Worried about the flu?
Structure of the influenza virus
90% of germs and viruses - including colds and influenza - enter your body through your nose.
The best way to avoid germs and viruses is to prevent them from gaining access to your body.
- Wash your hands thoroughly and frequently, or use alcohol-based gels. These have no residual action so must be repeated often.
- Avoid touching the nose, eyes, mouth, and face.
- Keep your nasal passages and sinuses clean and healthy.
Ojibwa Tea of Life™ offers an excellent product, Quick n' Clear™ Nasal Spray, that fights virus-induced cold, stuffy nose, and allergy symptoms. Use it to pre-emptively strike the virus, or at the first sign of symptoms. It can be used as often as needed. Quick n' Clear™ comes in a convenient, metered dose dispenser.
Quick n' Clear™ provides benefits far beyond other products containing only xylitol. It contains homeopathic histamine phosphate 6X, birch and western larch bark extracts, oxyquinoline sulfate (used for more than 1000 years by naturopathic physicians under the label "Sulfax"), plus 17% xylitol solution.
This naturally-derived product has bacterial and fungal inhibitory properties, reduces inflammation, and promotes healing. There's no rebound anthihistaminic effect with Quick n' Clear™, and it's safe to use even in cases of hypertension and benign prostatic hypertrophy.
Nasal sprays should not be shared between individuals, so be sure to get one for every member of the family!
Ojibwa Tea of Life™ offers a product for relief of symptoms of the common cold.
Breathe easier with this proprietary blend of extracts of slippery elm, pleurisy root, thyme, hyssop, yarrow and mullein in a base of buckwheat honey and 10% organic alcohol. Contains concentrated extracts of Echinacea, yarrow mullein, hyssop, blue vervian, distilled water, agave necter in a base of grain alcohol and water.
If you have a healthy immune system, colds should last about 4 days. Herbs assist the body systems to reduce the severity and duration of symptoms and enhance immune response. Flu infections are longer and stronger than colds and require more potent treatment than colds. This formula is best for a mild misery cold.
- Hyssop: expectorant
"Indian Herbalogy of North America" by Alma Hutchens states that "hyssop has been used as an expectorant and stimulant for asthma ad bronchitis" in folk medicine and "for colds, la grippe and chest infections." - Slippery Elm - anti-inflammatory
Slippery elm contains mucilage that is soothing to the throat and has natural anti-inflammatory properties. The University of Michigan health system reports that "Slippery elm has been used orally to soothe irritation or ulceration of the stomach and intestines." - Mullein: influenza/herpes
Antiviral activity of Flos verbasci infusion against influenza and Herpes simplex viruses.
Zgorniak-Nowosielska I, Grzybek J, Manolova N, Serkedjieva J, Zawili n ska B. Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz). 1991;39(1-2):103-8.
Department of Virology, Medical Academy, Krakow, Poland.
The lyophilized infusion from flowers of (mullein) Verbascum thapsiforme schrad. (FVI) showed antiviral activity in in-vitro studies against Fowl plague virus, several influenza A strains, influenza B strain as well as Herpes simplex virus. Influenza viruses titer decreased by 1-3 log units, while of H. simplex virus by 2.3 log. - Pleurisy root: lung problems
From University of Michigan Health system:
Traditional Use
Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies) Pleurisy root was used by Native American tribes both internally as a remedy for pulmonary infections and topically to treat wounds.
1 The Eclectic physicians seized upon these ideas and continued to use the plant primarily for lung problems such as pleurisy and pneumonia. It was also used as a diaphoretic (a substance that causes sweating) for all manner of infections.
2 Pleurisy root was an official medicine in the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1820 to 1905. - Buckwheat honey - anti-inflammatory
"In a comparison of honey, DM, and no treatment, parents rated buckwheat honey most favorably for symptomatic relief of their child's nocturnal cough and sleep difficulty due to upper respiratory tract infection."
Effect of (buckwheat) honey, dextromethorphan, and no treatment on nocturnal cough and sleep quality for coughing children and their parents.
Paul IM, Beiler J, McMonagle A, Shaffer ML, Duda L, Berlin CM Jr.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Dec;161(12):1140-6.
An in vitro examination of the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of buckwheat honey.
van den Berg AJ, van den Worm E, van Ufford HC, Halkes SB, Hoekstra MJ, Beukelman CJ.
J Wound Care. 2008 Apr;17(4):172-4, 176-8.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Adm.
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
References
Boyce, John M.; Didier Pittet (2002-10-25). "Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/ APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force". Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . 51 (RR-16).
Ginde AA, Mansbach JM, Camargo CA (February 2009). "Association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level and upper respiratory tract infection in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey". Arch. Intern. Med. 169 (4): 384-90.
"Staying healthy is in your hands - Public Health Agency Canada". 2008-04-17. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/chn-rcs/handwash-eng.php. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
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