Over the years I've come to trust modern medicine to help with all sorts of things. I guess the more I go down the "runny nose aisle" as I like to call it the more I become distrustful of it, though. When I see 15 little boxes that only help with a handful of symptoms and 15 other little boxes that help with the rest I kinda get disappointed with how medicine has become way too common.
Don't get me wrong, when I have a cold I'm the first one to ask for a bottle of cough syrup. I don't want to suffer any more than the rest of us. However, since I first became pregnant in 2008 I have had a 3 month break where I wasn't either breastfeeding or pregnant. That alone has limited what medications I can take. With those limitations I have looked into more unusual methods to relieve my symptoms.
So just what have I come up with?
Elderberry.
So just what can this little berry do? Well according to some doctors doing a double-blind study over in Europe "a complete cure was achieved within 2 – 3 days in nearly 90% of the elderberry-treated group [...]" Sounds like pretty good results to me.
Now I love my local hippies as much as the next person so when I first was told about Elderberry syrup I totally blew it off. I mean if this stuff was so great why do we have NyQuil? It wasn't until I stumbled upon this research article that I actually put some thought into it.
So if you'd like to try something new or just wanna check it out. Try asking for Elderberry syrup next flu season.
Check out the full article here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/field/jimr/2004/00000032/00000002/art00005
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