I've got the flu, any non alcoholic home remedies??
Answers: Hot Chicken Soup
Tea
Chicken soup
Curl up in a blanket
Take Vit C - Strawberries have more than an orange!
Relax.
Take garlic tablets to help speed recovery and prevent.
If you love old wives tales.. chop up an onion, place it equally in each sock and wear it. Let your feet squish into the onion. It smells horrible and it works!
Or you could just take some equally horrible Buckleys.
COLDS AND FLU
If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
~Gladstone, 1865
Cold and Flu Bath Blend
Mix equal parts Eucalyptus, Rosemary, Calendula and Peppermint. Steep in hot bath water or make a simple infusion.
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As soon as I feel the slightest sniffle or hint of a sore throat, I take 1000 mg
of vitamin C, 800 mg of echinacea, and two Blackmores horseradish and garlic
tablets, and I take them three times a day until the sniffles are gone. I cook
lots of pasta dishes with tomatoes, onions and garlic, and I drink lots of
orange juice and herbal tea. I also like to take a hot bath with a handful of
herbs tied in a calico bag and soaked in the water (eucalyptus leaves, rosemary,
pennyroyal is one of my favorites). Sipping pineapple juice throughout the day
will ease a sore throat, and makes a pleasant change from orange juice.
Keeping this up for a day or two usually means my cold never gets past its
initial stage. I haven't had a bad cold since I've started using this cold-
chasing technique. Stress can aggravate sickness, though. If you have a cold,
please stay home from work if at all possible, so that you do not spread your
cold to other people and cause them to lose work time too.
Herbal teas for colds: yarrow, rosemary, pennyroyal (but not during pregnancy!)
or peppermint.
Bath for colds: 2 drops thyme oil, 2 drops tea-tree oil, 4 drops lemon oil, 1
drop eucalyptus oil. Swish round in the bath water before getting in. Don't use
if you're nauseous or running a high fever.
Ginger Tea
Use one tablespoon fresh grated ginger root per cup of water. Simmer, covered,
for 20 minutes and sip throughout the day.
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Winter is a time for turning inward, toward home, family, and self. If we listen, we are aware of a directive to slow down and refocus. That makes the next few months an ideal time to explore ways to prevent and treat illness, especially the colds and flus that plague our winter days.
The first step in prevention is keeping our immune systems strong throughout the winter months, and keeping germs at bay. For that purpose, Echinacea (sans Goldenseal) may be taken throughout the winter as a tonic for the immune system. Take one capsule three times a day as a preventive measure, increasing dosages as recommended with the onset of symptoms. (Medicinal herbal tonics are best taken in cycles rather than continuously. Three weeks on, one week off, is a good rule of thumb.)
Baptisia australis aids in resisting infection. Horseradish (armoracia rusticana) and nasturtium (Tropacolum majus) are both warming and rich in vitamin C, with anti-infective properties. A teaspoon of grated horseradish in boiling water makes a bracing drink for winter chills. These herbs, as well as garlic, may be added to a winter diet to increase natural resistance.
Consider incorporating essential oils into your personal care routine for an extra measure of defense; all possess antiseptic properties. Select high quality, pure oils and prepare your body before exposing it to the elements. Add several drops to your bath water, or apply using a loofah or cloth as you shower; try geranium, lavender, and tea tree oils. Combine essential oils with a carrier oil--about five drops per teaspoon--for a body oil. Blend oils for your own personal scent.
A handkerchief or tissue imbued with a drop of cinnamon, lavender, or tea tree can provide an instant inhalation if you are in the company of obvious germ-carriers. Lemon, lavender, and orange essential oils are good choices for sprays to purify the air around you, or the mouthpiece of a communal phone. Use a minimum of four drops per cup of water. If a sore throat threatens, place cotton imbued with a drop of lavender oil in each ear. Wear continuously for 7-10 days.
Examine the stress level in your life as well. Chronic stress severely compromises the immune system. Relentlessly extending yourself beyond your limits is never advisable, but continuing to do so during the winter months is also at odds with your body's natural seasonal inclinations. Winter is a time for rest and rejuvenation. Take time to evaluate your priorities and eliminate needless pressures. Learn meditation or yoga, or explore another neglected area of interest. Don't, however, just add more commitments to your schedule. Instead, simplify and focus.
