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1 part - elder
1 part - peppermint
1 part - yarrow
A pinch of cinnamon, ginger and mustard.

Combine the ingredients. Steep 1 to 2 tsp of the mixture in 1 cup hot water. Allow it to steep for 10-25 minutes covered. Strain and drink it hot sweetened with a little honey just before going to bed.

Prepare a fresh cup for each dose. Sip the dosage slowly, never gulp it down. Swish it around the mouth before swallowing. This helps the liquid to mix with the enzymes in the saliva and rapidly assimilates the herbs into the blood stream.

This tea will induce a sweat, and if the cold is caught early enough, may stop it altogether. Even if it is too late for this it will still be very useful. This tea can help the body handle fever and reduce achiness, congestion, and inflammation.

The particular flu bug that has been going around has been pretty resistent. If you get a sulfer taste then you might try apple cider vinegar and cinnamon three times a day plus a drop of oregeno oil. The oregeno is powerful stuff and I have added it to my own cold/flu treatment. Three people who tried it said it worked. I actually felt the sulfer taste coming on myself and the took the listed things. I also noticed a little back ache from it trying to settle in my bone and tried bone set herb, which knocked the pain out. I have had not re-occurence of the symptoms.

Blessings

#1 Hydrogen peroxide in the ears. 15 minutes in each ear OR as long as it continues to bubble like crazy. Repeat every hour or every few hours.

#2 Fresh lemons. Drinking the juice of one lemon in one cup of water. At least 3 lemons in one day (spread out), it can be more, up to 10 if need be! (Rinse mouth out with water or even with a little baking soda immediately afterwards)
Raw apple cider vinegar is good too, take a lot of that, but interspersed with the lemons. Not instead of the lemons.

Oregano oil.

Sauna/sweating/hot bath/bundled up in bed. Get TOO hot help your body kill it off with high temperature.

------As soon as I feel a "tingle" I go drink the juice of a lemon, and then peroxide my ears, and I'll drink another lemon in a little while, and peroxide my ears again, too. These are the best in knocking something out before it takes hold, and getting rid of it quickly in my experience. ------------


Note:
Colloidal Silver can work if you get really desperate such as if you had to sing in a big concert and you were really really sick two days before. But I would recommend avoiding Colloidal Silver unless you feel like you need something super powerful that works really quickly. I took it one time when I suspected that I "needed" an antibiotic. It worked, and I felt better about taking it than I did on taking a prescription antibiotic. But that was the only time I've taken Colloidal Silver internally. Knowing what I know now, I would definitely use oregano oil instead.

Note:
I once used a reishi mushroom tincture when I had a virus and BAM it was powerful! That worked quickly. But I don't know much about it, other than to say that I used it once. Anyone interested might want to research it.