Echinacea vs. Crud & Crud Loses!!!

For those who don't know me I'll start by telling you that I haven't been sick in I can't remember how many years and I do mean probably at least 15 to 20 years.  I haven't even had the common cold in that many years.

That all changed Sunday afternoon.  I felt fine when I got up Sunday morning but by the time we got home from church I was feeling kinda tired, but didn't really think anything about it. I fell asleep on the sofa and slept for hours.  I woke up at about 7:00pm with the chills.  I've never had the chills before, if felt so strange to me.  I was so cold I went and got a little electric heater, plugged it in and fell asleep again on the sofa with the heater blowing on my arms.  Now it was about 75 degrees here Sunday so there is no reason I should have been cold, I didn't know what "the chills" meant because I'm not used to ever being sick, shoulda had a clue lol!  I woke up again at about 9:30 and was nauseous so I decided to go to bed.  My husband knew something was wrong because I usually don't even think about going to bed until 2:00am or later lol. On my way to bed I took a couple of droppers of Echinacea.

I woke up every few hours and went to the bathroom cause I had been so thirsty I drank a ton of distilled water.  One of the times I got up I took 2 tablespoons of Echinacea because it had finally dawned on me (after talking to Uny, lol) that I must be (the dreaded word), sick!  Got up Monday about 11:00am and thats after I had slept all day Sunday wow, thats a lot of sleep. In between getting up to go to the bathroom, guzzling water and taking more Echinacea I slept all day again on the sofa and went to bed Monday night at 10:00pm.

I got up this morning feeling fine other than my whole body was sore from laying down that long, I ached all over from head to toe.  I had to go get on the inversion table to get the kinks out.  I never did throw up I was just chilled to the bone and extremely tired, couldn't hardly walk to the bedroom and back to the family room.  I've been thinking about it and I'm sure that if I would have taken the Echinacea the minute I felt so tired Sunday afternoon I don't think it would have gone any further, but never being sick I didn't know what was coming. The Echinacea would have knocked it out before it got a hold on me.  I don't know if it was the flu or just a bug, I call it the CRUD for lack of a better word.

I made my first batch of tinctures on the new moon in October, I haven't pressed any until today but I have been getting a dropperful out a couple times a day and testing them against Uny's to see how mine compared.  So I've been taking at least 2 droppersful of Echinacea everyday for the last 2 weeks. 

I want to encourage everyone to get some Echinacea and take it every single day.  I don't know if it would have knocked whatever I had out so fast if I hadn't been taking it everyday for the last couple of weeks, it very well could have.  I just know that I'm going to keep taking it because I feel like we all need to build up our immune system with all the flu thats going around out there.  I would never have dreamed I would get sick, when you go for so many years without any sickness you feel invincible but I did get sick so its taught me a valuable lesson to take the necessary precautions and for me thats taking my Echinacea everyday without fail.

I feel very blessed that it only lasted less than 2 full days for me, I know people who have had it for more than a week.  I attribute that to taking the Echinacea.  I shudder to think just how bad it could have been if I hadn't known about the Echinacea.

Blessings of health.

Willow