Angle of Attack: Flu
Forget magical bullets. There is no silver bullet for the flu, absolutely no stake of holly through the heart.You have to fight the flu, from all angles, as if it were a vicious foreign invader, an invader intent on using your body to spread its ideology and reality. This is exactly what the flu is, and there is no magic bullet to slay the fierce enemy. Do everything possible to hamper the enemy, to cause it to stumble, to make its chosen environment (your body) an unfavorable battlefield, ensuring that YOU always maintain the high ground. All the while ensure that your body is rested, hydrated, and that every advantage in the horrific battle is on your side. Don't give the flu a fighting chance. Don't give the flu any quarter. Don't buy into the propaganda that it is nothing, or a hoax, or that the Government has the cure. It is something, the flu is not a hoax, and the Government certainly doesn't have anything close to a cure for influenza.
Rest, hydrate, exercise, get lots of sunshine, and balance your spiritual life. Rely on a plant-based diet, keep a positive attitude, and never flag in your resolution to fighting the flu. Keep up the good fight. Keep your natural weapons close at hand (garlic, ginger, onions, salt, sauerkraut, elderberry, and vaporizers).
At the very first symptoms of the flu virus in action, actively and fiercely taking over the battleground that is to be your body (the most dangerous symptoms are the tell-tale "chills," especially on a warm day or in a warm house, sudden headache, itching in the throat and/or nose, the beginnings of an overall achiness in the bones, especially when all of these signs begin suddenly in concert), immediately:
1. Nasal Flush. Implement the NeilMed Nasal flush, with at least one teaspoon of sea salt thoroughly mixed into warm, purified water. You may also add a quarter teaspoon baking soda to make the nasal flush a more soothing experience. Repeat this process at least twice, to thoroughly irrigate and cleanse the nasal passages. You are washing the virus from its favorite haunt. This is the equivalent to washing your hands, only you are washing inside your nose and nasal cavities with warm, soothing, healing salt water.
2. Salt Water Gargle. Immediately gargle with warm salt water, slowly and thoroughly empting two glasses of gargle (a tablespoon of sea salt in a warm glass of water) to clear and cleanse the throat. Your grandma knew best. This works. Immediately after the nose flush, do the salt-water throat flush.
Note: The flu generally establishes its launching pad in the throat and nasal passages. Fight back in these two areas immediately. The NeilMed Nasal Flush, and Salt Water Gargle. The flu in its entirety cannot be defeated with these two measures, but you certainly can cause the flu offensive to stumble, right at the beginning.
3. Ginger/Oregano Assault. Immediately after nasal flush and gargle, drop a Gut Bomb on the flu virus to disrupt the Flu War Machine. Blast the flu virus with two capsules of Ginger, and four capsules of Oregano oil (if you have never implemented these herbs before then use two Ginger capsules and two Oregano capsules). If using Oreganol, take four drops beneath the tongue, and do not swallow or drink any beverage for at least thirty seconds. Oregano works best with Ginger, and Ginger works best with Oregano oil. Launch these two herbs as allied missiles against the flu.
Note: At this point all flu symptoms may appear to vanish. Warning, do not be fooled. If you feel better, at least well enough to eat something, DO NOT eat the usual junk you consume.
WARNING: Stay away from fast food. Heat up a bowl of sauerkraut with onions and garlic, and begin to drink cleansed, purified, filtered water. Drink Green Tea.
4. Sauerkraut with Onions and Garlic. If you feel well enough to eat something, heat a pan of Sauerkraut, mixing in lots of onions and at least a full clove of Garlic (diced small). Also, add Ginger (spice form) and Oregano (spice form) to the dish (make sure you are employing organic spices). An alternative to Sauerkraut is Tofu Noodle Soup (click here), perhaps the greatest flu-fighting meal, a truly comforting soup (better in every which way compared to chicken noodle soup).
Also, importantly, slice onions and place in well-trafficked areas of your house, especially wherever the sick reside. Stronger smelling onions are better, yellow or red, or heirloom white. Also place bits of freshly-diced onion in the vaporizer dish just beneath the steam spout. This measure is to fill the air with a joint sulfur/humidity vapor, to cut back the spread of the influenza virus.
