The reason I am reluctant to answer your question publicly is because I could go to prison for practicing medicine without a license. That's why I didn't elaborate on vitamin C doses in my article. Let me consider how I can write it and not have any liability. It will take some time, but I will do it. Do you want all the facts? Read Linus Pauling's books about vitamin C as I have. Perhaps I could say Readers Digest said this and that and avoid any liabilities. Vitamin C was my favorite topic to speak and write about for years. This will be fun.
I am busy tonight but I promise to write it as I know it to be, another time. Since 1980 my family, friends, neighbors, relatives and myself have never been ill for longer than 30 minutes to an hour (using this method, if we got to the cure within an hour) and it works for everybody 100% of the time. Readers Digest was forced to remove the dosages from the article they wrote in late 1979 also. Probably Big Pharma made them do it. I got a copy of the article from them a few years back because I needed a reference but the article was mysteriously all edited. The new article in Readers Digest (1979) is so cut up that is not worth reading now. I will have to rewrite it from memory.
I can say this. The maximum amount of Vitamin C that the body can absorb in a day has to many variables to mention. How it is taken, IV, orally, or powder and what kind if C is taken. How it is spread out in dosages, and how sick you are, ETC.. I have never taken IV vitamin C but I know that Dr.s don't usually give over 50 to 75 grams at a time to cure diseases via an IV and a person really needs upwards of 150 grams to cure a disease. It also depends mostly on what illness you have and how long they have progressed. I took 100 grams in a day before to cure an infection in my stomach that I got in Asia. I took over 200 grams in Asia one day to cure Dengue fever from a mosquito bite once and never got diarrhea because the body absorbed it all to cure the illness! I cured dengue fever in about 5 hours with vitamin C! When I said sick, I meant viruses such as Flu's and colds namely but it does cure almost everything. It won't cure malaria.
Readers Digest said this.
Within the first hour of the onset of symptoms take this dose to cure it. Remember, IT MUST BE TAKEN within the first hour of any symptoms or it will not work!!! Watery eyes, sniffles, sneezes, fever, coughing, temperature, ETC.. It only lessons the effect a little if you wait longer than one hour in most cases.
Child 40 lbs to 60 pounds take 1500 to 2000 Milligrams. 1.5 to 2 grams.
Women (average weight) say about 110 lbs. Takes 2500 to 3000 milligrams.
Man (average weight) 175 to 190 takes 4000 Milligrams. 4 grams to 5 grams.
Adjust the above dosages according to your weight.
Remember all animals, except a few birds, a few monkeys, and man, manufacture their own Vitamin C. Based on body weight, they all make equal to 4 grams of C as a man would take to cure a flu or cold per day! Fact.
Bronchitis is a different story. It is bacterial, not a virus, so you need double the above doses and this was not in the Readers Digest book of 1979. This was from Linus Pauling. IV vitamin C cures virtually all disease too! Even cancer. It works much better than the medical way of cut, burn, and poison with meds. Don't take my word on any of this. Read it for your self. Get some books. A bite of food helps the body adsorb the C (protein foods being best) better but is not necessary. I have taken it to cure an illnesses on an empty stomach many times.
Multiple vitamins are controversial because many vitamins counter act other vitamins. Such as you should never take vitamin B with vitamin E. They counter one another so it is like taking nothing at all! Multiple vitamins is another long story and the doses are so small it makes them irrelevant. Minerals are just as important as vitamins. Linus Pauling said that all diseases can be traced to a lack of vitamins and or minerals.
Once you get loose bowels you are at your bodies saturation point and it cannot absorb more so back off from that point. If you are real sick you can take 100 times more vitamin C than normal and not get diarrhea. I lied above now that I think about it. Two colds I have gotten since 1980 when I could not get to vitamin C with in an hour. But they were gone in a few days after taking up to 50 to 75 grams of C a day to cure it. Read about vitamin C here.
http://curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=400 and
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/
PS: Multiple vitamins have about 60 milligrams of vitamin C in them. Such a tiny amount does very little for a human. 60 Milligrams is just enough to prevent scurvy is all! Drug companies hate the vitamin industry because it prevents virtually all illnesses and Big Pharma loses billions to the smart people that take vitamins. They have tried for years to outlaw them but vitamins have never killed anyone. Big Pharma kills millions of people each year! You might like my article about vaccines on how they do much more harm than good! Most older doctors preach vitamins are just expensive urine as they have been taught in school. Big Pharma pays for their school of course!
Namaste