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Nature's Sunshine
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Prevention
The Best Remedy For
The Common Cold & Flu
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You
wake up in the early morning hours. Your nose is running, your
throat hurts, and you feel achy all over. Welcome to the cold and
flu season.
Unfortunately, people are usually more susceptible to illness
during the winter months than any other season. Forty percent of
time missed from the work place is attributed to a cold or
influenza.
Why do people get so many colds and flu?
To begin with, more than 200 different viruses can cause a
cold. People spend more time inside in the winter, and colds and
flu are contagious. A virus is contagious from 24 to 48 hours
before an individual even shows any symptoms.
Also, every time you cough, sneeze or blow your nose, you are
spreading the virus. Explains Tara Skye Goldin, a naturopathic
physician practicing in Boulder, Colo., "People stay indoors
in bad weather. You're closer to other people, and you pass
germs along more readily."
What kind of shape your immune system is in will determine
whether or not you catch a virus, and if you do, how long it will
last. Typically, a cold can last anywhere from a few days to a
couple of weeks.
If you have a compromised immune system, you are more likely
to become ill, and if you become ill, your illness is more likely
to last longer.
The Good
News!
There are several ways you can reduce the chance of catching a
cold or the flu, and, if you get sick, reduce the severity of the
illness.
Wash
Hands....
The first and simplest step is to wash your hands often. While
you can catch a cold through viruses passed through the air, more
germs are transmitted through hand contact than any other
way.
Exercise....
Moderate exercise can help prevent illness by keeping the
metabolism up, toning muscles, and helping to reduce or maintain
the percent of body fat. Moderate exercise has also been proven
to fight moderate depression, which may occur during the winter
months.
Be careful not to overdo; excessive exercise during cold
months can tax the body and thereby suppress the immune
system.
Eat
right....
A sensible diet, enhanced by NSP's nutritional supplements,
will help ensure that your body has all the nutrients necessary
to stay healthy.
Strengthen the immune
system....
Simple things like cold fronts coming in and the change in
temperature from warm to cold as we go about our daily tasks can
affect the immune system," says Dr. Goldin. "The body
has to adjust rapidly to temperature changes and the body's
reserves are being used for temperature regulation. This stresses
the immune system," Goldin says.
To reduce the chances of catching a cold or flu, you must
ensure that your immune system is functioning to its highest
capacity. Nature's Sunshine can help you maintain a healthy
supply of nutrients for your immune and other body systems.
NSP can also help you address physical symptoms with
homeopathic remedies. "Herbal medicine and homeopathics have
been used for centuries,: Dr. Goldin says, "and they are
very effective in boosting the immune system."
The following nutritional supplements and remedies are some of
the most popular products in demand this time of year.
| Nutritional Support Products For The Respiratory System for
"Adults": |
| Nutritional Support Products For The Respiratory System for
"Children": |
| Nutritional Support Products For The Immune System for
"Adults": |
| Nutritional Support Products For The Immune System for
"Children": |
Nature's
Sunshine's Homeopathic Medicines
While many modern medicines get rid of symptoms you want to
eliminate, they can cause side-effects. Not homeopathic
medicines. Developed over 150 years ago, these completely safe
remedies don't merely "cover" symptoms like most
other medicines. Instead, they work to cure what causes them in
the first place, utilizing minute quantities of natural
substances to stimulate the body's natural defenses and
healing processes.
Homeopathics
for Adults
| Cold: For runny nose, sneezing,
headache, sore throat and shortness of breath associated with
cold symptoms. |
Cough Syrup: Homeopathic Cough
Syrup comes in three forms:
 1. DH for dry, hacking, hoarse
cough accompanying minor illness, allergies and throat
irritations.
- 2. LP for congestion with loose,
moist phlegm and difficult expectoration.
- 3. NT for nighttime cough which
disturbs sleep and is due to minor illness.
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| Fatigue/Exhaustion: For
symptoms due to sleeplessness, illness, overwork or physical
stress. |
| Sinus: Designed for stuffy or
runny nose and headaches due to common sinusitis. |
| Sore Throat/Laryngitis: Helpful
for minor sore throat, hoarseness and laryngitis. |
| Viral Recovery: Homeopathic
Viral Recovery is designed to help symptoms of weakness and lack
of stamina after viral illness. |
Homeopathics for
Children
| Cold: For runny nose, sneezing, headache,
sore throat pain. Also try Calming, Cough Syrup, Fever, and
Distress Remedy. |
| Cough: For common colds, minor throat
and/or bronchial irritation. Also consider Asthma, Calming, Cold,
& Distress Remedy. |
| For minor internal ear pain, throbbing and achiness,
irritability due to pain, and restless discomfort, use Distress
Remedy and Pain. |
| For symptoms of colds and flu use Calming, Cold, and
Distress Remedy. |
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