Most herbal and homeopathic medicines recommend that you should begin treatment at the first sign of illness. It is necessary then to know what your own personal indicators are; to do this, you must first pay attention. When I am getting sick, coffee becomes unappealing to me. Even the smell of coffee is not enticing. If I listen, I respond to my body's request for water and herbal teas, avoiding the dehydrating effects of coffee.
If I listen, I have time to supplement my immune system and consider how I will treat my illness before I am too sick to run to the store for vitamin C crystals or to think of anything but relief. Learn to recognize the indications that your own advance warning system is working. Certain foods or groups of foods may suddenly become unappealing (like sweets, which suppress the immune system). If food in general is unappealing, eat lighter, and eat less. You may suddenly require more sleep than usual, or become fatigued midday. Your skin may break out, or your eyes might appear glassy. Once you are aware, you can begin to respond.
Popular culture urges us in the opposite direction, encouraging us to take a symptom-relieving cold treatment, gulp an extra cup of coffee, drag off to work, and perhaps, reward ourselves for the effort with a sugary treat. The result is a body which is not only unprepared to fight the imminent illness, but is further compromised by energy lost in struggling against its natural, healing instincts. Under such circumstances, self-limiting illnesses, like colds and flu, often develop into more serious complaints: throat or sinus infections, bronchitis, pleurisy, or pneumonia.
If, despite all precautions, colds and flu prevail, natural remedies can help to ease the symptoms and speed recovery. Chinese medicine stresses the use of warm herbs and food if the body is chilled or cold (yin), cooling herbs and foods if the body is overheated (yang). The goal is to balance the hot with the cold--or vice versa. This is a good point from which to begin, as it corresponds with most theories of herbal and homeopathic medicine. Colds and flus usually begin as cold illnesses. If a fever develops treatment should change as the symptoms change. When a sore throat or other inflammation is present, a hot illness is indicated. Pungent foods induce perspiration, and perspiration should be encouraged in all cases.
Ginger is indispensable in the treatment of cold afflictions. Ginger tea is not only a satisfying winter beverage, but one which warms the body, treats the common cold, soothes coughs, and relieves vomiting. Old ginger or mother ginger, available at Chinese markets, is preferred for medicinal purposes. A strong spicy drink may be made by boiling grated ginger root in a cup or two of water. Add sugar or honey to treat a cough. Boil with dried orange peel, using a ratio of 1:2, for vomiting and cough associated with a cold. If dried ginger is not available, you may use fresh or baby ginger, or one drop of ginger essential oil in a glass of hot water. Ginger oil or grated ginger may also be applied externally by adding to hot bath water. Soaking or washing with gingered water induces perspiration.
Fennel and caraway are basically interchangeable. They are both considered warming and are used to treat vomiting. Both may be used as seasoning throughout the winter (some sources actually credit fennel with being a flu-preventative) and also taken in medicinal doses with the onset of symptoms. Fennel oil may be inhaled or used in a vaporizer. Marjoram tea is suitable for colds or flu with fever, as marjoram is a cool and pungent herb. It induces perspiration and relieves mucous discharge.
Peppermint and spearmint are particularly effective in treating headaches associated with colds and flu, as well as for settling the stomach. Peppermint is cool and pungent in nature, while spearmint is warm, pungent, and sweet. Peppermint oil may be applied externally, diluted in a carrier oil, to soothe aching muscles and cool fever. It may also be taken internally for vomiting. Try one drop on a sugar cube or two drops in a glass of water. Spearmint may be used similarly, when symptoms are cold in nature. Either herb may also be inhaled as an essential oil or consumed as an herbal tea.
Lemon, oranges, grapefruit, onions, radishes, garlic, and honey are all useful in treating colds and flu. Take time this winter to learn the properties of these foods, then experiment to create soups and teas that will soothe your symptoms. Above all, learn to listen to your body as it tells you what it needs. If you listen, it will speak.
DISCLAIMER: Choosing a holistic approach to medicine means choosing personal responsibility for your health care. Herbs for Health offers a doorway through which to enter the realm of herbal healing, an invitation to further investigation on the part of the reader. It is in no way intended as a substitute for advice from a health care practitioner.
