Fifteen years to the day in development, Handbook for Curing the Common Cold - The Zinc Lozenge Story is the first book to convincingly show zinc lozenges to be the real cure for common colds. The zinc lozenge cure was first described in a technical paper published by George Eby and others at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, in 1984. It showed zinc gluconate lozenges to be far more effective than Viamin C, chicken soup, and other over-the-counter treatments, shortening colds by an average of 7 days!

The world famous Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit led by David A. J. Tyrrell verified the Austin group's findings in 1987. Since then, several attempts to replicate the positive findings were made by others using weaker and chemically different zinc lozenges. The weaker and different formulations failed, and publication of the negative results created considerable controversy.

All of the reports, positive and negative, demanded the careful re-analysis presented in this handbook to place them in proper perspective. Actually, results were not in conflict at all, rather each report showed a different facet of the puzzle. When the completed puzzle is viewed, it simply shows Zn²⁺ ions from zinc lozenges shorten colds in a dose and time dependent manner, as any skilled pharmacologist might expect.

Using all available data, Handbook for Curing the Common Cold -- The Zinc Lozenge Story establishes means -- zinc ion availability (ZIA) -- to make sense out of strange data, and provides predictive power on the efficacy of experimental zinc lozenges against common colds.

Don't miss the forewords from the University of London and the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit!