When it comes to immunity, there are a lot of small steps you can take to boost your immunity. In fact, immunity, simply put, resistance, you must have observed, office or school, some people every time a cold (upper respiratory tract infection) epidemic, will be in the mark, and a good show drag the shed, engage in a week or even a month, but some people will be safe and sound, at best, some uncomfortable like a sore throat, nasal congestion, nasal discharge, two or three days on the healing, which is the difference between the immune system is good or bad.

According to statistics, adults catch two to four colds a year, and if the number of colds per year is more than two to four, every time the flu strikes, they are sickly and prone to complications such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and sepsis, which means that the immune system is really worse than the average person.

In herbology, these five ingredients or herbs are most helpful for immunity.

A. Garlic:

Garlic can strengthen the immune system against viral and bacterial infections, but the light to take garlic to achieve this effect, a time to use at least a large ball of garlic, crushed garlic bulb, mixed with a spoonful of honey to swallow, one to two times a day. Vegetarians who don't eat garlic can use the following alternatives.

Echinacea:

Many studies have found that in the early stages of a cold, such as the beginning of the itchy throat, mild nasal congestion when you start to use echinacea, if you have a fever for many days before you start to use it, the effect of echinacea alone is limited, but also need to be combined with other herbs; echinacea can help to prevent the flu and colds, and the few studies that have been done that autoimmune diseases or AIDS can not use echinacea, but it is not recommended. A few studies have suggested that Echinacea should not be used for autoimmune diseases or AIDS, but recent research has dispelled this theory, and Echinacea can be used as long as it is used for ten days with a four-day break, or for two weeks with a one-week break, and studies have shown that Echinacea can help to minimize the incidence of septicemia and the mortality rate.

It is best to use a tincture made from roots and foliage that are more than three years old (for the tincture method, see The Herbal Healing Grimoire), and use one dropperful of tincture four times a day. I highly recommend that cancer patients use Echinacea mixed with North American Elm, Marshmallow, and Licorice during chemotherapy to minimize infections and accelerate the healing of broken mucous membranes, and to apply Echinacea directly to the skin in the case of hard-to-heal bedsores.

Third, elderflower:

Elderflower pure dew when used externally to reduce fine lines and pores, so elderflower flower language is the goddess of Venus, it is best to use in the cold symptoms just before the occurrence of the second day, it will be in the respiratory mucous membranes to form a layer of protection, to block the bacteria, viruses continue to invade the body, I will often be the elderflower flowers and fruits. I often make syrup of elderflowers and fruits, spend the whole winter, because the taste is sweet, children are very like, if the fever, elderflower can be with yarrow, bee balm in the proportion of 2:2:1 mix, take seven to ten grams into a cup of 250 ml of vanilla tea, help fever and immunity to enhance the three to four cups a day, a half a cup every hour.

Note: If the oral herpes or shingles people to vanilla as a priority, the common cold can be replaced by green mint, peppermint.

Fourth, ginger:

Helps with colds and fevers when the aches and pains, to help the body through the sense of obstruction, coughing can be a tablespoon of ginger and a cup of water boiled for ten minutes, and then add the lemon juice and honey, hot drink, drink four cups a day, one year old babies can not be used with honey, you can use the elderflower syrup (general syrup will be used, but the syrup will be used to make honey, but the baby under one year old to make the honey. (young children under one year old to make with maple sugar instead).

five, sage:

Sage has a lot of functions, other articles in the column have mentioned sage to help memory and cognitive power, at the same time it is able to anti-bacterial and helps to expel phlegm, especially for the nasal water and respiratory tract is not smooth like a nasal congestion, a time when you use five to seven grams of soaked cup of boiled water, a day to drink three to four cups, or 5-10 ml of pure water added to a cup of boiled water, a day to drink, or 5-10 ml of pure water added to a cup of boiled water, a day to drink, a day to drink.

In general, it's a good idea to add 10 ml of pure dew to a cup of boiling water and drink it, up to 30 ml of pure dew a day.

Generally speaking, the immune system of the elderly and young children is the most fragile, the baby before six months, there is from the mother to give the antibody, rarely have a cold, but after six months, often start to catch a cold, or even fever, and sometimes the grandpa, grandma, and also misunderstood that the daughter-in-law did not take care of the grandchildren, "how the child was born, the more the raise, the more prone to disease".

This is really a misunderstanding, the child's immune system is still developing at a young age, it is not yet complete, some children even at the age of a week, every month will have a cold, the most common age of colds is from one to two years old, six months before the baby because of the antibodies from the mother, and then the function of this umbrella is gradually declining, this is a normal phenomenon, it's not a problem of the mother's care is not good, and it's not that the baby's health is particularly poor, but it's that the baby's body has a lot to lose. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and you'll be able to get them to fit in the back of your head, so you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.

In fact, a moderate fever can enhance the effectiveness of the immune system, there are also studies that show that excessive antipyretic drugs can suppress the immune response, in animal experiments on rats, the use of a large number of antipyretic drugs will increase the mortality rate of sepsis, human beings have a fever when they are sick, it is a kind of protective instinctive response, the purpose of which is to strengthen the resistance of the disease; sometimes cancer patients because of immune function is too low, the body is already heavily infected, and the cancer is not a problem, so it's not a problem.

These are the first time I've ever seen a patient with cancer with a fever.

The Society of Pediatricians even suggests that children should have a fever of 38.5 degrees, because a moderate fever can help build immunity, and you can't easily use drugs to reduce a child's fever. If the child is still active and jumping around, there are no symptoms such as lethargy, poor mobility, poor appetite, crying, no tears, and the whole day down the road the child didn't eat anything, and the diaper is dry, so you don't necessarily need to reduce the fever.

So in Europe and the United States, many families will prepare some flowers and plants products, in response to the child's sudden physical discomfort, will not be easy to use antipyretic drugs and antibiotics, at the same time, there have been a lot of journals and foreign medical institutions have been synchronized with the use of hospitals in the use of herbs and aromatherapy in the patient, known as integrative therapies.

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