Cold/Flu Care

We live in times when we are attacked from every angle by toxins and disruptors — that’s what I call them now. It’s easier for me to group things that way, and it’s the clearest way to describe what they do to our systems. From time to time we get sick because we’ve overused our energy, both physically and energetically, which gives those toxins the opportunity to accumulate and allow viruses, colds, and the flu to take hold.

So I’m going to give you a clear, step-by-step guide to help you get over these viruses more quickly. (It works on most common viruses, including colds and flus.)

So I’m going to be real. A lot of things I’m about to suggest are things most people don’t think about when trying to get better. Bear with me — I speak from experience and from what’s worked for me.

Items needed to follow this protocol

Fresh Cotton Blankets Cold towel-Ice wrapped in Towel

bowl of tepid water 80-92 F. Glass of water or mug of bone broth or broth of choice.

Enema/ home kit or Store bought Saranwrap

Heating pad 2-4 Onion steaks

- When you get sick, your bowels and lymphatic system can become slowed and backed up, and that stagnation often contributes to how and why you fell ill in the first place. Consider gentle cleansing to help restore circulation and support your body’s natural detox and recovery processes.

You should have clean, fresh sheets and breathable cotton blankets ready. Yes — following these simple steps will make the laundry easy to manage, so it won’t be a problem.

Next thing you do is get a bowl full of tepid water — for those of you who don’t know, that means moderately warm — or if you have a thermometer, the water should register between about 80 and 92 degrees F. With a clean washcloth, give yourself a gentle sponge bath around the neck and the back of the head. Carefully sponge along your jaw where the lymph nodes sit, and sweep up and around your forehead as well. Dab the cloth lightly rather than scrubbing, and be sure to refresh it frequently by dipping it back in the bowl and wringing out the excess water so it stays clean and comfortably warm.

Grab yourself some cold water and make a quick mug warm of bone broth. While you wait for your bone broth to be done, I would prep your onion. I call them onion steaks, because I am slicing the onion into level slices all the way through. So it looks like a Onion steak.

Once you have prepared your onion steaks, the cold water and warm bone ready, get your ice-wrapped towel and place it gently around your neck, and set a cold, wet cloth on the forehead. With the cold towel, be sure to change it frequently — never allow the cloth on the neck or head to become warm. Remove it as soon as it starts to lose its chill; if you don’t have a spare to swap, simply take it off and wait for it to cool again before replacing it. Take those onion steaks and place one on each foot, then secure them by wrapping with the plastic wrap listed in the items needed above. Use only four onion pieces if you are having difficulty breathing or are dealing with pneumonia; The remaining two should be placed directly beneath your nipples — for women, position them just under the breast crease. Wrap with plastic wrap so the onions stay in place on the feet and chest.

Your Hot pad should be on your stomach.

You should be taking small sips of the cold water, about one every half hour. Then, between those sips, take a small soothing mouthful of your warm broth. Alternating through Cold and warm will help sooth the chest and lungs. The cold water will keep your kidneys filtering and the broth will give you good vitamins and minerals to give you the foundation you need to get better.

The most important thing you do is Rest for at least 24 hours. If your Chest still struggles to breath re-apply new onions on your feet and chest and leave on over night. I can promise you this will have you feeling noticeably better within the first day you begin this routine. I can guarantee that after sleeping with onions on your feet and keeping cold water and warm bone broth readily available while you have a fever, you will be almost — if not fully — better by the next morning.

I have learned part of this protocol and added the rest from experience, keeping a journal of what worked and what didn’t, which helped me refine and narrow it down so every element is as highly effective as possible. The rest of the protocol comes from a book I reference, as well as from someone I consider a Natural Path Pioneer of the modern age, Barbra O'Neil, who outlines several of the natural approaches she employs in her practice. The guidance from the book “ Back to Eden” by Jethro Kloss, which serves as a foundational source for many of the herbal and traditional remedies I discuss as well.