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Cold and Flu Remedies
By Meg McGowan
Conscious Choice, January 1997
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse
BARBERRY BARK: High in Vitamin C, can be ingested to reduce fever,
stomach distress and dysentery.
Flu, Headaches, and Backaches
This remedy is useful for flu as well as for backaches and headaches.
1 tablespoon - boneset
1 tablespoon - skullcap
1 tablespoon - white yarrow
1 teaspoon - psyllium seed
Honey or corn syrup
Distilled water
Put 1 tablespoon each of white yarrow, boneset, and skullcap in a pint of water. Simmer for 30 minutes. Strain. Add 1 tablespoon of this liquid and 1 teaspoon of psyllium seed, flavored, to one cup of boiling water. Sweeten with
corn syrup. Drink every 30 minutes.
This remedy is useful for flu as well as for backaches and headaches.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
~Larry King
Lobelia has been traditionally revered for its soothing properties that nourish the nervous system. Lobelia also enhances the function of the respiratory system and has antispasmodic effects. It has been used in preparations designed to lessen one's desire for nicotine.
http://possumsal.homestead.com/colds.htm...
Home made chicken soup is the best. It helps the body heal and is easy on the stomach. Also drink lots of fluids like water and apple juice and lay back and take it easy for a few days. Sometimes getting sick is the body's way of saying it needs a little time off from the grind. Hope you feel better quickly.
chicken soup!!
It contains cysteine, an amino acid that imparts that wonderfully piquant, chicken-soup flavor. It also has numerous health benefits.
LOVE
“Love vs. Attachment”
What in the world is the difference between loving a person and being attached to them ?
Love is the sincere wish for others to be happy, and to be free from suffering.
Having realistically recognized others' kindness as well as their faults, love is always focused on the other persons welfare. We have No ulterior motives to fulfull our self-interest, or to fulfill our desires; to love others simply because they exist.
Attachment, on the other hand, exaggertes others' good qualitities and makes us crave to be with them. When we're with them, we're happy, but when we're separated from them, we are often miserable. Attachment is linked with expectations of what others should be or do.
Is love as it is usually understood in our society
really love ? or attachment ? or even possibly for some, only lust.
Let us examine this a bit more. Generally we are attracted to people either because they have qualities we value or because they help us in some way. If we observe our own thought processes mindfully, and carefully - we'll notice that we look for specific qualities in others.
Some of these qualities we find attractive, others are those our parents, or society value.
We examine someone's looks, body, education,
financial situation, social status. This is how most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value to us.
In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us. If they help us, praise us, make us feel secure, listen to what we have to say, care for us when we are sick or depressed, we consider them good people, and it is this type of people we are most likely to be more attracted to.
But this is very biased, for we judge them only in terms of how they relate to us , as if we are the most important person in the world.
After we've judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them it appears to us as if goodness is coming from them, but if we are more aware, we recognize that we have projected this goodness onto them.
Desiring to be with the people alot who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo's -
when we're with these people, we're Up, when we're not with these people, we're Down.
Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with those people will be and thus have expectations of them. When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we're very disappointed, or may become angry !
We want them to change so that they will they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from the other people.
Our problems arise not because others aren't
who we thought they we're, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they
aren't.
Checklist: I Love You if __________
What we call love is most often attachment.
It is actually a disturbing attitude that overestamates the qualities of another person.
We then cling to tightly to that person, thinking our happiness depends on that person.
Love, on the other hand, is an open and very calm, relaxed attitude. We want someone to be happy, and free from suffering simply because they exist. While attachment is uncontrolled and much too sentimental, Love is direct and powerful. Attachment obscures our judgment and we become impatient, angry, and impartial, helping only our dear one's and harming those who we don't like. Love builds up others, and clarifies our minds, and we
access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachment is based on
selfishness, while Love is founded upon cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to the eyes. Love looks beyond
all the superficial appearences, and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want inner peace, happiness, and want to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, dirty, ignorant people, we feel repulsed because our selfish minds watn to know attractive, intellectual, clean, and talented people. Love, on the other hand, never evaluates others by these superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others' appearances, their experience is the same as ours: they seek inner peace, to be happy, to be free from sufferings, and to do their best to avoid problems.
