We usually have many medicines in our medicine cabinet. This year during cold and flu season, it may be better to have a “Health and Healing Cabinet” on hand.
The goal this year – and every winter season – is to enhance health and ward off symptoms. We must plan that most of us will be exposed to the flu. Our goal is to enhance immunity so that there will be few to no symptoms even if there is exposure.
The items below should be in your Health and Healing Cabinet. Remember that our primary care patients have access to our after-hours call service. If you have these products on hand, we can easily direct you as to how they should be used under your specific circumstance.
The Golden Ten:
- Immunity Take Care or Elderberry Syrup
- Kold Care
- Flu Plus
- Vitamin C (ester)
- Vitamin D
- Bovine Colostrum
- D-Hist and/or D-Hist Jr
- Jade Windscreen
- Gan Mao Ling
- Yin Qiao
(All orders to Louisiana, MIssissippi, and Arkansas are shipped free of charge. Shipping charges requested by the website will be reversed at the source.)
In addition there will be other homeopathic preparations specific to the flu virus. However, this repertorization is not yet complete.
While there is no guarantee that the above will absolutely prevent illness this winter, they constitute the best tools available to help enhance our health.
Summary of Symptoms of Allergy, Colds, Flu & Bacterial Infections
| Symptom | Allergy | Cold | Flu | Bacterial |
| Onset | Continual | Gradual | Sudden | Gradual |
| Fever | Rare | Rare | High/ long | High |
| Cough | Rare | Hacking | Nonproductive | Present |
| Headache | Common | Rare | Prominent | Occasional |
| Aches | Rare | Slight | Usual/severe | Occasional |
| Fatigue | Occasional | Mild | 2 to 3 weeks | Common |
| Exhaustion | Sometimes | Rare | Early/severe | Rare |
| Chest discomfort | Rare | Moderate | Common | Common |
| Congestion | Common | Common | Occasional | Rare |
| Sneeze | Common | Usual | Occasional | Rare |
| Sore throat | Occasional | Common | Occasional | Occasional |