Podcast Episode 79: How We Prevent and Mitigate Cold and Flu
1. Vitamin D: Here is the supplement we use.
2. Ginger: I like a slice in our smoothies, but dry powdered ginger has also shown anti-viral effects and worked great when we were traveling away from home and our high-powered blender.
3.
Fire paste
A quick mix of illness fighting foods that you can keep on hand to prevent and reverse illness.
Source: Karren
Yield: About 1 cup
Serves:
Ingredients
- 3 T ground Flaxseed prefer golden but brown works
- 3 T ground ginger
- 3 T turmeric
- 1⁄2 T black pepper
- 2 T apple cider vinegar
- 1⁄4–1⁄2 C Honey preferably raw or manuka for extra benefits
Directions
- Combine dry ingredients, then add apple cider vinegar and honey to desired thickness/sweetness. Take a teaspoon-ish daily to prevent illness or several times a day to reverse illness. Start small and work up to more as tolerated. I keep mine in the fridge but it will be fine on the counter for a week or so.
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4. Spicy Juice (AKA Ginger Cure-All Tea)
I have LOVED these tea strainers has made my herbal drinks so much easier!
Get my favorite Lomatium & Nettle Leaf blend here
Spicy Juice (Ginger Cure All Tea)
A batch or two of this when we feel something coming on has left us feeling back to normal again and again!
Source: beautyandthebeets.com
Course: Beverages
Prep Time: 2 min
Cook Time: 15 min
Total Time: 17 min
Yield: 4
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 whole cloves or star anise
- 3 inch chunk of unpeeled ginger root sliced into big pieces
- 1 lemon juice of
- 2 tsp herbal tea see notes
- 4 cups filtered water
- 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp. honey
Directions
- Add cinnamon sticks, anise, ginger, lemon juice, chamomile tea bags, and 4 cups of water to a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then remove from the heat, cover, and let steep for 15 minutes. Strain into a glass container and stir in apple cider vinegar and honey. Either enjoy warm or refrigerate up to a week and reheat as needed. Notes: I enjoy this with Lomatium & Nettle Leaf blend from curateforlife.com. 2 Chamomile tea bags are another good option. Take note of your herbal tea preparation instructions as some root based teas benefit from boiling, while many leaf based teas are more delicate and recommend just steeping in water that has been boiled.
Amount Per Serving (4)
- Calories: 65
- Protein: 0.5 g
- Sugar: 9 g
- Carbohydrate: 12 g
- Fat: 0.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
- Sodium: 5 mg
- Fiber: 1 g
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