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Natural Alternative Flu Home Remedy
By Brian Carter
When Chase-Manhattan lender David
Givens began to feel some of the early symptoms of the flu - fatigue, muscle
aches and pains (not from exercise), and a slight fever - he had no reason to
expect he'd be, as he put it, "amazingly better within 2 days" because of a flu
home remedy.
Fortunately for him, one of his
basketball-playing friends, the author of this article, is a Chinese medicine
acupuncturist and herbalist. When he called me about his symptoms, I recommended
he take a modern Chinese herbal flu home remedy called Honeysuckle & Bupleurum
(pronounced Boo-plur-um).
It was also fortunate for David
that I edit the work of a well-known Chinese Medicine translator, Philippe
Sionneau. Sionneau's book (published in France, but not yet in English), Modern
Chinese Herbal Formulas, contains a bevy of home remedy solutions that marry
ancient wisdom with modern-day pharmacology (drug actions). According to the
research, all 12 of the traditional Chinese herbs in the Honeysuckle & Bupleurum
flu home remedy have either antiviral or antibacterial actions.
For most people, the flu is a
miserable two-week inconvenience. When you get sick, you miss work, you're less
able to fulfill your responsibilities, you feel horrible - fun is out of the
question - when you do begin to feel better, there's a backlog of things to
catch up on. You may start the catch-up process before you have your energy
back, thus ensuring more fatigue, and prolonging your recovery time.
Givens summarizes his experience:
"I was leaving for my brother's wedding back East. Within 2 days of starting the
flu home remedy, I felt amazingly better. I didn't feel it right away but by the
end of the 2nd day, my symptoms were gone - it was a total turnaround. I started
taking the herbs on Wednesday, and left Friday. I didn't feel any symptoms at
all during the weekend."
The influenza virus can be life
threatening - it kills about 36,000 people (mostly over age 65) each year. For
employers, it's a major loss of revenue and productivity. The New England
Journal of Medicine reported in 1995 that it costs employers $3 to $5 million
annually. We don't yet have a study to verify it, but my and other herbalists'
observation is that a flu home remedy like Honeysuckle & Bupleurum cuts cold and
flu time down to 2 or 3 days. If every American employee used them, we'd save
millions!
How do you personally stand to gain
from this flu home remedy? David Givens felt better in 2 days, despite having to
pack, fly across the country, and socialize away from home. Travel and overdoing
it can stress the immune system, plane travel can irritate the sinuses, and
David's immune system had already been compromised by the flu. So, the herbs not
only turned the tide, but also kept him healthy despite greater than normal
stressors.
Givens adds, "There are so many
side effects with over the counter remedies - your nose gets dried out and you
get sleepy. There's always a drawback you feel right away, whereas, with this
flu home remedy, there wasn't one. It's a much cleaner change within body."
If you're not a licensed medical
professional, as with many diseases, please don't make your medical decisions
solely on the basis of your reading and research - consult your medical doctor,
and a licensed and trained herbalist/acupuncturist.
It's also important, when
considering various treatments, to differentiate between colds, flu's, and sinus
infections. You can find the specific symptoms of each on the National Institute
of Health's MEDLINEplus internet health information website (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/).
Since 1999, Brian Carter has been
helping people improve their lives with alternative medicine therapies. He is
the author of "Powerful Body, Peaceful Mind: How to Heal Yourself with Foods,
Herbs, and Acupressure" has written hundreds of alternative medicine articles,
and edits his own
Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture website.
Article Source:
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