When we're attached, we're not mentally and emotionally free. We overly depend on and cling to another person to fulfill our mental and especially our emotional needs. We fear losing the person, feeling we'd be incomplete without him.
This does not mean that we should suppress our emotional needs or become aloof, alone and totally independent, for that too does not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs, and slowly seek to eliminate them. Some emotional needs may be so strong that they can't be dissolved immediately.
If we try to suppress them or pretend they do not exist, we become anxious, insecure, falling into a depression. In this case, we can do our best to fulfill our needs while simultaneously working gradually to subdue them.
The core problem is we seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others rather than to understand them. In all honesty, our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfishness obscuring our own
minds. 'We can develop self-confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a selfless human being with many, many magnificient qualities, then we'll develop a true and accurate feeling of self-confidence. And
then we'll seek to increase true love, without attachments, to increase compassion, to cultivate patience and understanding, as well as generousity, concentration and wisdom.'
'Under the influence of attachment we're bound by our emotional reactions to others. When they are nice to us, we're happy. When they ignore us, or speak sharply to us, we take it personally and are unhappy. But pasifying attachment doesn't mean we become hard-hearted. Rather, without attachment there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine Affection and Impartial Love for them.
We'll be actively involved with them.
If we learn to subdue our attachments, we can most definately have successful friendships and personal relationships with others !! These relationships will be richer because of the freedom and respect - the relationships will be based on. We'll care about the happiness and the misery of all human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same in wanting and needing inner peace, happiness, and not wanting to suffer. However, our lifestyles and interests may be more compatible with those of some people more so than with others, and that is alright. In any case, our relationships will be based on mutual Love, mutual interests, and the wish to help each other in life.
Drink a cup of Pennyroyal tea and stay under the covers. It will be gone over night. One sprig or 1 tsp. of tea to one cup of hot water.
Fresh apples, broccoli and carrots.
sorry you're sick :( get plenty of rest.
peace
boil chicken or beef bone for about 2 days then strain it and add veggies to it or you can leave veggies out if you want and just drink the broth and that will help any sickness you have
Drinking chlorophyll will help to turn the acid in your stomach alkaline. If you don't have that, try using 1 Tablespoon of Apple Cider vinegar and 1 teaspoon of honey in an 8 oz glass of water. Both of these will alkalinize the system and clear up vomiting and acidic diarrhea. Don't gulp it down, just sip it. Hope you feel better.
when my daughter got the flu (not the stomach flu) the cold type flu the pediatrician said to get Elderberry syrup available at health stores like whole foods stores etc...hope that helps it's all natural from Elderberries and contains no alcohol.
If you go to a health food store and ask for the homeopathy section, you will find a natual cure for the flu. It is very inexpensive so don't let them sell you something else. It not only treats the symptoms but also targets what caused the problem. Hahenemann Hospital in Philadelphia is named after the founder of homeopathy. The royal family in England all use it. They have it for colds, flu, arthritis, etc.
Good luck
Sprite or 7up or gigger ale. Crackers. Chicken soup. Hot tea with lemon and honey. SLEEP!!!!
Tea
Chicken soup
Curl up in a blanket
Take Vit C - Strawberries have more than an orange!
Relax.
Take garlic tablets to help speed recovery and prevent.
If you love old wives tales.. chop up an onion, place it equally in each sock and wear it. Let your feet squish into the onion. It smells horrible and it works!
Or you could just take some equally horrible Buckleys.
COLDS AND FLU
If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
~Gladstone, 1865
Cold and Flu Bath Blend
Mix equal parts Eucalyptus, Rosemary, Calendula and Peppermint. Steep in hot bath water or make a simple infusion.
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As soon as I feel the slightest sniffle or hint of a sore throat, I take 1000 mg
of vitamin C, 800 mg of echinacea, and two Blackmores horseradish and garlic
tablets, and I take them three times a day until the sniffles are gone. I cook
lots of pasta dishes with tomatoes, onions and garlic, and I drink lots of
orange juice and herbal tea. I also like to take a hot bath with a handful of
herbs tied in a calico bag and soaked in the water (eucalyptus leaves, rosemary,
pennyroyal is one of my favorites). Sipping pineapple juice throughout the day
will ease a sore throat, and makes a pleasant change from orange juice.
