Contents:
Definition | Symptoms | Treatment | Nutrients
Herbs | Recommendations | Suggestions | Bibliography
Definition
The flu is a highly contagious respiratory viral infection. Spread easily by coughing, sneezing, and poor hygiene. Vaccines have been only partially effective because of new and different viral strains that are constantly changing.
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Symptoms
Early stages, similar to the common cold, are headache, weakness, and aching of back, arms, and legs. Dry throat and cough, tired quickly, loss of appetite, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. Rarely fatal, flu does make the patient more susceptible to ear infections, pneumonia, and sinus problems. Flu lasts for
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Treatment
Bedrest, plenty of fluids, fever control, relieve symptoms as much as possible.
Go to bed and stop eating. If treatment is started when early symptoms appear, recovery will be in
Eucalyptus oil: Put
One tbsp. slippery elm bark powder mixed with
Echinacea, ginger, pau d’arco, slippery elm, and yarrow tea.
To reduce fever, take catnip tea enemas.
Also,
A tincture of goldenseal and echinacea is recommended for children.
Mix equal parts of juniper berries, black elder flowers, coltsfoot, lance-leaf plantain, and sallow bark. Steep
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Nutrients
Vitamin C,
Zinc Gluconate lozenges, every
Garlic capsules,
Multivitamins, taken as directed on label, gives aid to healing.
Kelp,
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Herbs
- Agrimony
- Ague weed
- Angelica, European
- Basil
- Bayberry
- Birch
- Blood root
- Boneset
- Borage
- Bryony, white
- Burdock, great
- Burnet
- Calendula
- Calla, wild (water-arum)
- Catnip
- Cayenne
- Celandine
- Celery seeds
- Centaury
- Chamomile
- Chrysanthemum flowers
- Cinnamon
- Clover, red
- Coltsfoot
- Costmary
- Cow-parsnip
- Culver’s root
- Dayflower, Asiatic
- Dropwort
- Echinacea
- Elder, black flowers
- Elm, slippery
- Ephedra (Ma huang)
- Eryngo
- Eucalyptus
- Fenugreek
- Fern, maidenhair
- Feverfew
- Flag, sweet
- Garlic
- Ginger, wild
- Golden seal
- Goose grass
- Holly, mountain
- Honeysuckle flowers
- Horsemint
- Horsetail
- Hyssop
- Indigo, wild
- Jasmine, yellow
- Juniper berries
- Kudzu root
- Lady’s slipper
- Lavender
- Life everlasting
- Lobelia
- Lungwort
- Male fern
- Mallow
- Marjoram
- Meadowsweet
- Milkweed
- Mint
- Motherwort
- Mulberry leaves
- Mullein
- Nettle, hedge
- Oak
- Oats
- Onion
- Osha
- Pansy
- Pennyroyal
- Peppermint
- Persimmon bark
- Plantain, lance-leaf
- Pleurisy root
- Poke root
- Primrose
- Raspberry, leaves
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Sallow bark
- Sassafras root
- Senega snakeroot
- Spruce, Norway
- Sticklewort
- Stillingia
- Tamarack
- Tansy
- Thyme, garden
- Vervain, blue
- Violet, garden
- White pine
- Yarrow root
- Yerba santa
Recommendations
Wash hands often, flush tissues after use, do not give aspirin to children with a fever. Check children with frequent colds and flu, for thyroid malfunctions and/or allergies.
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Suggestions
Drink potato peeling soup twice a day, made fresh daily. Potato peelings (the skins) should be peeled
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Bibliography
LiveStrong.com: Fenugreek for Congestion
LiveStrong.com: Fresh Ginger Root for a Cough
LiveStrong.com: Turmeric for Coughs
The Complete Medicinal Herbal
, by Penelope Ody, Dorling Kindersley, Inc, 232 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, First American Edition, copyright 1993
Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Fifth Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements
, by James F. Balch, M.D. and Phyllis A. Balch, C.N.C., Avery Publishing Group, Inc., Garden City Park, NY
The Herb Book
, by John Lust, Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. copyright 1974.
Indian Herbalogy of North America
, by Alma R. Hutchens, Shambala Publications, Inc., Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 1973
Back to Eden
, by Jethro Kloss; Back to Eden Publishing Co., Loma Linda, CA 92354, Original copyright 1939, revised edition 1994
The Old Herb Doctor
, by Joseph E. Meyer, Meyerbooks, publisher, PO Box 427, Glenwood, Illinois 60425, copyright 1984, sixth printing 1994.
Earl Mindell’s Herb Bible
, by Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., Simon & Schuster/Fireside, Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020
Planetary Herbology
, by Michael Tierra, C.A., N.D., O.M.D., Lotus Press, PO Box 325, Twin Lakes. WI 53181., Copyright 1988, published 1992
The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine
, by Dr. David Frawley & Dr. Vasant Lad, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, Second edition, 1988.
Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants
, by Steven Foster and James A. Duke., Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10000
Polygon – Herbalist’s Primer weaves science and fantasy into something more