Natural Remedies for Mono: Effective Treatments

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Milk of Magnesia

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Posted by Sue (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) on 11/07/2010
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For mono, laryngitis or sore throats, try milk of magnesia in peppermint flavor. This is very alkalizing and will cure your sore throat quickly.

You should know that this actually cured my daughter's mono very quickly and we have used this remedy over and over again to cure sore throats. Good luck. Sue

Replied by Greta
(Kamloops, BC)
05/29/2021

Do you gargle with it or swallow it? How many times? Where do I look for an answer?

Rob
(Kentucky)
05/30/2021

Milk of Magnesia throat gargle

The acid neutralizer in milk of magnesia changes the pH in the mouth to prevent microbes from growing. It also coats the sore to relieve pain and irritation. For up to three or four times a day,

People are calling it “Magic Mouthwash” would help make a wicked sore throat more tolerable – even numb.

Here's the recipe for our Magic Mouthwash:

1 Part Milk of Magnesia (2 tsp – for her weight and age. She could have swallowed up to 1 tablespoon of this, but to create the mixture we only needed 2 teaspoons.)

1 Part Children's Benedryl (2 tsp – for her weight and age. This was the maximum dosage she could have swallowed if she hadn't taken a Zyrtec.)

1 Part (or a little less) of water (1.5 tsp – to make it easier to stir and mix)

source: https://www.sprittibee.com/2010/04/magic-mouthwash-remedy-for-sore-throats.html


MMS, Acidophilus

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Posted by Gean (Salina, KS) on 12/11/2008
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A friend (in her 40's) was very ill for a couple of weeks, and was even hospitalized for a few days. Dr.didn't know what she had. They sent her home, but after another week, was not getting any better, but could only sit in the chair for 15 min., otherwise lie in bed. Then results came back for Mono. She took MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution, 1-2 drops every hour the first day for a few hours. By the next morning she was feeling better. After a couple of days she dropped down to twice a day. A week later she is in town shopping. Doesn't have to lie down at all during the day, just sit and rest occasionally. She is up to 8 drops twice a day and plans to increase to 15 three times a day for one week. She is also taking Acidophilus, 8 billion a couple times a day.


Monolaurin

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Posted by Sara (California) on 05/28/2017
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Monolaurin and lauricidin supplements work great for Mono.


Olive Leaf

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Posted by Laurac (Phoenix,az) on 01/25/2014
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Olive leaf has antibiotic, antiviral, and anti-fungal properties.

I came down with mononucleosis and took 2 capsules 4 times a day till the bottle was gone (60 capsules). After the FIRST DAY, my sore throat was gone! By the third day my energy was back and after taking the whole bottle I was COMPLETELY WELL!

It is also excellent for allergies! Load up with 2 caps three times a day for two days, then take 1 cap morning and evening till allergy season is over.

I am a medical professional and have lots of MDs and nurses I work with taking it and they love it!


Seaweed

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Posted by Sean Stevens (Fort Worth, TX) on 03/16/2008
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I found that after giving my child this really great stuff called SeaVegg which you can only find at www.itvventures.com/sams that my child no longer had mono after 1 week. It was very good for my babys too. I gave this to them because they started to have a cold. I gave 1 to them and they were not sick the next day. I have not been sick for an entire year and have been taking this for an entire year. I dont give this my children everyday just because I dont believe that they should develope their own immunities unless they get sick and then allow their bodies to heal themselves with a little bit of natural remedies. I am also a big believer in Hydrogen Peroxide for ear infections.


Supplements

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Posted by Jill (San Angelo, Tx) on 05/17/2017
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My 15 year old was diagnosed with strep throat after 4 days of high fever. She took antibiotics for 10 days, but continued to run periodic fever. I took her back to the doctor and asked to test for mono. It was positive. Fortunately, I had started her on Emergen C when her symptoms first began. She never felt overly tired. Once we had the diagnosis of mono, we added anti viral herbs like astralagus & Echinacea/Goldenseal, garlic capsules & coconut oil capsules. Throughout the whole illness, she has been able to function pretty normally. The doctor was shocked as her appetite & energy levels have stayed steady. He could not feel any significant swelling of her spleen. I definitely credit these supplements for keeping her going these last few weeks of school.


