Essential Oil Uses to Combat Cold and Flu Naturally (2024)

As I’ve grown older, I’ve started to become more cautious of the medicationsI take and the side effects caused by them. Over the last few years, I’ve started to turn to more natural alternative remedies to treat common ailments and lately I’ve started experimenting with essentials oils. There are a wide range of essential oils uses from aromatherapy, cleaning products, beauty care and natural medicine treatments.

Essentials Oils have been used for thousands of years in various cultures for both medicinal and health purposes. They come from distilling or extracting the different parts of plants, including the flowers, leaves, bark, roots, and resins. The benefits of essential oils come from their antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties. These healing oils are rapidly growing in popularity because they act as natural medicine without any side effects.They are natural remedies are effective at speeding recovery from illness and injury.

Thursday Plantation is an Australian company that makes and sells essential oils, body care and other natural careitems. Essential oils can be pricey, but this company has a fair and affordable price point for pure, high-quality products. You can find Thursday Plantation in Canada at Whole Foods, some Walmart and Rexall locations as well as online at Well.ca. Nature’s Emporium and other Health Food stores will carry the brand as well.

The 3 essential oils that I’ve been trying out are:

Each are unique in their scent and feature variousbenefits, but all have a common purpose of improving your health and well being.These oils 3 essential oils make a great starter kit if you’re starting to build out your essential oil collection and I’ve started to use them regularly to enhance my daily life. My favourite uses include adding some Lavender Oil to my baths to relax and using Eucalyptus Oil to help relieve sinus congestion. Read on to discover some of the ways to use these essentials oils to help maintain your health and combat cold and flus this season.

Tea Tree Oil

Tea Tree Oil is well-known for its powerful antiseptic properties and ability to treat wounds. Tea tree oil is naturally anti-bacterial and has anti-inflammatory actions making it an essential oil that should truly be part of everyone’s natural medicine cabinet.

Here’s 5 common ailments that Tea Tree Oil can help treat

Sore Throat
Add one drop of Tea Tree Oil into a glass of warm water and gargle, but don’t swallow! Do this to help get ride of inflammation and fight off infection.

Sinus Infection
Place a few drops in a bowl with boiling water with a dowel. Place over your face and breath in. The antibacterial and antiviral properties in Tea Tree Oil help to relieve nasal infections.

Ache and Pains
Add 10 drops of Tea Tree OIl to your bath and mix in some epson salts to help with aches and pains associated with colds and flus.

Cold Sores
Apply Tea Tree Oil directly to cold sore 3-4 times a day to help remove the cold sores caused by cold and flu.

Dry Air Passages
Add 10 drops of Tea Tree Oil to a bowl of hot water and leave in the bedroom overnight. This will help alleviate and disinfect dry air passages

Lavender Oil

Lavender Oil is one of the most versatile of all essential oils. Most commonly known for its relaxing effects on the body, it may also be used to cleanse cuts, bruises and skin irritations. It also has a fragrance that is calming, relaxing, and balancing, both physically and emotionally.

Here’s 5 common ailments that Lavender Oil can help treat

Add to the bath
Add a couple drops of Lavender Oil to the bath. The vapour will clear your head and leave your skin silky soft. Use at night to improve sleep quality.

Eucalyptus Oil

Eucalyptus oil uses and benefits include healing respiratory issues like asthma, improving skin health and eliminating mold.

Here’s 5 common ailments that Eucalyptus Oil can help treat

Cold and Flu
Add 5ml of Eucalyptus Oil to 500mL of hot water and inhale. Sprinkle a few drops onto a hnadkerchief, in the bath or on a pillow

Clear Respiratory Issues
Add a few drops to coconut oil make a DIY vapour rub. Do this to help eliminate the symptoms of a cough, asthma or even bronchitis

Stuffy Nose
Add 5 drops into a face towel and inhale throughout the day to relieve a stuffy nose.

Boost Immune Health
Use in a diffuser as an inhalant to stimulate them immune system and prevent the dreaded cold and flu.

Killing Germs
Add 10-30 to distilled water to make a disinfectant spray. Use to disinfect and protect from all germs.

And these are just a few of the ideas on how essentials oils can be used to improve your health and lifestyle, if you’d like to see more practical essential oil uses visit: http://thursdayplantationcanada.ca/100uses/

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