Common Cold and Balance

Fred (from Ottawa, Ontario) came home from a four-day business trip with a cold and what he also called the flu. Then he remembered an article called “Balance – An End to the Common Cold” in The A.R.E. Journal. (Nov., 1976) That same afternoon, a member of his Study Group told him about using baking soda in hot water to help get rid of the cold. (His mother had also always recommended this treatment.)
So he took 1/2 teaspoonful of baking soda in a large mug of hot water and sipped it slowly until gone. Once every hour he did this until he went to bed. Altogether he consumed five mugs of water and 2 1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking soda. The next day, when he awakened, he started out with the familiar mug full of soda water every two hours, and went to a meeting that evening. No more cold or flu, but he felt weak. He drank lots of fluids and orange juice that day. The next day, he worked half a day, took the soda water morning and evening. The day after that, he was feeling great and fully up to par.
But a strange, unexpected happening occurred. For four months, he had been sorely distressed by excessive sweating through the groin area, improper and “spasmodic” urination, and incomplete emptying of the bladder. Now, four months after the beginning of these symptoms and while experiencing the exhilaration of recovery from the severe cold, he realized that all these urinary troubles had completely disappeared. And, in the six months following, there has been no recurrence. Balance! Cayce said in his readings that with proper acid-alkaline balance, one could not get a cold. But Fred discovered that there are other advantages to be derived from a balanced body.
[† March, 1980, Volume 15, No. 2, page 95, Copyright © 1980 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA.]