Ted's Remedies

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Posted by Ted (Bangkok, Thailand) 392 posts
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Dear David:

Monolaurin (or coconut oil, lauric acid component) is well-known against viruses, which is the main component of coconut oil, however other oils are also well known against bacteria too. A derivative of lauric acid, where they convert this to sodium lauryl sulfate, even in tiny amounts (micromolar concentration) are well-known to kill HIV AIDS, and a great many other viruses with a vengence. Although I don't usually recommend this, but perhaps give you a historical backdrop.

Of course, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) today are not generally use in many products and there is a lot of effort to remove this product out of the market and replace with a safer, albeit less effective virus killer in many shampoo products with sodium laureth sulfate or sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES) which has much less virus killing power then sodium lauryl sulfate.

I remember during the heddy days of San Francisco AIDS viruses outbreak, which occurred almost within months of some kind of free hepatitis vaccination to only sexually active gays, that some were actually cured by taking drops of shampoo at the time were using sodium lauryl sulfate a drop 3 or 4 times a day. There is also a lot of hell fire propaganda in U.S. posted in the internet against the use of SLS also, as well as soybeans (billions of Asians have been consuming soy for centuries and not even fermented at that, where I live, at least), against the use of coconut oil (high cholesterol was actually the hydrogenated form), and a host of other misinformation. It is my guess that some of the idea for AIDS protection and prevention where they use the SLS as both a spermicide and killing of viruses might came from those that were actually cured after taking the SLS internally.

There are other derivatives of coconut oil used by the industry often called tween 20 or tween 80 (polysorbate 20 - monolaurin and polysorbate 80 - monooleate) which is converted to a sulfactant form of laurins used as a preservative. That are also effective too, but the polysorbate 80 is particularly well known against treatment of hair loss due to its antifungal properties that prevent them, or possibly reduce the autoimmuninty on the hair roots thus stopping the hair loss. There are other oils too such as sunflower oil, olive oil that does kill many organisms too, although they are more well known to kill bacteria.

It must be remembered that monolaurin (lauric acid coconut oil), are also helps herpes, genital herpes, virus, ulcers, candida utilis, etc.

In Asia, the coconut oil are such a common delicacy that we give little thought to using as a treatment, but they are also effective against fungus.

While I do believe that coconut oil is helpful in killing off the viruses, i still believe we catch cold because most people have a zinc deficiency and their body's pH are acidic for a wide range of conditions and therefore is the foundation. Zinc alone can kill herpes simplex viruses by 99.9% within hours. If I want a 100% kill, this is easy, just add magnesium chloride, use lavender oil, and tea tree oil. Of course coconut oil works, but for me lavender, tea tree oil, zinc, magnesium works the best in cases of topical application. Of course I usually add a bit of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (below 1%) to it to speed up the killing. If this is done right, and proper portions, my the herpes simplex dies completely within 1 day, with a maximum of 3 days. Last time one of my relative told me it keeps coming back even though the formula (zinc & magnesium only) despite it worked better than the meds medicine they prescribed, I told her if she is in a hurry just apply all of them (tea tree oil, lavender oil, zinc chloride, magnesium magnesium & a touch of SLS) and do that every 1-2 hour for the whole day. The herpes never came back and this has been about a month now. The major weakness of viruses is ALL the medium chain fatty acids, not just lauric acid. This includes caprylic acid, caproic acid found in palm kernel oil too.

