As you know, I was feeling somewhat seedy yesterday, with a very sore throat. Luckily there are a variety of ways of boosting winter immunity and tackling a sore throat.
Vitamins
• Cod liver oil is a good source of vitamins A & D, so I take that regularly through the year, but especially in winter
• Humans are amongst only four mammals that cannot make their own vitamin C, so we need it in our food. But in winter I often supplement as well. Some comes from food based vitamin C mixes and some comes from Liposomal C, which is good for larger doses. That’s because it’s encapsulated in lipids (fats) so gets absorbed in the small intestine, instead of the stomach, where there are more vitamin C receptors. Yesterday I increased my daily dose.
Hot Drinks
• Ginger tea with fresh lemon juice and manuka honey, or just the lemon and honey in hot water
• Beef or chicken broth, by itself
• OR made into Warming winter vegetable soup maybe with some ginger, garlic or turmeric added
• OR made into an eggnog by beating it up with a couple of raw free range eggs (pic below is of yesterday’s breakfast)
Something topical for the throat
• I like to gargle with some colloidal silver to address some of the bad bacteria present. You can swallow it afterwards, but I’ve been swishing then spitting it out.
• Another way to get rid of some of the bad bacteria in your mouth is oil pulling with coconut oil. This involves putting a large spoonful of coconut oil in your mouth, letting it dissolve, then swishing it around your mouth for about 10 minutes. The bad bacteria are absorbed into the coconut oil. You then spit it out, and rinse your mouth well with warm water. I’d still gargle with colloidal silver afterwards though, as the oil pulling doesn’t really get into the throat.
• After the colloidal silver gargle, I’ve been sucking on a lozenge made from manuka honey, to sooth my throat.
• At different times of the day, I’ve been introducing good bacteria. You can open a multi strain probiotic capsule and sprinkle it at the back of your throat, and then not eat or drink anything for a while. This adds back a range of good bugs.
• But I also like to use BLIS Throat Guard lozenges, which give you a good dose of the bugs that usually live in the mouth.
R & R
• Number 1 – stay warm! Not easy to do yesterday, but we did our best.
• Number 2 – rest. Bed rest. Snuggling in front of the fire rest. Reading a book or watching a movie rest. Not sitting in front of the computer answering 3 days worth of Steemit comments. I didn’t do so well on that rule yesterday!
There is one member of our household who understands the importance of rest on a cold winter’s day. As you can see, the weather is still a bit rough.