to cure seasonal allergies and stuffy noses, etc... since the season
is again upon up. This one caught my eye for this reason- last
November, when that flu took hold, I did a bunch of research on
natural cures for it. There is an 'official sounding' product they
sell in health food stores, kind of expensive, and it turns out if
you 'snoop', you discover it's an extract from DUCK LIVER AND HEART-
and it works! But it only works effectively if taken in the first 24
or so hours when the flu or cold comes on. So I then discovered the
cheaper and EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE method is to get some CHICKEN BROTH
OR CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP from the grocery store, toss in some chopped
up chicken livers and heart parts, (YUK, but you do what you gotta
do) and for good measure- I'm tossing this extra part in myself - add
garlic and cayenne pepper- and make sure it's good and hot- the heat
is good for your nose congestion and breaking up phlegm- and it's
supposedly wonderful. However, didn't really research it for it's
effects on allergies and stuffy noses, but it does make sense. Also,
the good natural teas- hot, with honey can't hurt, in either case.
You're welcome.-- Cindy ("Cheyenne Cin")- P.S. Kefir- when you get
the bad cold or flu, because you
swallow so much 'yuck' - even if you blow you nose and it goes 'out' -
your digestive juices can become dangerously low. You then
demonstrate this with either diarhea- always spell that wrong, so
let's just say 'the runs' or even more dangerous, constipaton. And
since you don't digest even the good stuff to help it very well, you
need LIQUID 'fix' and that's where probiotics or kefir is great! And
if you get pinkeye (conjunctivitis) - not with allergies, but with
flu or cold, and it's the most common and worst kind- bacterial-
colloidal silver drops in the eye(s) will cure that as well as the
prescription drops. The other two kinds are viral or fungal- and if
you go online, you can find out how to tell which pinkeye is which!
Another 'extra tidbit'- on a roll here!
-------------------
http://www.ent-consult.com/abstract.html
Chicken Soup for Allergies and Asthma
From the November 1998 issue of Coping with Asthma and Allergies.
Summary of Article
With so many bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant it is necessary
to use not just drugs, but natural means of maintaining health. The
article discusses some simple natural things that anyone can do to
improve their health. For example, Grandma's chicken soup and hot tea
are important and legitimate medical treatments, because they help
the cilia of the nose and bronchial passages move quickly so they can
defend the respiratory system against contaigons. Sometimes just
increasing the intake of warm tea, to assure proper hydration of the
body, can make a major difference in healing. (You don't need medical
technology to check if you are hydrated - just keep drinking until
your urine turns light yellow to clear.) My patients' favorite
prescription is breakfast in bed. This can be an effective cure for
even persistent, difficult-to-treat morning sneezing and coughing.
The sneezing and coughing are often caused by a sensitivity of the
body to cold before activity, so a warm breakfast under blankets
really gets to the root of the problem.
Perhaps the most important example of helping the body's natural
defenses is the 3000 year old yogic practice of sniffing salt water.
This is helpful for fighting and preventing sinus infections,
although we have vastly improved on this technique by developing
pulsatile nasal irrigation. http://www.ent-
consult.com/faq.html#irrigation The pulsating action has been shown
in clinical studies to improve the function of the nasal cilia, your
body's most important defense against nasal infections. Anyone, even
a 5 year old, can perform this treatment at home quickly and easily.
(Be sure to use a pulsatile irrigatin device, one which is purpose-
built to deliver the correct pressure, for safe irrigation.) Ear,
Nose, and Throat specialists see patients all the time who have been
medicated for weeks with the latest antibiotics without benefit, yet
who show obvious improvement with pulsatile irrigation.
These natural procedures are a help not only to the occaisonal
infection, but also to longer term asthma and allergy sufferers.
