Spring Fever: Myth Or Fiction?

April, 1980

Spring-fever sufferers complain alternately of pain in the heart, ants in the pants and fire in the blood. But just because Blue Cross doesn't pay off spring-fever claims, don't jump to the conclusion that it's all in your head.Stephen Rosen, author of Future Facts and Weathering, reports that in northern climates, high relative blood acidity (low pH) coincides with the advent of spring. "Resistance to infection, to intoxication, to trauma and to emotional impacts is at its lowest level the...