Top 12 Herbs and Spices to Get You Through the Flu Season

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10. Echinacea

One of the most popular herbs to improve your immune system while shortening the duration of the flu. You should be careful to buy a high quality, well-known brand as many of the products for sale have such as small amount of Echinacea in them that they won’t do you any real good.

If you have allergies to pollen or ragweed, you might want to choose another herb as this might kick up your allergic reactions. Make your own Echinacea tea by putting about 3 droppers full in one cup of hot water. Echinacea grows all over the US and Canada and has been used by the Native Americans for its medicinal properties for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Echinacea seems to work better with influenza than the cold virus, but since it also improves the strength of your immune system, it’s a sure bet to help you fight off any virus!

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One Comment

  1. Keziha Chan

    Oct 26, 2017 at 4:33 am

    My mom makes an awesome (Asian style) chicken noodle soup using cinnamon, lots of garlic, mountains of ginger and a little chilli, it’s so soothing for a cold and warms you up in winter.?
    This article really helped me understand why it’s so good, plus a few extra things I can cure or prevent a cold. ?super help full, thank you.