Resolving not eliminating Inflammation
Many products and techniques in the health landscape tout powerful anti-inflammatory properties; however, inflammation is not evil, but misunderstood. In fact, the four signs of inflammation – heat, redness, swelling, and pain – are essential to life. Without them, we would shrivel, harden, cool, and perish.
The modern epidemic of rising inflammatory diseases including allergies, asthma, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune issues are not due to inflammation but chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation occurs when the initial acute process does not reach its conclusion. Chronic inflammation is like smoldering smoky fire, which lingers but never truly finishes. Inflammation is a cleaning process for your body, getting rid of waste, bacteria and virus that you don’t need; however, if you stop halfway through a cleaning process – like when you are cleaning your room for example – the room is more disorganized and chaotic than when you started.
Because so many people are getting vaccines, let us look at vaccine recovery as an example of how to properly resolve inflammation
Resolving Inflammation from Vaccines
Citizens around the world are receiving vaccines for the COVID-19. The first type approved in the United States, the Modern and Pfizer mRNA vaccines, are very effective at preventing serious COVID infections; but because they are so strong, they are also very likely to create a big inflammatory response: fever, pain, muscle swelling, and redness around injection site. These are the same four symptoms I discussed earlier that indicate acute inflammation.
These side effects are very uncomfortable and many people reach for anti-inflammatories such as Tylenol, Advil, or Aspirin to reduce the inflammation. The problem is that while these medicine are effective at reducing inflammation, they are not effective at resolving it. In fact, studies show a correlation between Tylenol use in childhood and chronic inflammatory diseases such as eczema, allergies, and asthma later in life1. These substances create immune dysregulation. Remember the analogy of the chaotic room that you abruptly stopped cleaning halfway through?
Therapies that Resolve Inflammation
What is needed for vaccine recovery are therapies that do not shut down inflammation but help resolve it. Thuja is one such herb that studies have shown to be a potent resolven. Thuja comes from the North American cedar tree. It has a long history of use in traditional medicine as well as in homeopathy as vaccine prophylaxis. Medical studies verifying Thuja’s traditional uses. It is a potent anti-viral for respiratory viruses2, has comparable fever controlling capacities to aspirin3, while still increasing the cell- mediate immune response4. This means that Thuja helps control acute inflammation while boosting immune intelligence and resolution.
Thuja is recommended to be taken as a homeopathic, a processing method in which the herbal material is diluted but its physiological effects remains intact, to avoid toxicity from thujone a compound the
herb contains. Those getting vaccines should consider taking the homeopathic daily for the week after getting vaccinated.
What else can I do to help recover from the vaccine?
• Consider taking a sick day the day after the second shot so that your body can fully heal and recover
• Drink plenty of fluids and warm tea. Mint, sage, or thyme teas are excellent for helping to sweat out the fever.
• Only eat when you are hungry. Many people think that they need to eat while they are acutely ill. Not so. Listen to your body. If it is hard at work processing the virus or vaccine, it does not have the extra resources to digest food. When your body is strong enough to eat food again, your appetite will return.
Work Cited
- Beasley R, Clayton T, Crane J, et al. Association between paracetamol use in infancy and childhood, and risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema in children aged 6-7 years: analysis from Phase Three of the ISAAC programme. Lancet. 2008;372(9643):1039-1048. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61445-2
- Info A. Antiviral Activity of the Plant Extracts from Thuja orien spathulifolius , and Pinus thunbergii Against Influenza V. 2021;23(1):23-24.
- Aziz A, Khan IA, Ahmed MB, et al. Evaluation of antipyretic activity of Thuja occidentalis Linn. in PGE1 and TAB-Vaccine induced pyrexia models in rabbits. 2014;4(2):481-484. http://ijps.aizeonpublishers.net/content/2014/2/ijps481-484.pdf.
- Sunila ES, Hamsa TP, Kuttan G. Effect of Thuja occidentalis and its polysaccharide on cell- mediated immune responses and cytokine levels of metastatic tumor-bearing animals. Pharm Biol. 2011;49(10):1065-1073. doi:10.3109/13880209.2011.565351