Q：Long time no flu, are we healthy?
Let us discuss about it.
Between the categories of our patients, one category is never caught by flu for many years; they are proud about it and think they are great. Another category, they always caught by flu, and they are suffering from it.
Ever since we are born, the first disease we encountered is flu. Flu has caused by the penetration by *outer sources against the outer layer of our body hence causing illnesses. (*Note: TCM regarded outer sources as wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, drought and heat. Western medical has referred it to bacteria or virus.)
When we have not caught by any flue for a long time, the main reason is because we are incapable to get it. Compare to the healthy person, we have imperfect blood and energy circulation. For a normal person, the body has always been in a “Yin Yang” balancing mode where our organs like heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, are cooperating with each other well. When our body has attacked by outer sources, the outer layer of our body will fight against them. Consequently, we feel all kind of discomfort symptoms such as fever, chilling, runny nose, cough, headache and dizziness, nausea, vomit etc. We are able to get rid of the flu by certain channels such as perspiration, urination and bowel movement.
Have you seen the kids caught by fever during lung infection? For sure, yes! The reason is due to the strong immunity system in kids, that is why kids get fever easily compares to adults. Usually they get a fever for a start, follow by runny nose or sore throat. If it does not get recovered it would attack further into lung infection.
How about old folks? We see many old folks have not shown any symptoms like fever, cough, runny nose, but he got serious breathing difficulties due to heavy phlegm or pus and urgently need ventilators. Similar case happened commonly among the Covid-19 patients, they got direct strike whilst no obvious symptoms observed, because they are incapable to fight against the virus.
For prevention purpose, we have to react fast, get medical assistant when we feel uncomfortable like heavy head, stiff neck, chilling, running nose, sneezing etc.
We may get some ginger and scallion with the white root portion at home.
Procedures: Boil water with 3-5 slices of ginger, 1-2 piece of scallion white root portion, when it is just boiled, consume the drinks directly.
Notes: Prefer no long hour boiling.
As a conclusion, everyone could be caught by flu at least few times in their life span. Whenever we caught by flu, seek for a thorough remedy and to ensure it serves as a prevention for the body to encounter bizarre diseases in the future. Hence, we should treat it as a great turning point for our body tuning when we caught by flu.
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