Thursday, Dec 1, 2011Cold and Flu Season Home Care

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while Nature affects the cure.” ~  Voltaire

Health is a condition the majority of us were born with and have enjoyed for many seasons – even the cold and flu season. If you knew that by thinking “I am perfect health” believed to the point of complete conviction you would never get sick, I’m sure you would think it.

Many of us, however, weren’t taught that by our predecessors, so we have experienced less than perfect health.  If you can begin to think it now, you will help yourself back toward your rightful inheritance, and these home-care treatments will also help you return to the perfect health you were born with:

• Keep yourself hydrated with soups, water, juices and teas.
• Over-the-shelf ibuprofen is great for aches and fevers.
• Salt water eases the pain of a sore throat.
• 2000 mg of vitamin C can be absorbed daily by the body and is thought to shorten the duration of a cold.
• Get a little more rest and do your work more slowly. Extra sleep helps the body recuperate. This is especially important during the cold and flu season.
• Keep the air moist with a cool mist humidifier.
• A hot shower will relieve nasal stuffiness as will using a Neti pot.
• Keep petroleum jelly handy for your sore nose and use tissues with lotion in them.
• Taking a nasal decongestant will relieve stuffiness, as will a mentholated steam treatment.
• An antihistamine will help alleviate allergy symptoms.
• Ginger tea helps with nausea.

Stay happy during the Christmas shopping season. If you are filled with the joy of the upcoming celebrations and preparing things for them, you won’t have time to get sick.  If you substituted every “I think I’m getting a cold” thought with “No!  Not this cold and flu season!  I’m too happy to get sick,” then you’ll have the same wonderful holiday I’m planning to enjoy.  Best wishes!

“An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one’s experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. ~ Sholem Asch