Beat the BUGS

​Okay, so it’s that time of year again,  cold and flu season is here.  The children are back at school and the bugs, bacteria’s and virus’ are rife.  Everyone is coming down with something.
 
So what if I told you that you can make a difference, reduce your chance of catching bugs, reduce the severity if you do and recover quicker?
 
Well it’s true, there is a lot you can do to improve your immune function and your bodies own natural defences and resilience.
 
There is actually more than one way:

• Nutrition
• Herbal medicines
• Lifestyle

 
NUTRITION

• Citrus - Boost your vitamin C
• Garlic – helps to fight infections
• Ginger – helps fight common cold
• Almonds – help immunity
• Spinach – immune boosting
• Carrots – high in vitamin A
• Green tea – fights germs
• Juices – mainly vegetables, some fruit, ginger, lemon or lime

 
Herbal medicines

• Elderberry – tincture, syrup or lozenge – coughs, colds, fever,lung, virus
• Echinacea – (not euthanasia as my mum likes to call it) tincture – regulates immune system – shortens lifespan of the bug
• Thyme and rosemary – tea, inhalation, tincture - lungs
• Garlic – food, capsule - infections
• Ginger – food, tea, tincture – lungs, infections, stomach
• Astragalus – tea, tincture – boosts immunity
• Cats claw – tincture – reduces fever
• Licorice – tea, syrup, tincture – coughs, sore throats, stress
• Oregano – tea, tincture – reverses virus
• Olive leaf – tincture – common cold, candida, microbes, dental bacteria.

Lifestyle

• Rest
• Warm baths –Epsom salts with herbal bag
• Early night
• Sleep
• Wrap up warm

 
The main thing to remember is if you are constantly coming down with something you need to rebalance the system, something is out of balance.  If you are on medications check with an expert like Carina first before starting on a herbal regime.
 
 
 
To find out more, you can contact Carina at
T -(087) 0978880,
E -  info@itsanaturalchoice.com
W - www.itsanaturalchoice.com,
A - Lisnolan, Manulla, Castlebar, Co Mayo, F23 C922