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Acupunture and Chinese Medicine for Cold, Flu, and Allergy

11/14/2022

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Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to help enhance the immune system and prevent illness. These functions help treat cold and flu effectively. They additionally help relieve the symptoms of seasonal allergy such as hay fever. Cold, flu and seasonal allergy have some common symptoms: cough, fever, sore throat, feeling cold, etc.

Ways to Prevent:
  1. Add or remove layers of clothes according to the weather.
  2. Drink lots of water and avoid excessive sweating.
  3. Eat nutritious food containing multi-vitamins.
  4. Massage by rubbing up and down the sides of the nose. This helps with blood circulation.
  5. Limit amount of exercise to avoid excessive sweating. Best to avoid extreme temperature shifts.

When symptoms appear, do the following:
  1. Drink lots of water to keep hydrated.
  2. Have plain and high nutrient food. Try to avoid greasy and cold food.
  3. Get plenty of rest.
  4. Rinse and clean nose using sinus rinse or Neti pot.  
  5. Take over-the-counter medicine to treat fever.

Chinese Medicine views cold and flu as pathogenic invasions. Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture can be applied to expel those invasions.

If you are fighting cold, flu or seasonal allergy, call us for a consultation today!
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