Respiratory problems are often associated with seasons such as autumn or winter when the body fights against microbes that invade the ENT sphere or the bronchial tubes. Therefore, this type of pathology weakens the body which is fighting against an infection or a virus.

The immune system is then weakenedThis encourages the body to express illness. For some individuals, the winter period can be very complicated to live with, as many people, being constantly ill, further decrease their vitality level. This implies a weakening and an inability to move forward to truly heal.

In naturopathy, we adopt strategies upstream to avoid sinking throughout the cold seasons in conditions of immune weakness.  Indeed, preparing the body several months in advance with the goal of increasing vitality is a smart strategy to avoid spending the winter under medical certificate, runny nose, stinging throat and exhaustion at the end of the tunnel.

Preparing the ground and the emunctories to get through the winter without chronic respiratory problems is possible if you take care of it in advance. Obviously, we don't necessarily think about taking care of ourselves, in this sense, during the summer when everything is going well. Nevertheless, this work on oneself allows initiating a strategy of well-being essential to vitality.

Generally, respiratory disorders are the result of a clogging of a type of residue that is called in naturopathy: glues.
Glues aremucosic substances transported by the lymph that are the result of several things: a diet that is not adapted and therefore generates glues (we often talk about the non-digestion of carbohydrates), the toxic substances in our environment, the general hygiene of life but also the clogging of a main organ: The liver.

When one becomes aware of the health capital to be maintained upstream, strategies can be easily put in place, namely:

• An awareness of how to eat. In fact, adopting the right gestures on a daily basis allows you to tolerate certain occasional deviations that would then not impact your vitality or health in general. Therefore, the importance will be to impose a new way of eating (without deviation or frustration however).
• Take care of your liver by performing occasional drainage cures and a detox per year. For example, drinking liver cleansing herbal teas on a daily basis to naturally drain without over-stimulating the liver can be a very good alternative. Detox cures require a greater investment of self and should be followed by a health professional.
• Taking proper care of your gut flora by ensuring a good quality of your microbiota. From then on, taking prebiotics (ideally through food) could complement taking probiotics before this critical period when microbes like to settle in.
• Limit health disruptors such as tobacco, alcohol, drugs, air pollutants (insect spray, aerosol spray for the olfactory atmosphere of a house, unnatural candles, ...) But also polluting household products (not labeled), excessive electromagnetic waves, etc. The list is long and it is necessary to be able to protect oneself as much as possible in the daily life.
• Prepare the immune terrain by boosting its vitality.

If, despite all these efforts, respiratory illnesses come to your house this fall, there is little chance that they will become chronic and last all winter. Symptomatic remedies are then possible such as :

• Taking trace elements such as zinc, which stimulates immunity, or the copper-gold-silver combination, which is very effective in boosting natural defenses 
• Aromatherapy can accompany you in this sense thanks to the essential oils of Ravintsara, Niaouli (to be avoided in case of hormone-dependent diseases), Eucalyptus Radiata, Cajeput, etc.
• Phytotherapy in general can accompany the symptoms with gemmotherapy (silver fir, blackcurrant, viburnum) or dry extracts with echinacea, mother tinctures, etc.
• A vitamin C preferably liposomal for a better assimilation.

Naturopathy is a method of health care that requires preventive work upstream in order to avoid that health problems settle deep in our cells.