Poliomyelitis

🌿 Overview

Polio is a viral infection of the spinal cord's gray matter that destroys the nerves controlling muscular movement. Sugar, soft drinks, and dietary weakness are the primary predisposing factors. Sister Kenny's hot pack hydrotherapy dramatically reversed paralysis.

Poliomyelitis is inflammationThe body's natural response to injury — like redness, swelling, or heat around a sore spot. More → of the gray matter of the spinal cord. The polio virus destroys the nerves that control muscle movement. Epidemics peak in summer. Dr. Benjamin Sandler showed that avoiding sugar and soft drinks dramatically reduced polio cases — because sugar and phosphoric acid in cola drinks destroy calcium, which the nerves need.

Common signs

• Fever, nausea, diarrhea, headache, and irritability
• Stiff neck (a key warning sign)
• Muscle aches and weakness
• In paralytic cases: progressive muscle paralysis

🔎 Why it happens

Common causes and triggers — spotting yours is often the first step to relief.

• Polio virus (poliovirus) infecting the spinal cord
• Sugar-heavy diet depletes nerve-protecting calcium
• Soft drinks destroy calcium (phosphoric acid)
• Becoming chilled while fatigued from physical exertion

✅ What to do

Gentle, practical steps you can take at home — start at the top.

1. PREVENTION: Eliminate all cola drinks and soft drinks. Avoid sugar foods. Eat only nutritious whole food.
2. If polio strikes: immediately place the patient in a warm full bathtub or give Kenny hot packs (covering affected body parts with hot, moist heat).
3. During the infectious stage: maintain a high-protein, high-potassium diet.
4. Increase fluid, caloric, and sodium intake because of fever.
5. Antispasmodic tinctureA concentrated herbal extract made with alcohol. How to make a tincture → (8-15 drops in warm water, according to age).
6. Helpful herbs: prickly ash berries, wild cherry bark, valerian root, skullcap, goldenseal, black cohosh.

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🍽️ Eating to help

Food is one of the gentlest medicines — small, steady changes help most.

Favor these

• High-protein, high-potassium diet during infection
• Carrot juice and orange juice
• Nutrient-dense plant foods
• Abundant fluids

Go easy on

• Cola drinks and soft drinks (primary polio risk factor)
• Sugar foods of all kinds
• Junk food

The most important preventive measure is eliminating cola drinks and sugar from the diet.

📜 A note from history

Sister Kenny's hot-pack hydrotherapy achieved outstanding results in polio recovery in Australia. Dr. Sandler's sugar-avoidance research in the 1940s showed sugar as a major predisposing factor.

📚 Learn more

Trusted, independent sources for further reading. These open in a new tab.

• Poliomyelitis — Wikipedia ↗

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