Fight Flu Naturally
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- Category: Flu
Fever, fatigue, aching muscles, cough, sore throat, runny nose and sneezing, and headache. It’s your next cold or flu. They always seem to arrive at the most inopportune time, just before an important work assignment or worse, on the weekend or holidays. For young children and seniors, the cold and flu can be particularly detrimental, leading to more significant conditions such as bronchitis and pneumonia. The natural approach to prevention focuses on building up your immune system so that those nasty viruses cannot gain a foothold.
- Eat a diet rich in whole, natural foods such as fruits, grains, beans, seeds, nuts and green vegetables. Nothing new here, but it does work.
- Drink plenty of pure water to stay hydrated.
- Avoid life’s temptations. Reduce your alcohol and sugar consumption, as they both lead to lowered white blood cell activity, making you more susceptible to a virus.
- Get plenty of rest and sleep, particularly now that everyone is back to work and school. Extra pressures and holidays can run you down and make you an easy target.
- Regular exercise, daily deep breathing and relaxation exercises (meditation, prayer, etc.) all help to boost immunity.
- Supplement with a high potency multi vitamin/mineral and essential fatty acids to keep bugs as bay. Key nutrients to support the immune system are Vitamin A, carotenes, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, B vitamins, zinc and selenium.
- Gireel and Engystol homeopathic preparations can be given by injection or orally. These natural medicines activate your immune system, providing protection against viruses.
Since they can also be taken orally, they’re a great alternative for children and needle-shy adults.
- Influenzinium, also a homeopathic medicine, has been shown to be 78 percent effective in the first year and 85 percent in the second year of clinical study of 100 patients who experienced the flu in previous winters. It’s easy to take – one single oral dose per week for five consecutive weeks, starting in the fall. When taken together with Thymuline, another homeopathic medicine, they form a powerful alliance to increase your resistance to viral development.
No need to fret this cold and flu season when you find yourself surrounded by sniffling, sneezing and coughing crowds. Natural medicines should be taken in October/November. There is an old adage that “a good defense is your best offence,” and that’s exactly how natural medicine works, to build up your defenses (immune system) to fight off those microscopic intruders (viruses).
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