Herbal Flu Remedies
The flu also called influenza is an highly infectious disease caused by a virus, which it manifests itself as a fever, muscular pain, respiratory catarrh, and a trend toward bronchial and lung complications. There is no known cure for the flu. The best thing to treat influenza is to help the body to fight the virus, by enhancing its healing mechanisms.
These medicinal herbs increase perspiration and thus the elimination of toxins, as well as stimulating the defenses against infection. They also decrease the fever and alleviate the discomforts of the disease.
Herbal flu remedies
- Linden: Sedative, antispasmodic, alleviates headache
- Cypress: Perspirant, decreases fever, balsamic
- Lemon tree: Cleanses blood, decreases fever
- Coltsfoot: Perspirant, depurative, pectoral
- Buck bean: Decreases fever. Useful for influenza
- Meadowsweet: General invigorating of the body, diuretic, depurative, and appetizer
- Mountain holly: Increases perspiration and decreases fever
- Wild daisy: Perspirant, febrifuge, expectorant, promotes elimination of toxins
- Boxwood: Powerful febrifuge
- Echinacea: Stimulates defenses against infections (the best)
- Briar hip: Stimulates defenses, preventative for all infectious diseases
- Black elder: Very effective perspirant and depurative
- Nasturtium: Natural antibiotic, expectorant, invigorating
To find out more about these herbs and how to prepare or find them please consider purchasing the Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants.
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