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Karen Proppe
Hello everyone! This is my first post on here and I am very excited to be part of this community. I am just starting out, kind of in jerks and starts, but I did manage to plant a few herbal plants/flowers this year. This is no small feat: Historically I notoriously kill anything green within my reach 🙁
My question is this: my 9 yo daughter has had a strange virus (?) or something over the last few days with sores on the roof of her mouth and a cough with a lot of mucus. Initially I thought it was just hand and foot, because we tend to indulge in that frequently. Now that I’m embarking on this journey I’m wondering if there is anything I could use from my garden and wanted to run this by someone:
Lemon balm: for herpes simplex (H,F &M)
echinacea: for cough and mucus
Also, as I am so brand-spanking new, I don’t have the dried form on hand and am wondering if I can boil up some fresh echinacea flowers as a tea?
I appreciate any words of advice. Thanks!
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Dr. Patrick Jones
Fresh herbs are great. Just use twice as much to account for the water content.
Both lemon balm and Echinacea are good choices to fight a herpes virus. :0)
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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