Caring For Traveller's Health
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Whenever you plan a holiday, traveller's health is important. You can fight travel sickness in the air or at sea by eating some ginger root powder before starting your trip, but what happens if you get car sick in your home town, or on the bus. You probably know the feeling. The windows have got misted up and there are too many people breathing the same air in the bus. Your balance senses in your ears are telling you that you are rocking about, but your eyes are telling you that you aren't, because the bus is rocking with you, so it doesn't look as if it is moving, and you can't see out of the window.
I've found Yoga breathing to be completely effective. I don't reach the stage of vomiting ever, but I do start to feel decidedly queasy. Then I start to repeat this cycle
Gasp in a lung-full of air.
Hold your breath for a long time (I do a count of 20)
Breathe out slowly for a count of half as long as step 2.
I find that I stop feeling queasy after two or three repetitions of the cycle, and I just keep on doing it until something distracts my attention. But what about infectious diseases caught during your travels? With international flights nowadays it doesn't take long for infections to spread around the world, so you'll get them at home as easily as on your travels. What about food poisoning? Have you got the statistics for the hotels and restaurants and food halls in your home town? If you can find out the truth, you may not be so ready to point the finger at Bali Belly and Delhi Trots.
However, you are told to drink only water that has been boiled, and never eat the fruit from wayside markets. What fun is there in that? The people in Bali don't get Bali Belly. They have developed immunity to it. (Thinks...why can't I develop immunity and have fun?) I would eat two or three shiitake mushrooms each day to strengthen my immune system before I travel anywhere. I would have capsules of Echinacea angustifolia (better than E. purpurea) root with me ready for any disease that came along.
Then I would wade in and gobble each fruit that I had never seen before. I would eat the cooked morsels sold at the wayside stalls, without enquiring too closely what animal had been cooked up (in Mexico it might be a chihuahua puppy). Long life isn't about surviving safely on life-support machines. You really live by living dangerously. Even if you live a couple of years less, you will have got far more out of life than you will by staying in a retirement village. You should of course get travel insurance that will cover your health bills, because unexpected hospital visits can be an expensive item in traveller's health plans.
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