Beating The Bug Naturally – Organic Flu Remedies And Prevention

Article by Gene Marcotte

We have plumbed the ocean depths, climbed the highest peaks and even left our footprints on the moon. We claim an absolute right to self determination and resolutely forge the world to fit our needs. Yes indeed, man is top of the pile. Yet a tiny bug continues to confound and defeat our best efforts to bludgeon it into submission. Influenza or the common or garden flu, still resists all of mans best laid plans to relegate it to a dusty exhibit in the natural sciences museum and probably will for all time.

Flu lays millions of people low each year and is believed to affect up to 50% of the population of countries such as the US every winter. The virus is predominantly airborne and can survive, un-hosted, in that environment for hours. Using the one medium we cannot survive without as a transfer vehicle, influenza has a sure fire survival and propagation mechanism and has proven exceptionally difficult to contain. So, what do we do about this

Why Use Natural Flu Remedies?

Article by Fidel Contratto

Natural flu remedies have been around for centuries. One of the oldest remedies around is what your grandmother used to tell you to drink chicken soup. It was thought to be a great way to relieve your systems as well as to keep you feeling good. One of the reasons for its success is another old adage “feed your body, starve a cold.” This is to say that eating is a natural process for your body and in that way helps you stay healthy to fight off the flu.

Natural flu remedies are useful because they are not toxic to your body like drugs are. For example, the drugs that are out there can have a negative effect on your body since they try to kill the symptoms, but at the same time, since they are a general type drug, it can also kill off the good things in your body. This is true about antibiotics for example.

There are people who only care about going the homeopathic route to cure their flu. This means that the ingredients

Melia Nature Propolis – Natural Flu Remedies to Help You Fight the Influenza Virus

Article by Melinda C. Darrell

Immune Boosting Herbs

There are several different foods and herbs which you can mix jointly as an electrical power cocktail for an immune program improve. The most well-known which are advised by choice practitioners as a liquid boost are:

Echinacea

This is the Native American snake root which later on grew to become recognized as ‘snake oil’ which was sold by travelling salesmen in the Wild West days. Astonishingly it did sell well since it worked, but no one particular at the time realised its complete possible.

As it has anti-viral and anti-bacterial attributes it is an outstanding tonic for higher respiratory infections and it also boosts the creation of the white blood cells. Just take two droppers of the tincture,

Tincture of Propolis

Not as nicely identified as Echinacea, but it still has more attributes being ant-viral, anti-bacterial and antibiotic all at the identical

Flu- Get The Facts, Skip The Myths!

Article by Mark Rosenberg

This is the time of year when I may see several patients with symptoms of what they call

Cold And Flu Remedies for Men

Article by Curt Sterling

There are many different health risks that men are facing in this day and age, however cold and flu still remains something that men have been searching for great remedies for. The good news is that there are many great remedies for cold and flu that many men may not have known about. This is the reason that we have decided to put together some info on popular new and old cold remedies.

Every year there are billions of dollars spent on drugs and remedies that are used for treating cold and flu. However with so many different products available, it can be quite daunting sometimes to find the right product. This is why there are so many men that simply do not know what works when it comes to cold and flu. One of the most commonly asked questions has to do with natural cold and flu remedies. The first thing to know about these remedies is that for the most part many of them are effective at treating colds. However not as many of them are as

Swine Flu

Introduction:

H1N1 flu, also called swine flu, is a respiratory disease of pigs that has now spread to humans.

“Swine” refers to animals such as pigs, hogs, and boars.

“Flu” is an abbreviation of influenza.

“H1N1″ is the name of the virus that has spread to humans

People do not normally get swine flu viruses, but human infections can and do happen. Beginning in late march 2009, cases of humans infected with the H1N1flu virus have been reported in the USA and internationally.

This health education program explains What the H1N1 FLU IS.

It discusses its symptoms, when to seek medical help, and its treatment options. It also provides important prevention tips.

ABOUT VIRUS:

Viruses are very small living particles. This section reviews information about viruses that will help you understand the H1N1 flu virus.

H1N1 Flu Infections:

Influenza viruses happen naturally among

Forget Flu Remedies! How To Get Over The Swine Flu By Not Getting It

Article by Jay Geary

Are flu remedies already on your mind? The flu is always a serious concern this time of year. Each year approximately half of all Americans experience at least one cold and 40% develop the flu or influenza. Every four or five years a new more powerful strain of flu surfaces and gives rise to considerable concern, as it should. Especially at times when there is a threat of pandemic proportions, such as the one that has been recently publicized in regards to this new swine flu virus.

Without going into the details of this particular threat or strain of flu, I would rather focus on it’s prevention and if necessary it’s cure, as apposed to the treatment of flu symptoms, as is conventional medicines approach. Needless to say their flu remedies are all based on unnatural and therefore harmful substances for symptomatic relief, or vaccines which are of questionable value in the realm of prevention.

Many researchers warn that vaccines

10 Herbal Remedies for Snoring

Article by Maria Vasquez

10 Herbal Remedies for Snoring

A lot of people who do snore would love to find a way not to snore. For those who do not wish to use “traditional medicines” in tackling their snoring problem, there are herbal remedies for snoring.

These remedies work by dealing with the contributing factors that causes a person to snore such as allergies, congestion and other respiratory issues.Below are the following herbal remedies for snoring with an explanation of how they work.

Herbal Remedy for Snoring# 1- Immature bitter orange

Containing synephrine, immature bitter oranges helps relieve nasal congestion through inhibition of the production of the allergens which causes inflammation, which causes the airway obstruction.

Herbal Remedy for Snoring #2 – GingerGinger has been proven to treat snoring through increasing the production of saliva, coating the throat and soothing it.

Herbal Remedy for Snoring

How Not To Use Arthritis Herbal Remedies

Article by Meredith Walker

While arthritis herbal remedies are deemed safe and generally free of harmful side-effects, there are some ways that they can be misused to cause you more harm than good. Here are some ways that arthritis these remedies are commonly misused.

1.Not checking for possible negative interactions with conventional medicine. It is generally believed that arthritis herbal treatments are safe to be combined with conventional medications. This is true, but there are a few exceptions, some of which are only now being discovered because testing is only now becoming more intensive.

2.Using arthritis herbal remedies that have cross-purposes with each other. One of the advantages of using herbal medicine is that often, they are able to treat many different symptoms at the same time. This is true also with arthritis herbal remedies. The difficulty with this is that certain remedies may both work to treat arthritis very well, but be at cross-purposes

Bacterial Vaginosis Herbal Remedy

A herbal remedy for Bacterial Vaginosis is now regarded as the best cure for this pernicious condition. Up to 40% of women have BV at least once throughout their lives. Treatment with antibiotics has not been as successful as at first hoped.

Cindy James, spokesman for The World Organization for Women’s Health says:

The most effective and least harmful treatment for bacterial vaginosis is now widely accepted as being a herbal remedy. The days of repeated courses of antibiotics now appear to be nearing their end. Herbal remedies produce no side effects and leave the woman’s immune system in tact and often even bolster it.

The Truth About Bacterial Vaginosis and a Herbal Remedy

There are two main types of bacteria present in the vagina, anaerobes and lactobacilli. When the balance between the two is correct, no problems occur.

However, if anaerobes increase and lactobacilli decrease, the imbalance creates the condition of