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Asthma is a particular type of allergy causing spasm of the plain muscle fibres in the bronchioles or tiny air passages in the lungs. It follows a definite pattern, not only causing obstruction to breathing but the productions of secretions of thick plugs of mucus which further impede free passage of air.

The blood of all asthmatics, especially during an attack, has been found to be very deficient in ascorboc acid as it is apparently used up in detoxifying the allergens which precipitate the attack; and asthmatics seem to have inborn need for this vitamin.

During the 1930s and 1940s there was a great deal of research on the role of Vitamin C in asthma with conflicting results, firstly because the doses were too small and too infrequent to affect the allergic condition, and secondly because insufficient doses seemed to actually stimulate the production of histamine that promotes broncho-spasm.

All interest in Vitamin C in asthma then flagged with the introduction of effective antihistamines, antibiotics and cortisone products, and is only just again finding a place in the prevention and treatment of this crippling condition.

It is now realized that the protective effect of Vitamin C, as with other allergies, is dose dependent; and large or mega-doses are needed to scotch asthma attacks and to keep the asthmatic free from an habitual allergic response to the particular allergens to which he is susceptible.

I have never tried giving intravenous sodium ascorbate to prevent or cut short an attack, but I have used large doses of Vitamin C — say, 6 to 10 grams a day — more con­veniently taken as sodium ascorbate powder — to maintain chronic asthmatics free from attacks, even from nocturnal wheezing for months at a time, even throughout their usual asthma season.

These cases must, of course, avoid as far as possible their particular allergic substances, and take a thoroughly well balanced diet with as much fresh non-additive food as possible and — more importantly — they must continue their regular supplements of Vitamin C in divided daily doses; for their need is greater than that of the non-asthmatic.

I have recently seen whole families with what is called an ‘asthmatic diathasis’ or tendency, grandmother, father and two children all kept practically free for a year from the asthma attacks that had previously plagued their lives by giving them doses of sodium ascorbate 5 to 10 grams daily according to age.
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Allergies are the body’s reaction to minute particles of foreign protein which gain access to the blood, and so to the tissue cells. Vitamin C strengthens the inter-cellular sub­stance and affords a barrier to these foreign proteins enter­ing the cells and to cell fluids leaking out between them.

The normal healthy individual can usually deal with these foreign substances — but when the adrenal glands are too exhausted by stress, malnourishment or certain inborn deficiencies, these glands cannot manufacture enough cor­tisone to detoxify the so called ‘allergens’.

Vitamin C not only assists the adrenals to produce their own cortisone, but it also detoxifies the foreign proteins. Large doses of the vitamin will often cut short attacks of hay fever or prevent them altogether if taken regularly. It is a wise precaution to suck several 500 milligram flavored tablets when going into an allergy ‘danger zone’ such as into the bush when the wattle is blooming or encountering any known allergen such as house dust, or face powder or taking certain drugs, or during the ‘allergy season’ when humidity or cold winds, etc., are liable to bring on an attack. Each allergy-prone person is susceptible in different ways, but Vitamin C is a general detoxifier and will render harm­less any foreign substance entering the blood, if there is enough to cope with it.

Vitamin C is itself harmless and non-toxic. Allergic persons both children and adults, should take enough to keep their blood and tissues saturated. As soon as the body contains sufficient for its use any surplus is excreted in the urine. This can be tested easily by a simple C-Stix test — a strip of paper impregnated with certain chemicals which changes color when dipped into a sample of urine. A change of color to orange shows that ascorbic acid is pre­sent and the body has enough vitamin to meet and over­come its stresses. No change of color indicates that it could do with a bit more.

During infections, after immunizing injections and after taking most drugs, even aspirin or smoking cigarettes, the Vitamin C is quickly used up and the blood again be­comes deficient.

It has just been found by Dr Ben Feingold, and his co-workers in California, that aspirin and certain aspirin like medicines and chemicals in artificial colorings and flavorings can build up allergic tendencies, especially when given to children.

This is one reason why allergies are so common in our babies and children here in Australia, as they eat much the same highly flavored and colored foods as American children, and are given just as many aspirin medicines of one kind or another.

Of course, Vitamin C alone cannot always prevent or cure allergies—other vitamins such as pantothenic acid, B6 (pyridoxine) and Vitamin A may be deficient and specially needed in some individuals and families, but a thoroughly adequate well balanced diet with natural foods, no artificial flavoring or colorings, plus ample Vitamin C can over­come most allergies and keep the allergy-prone person free of trouble.

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