Talk:Vitamin C and the common cold

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I follow (Linus Pauling's student) Dr. Cathcart's cure (not treatment) for the common cold - IMMEDIATELY AT THE VERY FIRST SYMPTOM, 5000 mg single dose of vitamin C, then 1000 mg every hour. I no longer get colds. Over 22 years I have only found two other people who said that suddenly they also stopped getting colds, but without taking vitamin C. My probing questions shed no more light on their rebuttal.

If there is a possibility of truth, there is no harm in one's doing an empirical test when the potential of the reward for the empiricle method is so great: In 1984, when Dr Barry Marshall drank a culture of bacteria to prove to his colleagues that it was bacteria and not stress that was the main cause of stomach ulcers, little did he know that his conviction would win him a Nobel Prize for medicine 20 years later.

... John Gilbert

Wikipedia isn't the place to ask people to do a study, or to report on your personal experiences with purported cures. Please respect the Talk Page Guidelines.—greenrd (talk) 17:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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This article appears to be copied and pasted together from various other web pages:

• Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) - sources, benefits, dosage, deficiency, overdose, toxicity. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
• Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
• Molecular Expressions: The Vitamin Collection - Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C). Retrieved on 2008-04-23.