{"id":19368,"date":"2025-09-16T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=19368"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:45:41","slug":"herbs-for-the-flu-tested-by-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/herbs-for-the-flu-tested-by-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbs for the Flu, Tested By Science"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A\u00a0Flu<\/a>\u00a0and cold are often difficult to differentiate, but a\u00a0Flu<\/a>\u00a0is usually worse. Symptoms include a fever with chills, runny nose, cough, headache, and a feeling of malaise or tiredness. Although the most acute symptoms usually subside within three days, symptoms such as weakness and coughing may persist for ten days. Even though the\u00a0Flu<\/a>\u00a0is typically self-limiting, serious complications can arise in the very young or the elderly or those with a preexisting disease.<\/p>\n

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The ideal approach to the\u00a0Flu<\/a>\u00a0is, of course, prevention. This might be accomplished by improving the\u00a0Immune System<\/a>, especially in the fall as\u00a0Flu<\/a>\u00a0season approaches. Several studies have shown that astragalus (Astragalus membranaceous) extracts can stimulate the\u00a0Immune System<\/a>. Use astragalus as an extract or add the root to soups.<\/p>\n

If you do get the\u00a0Flu<\/a>, here are two\u00a0Herbs<\/a>\u00a0shown to help reduce the severity of the illness.<\/p>\n

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  1. Elder (Sambucus nigra) has a tradition of use for the treatment of\u00a0Colds<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Flu<\/a>\u00a0and has stood the test of science. The flowers from this plant have demonstrated antiviral activity against both influenza types A and B, as well as herpes simplex virus type 1. It also possesses anti-inflammatory activity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A clinical study showed that a standardized elderberry extract, Sambucol, improved the symptoms of influenza with a complete recovery in two to three days, compared to a six-day recovery period for the group not receiving the herb. In this study patients were diagnosed with influenza type B. Elder may act by stimulating the body\u2019s own interferon or by preventing attachment of the virus to the body\u2019s surfaces.<\/p>\n

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    1. Licorce root has also demonstrated antiviral activity. When mice infected with lethal doses of influenza virus were treated with glycyrrhizin, an active component of\u00a0Licorice<\/a>, they were protected from death due to the virus\u00a0A.D.H.D.<\/a>less lung damage than did mice treated with saline controls.\u2014\u2013
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      A\u00a0Flu\u00a0and cold are often difficult to differentiate, but a\u00a0Flu\u00a0is usually worse. Symptoms include a fever with chills, runny nose, cough, headache, and a feeling of malaise or tiredness. Although the most acute symptoms usually subside within three days, symptoms such as weakness and coughing may persist for ten days. Even though the\u00a0Flu\u00a0is typically self-limiting, serious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herbs-for-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}