Tools for Viruses: Sodium Bicarbonate

I want to share another in a series of simple tips you can follow to help to protect yourself from the SARS-CoV-2 virus or any viral or bacterial infection – such as the flu and colds.

However I want to make it clear that any of these recommendations are not intended to suggest that you should not access medical care if you suspect you may have contracted or been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Consumption of sodium bicarbonate – baking soda can help to alkalinize the pH of the body and microbes do not do well in alkaline environments.

It is important when consuming sodium bicarbonate that you use a baking soda without aluminum – this will typically be stated on the packaging.

Arm & Hammer is the most popular brand which is aluminum free.

It is also important to monitor your pH when you are doing this with pH paper strips for both the urine and saliva.

pH strips are available from most medical supply companies.

Dr. Sircus has a great article on this topic on his blog

His suggestion is to raise your urinary pH up to 8.0 being guided by testing with the pH strips and typically the infection will resolve within a few days.

Here is some of the information from his article:

The dosage varies with one’s pH readings of both urine and saliva and the condition being treated. Maximum dosage is right on the Arm & Hammer box, which is seven half-teaspoons a day for a full grown adult under age 60 and three half-teaspoons for people over age 60. One has to check their pH daily in the morning and after a bicarbonate bath, which can be made quite strong.

“The proven value of Arm & Hammer Bicarbonate of 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 ‘Flu’ with the U. S. Public Health Service it was brought to my attention that rarely any one who had been thoroughly alkalinized with bicarbonate of soda contracted the disease, and those who did contract it, if alkalinized early, would invariably have mild attacks. I have since that time treated all cases of ‘Cold,’ Influenza and LaGripe by first giving generous doses of Bicarbonate of Soda, and in many, many instances within 36 hours the symptoms would have entirely abated. Further, within my own household, before Woman’s Clubs and Parent-Teachers’ Associations, I have advocated the use of Bicarbonate of Soda as a preventive for “Colds,” with the result that now many reports are coming in stating that those who took “Soda” were not affected, while nearly everyone around them had the “Flu.”

Recommended dosages from the Arm and Hammer Company for colds and influenza back in 1925 were:

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

I will share more simple techniques in the days ahead that you can use to help to protect yourself from infections – or to help to heal from infections if you contract them.