The walls of my apartment are starting to feel a little like a hospital. Coughs are practically harmonizing through the walls, and my boyfriend and I might as well be the conductors.
2015 started out chilly, and it might as well just read FLU in bold and neon (and italics)?
I have nothing against modern medicine. It was, I must remind myself, the reason I did not die at age 10 after going into anaphylactic shock after eating a Brazil Nut. However, I don’t think it’s always necessary, particularly if it’s just because I might want to feel a bit gussy from flu meds that won’t actually cure anything.
Nature has provided us with some pretty incredible natural antimicrobial agents in foods, ingredients that could be used everyday. Here’s a list of a few! So, before you go inhaling garlic (please don’t, by the way), check out what it is in these foods that makes them remedies everyone recommends.
1. food: GARLIC, healing component: ALLOCIN – garlic is often recommended to cure everything from the flu to yeast infections. It is common talk in France that if you have an infection in your intestine to simply stick a clove up you #%$, and apparently that stings. And works. Why?! Because the allocin naturally found in raw garlic is a natural antimicrobic! I recommend mincing it up and mixing it with your favorite salad dressing. Don’t plan on going on a first date afterwards.
2. foods: COCONUT OIL or GOAT’S CHEESE, healing component: CAPRYLIC ACID – you don’t have to be into vegan baking or tropical skin care to dig coconut oil. This magical fruit has something called capryllic acid in it, that is also found in goat’s milk, that is a natural fungus-killer. So, if a yeast infection is getting you down, or there is a virus climbing around in your veins, replace the butter and oil in your diet with coconut oil or goat’s milk butter and/or cheese, and you’re actually helping yourself.
3. food: OREGANO, healing components: CARVACROL and THYMOL: many people know that oil of oregano is a potent antimicrobial food, but do you know why that is so? It is primarily the carvacrol in oregano that kills bacteria (and heavily so), and the thymol aids in microbial properties. Beware when taking oil of oregano drops orally, as it might just kill the good bacteria, too. Follow up with lots of plain yogurt or a good probiotic. Or just eat lots of gluten-free pizza loaded with oregano. (ummmm, why not!)
…and if none of this works, I’ll just ask my cat. She’s the only healthy one in the building.
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