End of 2024 did not complete without some ruckus in our household. The balance of cheerful Xmas celebrations with friends and family led to all 4 of us coming down with a terrific and intense cold. Each of us had a variation of the cold and with it low grade dull fever of 99 to 100, just enough to keep us cranky, bed ridden and frustrated. I just wished after being 2 days in bed that I would just get a high temp, let my body do its thing and pace me back from overdrive to normal. My prayers were answered and a night of 102 for my son and I kept us both awake sharing the thermometer and diaphoretic. At some point we broke our fevers and we were off to recovery with exhaustion, tiredness, fatigue etc. PSA it’s not covid.

In my delirious state I thought it as a great learning opportunity for my son to explain the wisdom of the human body and its magical responses.

Sneezing. A great mechanism of the respiratory and nasal system to literally blow out the toxins of dead microorganisms, and mucus.

Coughing. Same as above but clearing the airway passages for better airflow.

Fever. To increase the core temperature to “cook” the foreign invaders and kill them.

Nasal and sinus congestion. To barricade any further invasions and to hold all the secretions that the immune system sets off in a cascade of reactions in the epic battle of preserving the body.

Swollen glands. Lymphatic tissue where immune cells working overtime hang out.

Now this was a rudimentary explanation of course, but we started to dive deeper in the textbooks later. Yet I see how I order for us not to suffer the modern medical pharmaceutical industry has created a drug for every cough and sniffle. We shut down the fever response with antipyretics, we dry up our sinuses instead of letting the body create secretions. Everything is ANTI- to what the body since its creation, knows exactly what to do based on its design.

The wisdom is to trust the body, and not interfere with its mechanisms, it knows far better than most of all the doctors in the world of how to heal itself. It is an incredible machine, computer, vehicle, home. Everything we need to self repair is already been given to us. It is when we are at our extremes of our mind and body’s limits through our emotions that we go into further advances of the spectrum of illness away from balance and create further disease.

All well at home, limping back to normalcy. Rest, hydration, herbs to supplement the body, good nutrition and stretching. Nice neat little prescription to heal, just what the doctor ordered. 😉

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