Heal Colds & Flues & Viruses in a Natural Way

As Autumn is one of my very favorite times of a year... though, to be honest, as soon as a new season arrives, it seems to automatically become my favorite... I can't help but grab my camera and escape to the country for a bit. I so love the yellows and oranges and reds and browns... and greens, adds my little 3-year-old nephew. Every time I mention the Autumn colors one after another, Arne adds, and greens. Green is his favorite color and it can't be left out by any means. I guess after a very green season of Summer, I am noticing all the other colors much more cheerfully. Though, Arne is right, there still is more green than any other color, especially on the island of Saaremaa that is full of needle-sharp-thorned evergreen junipers.

In spite of the colorful parade of golden Autumn leaves, I was truly inspired by the sea and the sky and the emerging of the two. There is something so calming in the sea. May be looking at the vast, infinite sky perfectly merging into endless water provides the reassurance that all is well indeed and it is time to leave the everyday issues behind and just allow to be swept into this extraordinary beauty. I love Autumn!

Though, with each Autumn comes also to the season of colds and flues. It seems like we attract them like sweet-smelling flowers attract bees. We even say, I believe I am catching a cold! What an expression, when one starts to think about it! Why would anyone want to catch a cold. Don't catch it this year! Catch something more lovely and healthy, instead.

I believe we actually expect to be sick at some point during an Autumn. I mean everyone else gets sick, so, we guess we should get sick too. But we don't have to.

Though, the truth is that our bodies are the weakest and most prone to catching something unpleasant during equinoxes, the times when Summer turns to Autumn, Autumn turns to Winter and so on. About a week before an equinox we should start paying extra attention to strengthening our immune systems. For 2 weeks we should provide extra tender loving care to our bodies and we would be much less likely to catch a cold or any other fashionable bug that everybody around us might be catching.

Such "special attention" 2 week periods would be somewhere between the 15th and 28th of September, 15th and 28th of December, 15th and 28th of March and 15th and 28th of June. For those 2 weeks we do well to have some extra garlic or grapefruit-seed extract or ginseng or some other powerful natural remedy at hand.

Although I knew about equinoxes and the effect they have on a human body, I ignored it this time. I had 10 family/friends' birthdays coming up within one week period, the last week of September, which meant that all my attention was on birthday cards and gifts, rather than on my health. I must admit that although I wasn't expecting it, I did catch a cold myself. If You are in the same boat with me, I'd love to share some good old natural remedies with You that would kill any cold.

I so agree with Jethro Kloss about turning to natural remedies to heal a cold, rather than going with the modern and quick way of gulping down some quick fix remedy from a drugstore that might cause very serious health problems later on. I healed my cold the good old-fashioned way, with hot foot baths. I love what Jehtro Kloss says in his book Back to Eden:

"The wonderful results that can be obtained from water treatments that are properly given, especially when they are combined with the other true remedies for man's ills - exercise, proper diet, pure air, sunlight, rest, and trust in divine power - cannot be obtained by any other method. Hydrotherapy rarely causes bad side effects or debilitating complications, as many drugs do. Water treatments do, however, take a longer time to produce results, but when the body reacts, it does so in a much more natural way."

It took me about 5 nights of foot baths to feel completely rejuvenated. We shouldn't forget about those good old childhood-time remedies, exchanging them with fast-acting, synthetic ones. So, if You do not remember from Your childhood how to fix a hot foot bath, here is what You will need:

1-1,5 liters of just boiled water

some warm water to start with

"Vietnamese" balm or any other balm, combined of essential oils (like tea tree, eucalypt, myrrh)

a few pairs of warm socks

a basin

Start the foot bath with just warm water, adding hot water to it. While You pour hot water into the basin, lift Your feet up, so You won't burn them. Little by little allow Your feet to get used to warmer water by sliding them in and holding in the water for a few seconds, then lifting them up for a bit of cool. When You can hold Your feet firm in the water, add some more hot water. Repeat the procedure until You have used all of the hot water. Dry Your feet and rub the healing balm under them. Also rub the balm in-between the toes. If You have a runny nose or sinus infection, rub the balm into the inner part of Your both big toes. Quickly put on a few pairs of warm socks in order to keep Your feet warm for as long as possible.

This remedy is great for colds and throat ache.

