Individualized Holistic Health Care

Without illness nobody will be healthy!     How many of us have experienced this truth?  The statement appears rather dialectic and requires some reflection.  The above proposition excludes the chronic exacerbation (aggravation) and is more concerned with the acute type of illnesses – the viral or flu variety that induces a brief period of malaise. This is possibly nature’s way of gifting you some time take a break, to reflect and commune with self within – and then soar back rejuvenated. ‘Common Cold’ is the simplest of the ailment to afflict us, yet it causes us the most discomfort, it makes us feel miserable to the point that we take medicines disproportionate to the malady.  I recollect reading a naturopathy text that suggested that it is healthy to suffer from the common cold at least twice a year.  Someone once told me that his homoeopath in South Africa told him that he is unlikely to suffer a heart attack since he suffers from ‘cold’ no...

As soon as our body realizes that it is under a viral (influenza) attack it produces large amounts of mucous to trap the virus at the entry point (respiratory system). It then expresses irritation in the form of cough and sneezing, an attempt to expel the virus. Fever is a hyperactive state of functioning ( Inflammation ). The body raises the temperature because at raised temperatures our metabolic activity is faster. High temperatures also curbs the activity of the virus as it requires lowered temperatures to breed. We feel more sleepy and weak because our body does not want to waste precious energy in physical activity. If there is  loss of appetite, it’s in the  nature of  body  to tell us to go slow on what we eat…the process of digestion takes up a lot of energy and this our body wishes to conserve so that it can concentrate on fighting the invasion. In most acute viral infections adequate rest, fasting or light easily digested food and drinking plenty of luk...