Note: After eating Sauerkraut or Tofu Noodle Soup, you may feel that the war has been won. In fact, you may feel great. Do not be deceived. Begin to drink water, lots of water, good clean water, water that has been either previously boiled, or water that has been purified and filtered. And did I mention green tea?
5. Green Tea. Fix yourself a hot cup of Green Tea, add Honey and Lemon Juice. Sip this concoction, and pray. The Flu is a fierce enemy, and much, much smarter than you, and me too, my friend. Have hope. When suffering with the flu, hydrate your body with Green Tea (even if you do not like Green Tea). Green Tea has been proven to make for an inhospitable environment for the flu, and it is chock full of antioxidants.
6. Humidity. The flu virus does not appreciate humidity, not at all. Establish a secure perimeter by standing a Vaporizer Sentinel near your bed. Obtain several of the cheap Vicks (hot steam) vaporizers and fire these babies up. Hot steam shooting near you while you sleep is important. Beginning just prior to flu season, or NOW with the unseasonal Swine Flu oinking at your door, have the vaporizers vaporizing, because, as previously mentioned, the Flu War Machine does not appreciate establishing its HQ in humidity, it much prefers dryness, and cold. Do not give it what it wants. If you have children that play at home during the day, keep a vaporizer steaming up the room they are most often in (and be certain to talk to your children about the vaporizer, how it is dangerous, how they must not touch it or stand directly in front of the steam).
Caution. Use Your Brain. At all times use your brain. In all measures, use your brain. Please use caution and ensure that the vaporizer is situated in a safe location, plugged into a safe outlet (not an octopus of wires), and use your brain, in all cases and measures, use your brain. Also, please note, it is the author's express opinion, that you should employ your gray matter, thank you very much, and please.
7. REST. Believe it or not, rest is important. Especially if you feel you have been touched by the flu, get comfortable in your jammies, have a nice pot that you don't mind vomiting into (not that you want to vomit, this is just a worst-case scenario) close alongside your bed, and with vaporizer vaporizing, get some good, deep sleep. Remember, rest. Can you remember that? You have been told, I might say commanded, to rest, and not by me, by Someone much higher than me. Rest, and sip your Green Tea with Honey and Lemon, and perhaps a sprinkle of Ginger. And pray. Rest and Pray, and Trust in God.
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If you have not contracted the flu, and are doing your best NOT to get it, then rest fully, and maintain a good, healthy, regular, balanced diet. Incorporate MUCH MORE leafy green vegetables into your diet, every day, as well as lots, lots and more lots of FRUIT. Much of your immune system depends upon a healthy body, and a healthy body depends upon a healthy diet (and rest). Eat more salads, and eat more fruit, and incorporate Ginger and Oregano oil into your cooking, as well as daily supplements.
As far as daily supplements go, take a good daily vitamin, as well as preventative doses of Vitamin C and Vitamin D, and pack these with accompanying capsules of Ginger and Oregano oil. And Probiotics, keep your body rosy red inside with healthy yogurt (I suggest Silk Soy Yogurt). The soy will do you good, as well as the live acidophilus cultures (that healthy, friendly bacteria).
Is this Flu Angle of Attack perfect? Certainly not, as the flu is a tough customer under almost any circumstances, and all the modern pallatives don't even begin to offer a "cure," and it seems that the best way is the natural way. It is certainly not a magic bullet, there is no magic bullet, but all seven of these are real, they are effective, and amazingly, all are extremely cheap and can mostly be found at your local drug store and local health food store. Do steps 1-7 at the very beginning of the symptoms, and then keep doing them, perhaps three times a day, and the next day, even if you feel better. These seven steps aid the immune system, provide a hostile territory that the flu does not favor, and the attempt is made to keep the flu at a low-level burn, so that the immune system does not freak out (see Cytokine Storm) and go overboard in its defense, and end up destroying what it desperately attempting to defend (your body).
Be vigilant. Don't panic. Go with the truth...
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Elderberry disarms viruses by binding to them and preventing them from getting into the body. Flavonoids found in the berries are thought to coat the virus and inhibit the action of an enzyme called neuraminidase that otherwise would break down the cell wall membrane and allow the virus to spread. Elderberry also enhances immunity by increasing the production of special white blood cells that fight viruses and acts as a potent antioxidant.
