Preventing the Flu Without Medication

Preventing the Flu Without Medication

There are some simple health-habit tips you can work into your life to decrease the chances of coming down with the virus.

• Wash Those Hands The germs can live there for hours, and sometimes even days — only to be picked up by an unsuspecting coworker. Washing your hands often can reduce germs.

• Use a Tissue When you sneeze or cough, remember to cover your nose and mouth with a tissue, not your hands. Using your hands can quite literally have you holding onto the germs, ready to pass them on to anyone. A tissue can collect the germs and keep everyone out of harm's way … just be sure to throw it out immediately.

• Acupuncture Regular visit acupuncturist will strength your body defensive Qi to fight the pathogens. It reduces the chance to get sick and shorten the time need to recover from flu.

• Herbal Medicine Regularly strengthing the Lung and spleen function with herbs will reduce the chance getting the flu. It has no side effect, and it works better than Flu shot. 

If You Get the Flu, Anti-virals Can Help

• Should you or a family member come down with the flu, anti-virals may be your best bet. Anti-virals can shorten the duration of the flu, but only if they're taken within 12-48 hours of the onset of symptoms.

Chinese Herbs can help the Flu

• Ban Lan Gen (clear Toxic-heat): cool blood, clear heat. Good for painful throat, fever, headache, and cough. It has anti-viral function, the number one herb for treating the flu.

• Jin Yin Hua (clear Toxic-heat or wind-heat): for wind-heat or all stages of febrile diseases.

Clear diarrhea/dysentery (with mucus or bleeding-damp heat cause)

• Lian Qiao (clear Toxic-heat): good for fever cause irritability, insomnia. Promote urination.

• Ge Gen (dispel wind-heat): release muscle pain and stop diarrhea

• Huang Qin, Huang Lian, Huang Bai (dispel damp-heat, drain fire, cool blood):

    good for fever,coughing, ulcers, insomnia, tongue sores, nausea, vomiting.

These herbs have anti-viral function.

• Add She Gan or Niu Bang Zi for sore throat

• Add Xuan Shen generate fluid to reduce the irritability cause by the fever.

It reduces throat pain and swelling

• Add Ye Ju Hua for eye pain

• Add Jing Jie, Fang Feng for disperse the exterior pathogen attack

Acupuncture cupping and points:

Du 14, LI11, SJ5, Li4, LU10, ST44 (clear heat and exterior pathogens)

ST36, Ren 6, UB13 ( strength the Spleen, Lung to fight the flu)

ST25 can add if diarrea or constipation.

GB20, Ying Tang for headace and irritablility

Lu 7 for coughing 

LU11 for sore throat