The flu. How to manage it and successfully cure yourself?

Autumn is here, a season that sooner or later takes its toll on each of us in the form of flu and colds. What to do about it? We can believe that vaccination will help us, or we can work hard to strengthen our immunity, or at least take care not to get over the flu and properly recover from it.

There is no flu like the flu. Sometimes it gradually draws attention to itself with warning signs, sometimes it comes like a bolt from the blue, without cause - without a cold, a blowout, just from hour to hour a person full of energy and optimism becomes a walking phantom. The body gets heavy, the muscles and head start to ache, and the temperature shoots up sharply. Cold-hearted individuals start to feel more coldness in the extremities and after a few hours the aforementioned temperature and headaches or body aches are added.

A common initial symptom of the flu is a burning sensation or pain in the nasopharynx and reddened tonsils. Sometimes a cough or a thick runny nose is added.

The first step, which should definitely not be underestimated or neglected, is to drop everything, lie down, get proper rest and finish whatever you haven't done lately. The flu only affects a weakened and exhausted organism, especially if it is often under stress.

The progression of hot wind through the layers of the body

According to Chinese medicine, our body has four layers through which the pollutant must gradually pass in order to get deep into our body.

The first layer is the layer of defense (Wei Fen). It is easy to remove the heat from the defense layer. You can use a mixture of Yin Qiao San (Tiger Drink) which removes the hot wind, relaxes the surface and removes irritation. It can be used for mild fever, sweating, sore throat, muscle and head pain, mild cold and cough. Tiger syrup is preferable for children under 5 years of age .

If you neglect the first warning, the heat will reach the second layer and that is the Qi layer (Qi Fen). Here there is a significant "struggle" between the proper and harmful Qi energy.

For symptoms such as hot breath, fever, and at the same time aversion to the cold, plus pain in the muscles, joints, head, in short, the whole body, one should promptly reach for the Chai Ge Jie Ji Tang (Burning Bush) mixture . This mixture "loosens the flesh" or muscles and relieves the pain.

When the heat is not vented through the surface, high fever, heavy sweating, intense thirst, and a strong/rapid pulse will often occur. These "four great symptoms" are reliably eliminated by the Bai Hu Tang (Four Great) mixture, which cools the fire and protects the body fluids.

This is where most of us begin to turn the battle with the flu to our advantage and work towards a successful recovery. If not, however, the malady would continue to progress to the remaining two layers: the nourishment layer (Ying Fen) and the blood layer (Xue Fen). The symptoms that would follow would already require hospitalisation (red rash over the body and minor bleeding, with more bleeding, irritability to insanity in the next stage).