Chapter I
VIRAL PESTICIDE
I recall a circumstance of several years ago. I was selling electronic equipment at a counter and an old acquaintance passed by. They had just returned from Italy with pictures of all the great wonders, the coliseum, the aqueducts, the leaning tower of pizza, etc. Just as we finished passing the last picture between us, they broke out with a spine tingling, blood curdling cough. With mouth shut, my mind said "This is it, you are infected." I asked said person if they where taking anything for that. They told me that they took every thing, and even visited the doctor. As quick as was tactful I got away from the person. I went to the rest room and washed my hands. This was to no avail. Within forty-eight hours I began to get sick. I never saw the individual again and was unable to cross reference how they may have deled with this problem. The week that followed there were battles that where won and lost, but; in general the war was not going well. First it attacked my nose, then my throat. My throat felled like I swallowed a family pack of stake knifes, which got stuck in my throat on the way down. There was blood in my saliva. This was a typical symptom of strep throat. Then it assaulted my eyes and last but worst my ears. Not only did I have vertigo but an extreme headache. Over the counter measures seem to provide me with only temporary relief. Aspirin reduced the fever. After the passing of another week it became strong. Every time I hit it with some remedy it came back with a vengeance. Headaches, fevers, dizziness, general fatigue, and muscle soreness. I was ready to turn my self in and let the medical community administer an antibiotic, with the advice of my sister, the queen of antibiotics. If this failed it would be curtains for me. This infecting entity would evolve pass the point of being conquered. Antibiotics have that inducing tendency sometimes. What they don't kill they make stronger.
The next day I was ready to try anything. I went down stairs and cut a circular section from a Jalapeno pepper and chewed it. At first my throat felled like it was on fire, but; to my amazement the condition in my throat seem to improve. My irritated throat cough went away after I chewed the pepper like chewing gum several times through the day. At the end of the day my throat was fine. My nose was stopped up and if I turned my head a certain way the room would spin.
I also suffered with a week old headache that was getting worse. This was not a mystery; it was due to the ear infection. Getting ready for sleep I sat on the side of the bed with my pants dropped to my ankles so as to brace my self from the spinning room. I said to my self "I am not going to beat this one, Supreme Being help! Please, just give me a little clue." And the voice said,” It doesn't like pepper." So; I carefully got up and went back down stairs and got the pepper out of the refrigerator. Moistening my finger by placing it into the hole cut into it earlier, I placed this finger into one nostril of my nose, then the other. Now; my nose felled like it was on fire.
On my way back to the second floor, I sneezed over nine times. Then after a brief period of suffering, my nose cleared up completely. I could breathe again. This was miraculous, but; I still had an awful headache. I was worried that the infection would go to my brain, if not put in checked. Sitting on the bed, once again, I said, "Supreme being, I am grateful, please help me." And the voice said, "It doesn't like pepper." So; I went back down stairs again, this time armed with a Q-tip. Taking the same pepper out of the refrigerator then applying both ends of the Q-tip into the cut off end until they were green with its juice, I put the Q-tip into one of my ears and then the other. This time I fell like someone filled both of my ears up with lighter fluid and lit a match. With in ten minutes after the burning sensation stopped the headache was gone. I felled so well that I started lifting a barbell, which was sitting on the side of the bed.
Enlightenment was at hand, the picture was beginning to come crystal clear. It didn't like pepper. I went back down stairs and put some of the juice of the Jalapeno pepper on my finger. Then I rinsed it with water and placed it in the corner of each eye. I repeated these treatments on my eyes, ears, and throat every four hours.
The next morning I felled tremendous, but by the afternoon a postnasal drip developed and the condition went to my lungs. This was dangerous, the lungs was the only place it had left to run. I took a snorkel J-shaped tube, which I had around for swimming, filled it the remaining portion of the Jalapeno pepper, which I diced with a knife. I placed it into the low point of the j of the tube. I inhaled the air in such a way that the small pieces wouldn't go up my throat and choke me. With this additional treatment the condition subsided and I was well in 48-hours, Amazing with just one Jalapeno pepper. I am no longer afraid of people with colds. My hypothesis was that this antigen was a virus that was riding piggyback on a bacterium. Viruses can attach their self to bacteria like fleas on a dog. Sometimes the relative size of the two is proportional. This was my first VIRAL pesticide. It behaved like boric acid on roaches.
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