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 Advice From The Purple Mountain Sage
To increase your enjoyment of living:
1. "It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived". -Anonymous
2. On October 23-25, Sacred Rocks Reserve will host the Old West Harvest Fest, open to the public.
Everyone
from near and far, is invited to kick up their heels and celebrate the bounty of
autumn at our beautiful nature reserve. Activities include pumpkin painting contest, Old West Costume Contest, and Off-Road Hayridecookout. Call (619) 766-4480 for day tickets, if you cannot stay overnight.
3. H1N1 Prevention Tips by Dr. Vinay Goyal MBBS,DRM,DNB
(Intensivist and Thyroid
specialist):
- Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).
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"Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).
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Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't under estimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.
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Similar to 3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at using a Neti pot, but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton swabs dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.
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Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C. If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.
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Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.
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