Stay Healthy in Winter: Acupuncture for Colds and Flus
- timiliffacu
- Jan 2
- 2 min read
January is here and so are the allergies and cold/flu bugs. It can be hectic to stay on top of your health around the holidays…
Chinese medicine has been around for 4,000 years, helping people stay healthy through the seasons. Today top practitioners around the world prevent and treat all sorts of colds and flus (including the long-term symptoms of COVID-19) through acupuncture, herbs, food, chi gong, and meditation for stress management.
Here are some helpful tips to stay healthy in cold and flu season:
1) Have a positive and proactive attitude. Feeling in control of your life quality and being overall positive in your thinking improves immune function.
2) Live with the season. Get more rest, go to bed earlier, take more breaks in your workday. Keep your body warm and covered. Cover your neck. Keep wind off your body, point your air vents away from you. Wind entering the neck is a common source of catching the cold.
3) Use a neti pot daily to clear your nose and sinuses.
4) Monitor your mood: If you feel down from the lack of sun bring in the lamps: Sunshine lamps can elevate your mood. Take a brisk walk in the morning to get your blood moving and increase “feel good” endorphins.
5) Take supplements for your immune system during the cold weather months. Elderberry, Vitamin C, or L-lysine complexes, and anti-viral herbal teas are good prevention.
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6) Take care of your lungs with our blog post: https://www.theacupuncturecenterohio.com/post/10-ways-to-care-for-your-lungs
7) Get acupuncture the day you start to feel sick: Many patients in our practice who get treatment the day they start feeling sick and go home to sleep don’t get more sick-the aim of treatment is to help your body process out the pathogen to prevent infection at deeper layers inside the body.
Everyone’s body is different: Our practitioner can help create the right regimen of treatment, herbs, and lifestyle adjustments for your specific presentation.
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