A book I read a long while ago,"Food and Healing" by Annemarie Colbin - she quotes the old saying "Stuff a cold, starve a fever." Then she says they got it wrong, she changed it to: "If you stuff a cold, you will have to starve a fever." Meaning, that it's better to eat less when you are sick. If you stuff yourself, your cold will get worse, you will get a fever, then you will be forced to fast.
I have this hunch that the Fast 5 is helping me avoid getting colds. Though obviously it's not guaranteed.
My 2 best cold remedies: It's best to start the remedy immediately when you first notice you might be getting sick. The sooner you start the remedy, the more success you will have. If you wait until you feel badly, it's too late, you have to go through the whole cold.
My 2 remedies are opposite. First there is "Super Echinacea" by Herb Pharm. It comes in a golden yellow labeled bottle with an eyedropper. The way I use it is to fill the dropper full, tilt my head back and squirt it straight into the back of my throat when it barely starts to feel sore. I repeat this every 15 minutes until the soreness goes away. It tingles in your throat, when the tingling stops I squirt it again. I have been able to knock the sore throat out and prevent a cold this way. "Super Echinacea" is like a natural antibiotic.
The other method is not compatible with "Super Echinacea". It's a soil-based probiotic called "Body Biotics" . It comes in capsules. I open the capsule and sprinkle it in my mouth. I let my saliva moisten the powder or I might take a *little bit* of filtered water. I swish it around my mouth and swallow before I go to bed. The idea is to have the residue of the moist powder in your throat. The probiotics eat the bad bacteria that are causing the sore throat. When you wake up the sore throat is gone. The powder is a little gritty and tastes like dirt. Not horrible tasting, just not what you might like. The probiotics are killed by chlorine, and also killed by Super Echinacea. So if you are doing the Super Echinacea during the day, stop for a hour before you take the Body Biotics.
Anyway, those work for me.
I think it is better to eat less or to completely fast when you are sick.
My 2 cents, hope you feel better.
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