Your Natural Medicine Cabinet | Episode 39

by | Feb 19, 2021 | The Health Made Simple Show

This week we cover what you need in your home medicine cabinet to support your body during cold and flu season. Dr. Bart outlines his top five herbal remedies, what to do with them, and how to use them. 

Dr. Bart also explains the immune process and why these specific herbal remedies support your immune system when it’s under attack. 

These remedies have been used for thousands of years and activate your body’s immune response. These herbs are wonderful to use for infections or viruses. They can help heal most anything ranging from head colds and ear infections to bronchitis, skin diseases, and toothaches. 

These natural remedies are things that you should have at home for the family so that when something goes wrong, you have a plan. 

To know when to take these natural remedies, begin by being in touch with your body and learn to recognize symptoms before things get bad. 

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Your Immune System Response 

Your body has a series of responses in regards to the immune system.

First, you get a little bit of a symptom. You begin to have a histamine response, and it’s very manageable. Your symptoms can include a runny nose, fatigue, or a slight fever. 

This first phase is very subtle, and it’s your window to start using these natural remedies.

If you get through that window and support the body with what it needs, which could be rest, herbs, a vitamin, waters, etc., you won’t be overwhelmed with symptoms. 

Your body will still have the fight going on inside. 

If you let it go a little further, your body will increase inflammatory tissue, and you have to go through the entire elimination process (making mucus, eliminating it, etc.). If that’s the case, you still need to support the body. 

Andrographis Complex

The first natural medicine you need to have is andrographis complex. 

This medicine is an herbal remedy. Remember, there’s a difference between herbs, vitamins, and minerals. Herbs activate and push forward the body’s organs, systems, and glands. Whereas vitamins and minerals feed the body. 

When we bring herbs, vitamins, and minerals together, it’s a powerful force for healing. 

Andrographis Complex acts very quickly. It’s a combination of echinacea, holy basil, and the andrographis herb.

Echinacea is the best adaptogen herb out there. An adaptogen herb helps our body adapt to whatever environment it’s in. For example, fighting off bacteria creates a new environment for the body. Holy basil is another fast-acting herb for the upper respiratory system.

The andrographis herb fights off infections, colds, bacterias, and viruses. It’s so powerful because it’s fast-acting. 

Interestingly, scientists are studying the andrographis herb’s effectiveness in fighting COVID. 

Use Andrographis Complex the moment you notice a signal from your body that you’re sick. It could be a tightness in your throat, sinus tension, etc. 

Dosage: 

  • Take two pills up to four times a day 
  • Hold it on your tongue for about 20-30 seconds 
    • >> It’ll have a kick, but we want to activate the white blood cells on your tongue. It’s waking your body up to anything bacterial or viral that’s in your mouth.
  • Take this recommended dosage until your symptoms are completely done 

Congaplex

Congaplex is a vitamin and mineral product. The four primary vitamins and minerals in it are vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium lactate, and thymus PMG. 

In the center of your chest, you have a thymus gland, which makes the majority of your white blood cells.

The thymus extract in this product immediately activates your white blood cells. Once the white blood cells are activated, they need support from vitamins like vitamin C, vitamin A, and RNA (to wake your brain up). 

Ideally, you should use the Andrographis Complex and Congaplex simultaneously. 

Dosage:

  • Because it has so many things in it, we need a high dose
  • Take four pills, four times a day
  • If you’re under 150 pounds, take four pills three times a day
  • There’s no side effect from taking more 

Calcium Lactate Powder

If you have calcium carbonate in your medicine cabinet right now, just toss it out. It’s very difficult for your body to break down. So you have to get a different source of calcium. 

Calcium is one of the first things your immune system uses on the outside of every cell to defend your body.

Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body, and it’s there to protect us.  

Calcium Lactate is a great defense against fevers. A fever is a natural immune system response that your body uses. It heats up to kill off the intruder.

The fever will keep increasing if you don’t have enough calcium in the body. Calcium Lactate allows your body to protect itself without shutting down the immune response.

Calcium Lactate is unique because of its bioavailability. Your tissues can easily absorb calcium lactate compared to other calcium sources. The fast-acting aspect of this supplement is what makes it great for your medicine cabinet. 

Dosage:

  • Take a heaping teaspoon
  • Put it in about 16-20 ounces of water

​Antronex

​Antronex is a beef liver extract. It ultimately works as an antihistamine. ​

Antronex is great for anything related to allergies like hives, congestion, or itchiness. It drains your system. 

Antronex cleans your blood. Because all the blood in the body circulates through the thyroid regularly, taking Antronex can assist your thyroid.

In other words, when we support cleaning up the blood, we essentially support the thyroid. If you have a thyroid issue, focus on detoxification and drainage as your next step.

Dosage: 

  • Take four pills in the morning or four right before bed, and it will drain you out 
  • Take as long as you have symptoms

Herbal Throat Spray

Your throat is a window to the rest of the body. We want to make sure that our throat is very well lubricated and hydrated so we don’t get a sore throat.

Throat pain happens when the throat gets too dry and tissue starts to rub together. 

A lot of white blood cells are located in our throats and mouth, and if you have a sore throat, you’re making the rest of the body very vulnerable. 

This throat spray has marshmallow root, sage, calendula, myrrh, and other herbs. 

You can also use this anytime you’ll be speaking for a long time because talking dehydrates your throat. 

Dosage: 

  • As much as needed 

Importance of Getting Clean When You’re Sick 

When you talk about wanting to get your body healthier, you always have to be mindful of draining the body and releasing the toxins from it. You need to clean the body out. 

Imagine that your white blood cells and the virus (or bacteria) are on a battlefield.

They meet on the field and battle. Afterward, their dead remains are still on the field. That’s your body after a virus. The viral remains stay in the body and make it toxic if you don’t clean them out.  

You must clean out the battlefield!

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Question from the audience: 

Children with eczema? 

With anything skin, getting your child more calcium that will absorb into the tissue will benefit them. This won’t fix the root cause of eczema, but it will help support the tissue in the skin that has been beaten up from this condition. It will help the tissue heal and not scar as much.

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Medically reviewed and written by:

Dr. Bart Precourt

Founder of  The Health Made Simple Show
Doctor of Chiropractic

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