Tag Archives: cold and flu

A change of every season requires a change in diet and lifestyle. Ayurveda prescribes a distinctive lifestyle and diet to both ward off and beat the common cold and cold systems. Using only natural ingredients, Ayurvedic medicine offers excellent treatment options like cold medicine and remedies.  Though you can catch …

The flu has increased significantly over recent weeks with influenza A (H3N2) viruses predominating so far this season. In the past, A (H3N2) virus-predominant influenza seasons have been associated with more hospitalizations and deaths in persons aged 65 years and older and young children compared to other age groups.1 So …

So many children fall ill during the winter, and so many parents desperately try anything they can to keep them healthy. But most children get at least several colds or belly troubles a year. Let’s be real, sick children most likely mean time off from school, daycare, and work for …

As the parent of two school-aged kids, I’m well practiced in battling the incessant stream of viral and bacterial invaders these kids bring home. At any given time, you can walk into a classroom and it seems at least a quarter of the kids have a runny nose or cough. …

There are few seasons more anticipated than spring, am I right? If you’re a fan of the warmer months (and even if you’re not), you’ll be quite familiar with the feeling of waiting, and waiting, at the end of a long winter for those first hopeful signs… The slight increase in …

Here we are so close to the first day of winter! We can see nature slowing down around us.  Trees drop leaves and rivers freeze, at least in the Northern hemisphere. So because we are part of nature we get a bit sluggish too.  Our circulation gets slower, our lymph gets …