Herbs to heal the cold:

Herbs, when paired with nightly foot bath (for about 5 days), do help to heal a cold and throat ache quite promptly. Though, do allow Your body to heal for some days instead of expecting it to be in peak condition the very next day. Many synthetic medicines are designed to receive such fast results, but they do have side effects. So, if You want good health, do choose a natural way.

To chase away a cold, dr. Jethro Kloss suggests we stack our medicine cabinets with some of the following herbs: bayberry bark with yarrow, catnip, sage, peppermint, wood betony, angelica, blue violet, butternut bark, ginseng, lungwort, nettle, white pine, pleurisy root, prickly ash, rosemary, saffron, summer savory, sweet balm, tansy, valerian, vervain, water pepper, wood sage, yarrow, bloodroot, elder, ginger, gentian, golden seal, hyssop, pennyroyal, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto berries, spikenard, wild cherry, horehound.

Killing fever with vodka socks:

Never heard of it before? This is another one of our good old childhood remedies! To kill the fever with vodka socks, You will need:

a pair of thin cotton socks

a pair of warm socks

2/3rds of water

1/3rd of vodka

hot herbal tea

Mix water and vodka in a bowl. Wet the thin socks in vodka-water and squeeze so they won't be too soppy. Put the socks on and cover with warm socks. Have a hot cup of herbal tea and a warm bed ready. Drink the tea and get under the blanket. Sweat the fever from Your system. It works!

Fast-acting natural antibiotics for viruses & colds:

My personal favorites to strengthen the immune system or get rid of a cold are garlic and honey. Read more about garlic. Grapefruit seed extract is a powerful and fast-acting natural remedy for viruses and colds. It is a natural antibiotic and we do wisely to keep some of it ready in a cabinet for an emergency use. 5-15 drops of it could be used daily for a period as an immune boosting supplement. Read more about Grapefruit seed extract.

I hope You found something useful from those so simple natural remedies. You can subscribe to my twice monthly Health First newsletter by sending me an email. I will not share Your email with anyone else. I respect Your privacy. You can read another one of my newsletters here.

If this article was helpful to You and You would like to share it with someone else, You are more than welcome to copy it. But You are requested to add my name - Eve Juurik- and my website address - http://www.TheSpringOfLife.net - to the article. All the material is copyrighted. Thank You!

I wish You great health, freedom from colds & flues and success in all Your undertakings,

