When Chase-Manhattan lender David Givens began to feel some of
early symptoms of
flu - fatigue, muscle aches and pains (not from exercise), and a slight fever - he had no reason to expect he'd be, as he put it, "amazingly better within 2 days" because of a flu home remedy.Fortunately for him, one of his basketball-buddies,
author of this article, is a Chinese medicine acupuncturist and herbalist. When he called me about his symptoms, I recommended he take a modern Chinese herbal flu home remedy called Honeysuckle & Bupleurum (pronounced Boo-plur-um).
It was also fortunate for David that I edit
work of a well-known Chinese Medicine translator, Philippe Sionneau. Sionneau's book (published in France, but not yet in English), Modern Chinese Herbal Formulas, contains a bevy of home remedy solutions that marry ancient wisdom with modern-day pharmacology (drug actions). According to
research, all 12 of
traditional Chinese herbs in
Honeysuckle & Bupleurum flu home remedy have either antiviral or antibacterial actions.
For most people,
flu is a miserable two-week inconvenience. When you get sick, you miss work, you're less able to fulfill your responsibilities, you feel horrible - fun is out of
question - when you do begin to feel better, there's a backlog of things to catch up on. You may start
catch-up process before you have your energy back, thus ensuring more fatigue, and prolonging your recovery time.
Givens summarizes his experience: "I was leaving for my brother's wedding back East. Within 2 days of starting
flu home remedy, I felt amazingly better. I didn't feel it right away but by
end of
2nd day, my symptoms were gone - it was a total turnaround. I started taking
herbs on Wednesday, and left Friday. I didn't feel any symptoms at all during
weekend."