Swine Flu Remedy from Household Cleaner

In today’s modern world of medicine and swine flu, the FDA just will not let companies that sell products make medical claims about them unless they have been tested at great expense, and approved as a drug. But, this was not always the case, especially for natural remedies.

In a 1924 booklet published by the Arm & Hammer Soda Company, the company starts off saying, “The proven value of Arm & Hammer Bicarbonate of Soda (aka Baking Soda) as a therapeutic agent is further evinced by the following evidence of a prominent physician named Dr. Volney S. Cheney, in a letter to the Church & Dwight Company:

“In 1918 and 1919 while fighting the ‘Swine Flu’ with the U. S. Public Health Service it was brought to my attention that rarely any one who had been thoroughly alkalinized with baking soda contracted the disease, and those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild attacks.”

Recommended dosages from the Arm and Hammer Company for colds and influenza back in 1925 included these natural remedies:

• During the first day take six doses of half teaspoonful of Baking Soda in glass of cool water, at about two hour intervals.
• During the second day take four doses of half teaspoonful of Baking Soda in glass of cool water, at the same intervals.
• During the third day take two doses of half teaspoonful of Baking Soda in glass of cool water morning and evening, and thereafter half teaspoonful in glass of cool water each morning until cold is cured.