Keeping this up for a day or two usually means my cold never gets past its
initial stage. I haven't had a bad cold since I've started using this cold-
chasing technique. Stress can aggravate sickness, though. If you have a cold,
please stay home from work if at all possible, so that you do not spread your
cold to other people and cause them to lose work time too.
Herbal teas for colds: yarrow, rosemary, pennyroyal (but not during pregnancy!)
or peppermint.
Bath for colds: 2 drops thyme oil, 2 drops tea-tree oil, 4 drops lemon oil, 1
drop eucalyptus oil. Swish round in the bath water before getting in. Don't use
if you're nauseous or running a high fever.
Ginger Tea
Use one tablespoon fresh grated ginger root per cup of water. Simmer, covered,
for 20 minutes and sip throughout the day.
Back To Colds
Winter is a time for turning inward, toward home, family, and self. If we listen, we are aware of a directive to slow down and refocus. That makes the next few months an ideal time to explore ways to prevent and treat illness, especially the colds and flus that plague our winter days.
The first step in prevention is keeping our immune systems strong throughout the winter months, and keeping germs at bay. For that purpose, Echinacea (sans Goldenseal) may be taken throughout the winter as a tonic for the immune system. Take one capsule three times a day as a preventive measure, increasing dosages as recommended with the onset of symptoms. (Medicinal herbal tonics are best taken in cycles rather than continuously. Three weeks on, one week off, is a good rule of thumb.)
Baptisia australis aids in resisting infection. Horseradish (armoracia rusticana) and nasturtium (Tropacolum majus) are both warming and rich in vitamin C, with anti-infective properties. A teaspoon of grated horseradish in boiling water makes a bracing drink for winter chills. These herbs, as well as garlic, may be added to a winter diet to increase natural resistance.
Consider incorporating essential oils into your personal care routine for an extra measure of defense; all possess antiseptic properties. Select high quality, pure oils and prepare your body before exposing it to the elements. Add several drops to your bath water, or apply using a loofah or cloth as you shower; try geranium, lavender, and tea tree oils. Combine essential oils with a carrier oil--about five drops per teaspoon--for a body oil. Blend oils for your own personal scent.
A handkerchief or tissue imbued with a drop of cinnamon, lavender, or tea tree can provide an instant inhalation if you are in the company of obvious germ-carriers. Lemon, lavender, and orange essential oils are good choices for sprays to purify the air around you, or the mouthpiece of a communal phone. Use a minimum of four drops per cup of water. If a sore throat threatens, place cotton imbued with a drop of lavender oil in each ear. Wear continuously for 7-10 days.
Examine the stress level in your life as well. Chronic stress severely compromises the immune system. Relentlessly extending yourself beyond your limits is never advisable, but continuing to do so during the winter months is also at odds with your body's natural seasonal inclinations. Winter is a time for rest and rejuvenation. Take time to evaluate your priorities and eliminate needless pressures. Learn meditation or yoga, or explore another neglected area of interest. Don't, however, just add more commitments to your schedule. Instead, simplify and focus.
Most herbal and homeopathic medicines recommend that you should begin treatment at the first sign of illness. It is necessary then to know what your own personal indicators are; to do this, you must first pay attention. When I am getting sick, coffee becomes unappealing to me. Even the smell of coffee is not enticing. If I listen, I respond to my body's request for water and herbal teas, avoiding the dehydrating effects of coffee.
If I listen, I have time to supplement my immune system and consider how I will treat my illness before I am too sick to run to the store for vitamin C crystals or to think of anything but relief. Learn to recognize the indications that your own advance warning system is working. Certain foods or groups of foods may suddenly become unappealing (like sweets, which suppress the immune system). If food in general is unappealing, eat lighter, and eat less. You may suddenly require more sleep than usual, or become fatigued midday. Your skin may break out, or your eyes might appear glassy. Once you are aware, you can begin to respond.
