Blog: Fighting Infection

So you want to know how to fight a respiratory infection?

1. Try this old fashioned one. It’s called a steaming bowl:
   1. Get a large mixing bowl and a towel.
   2. Get your Eucalyptus oil and Peppermint oil.
   3. Boil the kettle.
   4. Fill the bowl with the steaming hot water and add a tablespoon of Eucalyptus oil and 2 teaspoons Peppermint oil.
   5. When you can breathe in the steam without burning your face, and lungs, pop the towel over your head and deep breathe the steam with oils into your lungs for 10 minutes.
   6. Repeat this procedure every 4 hours – the essential oils will even destroy fungal infections in the lungs if repeated daily for 2 weeks at least.
2. Use the same amount of Eucalyptus oil blended with the Peppermint Oil and the a small amount of olive oil to rub all over your chest, neck and forehead. Carefully avoid your eyes. Do this a couple of times a day. Or use Vicks Vaporub.
3. Use this same oil in a foot bath and add the juice of squeezed garlic to the footbath. At bedtime cover the soles of your feet in this oil mix with crushed garlic added – to make a paste – wrap cotton around your feet and put a pair of old socks on top. All the above oil treatments can be done with a jar of Vicks Vaporub. Use this same oil in a foot bath and add the juice of squeezed garlic to the footbath.
4. Get some Vitamin C – Make sure the product you buy has bioflavanoids and zinc in. Take that with food at approx. 1000mg every 3-4 hours, or 1 level teaspoon every 1-2 hours.
5. Drink plenty of good water to rehydrate your body, especially if you are sweating out a fever.
6. Vit D is essential as a preventative and recovery treatment – take 1000mg daily.
7. Buy a Zinc combination tablet – Blackmores A C E & Zinc is good. Take 1 tab 2 x daily.
8. Get Echinacea or Echinacea and Garlic tabs from your Health Shop and take 1 every hour.
9. Make up 50gm mix of chopped rosemary leaves, chopped basil or oregano, and 3 chamomile teabags and 3 peppermint tea bags. Add all this to 1 litre water in a saucepan and simmer on the heat for 1 hour. Sieve all the plant matter out and add a large amount of grated ginger, juice of 3 lemons and lots of honey. Drink 100mls of this every 2 hours and rest. Make sure you eat the grated ginger. If you have no herbs just use the ginger, lemons and honey.

High temperatures can become dangerous in children under 4 years of age. If infection is accompanied by a high temperature seek help from your Doctor.

You can buy Respiratory Infection Mix with immune support from my website. This mix can be taken at the same time as anti-biotics. www.lindabatesherbalmedicine.com.