Influenza

Symptoms:

• cold feelings;
• mild fever;
• painful muscles;
• painful joints;
• cold chills;
• tender skin;
• stuffy nose;
• watery discharge from nose;
• cough;
• sneezing;
• hoarse voice;
• scratching throat;
• light urine;

Causes:

• getting wind and cold, that stops lungs energy;
• when lungs energy is low, our immunity drops and we become more susceptible to diseases;
• sneezing is body reaction to restart stopped lungs energy;
• when skin pores are open, wind goes under skin and causes tender skin, muscles pain and runny nose;

Treatment:

Without fever

• try to make body sweat. By sweating skin pores open up and wind and cold are “pushed” out;
• eat hot and spicy food to heat up body and drive out cold through out body;
• take hot showers;
• take hot baths;
• go to sauna;

With fever

• avoid hot and spicy food;
• avoid activities like hot showers and sauna, that add heat to your body;

NB! take hot procedures like baths and sauna only when fever hasn’t raised. When you already have mild fever, body cooling action must be taken.

Nutrition suggestions:

Without fever

• avoid cool food by character – if you already have cold shivers and feeling, eating cold type and temperature food makes your condition worse;
• avoid raw food – salads, fruits, vegetables;
• do not drink cold drinks;
• do not eat or drink diary products;
• use warm and hot food by character;
• eat vegetables like onion, garlic;
• eat spices like ginger, pepper, rosemary, thyme, cinnamon;
• drink one-two lace of alcohol like vodka, cognac;

With fever

• do not eat cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, garlic, onion, chilly;
• do not eat meat like sheep, deer, goat, cattle;
• use slightly dairy products like yoghurt;
• eat fruits like pears, watermelon;
• eat vegetables like green gram, radish, napa cabbage;
• use herbs like peppermint;

Explanation: