In recent days, a large-scale influenza broke out in the north. At first, I didn't pay much attention to it. After all, winter is the season when influenza is easy to break out. However, the descriptions of several parents around me made me feel anxious. One parent said: The child had the flu, went to the hospital after four in the afternoon, and found that there were hundreds of children in the previous number. Another doctor said that the pediatrics department of their hospital was almost collapsed, and one doctor was so tired that he passed out on the ground.
This situation makes me very worried, so I will write about the flu today to help you analyze it and give you some advice.
So, what exactly is the flu? Is the flu the same as the common cold?
The so-called flu is the common name for influenza. According to traditional Chinese medicine, it is actually caused by external pathogens entering through the nose and mouth. In essence, flu is the same as the common cold. However, if you analyze it in detail, there is still a little difference between the two, that is, the common cold, which is not so popular. And flu, according to Western medicine, is caused by those few particularly contagious viruses. These types of viruses are constantly mutating, highly contagious, and spread quickly. These types of influenza viruses can be divided into three types: A (A), B (B), and C (C). Type A viruses often undergo antigenic mutations, are highly contagious, spread rapidly, and are prone to widespread epidemics. Type A H1N1 is also type A. The disease is self-limiting, and generally healthy people will recover by themselves in a few days. However, in infants, young children, the elderly, and patients with underlying cardiopulmonary diseases, they are prone to serious complications such as pneumonia, which can lead to danger and even death.
So, how to prevent the flu and reduce the chance of getting sick?
First of all, it depends on how the flu is spread.
These types of influenza viruses are called exogenous pathogens in traditional Chinese medicine. They are mainly transmitted through droplets in the air, contact between people or contact with contaminated objects, and then enter people's mouth and nose, and then cause people to get sick.
Therefore, the first prevention method is to reduce airborne transmission.
Therefore, I have always advocated that the home should be equipped with an air purifier. But unfortunately, many families do not have this thing. A few days ago, I was giving a health lecture in my hometown, Shenyang. There were 200 people present. I asked about it. Those who have air purifiers at home raised their hands. It is estimated that only 20 or 30 people raised their hands. At that time, the air pollution in Shenyang was very serious. , I think pm2.5 should be close to 200 or so, but so many people don't have it in their homes.
Everyone will say, what does this pollution have to do with influenza? In fact, the spread of the virus in the air requires a carrier. If there are more suspended particles in the air, the virus can easily find the carrier. That is to say, those pollutant particles floating in the air are like small spaceships. With the virus flying around the room, of course you have more chances of being recruited.
Many friends said that if we stay in the room and don't go out, we should be fine, right? No, I have measured it. In fact, the outside is polluted. No matter how tightly your windows are closed, the pollution inside the house is also very heavy.
Secondly, when you go out, you must wear a mask. There are various anti-smog masks, all of which are very good, and can reduce the inhalation of pollution particles. Everyone must think about wearing them when going out.
Then, wash your hands frequently. Why is this? Because human-to-human contact can spread influenza virus, we Chinese do not have the habit of kissing or kissing on the cheek when we meet everywhere, so this kind of contact is mostly hand contact.
So why does hand contact spread the flu virus? Because our hands will also touch the mouth and nose. For example, some children pick their noses, which is more dangerous. This is also a way of transmission, so it is very important to wash your hands frequently.
Beyond that, what else needs to be done?
That is to keep the room clean and tidy. If you have the conditions, you can put a little vinegar in the humidifier to fumigate the room.
Everyone should know that maintaining the humidity of the air is very critical at this time. The winter in the north is dry, and the human nasal mucosa will also be dry, and the ability to absorb viruses will decrease, which will make the defense system prone to loopholes. Therefore, it is very important to keep the environment moist. important.
If there are moxa leaves, you can also light the fumigation room. The moxa sticks we usually use for moxibustion are also acceptable, but be careful not to smoke too much, otherwise it will be too much. If there are other aromatic traditional Chinese medicines, such as Huoxiang, Peilan, Xiangru, Baizhi, etc., some people can make these traditional Chinese medicines into sachets and put them at home. The ancients said that fragrance avoids pollution and can dispel dirty air. , we can also try.
So, what should you do if you are infected with the flu virus?
Everyone should remember that influenza is also a kind of cold, but it is particularly contagious. Therefore, we should analyze it according to the thinking of cold.
First of all, when you first experience the flu, you will often have symptoms of cold, sneezing, runny nose, chills, and muscle aches. At this time, if you can warm your body, it will change this situation.
Therefore, I have always introduced you to use perilla leaves to boil water, or use various methods to warm up your body. However, later I found that these methods can solve most of the problems, but there are still some times when the external evil continues to go deep. It is better to use when dealing with the common cold, but it still fails when dealing with the flu.
This matter was not completely resolved until I found a way to take Chinese yam powder.
At that time, I went to the fields in Wenxian County, Jiaozuo, Henan Province to investigate the cultivation of Chinese yam in the loess. Occasionally, I heard farmers say that they themselves had a cold, so they used a large handful of Chinese yam tablets and asked their daughter-in-law to boil a large bowl of water while it was hot. Drink it down, go to bed, wake up and be fine!
