The cost of the flu kit is $100 plus $5 shipping. You can call the clinic and order one.
By Jacob Mirman, MD
Flu season is here and whether or not you have gotten a flu shot you can still come down with the flu.
Flu symptoms can vary but the most common ones include muscle aches, the chills, sweats and a fever. Many people also experience a runny nose, headache and sore throat. No matter what combination of symptoms, patients with the flu generally feel not only miserable but helpless because there are not any effective pharmaceuticals available to treat it, other than to minimally reduce the severity of the symptoms.
MY RECOMMENDATION FOR THE FLU
Never fear the Flu Kit is here!
Homeopathic medicine is often helpful in flues and colds. A good remedy often aborts the illness within a few hours and the patient recovers quickly. It is somewhat tricky to figure out which remedy to use. I suggest that all my patients get themselves and their families ready for the flu season by looking into homeopathy and learning how to use it.
The best way to do this is to buy our homeopathic flu kit. It has most needed remedies and instructions on their use. The instructions are also available on our flu site: www.flusolution.net.
The key to successfully treating the flu is to have the flu kit on hand so you can start using it immediately. You can also get individual remedies at stores like Whole Foods or Present Moment. Homeopathy has been used with great success on influenza patients all over the world for more than 200 years. 100 years ago during a flu pandemic, homeopaths reported only a 1% mortality in their cases while conventional doctors reported 30% mortality.
HERE’S WHAT THE KIT INCUDES:
The kit contains 49 vials containing the most common homeopathic remedies for flu and also includes a guide for how to use them. If at any point in time a patient should run out of a specific remedy I will refill that remedy for them at no charge. THERE IS NO EXPIRATION DATE ON THE REMEDIES; SO WITH THE REFILL OFFER, THE KIT WILL VIRTUALLY LAST A LIFETIME
I offer phone consultations to treat flu homeopathically. It is included in the monthly fees for my regular homeopathic patients and costs $100 for others. Medical insurance may cover the visit if it is done in person or via video-conferencing.
FOR PATIENTS NOT INTERESTED IN THE FLU KIT I HAVE TWO ALTERNATIVES:
- Vitamin C and D are supposed to help your immune system fight the infection. Both are safe. I suggest adults take 2 grams of Vitamin C a day and 10,000 IU of Vitamin D a day for a few days when adult patients get sick. The recommended dosages are smaller for children.
- In many cases the illness can be shortened by taking extract of Sambucus Niger, an herbal preparation. It is available at Whole Foods as Sambucus syrup. It comes with and without propolis (a bee product). I suggest using the one with propolis, as it has some anti-viral activity. Use the directions on the bottle for dosing.
Homeopaths believe that if your body is generally healthy, you have a much higher chance of success in fighting any disease, including flu. Therefore, we feel that everybody should get homeopathic treatment before they become seriously ill with an acute disease. On one hand, it will help you deal with all the chronic symptoms you may be suffering with now, and on the other, it will make your body stronger and more able to fight off whatever acute infection may come along, including the flu.
Once you do get sick, homeopathic treatment is very effective in improving your body’s ability to fight off the infection, thereby reducing duration and intensity of the disease. It is important to understand that homeopathic remedies do not cure any disease. They just improve your body’s ability to do it naturally on its own.
Homeopathic remedies do not have any direct effect on the infectious agent. They just modify our body’s response to it. Again, let’s make it very clear: homeopathy does not specifically treat flu, Ebola, or any other infectious disease. It aids the body’s own defense mechanism in recognizing the disease and handling it more efficiently.
Being ready for flu season is not hard. It requires a simple inexpensive remedy kit, a bit of education and access to a homeopath. The advantage of having a kit at home is immediate readiness when you or your family member gets sick.
TRADITIONAL TREATMENTS/RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FLU
Because it is a viral condition, most doctors will tell you to keep warm, well-hydrated and to take Vitamin C and D. That’s about all they can recommend. Antibiotics do nothing for viral conditions.
Over-the-counter drugs for symptomatic relief include antihistamines to reduce itching and discharge, decongestants to reduce swelling in the nose causing congestion, cough suppressants (narcotic and non-narcotic), expectorants to make cough more productive and easier, and pain relievers/fever reducers. Most over-the-counter medications for flu contain one or more of these components. They are OK to take, but different components cause different side effects, so people need to be careful, and choose only the components they really need for their symptoms.
For example, decongestants often increase blood pressure, pain/fever drugs like ibuprofen cause stomach irritation and occasionally bleeding ulcers, etc. These drugs don’t shorten the illness, and may actually prolong it.
The prescription drug Tamiflu®, heavily promoted by its maker, apparently does not do much to shorten the flu, if you look carefully at the research that has been conducted.