i have the flu!

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Permalink Reply by WhoRaw on October 20, 2009 at 9:36am

oh great!!

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Permalink Reply by aishwarya on October 20, 2009 at 1:47pm

love kiwis kiwis kiwis!!!

ok star anise, oregano and ginger tea calmed my throat and fever once...
how do you use yours, AU?

it is same here. i always crave apple and ginger juice when i feel sick and lots of lemon water too. :/

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on October 19, 2009 at 4:52pm

There is about 100% vit. C per kiwi and they have vitamin e as well.

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Permalink Reply by Mica on October 20, 2009 at 10:14am

Kiwis are great! Have you tried Golden Kiwies? Sooo good and even higher in Vitamin E than conventional ones.

The great thing I recently learned about kiwies is that you can use a lot more vit E from them than most other foods high in this vitamin. Since it's usually high in fatty plant foods like avocado for example but it it used to break down the fat in the body. Kiwis....hardly no fat so more vit E for us for other use in the body, yay!! :)

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Permalink Reply by aishwarya on October 20, 2009 at 1:48pm

yayyy! i love em!

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Permalink Reply by Jasmine on October 20, 2009 at 1:52pm

isn't vit E fat soluble? don't you need to eat it with a fat to assimilate it or is there enough in the kiwi itself to do so?

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on October 20, 2009 at 2:10pm

I thought it was stored in the fat so your body can keep it for longer periods of time. But if someone else has heard differently- that would be interesting to hear..

Permalink Reply by John E. Viitanen on October 20, 2009 at 3:09pm

23 hours ago I was feeling a little bit sick and I mean a little. But all has passed and I'm feeling chipper as per usual. Oh well maybe all that stuff will work for you, but as for me kiss and make-up. Keeping it simply stupendous in my make-up a lifestyle that really works wonders. Need I say more?

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Permalink Reply by Trinity Neo on October 19, 2009 at 5:43pm

what kind of cleanse is it? Describe it. I am not a doctor but I usualy dont cleanse more than one organ at the time... My logic thinking tells me that you may be getting overload on toxins that are coming out of ur body if you add some emotional stress to it the immune system is going down ? I agree with ur mom about not let fot the temperature be to high too long.I wouldtake some medicine for the fever and planty of liquids to drink to wash the toxins out. Dehydration isnt healthy. Can long fasting deplete your body from the neccecary nutrients and vitamines? Every day I dake a vita mix blender and I blend 1 pound of different fruits and 1 pound of a leavy vegtablelike kale, spinach , parsley... one kind at the ime and every day a different leafy vegtable. I have been doing it for 2 month I feel great!!!! I also try to eat mostly raw but not 100 % raw yet. I am new to it.If u start doing this drink every day you will get better faster. I deal is 2 pounds of different fruits and 2 pounds of leavy vegtables and excersise to get toxins out of the system. My drink comes up to 7 cups I put it inthe glass bottles from Arizona green tea container and take it to work. At work it goes in easy. If juice isnt too delecious I add 1 lemon and 3 pockets of stevia. All is ORGANIC or there is no point.Good luck! And feel better.

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Permalink Reply by Jasmine on October 19, 2009 at 10:48pm

i was just doing one organ at a time. started with a three day juice fast (when i came down with a low fever for a couple of days), then a colon cleanse for two weeks, then liver 10 days and finished off with a gallbladder flush at which point i woke up the next morning feeling a little off. The next day the sickness progressed and by that night i was really sick with 103+ fever.

taken from the book "juicing, fasting, and detoxing for life" by cherie calbom or something.

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Permalink Reply by Jasmine on October 19, 2009 at 10:40pm

Hey guys and gals!

I went to the naturopath today and it was a very informative visit (not to mention my first time seeing a naturopath and not a regular MD).

I don't have the flu after all!

She called it a "Toxic Fever" and advised me to hold off on my cleansing program until Spring time. She did say that it was most likely overload for my body and it started to attack the released toxins like a virus or infection and that's why my immune system reacted the way it did.

She mentioned that my liver (which i just finished cleansing before I got sick) could have been affected from years of growing up in an orchard-laden community with pesticide and herbicide sprays (which get stored in the liver) rampant. I have been vegetarian for 15+ years and my diet was predominantly soy-based for many of those years and I didn't pay much attention to "organic" until only the last 12 months when I switched to eating more raw foods. So...yea. I probably just overdid it and cleansing your liver is said to be best during the Spring time rather than late fall/winter.

She gave me a lot of tips on how to reduce my fever naturally - tepid bath one or two degrees cooler than my body temperature while drinking yarrow root tea (achillea). She also said I should do a castor oil pack - soak a 36"x10" piece of flannel or cotton flannel in castor oil and wrap it up in a grocery produce bag so it doesn't leak or stain in conjunction with a heating pad on your abdomen to help the body cleanse. She also mentioned putting on cold, wet socks on warm feet covered by dry, wool socks at night before I go to bed to help draw out heat that way. Supposedly, the socks will be dry in the morning from all the heat.

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Permalink Reply by ArugulaBugula on October 20, 2009 at 12:57pm

You need to, need to, need to drink lots of fluids. Water x 1 million. I had a fever of 105.3 (!) and started hallucinating and even a cool bath didn't do much, the water would just heat up with me in it. My roommate called the doc in a panic and he said I need to drink water nonstop. It did help along with continued cold baths.

This was last year when a terrible flu was going around here and people my age were having seizures from their high temps!

I agree with fasting and the garlic, lemon, ginger you are already doing.

I hope you feel better!

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