Popular culture urges us in the opposite direction, encouraging us to take a symptom-relieving cold treatment, gulp an extra cup of coffee, drag off to work, and perhaps, reward ourselves for the effort with a sugary treat. The result is a body which is not only unprepared to fight the imminent illness, but is further compromised by energy lost in struggling against its natural, healing instincts. Under such circumstances, self-limiting illnesses, like colds and flu, often develop into more serious complaints: throat or sinus infections, bronchitis, pleurisy, or pneumonia.
If, despite all precautions, colds and flu prevail, natural remedies can help to ease the symptoms and speed recovery. Chinese medicine stresses the use of warm herbs and food if the body is chilled or cold (yin), cooling herbs and foods if the body is overheated (yang). The goal is to balance the hot with the cold--or vice versa. This is a good point from which to begin, as it corresponds with most theories of herbal and homeopathic medicine. Colds and flus usually begin as cold illnesses. If a fever develops treatment should change as the symptoms change. When a sore throat or other inflammation is present, a hot illness is indicated. Pungent foods induce perspiration, and perspiration should be encouraged in all cases.
Ginger is indispensable in the treatment of cold afflictions. Ginger tea is not only a satisfying winter beverage, but one which warms the body, treats the common cold, soothes coughs, and relieves vomiting. Old ginger or mother ginger, available at Chinese markets, is preferred for medicinal purposes. A strong spicy drink may be made by boiling grated ginger root in a cup or two of water. Add sugar or honey to treat a cough. Boil with dried orange peel, using a ratio of 1:2, for vomiting and cough associated with a cold. If dried ginger is not available, you may use fresh or baby ginger, or one drop of ginger essential oil in a glass of hot water. Ginger oil or grated ginger may also be applied externally by adding to hot bath water. Soaking or washing with gingered water induces perspiration.
Fennel and caraway are basically interchangeable. They are both considered warming and are used to treat vomiting. Both may be used as seasoning throughout the winter (some sources actually credit fennel with being a flu-preventative) and also taken in medicinal doses with the onset of symptoms. Fennel oil may be inhaled or used in a vaporizer. Marjoram tea is suitable for colds or flu with fever, as marjoram is a cool and pungent herb. It induces perspiration and relieves mucous discharge.
Peppermint and spearmint are particularly effective in treating headaches associated with colds and flu, as well as for settling the stomach. Peppermint is cool and pungent in nature, while spearmint is warm, pungent, and sweet. Peppermint oil may be applied externally, diluted in a carrier oil, to soothe aching muscles and cool fever. It may also be taken internally for vomiting. Try one drop on a sugar cube or two drops in a glass of water. Spearmint may be used similarly, when symptoms are cold in nature. Either herb may also be inhaled as an essential oil or consumed as an herbal tea.
Lemon, oranges, grapefruit, onions, radishes, garlic, and honey are all useful in treating colds and flu. Take time this winter to learn the properties of these foods, then experiment to create soups and teas that will soothe your symptoms. Above all, learn to listen to your body as it tells you what it needs. If you listen, it will speak.
DISCLAIMER: Choosing a holistic approach to medicine means choosing personal responsibility for your health care. Herbs for Health offers a doorway through which to enter the realm of herbal healing, an invitation to further investigation on the part of the reader. It is in no way intended as a substitute for advice from a health care practitioner.
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Cold and Flu Remedies
By Meg McGowan
Conscious Choice, January 1997
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse
BARBERRY BARK: High in Vitamin C, can be ingested to reduce fever,
stomach distress and dysentery.
Flu, Headaches, and Backaches
This remedy is useful for flu as well as for backaches and headaches.
1 tablespoon - boneset
1 tablespoon - skullcap
1 tablespoon - white yarrow
1 teaspoon - psyllium seed
Honey or corn syrup
Distilled water
Put 1 tablespoon each of white yarrow, boneset, and skullcap in a pint of water. Simmer for 30 minutes. Strain. Add 1 tablespoon of this liquid and 1 teaspoon of psyllium seed, flavored, to one cup of boiling water. Sweeten with
corn syrup. Drink every 30 minutes.
