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Olive Leaf Extract for Colds and Flu

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Deedee (Skowhegan, Maine) on 12/08/2014:
4 out of 5 stars

On wed night I felt like I didnt feel right, by thursday morning-the same old familiar feeling that accompanies a bad cold or flu had started.It always starts with a strong achey feeling going straight across my shoulders then spreading thru my body, kinda feels like getting hit by a mack truck I quess.So I knew I was coming down with something, especially since we had just had thanksgiving with the family, and my grandson had a bad cough and wasnt feeling well.For whatever reason, if I come into contact with him when he's sick, I end up getting sick. We had some Olive Leaf throat spray-we had just bought 3 bottles for the winter, I sold one bottle to my son-in-law, for my grandson, so I sprayed my throat as soon as I started feeling bad. Started on high Vit C, and as usual, made sure I washed my hands alot during the day. Anyways the typical flu usually lasts about a week or more for the average person. By saturday I was able to do a couple small chores, in between laying down and napping and dosing, and by sunday-I folded up the sleeper couch, did more chores, no nap, went to bed at 9:30 and slept all night. 2 & 1/2 days of flu. I'm still spraying my throat-I also sprayed a q-tip and twirled it inside my nose. My next experiment is to kill this toenail fungus as nothing else has worked, and to buy some Olive leaf capsules, for preventative daily maintenence. We now keep a bottle of throat spray in the bathroom since last year, but after reading we now know it does so much more...

Jb (Australia) on 10/17/2014:
3 out of 5 stars

Better But With Side Effects

I have been using olive leaf extract for years. I take it when I feel a cold coming on. I use very high potency capsules. Sometimes I can take them with no side effects, but usually when I take them I feel very queasy. I am currently battling a cold and I took them at the onset of the cold. They made me feel dreadfully queasy and then I had bad diarrhea... but I felt better afterwards and the cold held off for a few days.

Unfortunately the cold came back with a vengeance. I tried to fight it off with various teas as I didn't want to go through the nausea and diarrhea again, but today I decided to give the olive leaf another go (this time with food.) Once again I felt queasy and had bad diarrhea... but once the diarrhea passed I felt almost like a new person. Within hours many of my cold symptoms had vanished (stuffiness, sore throat, blocked ear, headaches) and I had more energy.

There needs to be more published on how this product works. To me, it feels like it's literally blasting the bad bacteria and viruses out of me. I can physically feel it doing this. It feels terrible, but if you can get through it the after effects are worth it.

I wonder if the effects are only this extreme when you are sick, or if it is dependent on the type of sickness you have? There have been times I've taken it without effects.

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