When I came back, I thought about the reasoning behind this, and suddenly felt that my big problem was solved. In the past, I just talked about sweating, but if the righteous energy is not enough, sweating can only solve the temporary problem, and cannot really expel the external evil. Taking Huai Yam will help the Qi of the spleen and lungs and fill the righteous Qi, so that you can sweat, but this is to solve the problem from the root!
So, every time I have a cold, I use this method to deal with it. As a result, it has been two or three years now, and I have never had a cold. Every time, I intercepted it as soon as there was a sign. .
In fact, when I was young, I was in poor health. My parents gave birth to me when they were very old. At that time, I ate little and often went hungry. I remember when I was young, relatives from the countryside came to visit and brought some eggs. I took them I was eating a boiled egg outside, and the children in the nearby building surrounded me and booed me, saying, "Grandfather, you can still eat eggs!" This is the true portrayal of that time, everyone was starving. Therefore, my physique is very average, and I often catch colds, even when I grow up. Therefore, I later studied Chinese medicine, and I was especially concerned about colds. It is precisely because I often catch colds that I have summarized too many methods for everyone. It is the so-called 30% discount Hucheng is a good doctor.
Therefore, I am not some kind of genius doctor. I have made myself and my family never get sick, not even a little bit of disease. No, I used to have a lot of colds myself. The cold goes away quickly.
It should be said that I did not completely get rid of the trouble of cold until I used the method of Huai yam.
So, how to use this method?
When you find yourself sneezing, runny nose, chills all over, and muscle aches, you can buy good Chinese yam, usually in slices, you can use 30 grams or more, boil water, and boil it into a paste Even better, drink it while it is hot, lie on the bed, cover the quilt to sleep, and you will sweat slightly. If you can cover your nose, you will sweat more easily, and the external evil will be eliminated soon.
If it is not good, continue to take it, two or three times a day. Generally, if there is no reason such as catching cold again, basically the condition can be relieved.
A few days ago, several of my friends had flu symptoms, and then they did experiments on their own, saying that they didn’t take any medicine this time, but just ate this yam paste to see if it would be cured. As a result, the flu symptoms Under their persistent fighting, they all disappeared.
I found that even though I said this method, many people will forget it once they catch a cold, including those around me. The day before yesterday, my younger sister Luo Ling also had the flu. I called and asked her if she had taken yam paste. She said she hadn’t. I explained to her in detail that Suye water is what I said in the past, and the current yam paste is an upgraded version. I told her that as long as you keep drinking, you will definitely drive out the evil spirits. This is what happened the day before yesterday. I saw her today. , there is no problem anymore.
Therefore, if you have the opportunity to buy yam powder, it would be even better. I think it is difficult to boil yam tablets into a paste, but yam powder is more convenient, and it can be fully eaten without wasting. My method is like this, use two or three tablespoons of Chinese yam powder, add a little warm water, and make them into a paste. At the same time, boil water next to it. After the water boils, pour in the yam paste, and then stir it with chopsticks. It quickly becomes a translucent paste, just put it warm and drink it.
The advantage of this method is that the yam powder can be carried with you and can be brewed at any time. The reason why I haven’t caught a cold for a long time is that I carry the Chinese yam powder in my luggage. When going through the security check at the airport, the security check staff asked me many times what kind of powder I was bringing. I said it was yam powder, and they all understood and let me go.
But it must be Chinese yam powder. Many friends asked, is the yam in other vegetable markets okay? My answer is that other yams can be used for cooking, but only Huai Yam has this curative effect, and the best one is Huai Yam from the loess of Wen County, Jiaozuo, Henan.
Some people said: "Dr. Luo, Chinese yam is expensive, and it is not affordable for us ordinary people." I don't agree with this statement. In fact, buying Chinese yam powder for two or three hundred yuan can be used for a long time and can be used for a long time. You have relieved more than dozens of colds, why is it expensive? You have a cold, and you go to the western medicine clinic overnight to queue up. When you catch a cold, the drip costs thousands of yuan, or even thousands of yuan. Why don’t you say it’s expensive? But we are not willing to accept such a simple method left by our ancestors?
I think that if everyone masters such methods and extinguishes the flu in its infancy, then our hospitals will not be under so much pressure at this time.
The method I mentioned, for the common cold, the symptoms will be relieved quickly. My experience is that one day is enough, but for the flu, I think I need to drink it for two or three days. You may continue to sneeze, but the disease will not develop. Most people get better within two or three days, and very few will sneeze for two more days, but almost all of them can get rid of the disease. At present, people around me believe in this method and insist on doing it. There is no example of failure.
However, what everyone needs to remember is that this is for the first stage of a cold or flu, which is the initial stage. At this time, it is sneezing, runny nose, muscle aches, and chills all over the body. If you don’t grasp the first stage, the disease develops and the throat becomes swollen and sore, the nose and phlegm turn yellow, and you have a high fever, it means you have a fever, especially the throat starts to hurt, although the sore throat is also cold There are fevers, but most of them are fevers. You can also drink yam water at this time, but this is only an auxiliary conditioning. The main thing is to use some prescriptions. Generally, it is used at the same time to dispel external cold and clear internal heat. Now there are various Chinese patent medicines, such as Fangfengtongsheng San, there are small bupleurum granules, wait, I will introduce it to you when I have a chance.