Eve


	As Autumn is one of my very favorite times of a year... though, to be honest, as soon as a new season arrives, it seems to automatically become my favorite... I can't help but grab my camera and escape to the country for a bit. I so love the yellows and oranges and reds and browns... and greens, adds my little 3-year-old nephew. Every time I mention the Autumn colors one after another, Arne adds, and greens. Green is his favorite color and it can't be left out by any means. I guess after a very green season of Summer, I am noticing all the other colors much more cheerfully. Though, Arne is right, there still is more green than any other color, especially on the island of Saaremaa that is full of needle-sharp-thorned evergreen junipers. In spite of the colorful parade of golden Autumn leaves, I was truly inspired by the sea and the sky and the emerging of the two. There is something so calming in the sea. May be looking at the vast, infinite sky perfectly merging into endless water provides the reassurance that all is well indeed and it is time to leave the everyday issues behind and just allow to be swept into this extraordinary beauty. I love Autumn! Though, with each Autumn comes also to the season of colds and flues. It seems like we attract them like sweet-smelling flowers attract bees. We even say, I believe I am catching a cold! What an expression, when one starts to think about it! Why would anyone want to catch a cold. Don't catch it this year! Catch something more lovely and healthy, instead. I believe we actually expect to be sick at some point during an Autumn. I mean everyone else gets sick, so, we guess we should get sick too. But we don't have to. Though, the truth is that our bodies are the weakest and most prone to catching something unpleasant during equinoxes, the times when Summer turns to Autumn, Autumn turns to Winter and so on. About a week before an equinox we should start paying extra attention to strengthening our immune systems. For 2 weeks we should provide extra tender loving care to our bodies and we would be much less likely to catch a cold or any other fashionable bug that everybody around us might be catching. Such "special attention" 2 week periods would be somewhere between the 15th and 28th of September, 15th and 28th of December, 15th and 28th of March and 15th and 28th of June. For those 2 weeks we do well to have some extra garlic or grapefruit-seed extract or ginseng or some other powerful natural remedy at hand. Although I knew about equinoxes and the effect they have on a human body, I ignored it this time. I had 10 family/friends' birthdays coming up within one week period, the last week of September, which meant that all my attention was on birthday cards and gifts, rather than on my health. I must admit that although I wasn't expecting it, I did catch a cold myself. If You are in the same boat with me, *I'd love to share some good old natural remedies with You that would kill any cold.* I so agree with Jethro Kloss about turning to natural remedies to heal a cold, rather than going with the modern and quick way of gulping down some quick fix remedy from a drugstore that might cause very serious health problems later on. I healed my cold the good old-fashioned way, with hot foot baths. I love what Jehtro Kloss says in his book Back to Eden: "The wonderful results that can be obtained from water treatments that are properly given, especially when they are combined with the other true remedies for man's ills - exercise, proper diet, pure air, sunlight, rest, and trust in divine power - cannot be obtained by any other method. Hydrotherapy rarely causes bad side effects or debilitating complications, as many drugs do. Water treatments do, however, take a longer time to produce results, but when the body reacts, it does so in a much more natural way." It took me about 5 nights of foot baths to feel completely rejuvenated. We shouldn't forget about those good old childhood-time remedies, exchanging them with fast-acting, synthetic ones. So, if You do not remember from Your childhood how to fix *a hot foot bath,* here is what You will need: 1-1,5 liters of just boiled water some warm water to start with "Vietnamese" balm or any other balm, combined of essential oils (like tea tree, eucalypt, myrrh) a few pairs of warm socks a basin Start the foot bath with just warm water, adding hot water to it. While You pour hot water into the basin, lift Your feet up, so You won't burn them. Little by little allow Your feet to get used to warmer water by sliding them in and holding in the water for a few seconds, then lifting them up for a bit of cool. When You can hold Your feet firm in the water, add some more hot water. Repeat the procedure until You have used all of the hot water. Dry Your feet and rub the healing balm under them. Also rub the balm in-between the toes. If You have a runny nose or sinus infection, rub the balm into the inner part of Your both big toes. Quickly put on a few pairs of warm socks in order to keep Your feet warm for as long as possible. This remedy is great for colds and throat ache. *Herbs to heal the cold:* Herbs, when paired with nightly foot bath (for about 5 days), do help to heal a cold and throat ache quite promptly. Though, do allow Your body to heal for some days instead of expecting it to be in peak condition the very next day. Many synthetic medicines are designed to receive such fast results, but they do have side effects. So, if You want good health, do choose a natural way. To chase away a cold, dr. Jethro Kloss suggests we stack our medicine cabinets with some of the following herbs: bayberry bark with yarrow, catnip, sage, peppermint, wood betony, angelica, blue violet, butternut bark, ginseng, lungwort, nettle, white pine, pleurisy root, prickly ash, rosemary, saffron, summer savory, sweet balm, tansy, valerian, vervain, water pepper, wood sage, yarrow, bloodroot, elder, ginger, gentian, golden seal, hyssop, pennyroyal, sarsaparilla, saw palmetto berries, spikenard, wild cherry, horehound. *Killing fever with vodka socks:* Never heard of it before? This is another one of our good old childhood remedies! To kill the fever with vodka socks, You will need: a pair of thin cotton socks a pair of warm socks 2/3rds of water 1/3rd of vodka hot herbal tea Mix water and vodka in a bowl. Wet the thin socks in vodka-water and squeeze so they won't be too soppy. Put the socks on and cover with warm socks. Have a hot cup of herbal tea and a warm bed ready. Drink the tea and get under the blanket. Sweat the fever from Your system. It works! Fast-acting natural antibiotics for viruses & colds: My personal favorites to strengthen the immune system or get rid of a cold are garlic and honey. Read more about garlic. Grapefruit seed extract is a powerful and fast-acting natural remedy for viruses and colds. It is a natural antibiotic and we do wisely to keep some of it ready in a cabinet for an emergency use. 5-15 drops of it could be used daily for a period as an immune boosting supplement. Read more about Grapefruit seed extract. I hope You found something useful from those so simple natural remedies. You can subscribe to my twice monthly Health First newsletter by sending me an email. I will not share Your email with anyone else. I respect Your privacy. You can read another one of my newsletters here. If this article was helpful to You and You would like to share it with someone else, You are more than welcome to copy it. But You are requested to add my name - Eve Juurik- and my website address - http://www.TheSpringOfLife.net - to the article. All the material is copyrighted. Thank You! I wish You great health, freedom from colds & flues and success in all Your undertakings, Eve
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