COVID Remedies & Online Censorship

I’m talking about online censorship and sharing my family’s experience with COVID, including the herbal remedies we used and why COVID and censorship are being discussed in one episode.

Echinacea flowers and a tincture bottle sitting on a wooden counter top.

This is Pioneering Today Podcast episode #333. To listen to my other podcasts you can go here.

It’s important to note that I am not a certified medical practitioner. This post is not intended to diagnose or treat but is for informational purposes only. Please contact your healthcare professional before introducing new herbal and natural remedies into your wellness routine.

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Online Censorship
Covid Treatment Plan
The Divisiveness of COVID
Our COVID Experience
Herbal Remedies
My Encouragement
Resources
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Online Censorship

In January of 2022, I posted to Instagram and Facebook content that I share every year around this time on how much to plant per person for a year’s worth of food.

You can also get the downloadable chart and worksheet to figure out how many fruit and vegetable plants your family will need.

I share this information every single year, but this year I shared about my dad’s upbringing during the Great Depression and how, if they didn’t grow their own food and preserve it they would have gone hungry. But because of the skills his mom had, they never went hungry, and that’s why these skills are so important, even today.

For some reason, Instagram decided to take down not only my post but also my IG Story where I shared the link to the blog post.

Now, I tend to be very careful when it comes to “trigger” words that social media would remove. But never would I have thought that homesteading and growing your own food would trigger my post to be taken down.

This brings me to my next point of why it’s important to have access to information outside of social media and even blog posts where you can get teachings.

A woman in an herb garden cutting echinacea flowers.

Covid Treatment Plan

Due to the censorship I’ve recently experienced, I just figure this is the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come. I don’t believe we should be censored, especially when it comes to alternative remedies for health and healing (most notably from the current viruses going around).

I did see early on, just after the initial onslaught of the COVID virus in the US that if you mentioned anything related to COVID in YouTube videos that those videos were getting flagged and taken down. They’ve let up on this since and you can now discuss COVID, but you do have to be very careful.

Even with this podcast, I have concerns about whether it’s going to get flagged when I hit publish or share it to social media. But this will never stop me from sharing information that I’ve learned. We should all be able to hear information and then make decisions on where we stand on our own, never forced due to censorship.

The Divisiveness of COVID

Furthermore, one of the very sad realities of the past two years is that it’s caused such division in our relationships to where someone apologized to me the other day when asking if I minded sharing whether or not my family and I have been vaccinated.

We shouldn’t need to apologize about such things, we should be able to freely discuss these topics, even with differing views, and still be able to walk away from the conversation as friends.

It’s always my goal to create a community where we can communicate, discuss, and either agree (or agree to disagree) in a civilized manner.

Rosehips and other dried herbal flowers.

Our COVID Experience

Our family has decided not to get vaccinated due to the fact we are very healthy with no underlying health concerns.

We were exposed to a family (who had been vaccinated) and we ended up getting COVID from them. It started with my husband and trickled to the rest of us, save for one, from there.

We didn’t quarantine in our own home from one another (for the love of course we didn’t go out in public when we were sick). Out of four of us, only three ended up getting it.

For me, my initial symptoms felt like when I first start getting a migraine. I was weak, sensitive to light, and felt nauseous. About three hours later I got a fever, body aches, and chills.

I never did take our temperatures, but we weren’t feeling so hot it concerned me. After the first 24 hours, it turned more to cold-like symptoms, but it never set into our chests or respiratory system other than a dry throat and cough.

I was very happy to say that I had all the remedies for our herbal virus protocol on hand so I went immediately into those remedies. I actually have this entire protocol available to the members of the Pioneering Today Academy. If you’re not yet a member, I will be opening it up in March 2022 and you can get on the waitlist to join and have access to that masterclass.

Or you can purchase my course on Practical Home Herbalism for Cold and Flu Season.

Herbal Remedies

I need to say that I’m not a trained herbalist, but I have done extensive research before sharing all my information in my courses.

In our family, we turn to herbal remedies when it comes to fighting off viruses in our home as our first line of defense.

The very first thing we make sure we’re doing is supplementing vitamin D. Because of where we live we just can’t get enough vitamin D from the sun throughout the winter, so this is our first line of defense from viruses. (Source)
We took a combination of herbs as laid out in my antiviral protocol along with tinctures and elderberry syrup. Made sure to drink plenty of bone broth (another reason why having home canned bone broth is a lifesaver!).
We had a nebulizer on hand and did some breathing treatments with that.
Drank plenty of water.
Got plenty of rest.

Beyond this my recommendation would be to look up the book Herbal Antivirals by Stephen Buhner, then be sure to go download his PDF on plant-based interventions for Coronavirus ASAP because we never know how long that protocol will be available online.

Now I can’t say that because we used this protocol it lessened our symptoms. You simply can’t compare your symptoms to those around you and know for sure what’s working and what’s not.

Viruses react differently in everyone’s body, so I’m not going to make a sweeping statement that I know our case was lessened because of our herbal protocol.

However, in my personal opinion, based on how I felt from day to day, I do think our remedies helped shorten our symptoms (although I can’t know for sure) and helped keep some of the other common symptoms bearable.

My Encouragement

The first day we were hit with COVID we felt so horrible that I wouldn’t have had the energy to put together my herbal remedies and protocols, so I was so glad I had that done and written out (including dosing information for different members of our family) which made using the protocol so easy.

So my encouragement is to get your family prepared ahead of time because it can hit and come in without warning. You’ll never regret having these herbal remedies and protocols on hand, so if you haven’t already, go grab my class Practical Home Herbalism for Cold and Flu Season and get your natural medicine cabinet stocked and ready.

Verse of the Day: The entire book of Esther focuses on “for such a time as this”. I feel very passionate that I was not born in the wrong era, or the wrong location globally, but that God has placed me here to learn and teach about modern homesteading and pioneering ways of old “for such a time as this”.

Ponder the fact that God has placed each and every one of us in this exact time and place “for such a time as this”. What an encouraging thought!