Seven Ways to Avoid the Flu

The symptoms of flu, or influenza, that sets it apart from an ordinary cold are fever and body aches. You can also have the normal cold symptoms of discharge, headaches, cough, and sore throat as these can relate to any upper respiratory tract problem. You also might have gastrointestinal problems.

Most people suffer from the occasional cold during autumn, winter or spring. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Discharges can be a toxic clearing, so should never be suppressed.

However, most people would prefer to avoid the debilitating types of flu. Here are seven ways that you can start now, to remain healthy next season.

1. Make sure you eat well. This means lots of fresh fruit and vegetables that should make up at least 50% of your diet. Raw is best. Eat lots of green, leafy vegetables. Avoid or limit processed food (white sugar, artificial sweeteners, white flour, white rice). Limit dairy and meat.
2. Get plenty of sun. These days, the sun has an unfounded bad reputation. If you’re not getting enough sun, it’s likely you’ll never be well. How much is enough sun? That depends on you, your location and the season. But I suggest one hour is the minimum daily exposure (not necessarily in the middle of the summer, in the middle of the day).
3. Make sure you keep your liquids up. Drink when you’re thirsty. Avoid or limit soft drinks.
4. Adequate rest is essential to keeping your body healthy. If you are burning the candle at both ends, don’t expect to avoid any illness.
5. Taking a whole food (as opposed to the common synthetic) supplement can be hugely beneficial in topping up any nutritional deficiencies that may be caused either by your diet or by the way food is produced. Blue green algae are the best whole food supplements.
6. Be a happy, optimistic person. If you’re not that sort of person, work on it, or get professional help. Optimistic people are much healthier than pessimistic ones.
7. Take the homeopathic flu preventer, Oscillococcinum, also called Anas barb. This is available from homeopathic pharmacies, online,  and from some homeopaths, naturopaths, pharmacies, health shops.

These measures are going to do you a great deal more good than remaining in bad living habits and relying on medication or vaccination to provide you with protection against the flu, or a particular strain.

All medication does is to suppress the symptoms, not cure the flu. All vaccination does is to prevent that particular strain, at best. But they can cause neurological damage, or even kill you, at worst.

And the vaccination doesn’t prevent the sequelae, or the spin off. These symptoms go undetected by everyone except the patient and homeopaths.

Treat Flu at Home

For most people, flu comes a few times in your life. You go to bed for a few days, sleep if off and you’re back at work. It’s inconvenient. But if you have reasonable health, it’s not going to be serious.

If you can treat flu at home, this time off becomes shorter. And it’s so much nicer staying at home, in the comfort of your own bed, with your loved ones looking after you.

To treat your own flu, you probably need a bit of help. Obviously, if it’s serious you need professional help.

But if you just feel run down, have a bit of a fever and body aches, chances are that bed rest and a bit of help is all you’ll need to affect a complete recovery.

Homeopathic medicines, ones which are chosen based on their similarity to your unique symptoms, can totally reverse the flu in a matter of hours, if it’s not far advanced and you have a strong immune system.

I well remember being totally wiped out with the flu once. So much so that it took me several hours before I could work out which medicine to take. But once I did, I was back to more or less normal in a few hours. And totally recovered by the next day.

The key here is that I treated it early one and I have a good immune system. This is indicated by the speed with which you recover from an illness. Not that you don’t get ill.

A good strong immune system is likely to create a violent fever. It can because you can cope with it. And a violent fever is more likely to get rid of the pathogen fast, than a mild one. And that’s the object of your body’s symptoms.

By purchasing a homeopathic home prescribing kit, or a few medicines which are particularly good at resolving flus and virus’, you can treat flu at home. Add to that a good diet, and your immune system will improve immeasurably.

Heal an Irritable Partner With Manflu?

I slipped and fell heavily recently. As I had taken Arnica immediately afterwards, I didn’t expect anything to develop, so was surprised that the following day I did have a chest pain, at the point that took the impact of landing. It didn’t seem to be a muscle pain and I had no weakness, so ruled out tendon damage (who needs X-rays, when you’re in tune with your body?)

So I came to the conclusion that I had bruised a rib. Symphytum (the top broken bone remedy) did nothing. A few doses of Bryonia and the pain vanished.

This week, we’re looking at another flu remedy, but before we do that, I want to tell you about it’s non-flu healing properties, just in case you are getting heartily fed up with the swine flu, the bird flu, any flu.

