We are all familiar with common cold and flu remedies such as adequate sleep, low stress, and sufficient amounts of vitamin C and D. If we still fall victim to the bug there are those noble soldiers, ginger, medicinal mushrooms, and chicken soup. But the herbal compendium is rich with lesser known herbs that will have you back on your feet during the freezing, sneezing season, or better yet, will shield you from the virus in the first place.

A clinical herbalist emphasizes the synergistic properties of herbs. they analogizes herbs to a warrior tribe fighting  to protect the village, which is of course, your body. Here are the following recommended herbs:

Usnea

Found worldwide, usnea is the generic and scientific name for several species of grey or greenish hairlike lichen that grow on ...