This remedy is useful for flu as well as for backaches and headaches.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
~Larry King
Lobelia has been traditionally revered for its soothing properties that nourish the nervous system. Lobelia also enhances the function of the respiratory system and has antispasmodic effects. It has been used in preparations designed to lessen one's desire for nicotine.
http://possumsal.homestead.com/colds.htm...
Home made chicken soup is the best. It helps the body heal and is easy on the stomach. Also drink lots of fluids like water and apple juice and lay back and take it easy for a few days. Sometimes getting sick is the body's way of saying it needs a little time off from the grind. Hope you feel better quickly.
chicken soup!!
It contains cysteine, an amino acid that imparts that wonderfully piquant, chicken-soup flavor. It also has numerous health benefits.
LOVE
“Love vs. Attachment”
What in the world is the difference between loving a person and being attached to them ?
Love is the sincere wish for others to be happy, and to be free from suffering.
Having realistically recognized others' kindness as well as their faults, love is always focused on the other persons welfare. We have No ulterior motives to fulfull our self-interest, or to fulfill our desires; to love others simply because they exist.
Attachment, on the other hand, exaggertes others' good qualitities and makes us crave to be with them. When we're with them, we're happy, but when we're separated from them, we are often miserable. Attachment is linked with expectations of what others should be or do.
Is love as it is usually understood in our society
really love ? or attachment ? or even possibly for some, only lust.
Let us examine this a bit more. Generally we are attracted to people either because they have qualities we value or because they help us in some way. If we observe our own thought processes mindfully, and carefully - we'll notice that we look for specific qualities in others.
Some of these qualities we find attractive, others are those our parents, or society value.
We examine someone's looks, body, education,
financial situation, social status. This is how most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value to us.
In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us. If they help us, praise us, make us feel secure, listen to what we have to say, care for us when we are sick or depressed, we consider them good people, and it is this type of people we are most likely to be more attracted to.
But this is very biased, for we judge them only in terms of how they relate to us , as if we are the most important person in the world.
After we've judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them it appears to us as if goodness is coming from them, but if we are more aware, we recognize that we have projected this goodness onto them.
Desiring to be with the people alot who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo's -
when we're with these people, we're Up, when we're not with these people, we're Down.
Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with those people will be and thus have expectations of them. When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we're very disappointed, or may become angry !
We want them to change so that they will they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from the other people.
Our problems arise not because others aren't
who we thought they we're, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they
aren't.
Checklist: I Love You if __________
What we call love is most often attachment.
It is actually a disturbing attitude that overestamates the qualities of another person.
We then cling to tightly to that person, thinking our happiness depends on that person.
Love, on the other hand, is an open and very calm, relaxed attitude. We want someone to be happy, and free from suffering simply because they exist. While attachment is uncontrolled and much too sentimental, Love is direct and powerful. Attachment obscures our judgment and we become impatient, angry, and impartial, helping only our dear one's and harming those who we don't like. Love builds up others, and clarifies our minds, and we
access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachment is based on
selfishness, while Love is founded upon cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to the eyes. Love looks beyond
all the superficial appearences, and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want inner peace, happiness, and want to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, dirty, ignorant people, we feel repulsed because our selfish minds watn to know attractive, intellectual, clean, and talented people. Love, on the other hand, never evaluates others by these superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others' appearances, their experience is the same as ours: they seek inner peace, to be happy, to be free from sufferings, and to do their best to avoid problems.
When we're attached, we're not mentally and emotionally free. We overly depend on and cling to another person to fulfill our mental and especially our emotional needs. We fear losing the person, feeling we'd be incomplete without him.
This does not mean that we should suppress our emotional needs or become aloof, alone and totally independent, for that too does not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs, and slowly seek to eliminate them. Some emotional needs may be so strong that they can't be dissolved immediately.
If we try to suppress them or pretend they do not exist, we become anxious, insecure, falling into a depression. In this case, we can do our best to fulfill our needs while simultaneously working gradually to subdue them.
The core problem is we seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others rather than to understand them. In all honesty, our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfishness obscuring our own
minds. 'We can develop self-confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a selfless human being with many, many magnificient qualities, then we'll develop a true and accurate feeling of self-confidence. And
then we'll seek to increase true love, without attachments, to increase compassion, to cultivate patience and understanding, as well as generousity, concentration and wisdom.'
