Does anyone know of any herbs to take for a week immune system?!
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Does anyone know of any herbs to take for a week immune system?
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A natural therapist lsat year introduced me to a traditional chinese remedy called Goji (known in the west by the botanical name Lycium barbarum and the common name Wolfberry). And I must say, I have hardly been sick at all since then - this past week I had a very minor cold, just a dry cough for a few days - despite being extremely run down / sleep deprived as I have a 5 month old baby, and that is the first time I have been "sick" since starting to take it last September. I have had problems in the recent past of getting a heap of colds and many boughts of bronchitis that I had real trouble kicking every year, so my own experience has me convinced that it most definitely works!
One of the things that I like about Goji is that apart from it being used successfully for thousands of years in asian medicine, is that in recent years there have been quite a number of research studies done on it too - you can find them at http://www.pubmed.org (search for Lycium barbarum).
There is more information about Goji and it's effect on the immune system at http://www.gojimedia.com.au/info/immune....