Okay, recently I have been writing way too much about the flu and flu vaccines and flu prevention…so much so that I have begun to develop a few flu symptoms…! 😉
Seriously now, whenever you have a bit of free time, exactly 3 minutes and 39 seconds!, check out this really neat, well-made cartoon video depiction of what happens when someone who has the flu sneezes near you: http://tinyurl.com/yjpty3m No, I promise, the cartoon is not gross at all…on the contrary, it is absolutely fascinating!
By the way, Fanatic Cook is one of my favourite bloggers. I link to her blog…scroll down my Pages to “Useful food/spice-related links”….which is not at all an appropriate heading, come to think of it, since she doesn’t just post about food but treats a huge variety of topics, from vitamin D to genetically modified organisms and cancer… Check out her archives when you have some free time…good stuff!
Hi Margaret
I haven’t been online very much recently, just thought I would check in quickly, I haven’t got long, as off to meeting, but noticed your post about Elderberry, i can say 1st hand it definately reduces flu symptoms quicker.
In the summer I had flu, possibly swine flu, it was raging around my sons school,they gave up testing people as they couldn’t cope with the number of cases, I contracted tonsilitis after a few days and had to have antibiotics for that, but refused the antivirals. I recovered from the worst symtoms in just a couple of days. As well as the antibiotics, I dosed myself up with a special homeiopathic elderberry concentrate, from a local lady, took maximum doses of samento 3 times a day and gargled with citricidal, drank hot freshly made lemon & ginger tea throughout the day and combine honey and Propolis to sooth my throat. Now of course, it could have been one of the other things that helped, but I would never rely on just one thing to get rid of a virus. I will never leave out the Elderberry.
I hope everything is well, I must log on with enough time to read up on your blog. I’ve been working hard at getting my diploma to practise Bowen. I should be fully qualified after Christmas (yipee)
Wishing you well
Sue
Hi again Margaret
Boy you have been busy, it’s going to take mew a while to catch up properly, can I ask you where you are getting your ashwagandha from
Thanks Sue
Margaret — I found the NPR virus link VERY educational.. thanks so much for alerting us to it! And I’m going to find some elderberry concentrate tomorrow!!
thanks for the npr video. It’s wonderful!
I miss npr so much here in Italy 🙂
Hi Margaret
I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, there could be a really good social way of enjoying the benefits of Elderberry, Drinking it made as wine!! so I looked up a link
http://winecompass.blogspot.com/2007/04/wine-101-elderberry-wine.html
I’m going to fine my nearest local organic supplier, I used to drink it when I was younger as my parents regulary made some in the winter and if I remember rightly it was deliceous. P.s. you can also buy the dried berries to make tea from
Sue
That video makes me want to walk around with both a “noseklipp” and a medical mouth shield on top of it …… Fabulous! Christine
We should all shoot for ‘high normal’ levels of Vitamin D and find a way of getting/staying there. This article suggests that Vitamin D toxicity was not seen even with what to me seems like a high dose.
Boston University Medical Center (2009, October 28). Weekly And Biweekly Vitamin D2 Prevents Vitamin D Deficiency. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 28, 2009, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2009/10/091026161850.htm