Every day in my family medicine clinic, at least one patient is sick with common cold symptoms like rhinorrhea, otherwise known as runny nose and sinus congestion. The question is the same: what’s the best treatment for a runny nose? I’m sharing this because most of my patients are not taking what I think is most effective.… Read the rest
Category Archives: Colds and Flu
Must-Have COVID+FLU Test Kit for Every Household
I’m really excited to share something groundbreaking that I discovered last week at my local pharmacy. It’s a new test kit that I believe every household should have on hand—especially during flu season! This incredible kit tests for both Flu A and B, as well as COVID-19, all in one.… Read the rest
COVID-19 Prevention: Accentuate The Positive!
Here in the Seattle area, ground zero of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re still at the beginning of the outbreak, and everyone has lots of questions and concerns. My biggest priority: how can we not get it in the first place, or if we do, how can we fight it off?… Read the rest
6 Herbals To Help the Common Cold
Isn’t it humbling that we have no cure for the world’s most common illness? Yes, the common cold, globally the #1 cause of sick days and doctor visits, still stampedes across the world, blissfully immune to any Eastern or Western prescriptions.… Read the rest
Curing a Cough: What’s the Best Medicine?
Coughing from a cold or flu is probably the most frustrating symptom we can have — for children, their parents, and even the doctor treating them. Why? Because there’s honestly very little that we can do to treat it. That’s a hard pill to swallow, and it’s especially humbling for me as a family physician.… Read the rest
Antibacterial Soap: As Useless As Your Multivitamin
It hasn’t been a good week for a couple of daily household items common in millions of homes across the world. First we had nail-in-the-coffin proof that our daily multivitamins are useless for the great majority of people in preventing any disease or prolonging life.… Read the rest