Abano.it - How to not be influenced easily

The sudden climate changes, typical of this period, can anticipate the first illnesses from the cold and the minor specific respiratory pathologies from the so-called winter seasonal ailments.
How can we prevent these pitfalls without having to resort to refrigerants, painkillers, and even antibiotics? It's of vital importance to always protect oneself resorting to a balanced nutrition high on vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, easily available if you eat fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables. An irregular lifestyle with inappropriate life rhythms, with a lack of sleep and little physical exercise exposes you to the above mentioned seasonal ailments, while even just the regular physical exercise enables you to reinforce the immunity system guaranteeing a greater defense towards the infections.

Other than this preventive “obvious and generic” advice , we can consider the use of phytotherapics that help and reinforce the immunity system. The complete phytocomplex of the plant acts as a phytotherapy, that's why it becomes of vital importance to use plants of which the extracts are to be adequately titled and standardized.

	Amongst these, worthy of a particular mention is the Cat's Claw (Uncaria tormentosa) “armor” and natural antibiotic with low toxicity and with both certified immunostimulant and ant-inflammatory properties other than antiviral ones. Its outstanding action is given essentially by the presence of some alkaloids that have shown a remarkable stimulation effect of the fagocitosys.
	The Emichea has an undisputed role in the winter pathologies and is pointed out in the prophylaxis for its capacity to increase the immunity defenses acting both as an immune-modulator and immunostimulant. Some of its acids and flavonoids are the components of certified effectiveness , also on a curative level in the acceleration of the healing processes of the flu syndromes . The Echinacea- dependent effect also occurs by means of the stimulation of the mucus glands that, above all on a pharynx level, make the viral penetration more difficult.
	From the real aloe we use the 100% of pure juice, thanks to the pressing of the pulp of the leafs . Its immunomodulant activity is carried out by the glucomannan in an action which drains the intestinal wall and stimulates the macrophages and linphoyd cells.
	A traditional Chinese medicine plant , the Astragalus, is very effective in contrasting the flu syndromes . Its roots are rich in saponine and flavonoids, but it's above all the polysaccharides fraction that wields a specific immunostimulant activity.
	The eleuterococcus is a traditionally adaptogens plant , but anyway it increases the resistance to the psycho-physical stress and indirectly raises the immunity defenses.
	The Ribes nigrum is a natural cortisone, and it is anti-inflamatory and anti-allergic of the cutaneous and respiratory ways.
	Endowed with a particular smell and integrative part of the oriental diet, the shiitake fungus performs antiviral activities uplifting the immunity defenses above all by means of a type of sugar, the lentinia, that stimulates the production of the lymphoid cells.

On a homeopathic level it's recommended to adopt a "remedy" that corresponds as much as possible to the constitution and psycho-physical typology of the individual . Thanks to such a remedy it's almost as if the body retrieved its own energies, hence reinforcing the defense mechanisms. Nevertheless, even those who don't know their typology can obtain a proper homeopathic vaccination against the winter illnesses using a “vaccine remedy” obviously at low dilutions, at times even molecular.

When the pathology is already under way, on a symptomatic level, whether with fever, sore throat, coughing and other typical symptoms , then at differentiated dilutions we can adopt remedies such as Ribes nigrum, Aconitum, Belladonna, Ferrum phosphoricum, Bryonia.

Dr. Angelo Bianco
Specialist in nephrology and food science, dietetic consultant
in Abano Terme’s nursing home – Specialist in acupuncture,
Bach flower therapy and Australian flower therapy.