The following letter contains an explanation of why hot sauce and OJ can reduce and shorten the symptoms of a cold.
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Re: Cold Killer
Alex,
Sorry about your being under the weather. At this time of the year, one is likely to get a cold or a flu. I have learned a way to stop colds and flus from getting worse. The following is based not only on logic and personal experience but on the fact, which I recently discovered, that there are similar products for sale in drugstores.
A question that is an analogy: If you put gas in your car's gastank but the gasline is blocked, will your engine run? No. Likewise with putting water and vitamin C in your stomach. What if your body's gaslines are blocked?
The gaslines of your body is the blood system which delivers water and nutrients to your cells. Cells are the engines of your body.
If your vascular system is constricted or your cell membranes are impermeable then no matter how much water and vitamin C you ingest, they will not get to the engines of your body. There is a simple way that one can optimally open one's blood vessels and cell membranes.
Do you like hot peppers? Have you ever noticed that when you eat hot peppers, you start to sweat? The capsaicin molecule is what makes a pepper hot.
Thus, my young sick friend, if you want to get over a cold or flu faster, you want your water and vitamin C to get into the engines of your body, that is, your cells. For more than 30 years, I have been taking a glass (8oz) of orange juice and two tablespoons of hot sauce when I sense a cold. I have been feeling better within fours and healthy the next day.
Beyond my personal experience and logic of how it works, I have learned that there are products sold in drugstores for colds based on hot sauce.
Best of health to you, and take care,
bob