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Best Natural Remedies Ever to Help Fight Pneumonia
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4. Echinacea
You have probably heard about this herb and chances are good you have even consumed it in the past, as this is perhaps the most popular herbal cold and flu remedy in America. This beautifully flowering plant is native to North America and is well known for its immune boosting compounds. Echinacea stimulates a process in the body that causes immune cells to destroy infectious organisms in the body. Echinacea has mild antibacterial properties and is best used as soon as you identify the symptoms of pneumonia. This herb will be super helpful in helping your own immune system fight off this disease.
Echinacea tea can be purchases just about everywhere, or you can make your own super immune support tea by making the following mixture:
Take ½ teaspoon of each of the following dried herbs: lemon grass, spearmint or peppermint leaves, and Echinacea. Add the herbs to two cups of boiling water and add one tablespoon of raw organic honey. Pour the boiling water over the herbs and steep for about 10 minutes, breathing in the steam as it cools. Strain and add the honey. Drink this once or twice per day to help speed healing and recovery time.