April 27, 2010
Home Remedies for Stomach Flu
Home remedies, more or less deliver results for so many diseases, from sore throat, flu, to common cold. Often these remedies will make your condition bearable rather than cure it. Actually that is what home herbal remedies are supposed to do – make you feel more comfortable giving your body system enough time to heal. So many people, therefore, rely on home remedies for a large number of common diseases.
The stomach flu is one health problem which is hard to contain with the help of home remedies. It does not mean that there is no remedy for the disease. The real problem is pf containment. Remedies essentially involve swallowing something, and it is almost impossible to swallow when you have a bad stomach flu, simply because anything that goes down is up in seconds.
Even then, there are quite a few remedies worth trying when you have it. Among them, herbal tea stands out. There are several kinds of stomach teas that are very good for you. Peppermint is very soothing on the stomach, as is ginger. If you’re using a ginger tea, however, you should only use a little bit. Once you have a stomach flu, almost anything can irritate your tummy. Remedies that irritate the stomach lining will be no good. They will be out before you can even finish them!
Ironically there is one important upside to stomach flu – it does not last for very long. It will generally start to subside after 12 hours at the most, at which point you can try using some remedies to make you more comfortable. Up to that point, however, there is very little that you can do. There are remedies out there that claim to cure it, but by the time you can take them, the flu will already be mostly gone.
When you have a stomach flu, there is little you can do about it. It all boils down to surviving. Your first task should be to try and keep yourself hydrated, whatever the hardship. You must take in lot of water, sip clear broth if you can, and have some tea from time to time. Anything to keep liquid inside of your body will help.
The stomach flu is one health problem which is hard to contain with the help of home remedies. It does not mean that there is no remedy for the disease. The real problem is pf containment. Remedies essentially involve swallowing something, and it is almost impossible to swallow when you have a bad stomach flu, simply because anything that goes down is up in seconds.
Even then, there are quite a few remedies worth trying when you have it. Among them, herbal tea stands out. There are several kinds of stomach teas that are very good for you. Peppermint is very soothing on the stomach, as is ginger. If you’re using a ginger tea, however, you should only use a little bit. Once you have a stomach flu, almost anything can irritate your tummy. Remedies that irritate the stomach lining will be no good. They will be out before you can even finish them!
Ironically there is one important upside to stomach flu – it does not last for very long. It will generally start to subside after 12 hours at the most, at which point you can try using some remedies to make you more comfortable. Up to that point, however, there is very little that you can do. There are remedies out there that claim to cure it, but by the time you can take them, the flu will already be mostly gone.
When you have a stomach flu, there is little you can do about it. It all boils down to surviving. Your first task should be to try and keep yourself hydrated, whatever the hardship. You must take in lot of water, sip clear broth if you can, and have some tea from time to time. Anything to keep liquid inside of your body will help.
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February 8, 2010
Four Flu Remedies of Homeopathy
The flu can be a trying time for someone new to homeopathy. It is worth the extra effort to learn the top several remedies. Once committed to memory, they will serve you well. There are several that are considered the most important. Below are only four, but worthy of our study.
Eupatorium works when the weather is warm and mild. The common botanical name for this remedy is boneset which gives an indication of its area of action. The symptom that is most telling is the strong pain that is suffered in the bones. The sufferer can find no comfortable position, as there is much agony as though the bed is too hard. Eupatorium is sometimes confused with Bryonia. The differential is that Bryonia remains still and quiet while Eupatorium thrashes in pain.
Bryonia is a common remedy for the flu. Look for indications such as desire for long , cold drinks that are interesting only on occasion. The person is weak, lethargic, sleepy and heavy. There is much perspiration and the person does not get sick suddenly. Instead, he is not well for days in advance of an all out illness. This person wants to be left alone, particularly because his head and eyes hurt as well as his extremities. He favors being very still as any movement is painful to the eyes, or head.
Nux vomica is a favorite because it is often an easy remedy to spot. The person is irritable and has in general, or in the recent past, overindulged in either too little sleep and/or foods and drink that are artificial. He wants to be left alone because everything anyone does is an irritant to this sufferer. The need for this remedy is often after an exposure to a cold wind. There is intense cold with shivers running up the back. Every movement of the covers is resented for the cold it sends to the back. There may be gastro intestinal issues that accompany the chills, including nausea, constipation, diarrhea or both. Sounds, light and other external influences are despised and resented in a very verbal way.
