I agree with Donna

[Guest guest]

the immune system is over active in that it is not getting the

correct communication signals...it's not over active in a good

healthy way...I agree with everything Donna had to say.

~Amy~

> >

> > Hashimoto's people have VERY active immune systems. In fact,

> waaayyyy too

> > active for their own good. Echinacea mobilizes these little

> monsters into

> > action. Trouble is, OUR immune systems have become VERY mistaken

> as to what

> > to " aim for " . For those who are allergic to ragweed, also,

> echinacea is in

> > the ragweed family. I took it for around a wk or two about 10

yrs

> ago and

> > developed allergic conjunctivitis for over a week and more, eyes

> blistered,

> > etc.....before I figured out that the echinacea was the latest

> thing I'd

> > introduced to my body. I stopped it, and in around 3 to 5 days,

> the

> > conjunctivitis was gone. I reintroduced it about 2 wks later,

and

> I've

> > never been surer of anything in my life. Allergy to it. It was

> around 2

> > yrs later that I read over and over in various articles it's

> relationship to

> > the ragweed family. Ragweed is something that I've known for

quite

> some

> > time I was allergic to, but I always assumed it was just the

> pollens going

> > up my nose, mucous membranes, etc........not so, it is by

ingestion

> also, in

> > my case.

> >

> >

> >

> > Re: favorite cold remedies? No Echinacea?

> WHAT??!!!

> >

> >

> > > Good lord girlfriend where in the world did you get that

> information?

> > > I have taken echinacea all my life when I felt something coming

> on.

> > > This is like when I had my first child and he had to stay in the

> > > hospital because of jaundice..they told me NOT to breastfeed

him,

> that

> > > it was bad for him due to the liver etc. Come to find out

later

> it was

> > > the BEST thing I could have done for him. STUPID DOCTORS!

> > >

> > > Anyway you have to begin building up the immune system dear.

> > >

> > > What you are doing with the lemon and any over the counter

> medicine is

> > > treating SYMPTOMS NOT getting the root cause of the problem.

> > >

> > > Want to talk further just say so and I can help.

> > > ~Amy~

> >

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