A recent UK visitor, who came to conduct a seminar here, was telling me a time when he felt very ill and had taken to his bed. He didn’t know what he had and felt too ill to work out his remedy.

Until...

The eureka moment came when he realised he was feeling angry that his wife had visitors. And they talked, making a noise... That’s when he took Bryonia and started to get better.

Bryonia is very easily irritated, even angry, especially at being disturbed. Bryonia wants to be left alone and quiet and above all, wants to be still. The slightest movement upsets someone needing Bryonia. Even moving the eyes, if the eyes are the problem.

Generally, those needing Bryonia have dry mucous membranes.

The worse time is around 9 pm.

If you have a pain anywhere, this is improved by pressing on it or lying on it.

It’s a very typical headache remedy, especially if the headache starts over your left eye then extends over your whole head, and it’s worse by any movement or noise. Even a cough will aggravate it.

And you have an enormous thirst for huge amounts infrequently.

Just the thirst alone sets this remedy aside from the Arsenicum album (sips) and Gelsemium (thirstless) discussed in the last two weeks.

Bryonia is also the top remedy for arthritis and rheumatism which have pains from the slightest movement.

And it’s one of the top remedies for a broken bone, bruised bone, damaged periosteum (lining of the bone) - you can see why, as any movement exacerbates the pain of a broken bone.

Bryonia is one of the most important remedies for appendicitis.

Getting onto the respiratory symptoms, Bryonia covers just about everything - pleurisy, pneumonia, bronchitis and, of course, colds and the flu. Any movement, even breathing hurts, so you prefer to breathe in shallow breaths, or pant.

Coughing is very painful and you try to soften the pain by holding your chest. And your cough is normally dry.

The flu symptoms come with a great aching which is worse from any movement.

For animals, the characteristic signs are a great thirst infrequently, disinclination to move and an irritability. I have prescribed Bryonia for an ageing dog on just those three keynote symptoms. It pealed years off her, bringing her youth and vigour back.

The huge thirst and disinclination to move could result in what appears to be incontinence, but really isn’t. Very common in ageing dogs.

Discover How to Recover From a Purging Type Flu

You may have read that some swine flu sufferers had vomiting and diarrhoea as well as the regular flu symptoms, so today we’re going to focus on a homeopathic remedy which is wonderful for curing colds and flu as well as vomiting and diarrhoea.

It’s pretty embarrassing having vomiting and diarrhoea at the same time, although you’re almost too ill to care. But this is a typical case of food poisoning.

The top remedy for this condition is Arsenicum album. An absolutely invaluable remedy for both you, the home prescriber and for practitioners alike.

Arsenicum album is an enormous remedy with a huge scope for many ailments. Here, we’re focussing on flus and purging.

Typically, those in need of this remedy are either very restless or completely exhausted.

The worse time period is around midnight til about 2 am.

The pains are normally burning in nature. Stomach, anus from diarrhoea, your upper lip from an acrid nasal discharge. The skin goes pink or red from the burning nature of the discharge. Animals may suffer from hair loss in this area, as well.

Those in need of this remedy can be very anxious, if not downright fearful, although this isn’t a necessary symptom in all cases and it isn’t always easy to see in animals.

There is an anxiety from being alone, with a great desire for company.

And you’re cold. You need to be covered up, but there is also a desire for fresh or open air. (Is your animal seeking the sun or the heater?)

As your stomach is upset, you can’t drink much at a time, so you tend to sip.

This remedy can either bring you back from the brink of death, or will counter any fears of death, allowing an easy slipping away. I wouldn’t be without it with animals in the household. And it’s equally helpful for people who have made up their mind to go, but remain fearful.

I want to tell you about a recent case I read about, from Homeopathy 4 Everyone

A woman was suffering from a cerebral stroke and in a coma. After a month of futile treatments, doctors declared her case as hopeless.

Luckily for her, a homeopath was brought in.

Her unique symptoms before and during the stroke were taken.

She was given a common homeopathic remedy, one which is found in all first aid kits for home prescribing, regularly. Within two days she was moving her eyes, blinking and made efforts to speak. After one week she talking, moving her head and asking for food. Within one month she walking with support. Shortly after, she recovered all of her mental functions.

You guessed it. The remedy was Arsenicum album. And you know what? The potency was 30c. Just what you have at your disposal in most home prescribing kits.

Arsenicum album can also be used as a flu preventer. Take one dose a week. If you feel the effects of a cold coming on, it can also be used to prevent it establishing.