Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast.

I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com.

As you know that the word drug comes from the Dutch word, Drug, which means dry or

too dry, which is in reference to how ancient healers and physicians would use dried plants

as medicine.

Also, the World Health Organization estimates that up to 80% of the world's population

still uses herbal medicine.

In fact, 7,000 compounds used in modern medicine are derived from plants.

Today, in today's episode, I'm going to be talking about natural remedies and getting

your home ready for cold and flu season with natural remedies that you can make in your

kitchen.

But first, I want to send a quick thanks to the sponsor of this episode, a cool new company

I found called Oxibump.

And they make a natural remedy product that I discovered a few months ago and have been

using since then.

So it's called Oxibump and this is a natural homeopathic and oxygen nasal spray.

And from what I've read, two women founded this company after reading about the benefits

of oxygen and opening an oxygen bar in Canada that allowed people to get the benefits of

oxygen themselves.

And of course, oxygen therapy or hyperbaric therapy is used for people who have diabetes

or other conditions that can cause infection in the limbs.

And so they opened this oxygen bar in Canada and then went on to found a whole line of oxygen

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