Asthma and allergy specialists recognize the importance of clearing
sinus infections in their patients. The less sinus drainage, the less
the asthma. Pulsatile nasal irrigation enables patients to stop their
drainage themselves. In some cases, antibiotics have been effective
and have indeed saved lives, but adding the chicken soup and hot tea
helps restore the body's natural defenses: by improviing the function
of cilia, which prevent contaigons from entering the body, by
improving the motion of disease-fighting white blood cells, which
helps fight infection more effectively, and in numerous other ways.
By using the natural healing aids discussed in the article, both
preventatively and as a response to symptoms, in many cases,
antibiotics can be avoided. You health will improve, and you won't
become immune to antibiotics, if you just give your body's own
defenses a little help (with the techniques discussed in the
article).
© 1999,2003 Dr. Murray Grossan
swallow so much 'yuck' - even if you blow you nose and it goes 'out' -
your digestive juices can become dangerously low. You then
demonstrate this with either diarhea- always spell that wrong, so
let's just say 'the runs' or even more dangerous, constipaton. And
since you don't digest even the good stuff to help it very well, you
need LIQUID 'fix' and that's where probiotics or kefir is great! And
if you get pinkeye (conjunctivitis) - not with allergies, but with
flu or cold, and it's the most common and worst kind- bacterial-
colloidal silver drops in the eye(s) will cure that as well as the
prescription drops. The other two kinds are viral or fungal- and if
you go online, you can find out how to tell which pinkeye is which!
Another 'extra tidbit'- on a roll here!
-------------------
http://www.ent-consult.com/abstract.html
Chicken Soup for Allergies and Asthma
From the November 1998 issue of Coping with Asthma and Allergies.
Summary of Article
With so many bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant it is necessary
to use not just drugs, but natural means of maintaining health. The
article discusses some simple natural things that anyone can do to
improve their health. For example, Grandma's chicken soup and hot tea
are important and legitimate medical treatments, because they help
the cilia of the nose and bronchial passages move quickly so they can
defend the respiratory system against contaigons. Sometimes just
increasing the intake of warm tea, to assure proper hydration of the
body, can make a major difference in healing. (You don't need medical
technology to check if you are hydrated - just keep drinking until
your urine turns light yellow to clear.) My patients' favorite
prescription is breakfast in bed. This can be an effective cure for
even persistent, difficult-to-treat morning sneezing and coughing.
The sneezing and coughing are often caused by a sensitivity of the
body to cold before activity, so a warm breakfast under blankets
really gets to the root of the problem.
Perhaps the most important example of helping the body's natural
defenses is the 3000 year old yogic practice of sniffing salt water.
This is helpful for fighting and preventing sinus infections,
although we have vastly improved on this technique by developing
pulsatile nasal irrigation. http://www.ent-
consult.com/faq.html#irrigation The pulsating action has been shown
in clinical studies to improve the function of the nasal cilia, your
body's most important defense against nasal infections. Anyone, even
a 5 year old, can perform this treatment at home quickly and easily.
(Be sure to use a pulsatile irrigatin device, one which is purpose-
built to deliver the correct pressure, for safe irrigation.) Ear,
Nose, and Throat specialists see patients all the time who have been
medicated for weeks with the latest antibiotics without benefit, yet
who show obvious improvement with pulsatile irrigation.
These natural procedures are a help not only to the occaisonal
infection, but also to longer term asthma and allergy sufferers.
Asthma and allergy specialists recognize the importance of clearing
sinus infections in their patients. The less sinus drainage, the less
the asthma. Pulsatile nasal irrigation enables patients to stop their
drainage themselves. In some cases, antibiotics have been effective
and have indeed saved lives, but adding the chicken soup and hot tea
helps restore the body's natural defenses: by improviing the function
of cilia, which prevent contaigons from entering the body, by
improving the motion of disease-fighting white blood cells, which
helps fight infection more effectively, and in numerous other ways.
By using the natural healing aids discussed in the article, both
preventatively and as a response to symptoms, in many cases,
antibiotics can be avoided. You health will improve, and you won't
become immune to antibiotics, if you just give your body's own
defenses a little help (with the techniques discussed in the
article).
© 1999,2003 Dr. Murray Grossan
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