Victoria Knight-McDowell, an elementary school teacher who was sick of catching colds in class and on airplanes, spent over five years developing Airborne with a team of health professionals. Airborne was created by combining seven herbs (each with a specific function in Eastern medicine) then putting them through a patented extraction process, and then combining them with a unique formulation of amino acids, antioxidants and electrolytes. An effervescent carrier was used, as a way to deliver the nutritional benefits of Airborne to the system immediately, and without the bulk of conventional pills. There's nothing else like it!

Victoria Knight-McDowell spent years brewing herbs and swallowing vitamin cocktails to ward off students' bacteria, but the second-grade teacher couldn't vanquish one of the world's most common plagues. She refined her herbal-vitamin remedies throughout the early 1990s, experimenting with vitamins C, E and A, as well as zinc, selenium and herbs including forsythia, ginger, isatis root and echinacea. After nearly two years without a cold, she realized she had come up with the proper proportions for her potion. She called it Airborne and decided others needed a dose.

Knight-McDowell sold the first package of an effervescent cold tablet in January 1997 to a local drug store, Surf & Sand. Less than a year later, specialty grocery chain Trader Joe's ordered 300 cases of Airborne - a $75,000 receipt that forced Knight-McDowell, still teaching second grade, to affix 1,000 package labels every night for several weeks to ship the order on time.

In September 1999, Longs Drugs ordered more, and the company leased a warehouse in nearby Monterey, and order fulfillment centers in Placentia and in Naperville, Ill.
Sales in 2002 increased 300 percent, the owner says. Knight-McDowell Labs, which has expanded into Airborne Jr. and Sore Throat Gummis for kids, is expected to have revenue of more than $10 million for the fiscal year that ends in April. That's a mere sniffle in the multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, dominated by conglomerates such as Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc. Neither corporation has anything on the market similar to Airborne, and spokesmen for both companies said researchers were more focused on traditional medicines, such as penicillin and pain killers.

But Airborne's gangbuster growth is nothing to sneeze at, and experts say its success could signal a turning point for the rapidly growing alternative medicine industry. Once considered a niche popular with the yoga and macrobiotics crowd, herbal therapies and preventive remedies are increasingly common among mainstream Americans.
As an herbal remedy that doesn't claim to cure colds once they develop, Airborne didn't need Food and Drug Administration approval before being marketed to consumers, and has never been tested by the FDA. But an independent study has shown promising results.

GNG Pharmaceutical Services Inc., a testing company based in Sugarloaf, Fla., administered Airborne and a placebo to 120 adults within 24 hours of the onset of the symptoms of an upper respiratory infection. Researchers classified 47 percent of the Airborne recipients in last year's clinical trial as "full responders" -- people whose symptoms completely or almost completely disappeared after taking Airborne for five days. By contrast, 77 percent of the people who took placebos developed colds, and only 9 percent saw their symptoms completely or almost completely disappear after five days with a phony pill.

There is no known bacterial, viral, or fungal "resistance" to complex herbal formulas. Some of these formulas have been used for thousands of years with no evidence of waning efficacy. The Chinese medicine text, the "Nei Ching" is estimated to have been drafted in 200 a.d., and contains formulas that are still used effectively for infections today. The "resistance to resistance" of Chinese and other herbal formulas, is thought to occur because there are several herbs in each formula, and each herb has many complex plant alkaloids. This complexity is believed to be too much for the "bugs" to process; it is much easier for them to adapt and "outwit" the simpler "one item" pharmaceuticals. According to certain health experts in America and abroad, traditional herbal medicines may soon be our only weapon against bacteria, like staphylococcus--"staph"--that are fast becoming resistant to antibiotics!

Take Airborne at the first sign of a cold symptom or before entering crowded places like airplanes and offices. Airborne is also for use in: Airplanes, Offices, Schools, Restaurants, Health Clubs, Theaters and anywhere there may be a crowd.

Airborne contains 17 active ingredients, delicious natural flavor, and is clinically proven to fight the common cold.

Airborne Orange Flavor for Cold or Flu Symptoms

Supplement Facts: Serv size 1 tablet. Servings, 10. Amount per serving: Calories 4, Total Fat 0g, Sodium 230mg (10% DV*), Total Carb 0g, Sugars 0g, Protein 0g. Vitamin A (100% Acetate) 5,000 I.U. (100% DV*), Vitamin C 1,000mg (1,633% DV*), Vitamin E 30 I.U. (100% DV*), Magnesium (Sulfate) 40mg (10% DV*), Zinc (Sulfate) 8mg (55% DV*), Selenium (Sodium Selinite) 15mcg (21% DV*), Manganese (Gluconate) 3mg (86% DV*), Potassium (Bicarbonate) 75mg (2.5% DV*), Organic Herbal Extracts (Lonicera, Forsythia, Schizonepeta, Ginger, Chinese Vitex, Isatis Root, Echinacea) 350mg (DV**), Amino Acids (Glutamine, Lysine) 50mg (DV**).
*Daily Value.
Other Ingredients: Citric Acid, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sorbitol, Potassium Bicarbonate, Orange Flavor, Mineral Oil, Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium.

Airborne Lemon Lime Flavor for Cold or Flu Symptoms

Supplement Facts: Serving size 1 tablet. Servings, 10. Amount per serving: Calories 4, Total Fat 0g, Sodium 230mg (10% DV*), Total Carb 0g, Sugars 0g, Protein 0g. Vitamin A (100% Acetate) 5,000 I.U. (100% DV*), Vitamin C 1,000mg (1,633% DV*), Vitamin E 30 I.U. (100% DV*), Magnesium (Sulfate) 40mg (10% DV*), Zinc (Sulfate) 8mg (55% DV*), Selenium (Sodium Selinite) 15mcg (21% DV*), Manganese (Gluconate) 3mg (86% DV*), Potassium (Bicarbonate) 75mg (2.5% DV*), Herbal Extracts (Lonicera, Forsythia, Schizonepeta, Ginger, Chinese Vitex, Isatis Root, Echinacea) 350mg (DV**), Amino Acids (Glutamine, Lysine) 50mg (DV**).

Victoria Knight-McDowell brings you a unique formula for fighting the common cold and flu symptoms. When taken at the first sign of symptoms this wonderful creation will keep you from getting sick. Find out what millions of people already know, keep a package of Airborne in your home, or office. Airborne has become the fastest selling health product in retail history and the #1 selling natural product in the busy cough/cold aisle of all major drugstore chains. This product can be found here at GivingGallery.com. Why not ship some to a friend as well. Look for details at GivingGallery for Free Shipping.

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