'Under the influence of attachment we're bound by our emotional reactions to others. When they are nice to us, we're happy. When they ignore us, or speak sharply to us, we take it personally and are unhappy. But pasifying attachment doesn't mean we become hard-hearted. Rather, without attachment there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine Affection and Impartial Love for them.
We'll be actively involved with them.
If we learn to subdue our attachments, we can most definately have successful friendships and personal relationships with others !! These relationships will be richer because of the freedom and respect - the relationships will be based on. We'll care about the happiness and the misery of all human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same in wanting and needing inner peace, happiness, and not wanting to suffer. However, our lifestyles and interests may be more compatible with those of some people more so than with others, and that is alright. In any case, our relationships will be based on mutual Love, mutual interests, and the wish to help each other in life.
Drink a cup of Pennyroyal tea and stay under the covers. It will be gone over night. One sprig or 1 tsp. of tea to one cup of hot water.
Fresh apples, broccoli and carrots.
sorry you're sick :( get plenty of rest.
peace
boil chicken or beef bone for about 2 days then strain it and add veggies to it or you can leave veggies out if you want and just drink the broth and that will help any sickness you have
Drinking chlorophyll will help to turn the acid in your stomach alkaline. If you don't have that, try using 1 Tablespoon of Apple Cider vinegar and 1 teaspoon of honey in an 8 oz glass of water. Both of these will alkalinize the system and clear up vomiting and acidic diarrhea. Don't gulp it down, just sip it. Hope you feel better.
when my daughter got the flu (not the stomach flu) the cold type flu the pediatrician said to get Elderberry syrup available at health stores like whole foods stores etc...hope that helps it's all natural from Elderberries and contains no alcohol.
If you go to a health food store and ask for the homeopathy section, you will find a natual cure for the flu. It is very inexpensive so don't let them sell you something else. It not only treats the symptoms but also targets what caused the problem. Hahenemann Hospital in Philadelphia is named after the founder of homeopathy. The royal family in England all use it. They have it for colds, flu, arthritis, etc.
Good luck
Sprite or 7up or gigger ale. Crackers. Chicken soup. Hot tea with lemon and honey. SLEEP!!!!
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Garlic is probably the best food for it although if it is boiled it loses it's healing properites. You can also try using fresh ginger and boiling it to make a tea. Many people like echinacea but I fo
Fill your bathtub with as much water as you can and make sure the water is as hot as you can tolerate.
Being immersed in this hot water will help kill the virus in your system (that's why you
Being immersed in this hot water will help kill the virus in your system (that's why you
Go get all lumps that get bigger checked by a doctor. Do you know if the lump has been diagnosed as a ganglion? Better to be sure. It may have been something excacerbated by the vaccine or it may be t
I would highly recommend it. We were offered the flu jab in work three years ago and it was the first time I had a whole winter without manky germs!! Most of my colleagues thought that it made a big d
I really don't think it'll help to cure it but it may make you feel a bit better temporarily.
Sorry you're not feeling good. Get lots of sleep if you can.
Sorry you're not feeling good. Get lots of sleep if you can.
Just lots of bed rest mate, and some nice soup :-)
PROS: Huge profit for drug companies and doctors.
CONS: The last few years the shot wasn't even effective on prevelent strains of the flu.
Right to lifers may want to see what is used to
CONS: The last few years the shot wasn't even effective on prevelent strains of the flu.
Right to lifers may want to see what is used to
IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.
Scientists have found that honey has various vitamin
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.
Scientists have found that honey has various vitamin
In our state Robitussin formulations (specific one) and some others are behind the pharmacists counter and have to be asked for because they are used to make illegal drugs for highs. I don't know that
Cheap local whiskey. Works every time!
The answers so far are all correct.
Its important to keep warm, and sweat it out. Do not take aspirin, or Tamiflu, or any other concoctions which are designed to reduce the fever. The fever is wha
Its important to keep warm, and sweat it out. Do not take aspirin, or Tamiflu, or any other concoctions which are designed to reduce the fever. The fever is wha
Whatever ways you may try, please see a doctor if you have fever before embarking on any suggestions you may receive. To get rid of a cough fast, avoid cold drink and also things that will leave remna