter on each side. You are not trying to reach the brain-pan with the swabs. If the swabs won't go that far up, not to worry. It's going to work anyway. Now, most of the accumulation of debris and the populations of the indigenous organisms in the nasal passages have been largely eliminated. This is step 1.

After drying off, lay down on the bed with some fresh cooking oil of your choice and some fresh new swabs. You can use corn oil or safflower or rapeseed (canola) or olive oil. If you are allergic to peanut oil, DON'T use peanut oil. Some of those who are most enthusiastic about this procedure use coconut oil. I had never used it, assumong that it had a strong coconut smell. I was not correct in this assumption, and coconut oil is at the top of the list of approved oils for this procedure now. But there is good reason not to use other more highly aromatic oils.

There are two separate olfactory apparati working in the nose. Our ordinary sense of smell, we are all familiar with. The other sense, of which most of us never become consciously aware, is governed by the vomeronasal organ. The function of this organ is sensing special aromas, pheremonal in nature.

These scents are delivered to entirely different areas of the brain than the other smells we perceive. It is important not to interfere with the functions of this organ since it is so closely associated with our instincts, and subtle social behaviors, and we don't want to mess up the various elements involved. The procedure outlined here does not adversely impact the function of the vomeronasal system.

In any case, you are now laying on your back on the bed, have dipped the swabs in the vegetable oil of your choice, and are now swabbing your nasal passages just as far as you did with the water swabs when you were in the shower. You are now coating the nasal membrane, which has already been moisturized with the only real moisturizer there is. Water. You have now covered this pre-moistened surface with an oil sheen which will help prevent the moisture from being evaporated away by the cold desiccated air in the same way that chap stick prevents your lips from chapping.

Let's look at the nasal membrane with a little flashlight.. Notice how red it is, particularly that portion which is hardest to observe, the narrow channel just below the bridge of the nose. It is even brighter red than the surrounding areas of nasal membrane. It is such a bright red because you are seeing the blood through the membrane. This is where the viruses most often make their illegal entry into your bloodstream. Notice also the little cilia-like hairs which are so effective as filters of the larger particles in the air we breathe.

I usually tell people that it is not generally a good idea to snort anything back further in the nasal passage. This is an exception to that. Your nose has been pretty thoroughly cleaned. It is still far from sterile, but the jungle of organisms are mostly gone. You have now coated the moist membrane and the tiny hairs with the oil, but if the oil gets up a bit further than the swabs have reached, so much the better.

What time of year do respiratory viruses occur? During colder, more variable weather. Those times when your lips are likely to chap. Why do your lips chap? You are frequently going into cold exterior environments with very dry desiccated air, from moist interior environments. We do this often during the fall and winter. We notice the chapping of our lips because we flex them continuously by talking, and the cracks which develop are very large because of the flexing. The same thing is happening to the nasal membrane. The fissures are, by comparison to the lips, microscopic. Even so, to a virus particle, these membrane fissures are like the Grand Canyon.

VIRUSES CANNOT REPLICATE IF THEY DO NOT FIRST MAKE ENTRY INTO THE BLOODSTREAM, INVADE OUR INDIVIDUAL CELLS, SET UP THE CELLULAR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS WITH THE VIRAL BLUEPRINT, AND TURN THE PLACE INTO A VIRAL FACTORY.

OK let's review:
Step 1. Cleanse the nasal passages with swabs saturated with clear, fresh water.
Step 2. Lay on the bed and swab passages with vegetable oil. NOT Vaseline, NOT mineral oil, NOT 10-30 Motor oil, NOT glycerin, NOT dimethylpolysiloxane.
JUST VEGETABLE OIL that you are not allergic to.
Step 3. Wipe your nose. That is to say, remove the excess oil from the eighth inch or so of the vestibular area of the nasal passage until no more oil is coming out.
Step 4. Congratulate yourself for remembering to do it every day.
Step 5. If you have health care providers, show them a printout of this. Tell them you are doing it. Answer any questions they might have or refer them to me for any further clarification that might be required.
Step 6. Carefully teach others how to do it or let them read this.
Step 7. There is no step seven.

One final thing. When to do it. Do it every day that you are going to be exposed to other people or public places. Do it before you go out into the world. Not before you go to bed at night. For allergic responses, do it before you are going to be exposed to high concentrations of allergens, like vacuuming the carpets, mowing the weeds or raking the leaves. The allergic responses will be abated by more than half in severity.

Respiratory viral disease will be virtually eliminated in terms of symptomatically apparent disease. You are not living in a bubble or scrubbing your hands every 10 minutes or refusing to shake hands like Howard Hughes. You are just living a much healthier life. Continue to do the other prudent things like washing your hands, getting proper nutrition and adequate rest.

Please do it for yourselves and let me know how it worked out for you. And let's talk about SNEEZING, a very interesting phenomenon.
To your health!
Anthropositor