A flu responding to the remedy, Pulsatilla, often comes soon after feet have gotten wet. This sets up shivers down the back. The person can crave cool air blowing on them that can bring them to resent a warm, stuffy room. The mouth is dry and thirst is often lacking. The person needing this remedy is usually a female and can be demanding of attention.
Know your homeopathic flu remedies and they will be your friends for life. They may indeed be the ticket to your own health or that of your loved ones.
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November 15, 2009
Homeopathy on the Rise
You may have heard of “homeopathy” but you are not sure what it is. Simply put, it is a system of medicine that treats a condition with highly diluted natural substances that mimic the symptoms of the condition being treated. This concept seems paradoxical to most.
Homeopathy is a difficult concept to grasp. How do you cure someone of an illness by giving them a tiny concentration of something that can actually cause the disease? One would think that this would simply make the person even more sick.
But, according to proponents of the science, homeopathy not only works, but is much more effective than conventional medicine. They claim that conventional medicine only suppresses the immune system and prolongs the illness.
There are actually quite a few homeopathic products in your local pharmacy. The FDA requires that homeopathic products indicate what kind of product it is somewhere on the packaging. The easiest way to tell what kind of product you are buying is by examining the list of ingredients on the back or the on the side of the packaging.
With homeopathy, all of the ingredients are diluted, so each ingredient in such a product has the letter “X” after it. So, if one of the ingredients is “Zinc 20X”, that means the product contains Zinc that has been diluted 20 times. One of the most popular cold medicines on the market, “Zicam,” is actually a homeopathic remedy that consists of diluted zinc in the form of a nasal gel.
There are homeopathic remedies available for almost every condition. Cold, flu, allergy, even bedwetting; there is a homeopathic remedy available for almost every condition.
Homeopathy is universally recognized as being safe, as the ingredients used are natural substances diluted many times over. Because there is such a small concentration of the ingredients, many opponents of the science, including the drug companies that make conventional medicines and are afraid of the growing popularity of natural medicine, claim that any relief an ill person receives after using a natural product is the result of the placebo effect.
Since the FDA does not require most natural products to undergo clinical testing before being sold to the public, the detractors feel that it does not actually work. So, who is telling the truth? Does homeopathy really work or is it a bunch of nonsense?
In my opinion, it works. There have been several clinical trials done over the years to test the efficacy of homeopathic products. Liddell Laboratories makes a product called Vital HGH. Vital HGH is designed to treat the symptoms of aging and/or a rundown condition.
In a small clinical trial performed years ago, a group of test subjects who were deficient in human growth hormone, ranging in age from 45 years and up, were given the Vital HGH formulation. The results speak for themselves. During the five month clinical trial, the levels of HGH in the blood increased in every test subject, and more than doubled the average level of HGH.
Homeopathy does work. I speak from personal experience. I used such a remedy to deal with the allergy attacks I was having, and the medicine not only stopped the attacks faster than the Claritin I had been taking previously, but it also prevented subsequent allergy attacks.
So, why is there a controversy? Well, there is a public perception that homeopathy is the same thing as holistic healing or faith-based medicine. This is simply not accurate.
Homepathy and natural medicine in general make big drug manufacturers worry that such products might be more effective for treating common illnesses as opposed to the more expensive prescription versions that make the pharmaceutical companies rich. Most natural products are incredibly cheap. A prescribed conventional medicine costs a lot more.
If the public began demanding natural remedies to treat their ailments, drug companies would have to make these kinds of products to stay in business, and then their profits would shrink. Imagine if Pfizer had to stop manufacturing Viagra, which they sell at $20-$30 per pill, and instead make a homeopathic product that would retail for only $20 for a one month supply.
This is why drug companies often spend significant amounts of money to debunk claims that homeopathy works, using a wide variety of misinformation tactics to instill a belief in the public that natural medicine is is not effective for treating common ailments.
I am not saying that you should discontinue the use of conventional medicines. But, next time you go to the pharmacy, take a look at some of the natural brands on the shelf and give them a try. For common ailments that are not life threatening, a homeopathic product is probably a cheaper and more effective alternative.
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