Methylene blue for pneumonia?

[ecstatichamster]

Methylene blue for pneumonia? I couldn't find more than a few very small studies. Anyone have any experience in this? A friend's father is suffering a second bout of pneumonia, and I'm afraid the prognosis doesn't look good.

 

[burtlancast]

Magnesium chloride enhances many times the activity of white blood cells.

 

[Wilfrid]

" Pneumonia.---The possible benefits of a similar inhalational treatment of medical pneumonia, for example after influenza, are just now under active investigation. Henderson, Haggard, Coryllos and Birnbaum have shown that in dogs, in which pneumonia has been experimentally induced, the lungs may be cleared and the pneumonia cured by placing the animals in an atmosphere of about 8% carbon dioxide for 12 to 24 hours. In support of the claim that these are real cures is the fact that pneumococci are inhibited in growth or even killed by a lowering of pH no greater than carbon dioxide may induce. A lowering of the pH by carbon dioxide contributes also to the autolysis and liquefaction of the exudate responsible for the consolidation of the lungs in pneumonia. Many cases of pneumonia have now been treated with inhalation of carbon dioxide in oxygen; and a special tent for this treatment is being introduced by Henderson and Haggard. It is believed by those who have used it that this treatment is decidedly superior to that with oxygen alone. " Yandell Henderson-

FYI, Giraffe has just done a great job on RP interview transcription about this Co2 stuff.