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Super Immunity Foods
grains, pumpkin seeds, and legumes) boosts immunity. Adding herbs, which produce fewer or no allergic reactions, can boost that healing power. Rosemary helps with sinusitis and asthma, especially coupled with other culinary herbs like basil or marjoram.
The Common Cold The common cold affects the glandular, digestive/detoxification, and respiratory immune centers.
“I like good soup, not fine words,” said Molière, good advice that goes double if you have a cold, which ranks as humanity’s leading physical illness. Besides rest, stress reduction, high-level hygiene, and plenty of fluids, eating nutrient-dense salads, fruits, and vegetables can be part of the protocol that pulls you through. You’ll need all three, in fact, if you spend the typical ten to fourteen days with a rhinoviral infection. The common cold (so called because year in, year out there are one billion cases of it) can make you uncommonly uncomfortable. Symptoms include (but are not limited to) head and nasal congestion, sore throat, coughing, sneezing, watery eyes, aches and pains, and fatigue, and a slight fever is also a possibility. The window of opportunity for getting or escaping a cold is also slight. The virus gains entry to your body usually by attaching itself to the back of the adenoid area. It manifests itself eighteen to twenty-four hours later, keeping you contagious for five days after. The rhinovirus can remain live for eighteen hours on hard surfaces. The cold is a close cousin of more serious and potentially chronic conditions, including bronchitis, sinusitis, otitis media, and influenza. The flu is a winter phenomenon because of cold air and relative humidity. Dry air enables the virus to be airborne longer. The respiratory system also works more