flu information
The syndrome that we call the flu is thought to be a "healing crisis" in natural medicine. We can take a negative attitude about a flu and resist it by taking strong pharmaceutical products like antihistamines and aspirin, but an altern...
Usually referred to as the flu or grippe, influenza is a highly infectious respiratory disease. Its name comes from t...
Yerba mansa is a warming diaphoretic and immune-activating herb used in traditional North American medicine for colds...
Maidenhair fern is used for coughs of a recent nature and is sometimes combined with licorice or licorice fern (Polyp...
Extracts from the bright blue elderberries are popular in formulas to prevent and treat the common cold and influenza...
Wild ginger is not related to common ginger but is in the birthwort family, Aristolochiaceae. Several species grow c...
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flu videos
Dr. Mercola reviews a simple inexpensive therapy that can eliminate your colds or flu especially if done early in the course of the illness. Practitioner discusses why we get the flu as well.
Various techniques and approaches to using essential oils to treat and fight-off the flu. Essential oil use is an approach to health in a natural way.
This video discusses three herbs that are effective in the prevention and treatment of colds, flu and sinusitis. Based on research and clinical studies.
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flu blogs
Please read this great article by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/06/Why-You-Should-NOT-Vaccinate-Your-Children-Against-the-Flu-This-Season.aspx
Many of my patients are concerned about the flu this season, especially the Swine Flu. Most provinces in Canada are looking at halting flu shots due to a study that shows patients are more suscept...
Homeopathy has had a great track record for flu epidemics in the past.
For example in the great flu epidemic of 1918 those treated by
homeopathic physicians had a mortality rate of 1.05% while th...
The holiday season is fast approaching, unfortunately so is flu season. Between the months of November and March over 100,000 Americans are hospitalized each year for flu related reasons. The flu...
The recent edition of Alternative and Complementary Therapies features a Natural Standard evidence-based review of Oscillococcinum®.
Oscillococcinum® (Anas barbariae hepatis et cordis extractum ...