Trudy van Diepen-Stam, born in 1945, worked as a childcare, education and creativity teacher. In the 90s she decided to follow a training for herbal medicine. After her studies, Trudy plunge into the herb world, where she gives lectures as a teacher in addition to her work and makes nature medicines in her own herb garden. These are her tips against flu complaints.
1. Use herbal medicines:
“What I recommend is Echinacea, that works very well. A few drops every hour. This fabric provides some more white blood cells.”
2. Drink elderberry juice:
“If you have a low fever, which is also not good, it will increase your temperature. If you suffer from a high fever, it ensures a lower body temperature. But then you have to heat the juice for a while.”
3. Stick a garlic under your foot:
“What also works very well with a high fever and you don’t want to take paracetamol is cutting a garlic and sticking it under your foot with a plaster. Because you know what that does? It gets the warmth out of the head. And with children it is completely It is advisable to do this because fever should not be too high in children. “
4. Make tea from brambles:
“Do you suffer from vomiting or having diarrhea, there is probably some Braamblad nearby. Make here
tea from, because that stops. “
5. And be especially kind to yourself:
“This is very important. You are often grumbling on yourself. You don’t say that to a child who is sick. You tell them to lie down on the couch, or watch television. But you are hard for yourself. You really have to be very soft for yourself. “