Natural products for Flu and Caught a cold
According to a report published by the Research center on Fitoterapia (INFITO), the sale of natural products to treat flu and cold has gone off in 24,5 % last year. The equinácea and the products done by means of própolis are the maximum protagonists of the increase of the consumption of these medicinal plants .
From the information obtained by the counsel Nielsen, INFITO has demonstrated that the natural products are to the agenda and that we, in a more habitual way, consume this type of products to come undone of uncomfortably caught a cold and the tough flu.
Only in November of last year, natural substances bought to themselves in the drugstores more than 236.000 products developed from in Spain, in order to to treat and to relieve the symptoms of the cold and the flu . In the same period of the previous year, there sold 178.000 products of the same characteristics.
The equinácea is the medicinal plant more consumed by the Spanish. This plant usually uses for to strengthen the immune system and your use has grown up to 25 %. Some of your components like the fenólicos compounds, polysaccharides and alquilamidas they are capable of to promote certain groups of cells of our defensive system , in such a way that the equinácea turns it is one of the most effective medicinal plants for to fight against the flu symptoms and feeling stuffy .
Precisely, as one affirms in a study prepared by the faculty of Drugstore of the Hospital Hartford (United States), the equinácea is capable of reducing in 58 % the probabilities of taking a good cold.
As we were saying earlier, the própolis is other of the natural products more demanded by the citizens of our country. The bees are the managers of extracting this substance of the egg yolks of the trees and of treating them, later, in your beehives. Not only there has increased the consumption of this natural product, but it has been consolidated on the market like one of the favorite substances by us to finish with the symptoms of respiratory illnesses , typical of the winter epoch.
The própolis is composed for flavonoides, fenólidos, fitoesteroles, vitamins, minerals and acid linoleico, in such a way that it is configured like an antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory product, inmunomodulador and antirust. Also, it is capable, if you it combine with the honey, of to prepare and to calm certain viral or bacterial illnesses , as it is the case of the flu and of the feeling stuffy one.
Other of the natural products most demanded in the drugstores, although it does not come at the level of two previous ones, is the real jelly , perfect to recover energy both in children and in adolescents or adults. Also there are the bees, what we would do without them, which are in charge of preparing this product. They use it to feed to the small larvae of the beehives in which they live.
It is a substance that is carried out in the glands faringeales of the insects through the honey, the nectar and the water that they gather from the environment. They mix it with the exit, the hormones and the vitamins of the interior of the bees. It contains sugar, proteins and lípidos, therefore it is capable of bringing us vitamins of the group B and it turns into a restorative very valuable one for to finish with the cold .