The most difficult organism to kill, contrary to what Hollywood is saying (movies like Aeon flux, Ultraviolet, stormbreakers, just for this year 2006) is NOT the viruses. In practice it is actually the fungus and mycoplasma. In the event of nuclear holocaust the two surviving organism are the fungus and cockroaches. Cancer symptomatically are often close to viruses then they do with fungus.

Again the best way to treat the viruses that has the best results for me are pH akalizing and the zinc acetate - to be used as an antibiotic as well as mineral supplement. Coconut is used here as a dietary food source in cooking. Here at my home I used the oil for cooking to be coconut oil, instead of medicine, so it protects while you eat. Oleatic acid also have some protection too, so sometimes I might mixed olive oil to it too. Other oils or spices I used also have antifungal properties include clove, thyme, tea tree, lavender and oregano, just the same. However, pH and mineral (zinc, magnesium, chromium) remains the backbone whenever I get sick the others I just eat them regularly. The last time I got a cold was 3 years ago it last 2-3 days because I got careless with the diet, too much sugar and acidic pH in the urine! Oh yes, and I probably ran out of coconut oil!


Vitamin C

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Posted by Richard Morgan (Edgewater, Florida) on 07/09/2008
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Oral vitamin C therapy as recommended by Dr. Robert Cathcart was employed to resolve within 14 days a case of mononucleosis contracted by my 17-year-old grand-daughter.

Procedure:
1st 24 hours, 7000mg ascorbic acid powder in orange juice every hour.
Subsequent days: 1000mg every hour until bowel tolerance syndrom; thereafter, an amount of the vitamin every three hours just short of bowel tolerance syndrome.

Replied by Bret
(Phoenix, AZ)
07/10/2008

Having studied vitamin c more than any other substance, having performed vitamin c infusions on cancer patients, I can make some very specific footnotes to this posting.Use buffered powder. Do not use straight calcium ascorbate powder as the buffered form. Use sodium ascorbate or products buffered with broad range of different salts. Potssium, magnesium, calcium mixture is pretty tolerable. I make this recommendation as acidic vitamin c and calcium ascorbate has lower bowell tolerance and your dosages will be limitted. Also, it is hard to dose any medication more than four times a day. I whole heartedly recommend a timed release form of ascorbate to be taken with the powder. This will keep blood levels higher, longer. It also is easier on the stomach.

Alpha lipoic acid, and seleniium both slow down the excretion and oxidation of vitamin c.

For any viral infection. Do not taper up to bowell tolerance. Vitamin c cramps can be very uncomfortable and may discourage further use. Your target daily dose should be 30,000 mg per day. Taking both immediate release and delayed release. I gave vitamin c to my daughter who had mono. We also gave her sodium ascorbate nose drops and mixed new batch every 12 hours. You can use nose spray as often as you like and boost blood levels through the ceiling.(Pauling)

If you have successfully raised your daily intake to 30,000 mg and you don't feel better, you should add alkaline therapy or oxygen therapy to your protocol.

Replied by Anna
(Philadelphia, Pa, Usa)
05/17/2010

I was very happy to find "scientific" information about taking huge amounts of vit. C (to bowel tolerance). Saturating your body with it was said to detoxify it - and maybe it did as I felt really lousy! I took it for a week, mostly 26-30 grams/day, except one day when my bowels felt tolerant and l just stopped at 40 grams. I felt like I was dying! Terrible muscle cramps would not let me sleep. Desperately I tried calcium-magnesium-zinc supplement and could literally feel the muscles relaxing. Run out of it and got another brand-not working! I checked the bottles: the working supplement had COPPER! At that time-fortunately-I started taking 1000 mcg of vit. B 12/day and in a month I was ok.

LATER I read that vit. C interferes with the absorption of vit. B-12 and copper! That information should be posted every time someone talks about taking huge amounts of vit. C!

Replied by Marie
(Nyc, Ny)
01/23/2011
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I had great results from using the coconut oil pills. After just 3 days I am feeling like I am back to normal! Thank God!

