Seasonal Allergies: Gear Up Now!
What would a healing post, from me, be without my favorite herb... stinging nettles! It is my "go to" herb for all nourishing and healing needs. Start with nettles + herbs specific for the health symptoms = healing equation!
Got allergies? Gear up now to fortify your body before pollen season. (I know, it does seem like winter will never go away, here in Northern NY! But, pollen season will happen!) This self-responsible, preventative health action will help to ease the seasonal allergy symptoms. Breathe freely this spring, summer, and fall...
1. Freeze dried stinging nettles: Get to Nature's Storehouse, Canton, NY and purchase some freeze-dried stinging nettles. Start taking them now to calm and heal your immune system and relieve the seasonal pollen allergies.
2. Local, raw honey. Start eating 1/2 to 1 teaspoon two times daily, now. Local, raw honey will acclimate your body to the local allergens before they bloom and blossom. This local honey will help to relieve or even rid your seasonal pollen allergies.
3. Herbal Formula: Herbs Etc. is a great company. I use many of their formulas in healing ways with friends, family, and clients. They work!
Allertonic® Enhances healthy inflammatory responses of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts. Stabilizes mast cell walls and fixed antibodies found in the eyes and respiratory system, keeping the tissues calm. Normalizes secretion of the respiratory system, liquefies mucus, stimulates its removal from the lungs, and keeps pulmonary tissues hydrated.
Ingredients: Fresh Stinging Nettle herb, Licorice root, Eyebright herb, Horehound herb, Osha root, fresh Horsetail herb, fresh Mullein leaf, Elecampane root, and fresh Plantain leaf.
Suggested Use:
Acute: Take one soft gel or 40 drops with water every two to three hours until comfort is achieved or as directed by your health care professional. Noticeable comfort is attained within the first or second day. Switch to ongoing use.
Ongoing: Take one soft gel or 40 drops with water three times a day.
Proactive: Two months prior to seasonal challenges, take one soft gel or 40 drops with water twice a day.
4. Yes, you can use all three of these natural, allergy relief "foods" as a preventative measure. Start now, before the snow melts!
5. Whole foods: I would be seriously amiss as a whole food, holistic healer if I did not tell you that the foods you put into your body, every time you eat, affect the way you feel. Eat crap, feel like crap! If you over load your body with packaged, factory made foods, you overwhelm your immune system (actually, you overwhelm your whole body, every body cell!). Your immune response to allergens in the seasonal air will be seriously heightened if your body is already overwhelmed by crap food. Eat whole, love your body cells!
6. Liver Nourishment: As I write this post, I have a draft post on liver nourishment, ready to go. Be looking for it. Keeping the liver healthy will cut down on seasonal allergy symptoms.
7. Acupuncture: is an excellent healing tool in the seasonal allergy toolbox. Give Five Elements Living a call if allergy relief is in your plans!
PS: I can order any product from Herbs Etc. for you. Check Nature's Storehouse OR the Potsdam Food Coop for a similar product. Compare the ingredients as many herbal companies make allergy relief herbal combinations.
Need Help? Not sure about herbal healing foods: what to take, how to take it, when to take it, etc? As a Certified Herbalist, I can help with this! Give me a shout.
Medicine or Poison? How will you LOVE your body cells?
I had a few comments about the healthy kid's birthday parties that went something like this... "Oh come on, shouldn't kids be allowed to have fun once in a while?"
My question was and always is this: "When did fun become an opportunity to poison our bodies?"
When it comes to making decisions about health, healing, and disease prevention is not common sense a space to work from?
This is not a harsh mindset, in the least. Read on for a holistic healer's reality check on cell nourishment.
Close your eyes and visualize a holiday or family celebration 200 years ago. See and smell all the foods being served to celebrate the occasion or event.
All those foods ARE 100% whole, locally grown and produced, and in season! There was absolutely no other way.
200 years ago Twinkies, gummy worms, soft drinks, Dorito chips, hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, etc., etc., etc. absolutely did not exist.
Visualize that party again. People ARE having fun AND they are not filling their bodies with modern, factory made, food "products" poisons. They are whooping it up, dancing, singing, merry making with friends, family, and neighbors all the while surrounded by whole, cell nourishing foods.
It is your choice with every fork full: poison or nourishment?
Say NO to refined, corporate sponsored, factory made, cell degenerating products.
Say YES to healthy, cell enhancing, whole, local foods and party it up with the ones you love... all at the same time!
The possibilities are endless! Focus on what you are inviting into your life: real food and the vibrant health that comes from indulging in them!
Be Well. Eat whole foods and make your body cells sing and dance. Love yourself and other people; prepare them healthy food!
Paula
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