Flu Immune 500

A Green Tea and Echinacea Infusion for Cold and Flu Prevention

A hot cup of Green tea infused with a robust does of Echinacea is a great way to keep your immune system strong and help prevent coming down with that ever dreaded common cold. By using a simple combination of two highly supported immune boosters’ such as Green tea and Echinacea on a daily basis, not only do you stand to shorten and lessen the severity of cold and flu symptoms, but you could even fortify an immune system that may prevent coming down with these symptoms entirely. By either using dried Echinacea, an Echinacea tincture, or fresh Echinacea from your garden in your morning tea, this great herb could be the “ounce of prevention” you were looking fore.

Perhaps one of the soundest cornerstones of holistic medicine, the almost philosophic belief in emphasizing prevention over the treatment of disease alone, maintaining a healthy lifestyle still stands as one of the best ways to prevent contracting serious symptoms from what should be otherwise simple and common diseases. Both Green tea and Echinacea, though still the subjects of passionate scientific study, are herbal remedies that have found use as powerful preventative tools against the symptoms of colds and flu.

Green Tea

Not only for your regular Japanese tea ceremonies with the local feudal lord, Green tea makes a great morning pick-me-up’ that just so happens to come with a long list of health benefits to go along with it. In association with your immune system, Green tea can not only help prevent incidents of cancer, but also help with fighting off infection by a wide range of viral and bacterial caused diseases. By having a few cups of Green tea a day, you will not only find yourself feeling more alert, but healthier for it as well.

Echinacea

A simple North American perennial, almost as common as it is decorative, Echinacea is a flower that has been traditionally seen as an herbal cure all.’ Today, different scientific trials attempting to observe the affect Echinacea has on cold and flu symptoms saw a significant decrease not only in the length of symptoms, but also in the severity of the symptoms themselves. Essentially, participants who took Echinacea at the first signs of a cold had fewer cold symptoms and were sick for a shorter period of time than those who did not. This immune boost’ from Echinacea is what makes it such a great preventative measure against common forms