Replied by Soniamara
(Houston, Tx)
12/13/2011

God Bless you all with children with mono. My son got it and lost almost a year of school. I am still taking care of him sick from time to time.

My recommendation is (which I wish to know in the beginning of his sickness) take your children out of all SUGAR, processed food, no microwaved food etc... ASAP give lots of Vit C (I use emergen c 1.000 power on water). Lots of rest, NO STRESS AT ALL. The most raw foods the better, if not, try to cook the food from fresh kinds only. Take all meat away. Use lots of protein (nat sources).

B12 (liquid) can help a lot for energy & preserve brain concentration. No caffeine, no to nat juice pasteurized (only juice made at home)

Pls use lots of fruits & vegetables. This should help the body to fight and recover for good. Otherwise if it stays in body it keep reactivating and it's become chronic & complications. My son has lots of problems with joint pain after the virus attacked him Jan 2010. I'm now trying further things such as acupuncture (I had & was great for pain)

I will start a raw diet for 3 months (because he remains so sick) this virus when attacked and stays causes lots of issues and increases candida, parasites etc.. so I learned that the raw diet cleans the parasites out of the organs, etc..

Truly hope no child goes as far as my son, but if so, look for natural ways to fight this virus because the doctor don't do nothing!!!!!! But we can do a lot to make things better and reverse the acute body infection, as well as fatigue. Oh! Lots of fresh air but never push to excercise because it cause lots of discomfort at night. Go gradually on that, better listen to your child. My son is teen, needs sports but small activities until he can do big ones. Bless 2 U ALL.


Vitamin C, Coconut Oil, Garlic

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Posted by Nataliaors (California) on 06/28/2017
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My daughter was diagnosed with mono on Monday (6/19), she felt slightly sick one week before that, but the active symptoms of - sore throat, swollen glands, swollen liver and spleen, fatigue, hot flashes and night sweats, headache, started 3 days before she was diagnosed.

We started high dose of C on Monday (6/19) (8000mg/day) vitamin B complex (2/day) coconut oil (4tbs/day) and raw minced garlic (2 cloves/day, taken on a spoon flashed with water) + lots of water (she went through at least 12+ water bottles/day), lots of healthy fat like avocado and fish, and arugola salads with apple cider vinegar and olive oil.

She was symptoms free on Sunday (6/25) had her liver test redone on 6/27 and her liver is back to normal and she was declared mono free.

Thanks to everyone who shared their mono experiences and I definitely recommend - high dose of vitamin C, coconut oil and garlic.


Vitamin C, Coconut Oil, L-Lysine

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Posted by Sharon C. (Sparks, Nv) on 08/22/2015
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My daughter was diagnosed with mono her senior year, the week before her big AP exams were scheduled.

She was so awfully ill she just laid on the couch and slept & woke up to spit in a cup. Her spleen was quite swollen. After a few days of this I'd had enough and started searching the internet and found the miracle combination of Vit. C, Coconut oil and L-Lysine.

We started right away. The key was frequent doses, all at the same time. I administered it like an antibiotic, 3 or 4 times a day. Morning, noon and night.

As I recall one regimen was a couple of 1000 mg C pills, a spoonful of coconut oil and the recommended dose on the bottle of L-lysine. 3 or 4 times a day.

From the very first dose she started to improve! She felt better and better and even had me drive her to the testing center for those important exams. (Which she aced.) She was completely well in a short period of time and completed the rest of the school year in good health. Imagine, the doctors told us she'd be laid up for anywhere between 6 weeks to several months!!

Hope this will help someone. Remember she felt better from the first dose! God bless.

Replied by KT
(Usa)
08/22/2015

How encouraging! So happy she improved so well. Thanks for posting this valuable information!

Replied by Margaret C.
(Henderson, NV)
04/11/2022

I am 72, and having my second bout with mono. Thank you so much for this information. I have all three on hand, and just had some of each.



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