访谈录 2010-04-16&04-19 自然过敏疗法

You are on Just One Thing today. Come on over this way. Dr. Lawrence Rosen is with us this morning. And let's just talk a little bit about allergy¹ season because he is the pediatric columnist² for Kiwi magazine. And now April, the worst month for allergies³. This has been a kick butt⁴ season for pollen⁵. But it has been really bad for everybody. There is a lot of pharmaceutical⁶ to take, but you can do it naturally, you say?

Absolutely.

Now I thought this was fantastic about local honey. Has to be local honey. What does it do to your body?

It's sort of like nature's allergy shots, if you will, it gives you a little bit of the pollen that comes from the bees that are pollinating their hives. And if you just take a small little bit on a daily base. A small little bit?

Small little bit, not a whole spoon. A little bit each day and then gradually build up. It tastes great? And it helps your body build up tolerance⁷ to the allergies in your...

To the local flowers, local plants in your area. Local, local, local honey.

OK. Tell me about this and say this for me.

So this is called quercetin. Quercetin is a supplement but it's from food. It's food based. These foods you see here, berries, apples, onions, garlic.

And this is proved to help with the allergies?

Absolutely, it's a natural antihistamine⁸. So it actually reduces the swelling⁹, the congestion¹⁰, all the things that you get from your allergies. It's a nature's way of doing that.

OK. So, raspberries, blueberries, apples, eat a lot of these. Even onions and garlic haven’t…

Cook with onions and garlic. Absolutely.
I swear by this. It's a little difficult to get kids to do it. But you say you've got kids as young as three?

We do, we do.

And the neti pot. So that's sea-salt, I don't use any kind of salt that has iodine¹¹, because it’s…

You don't want to irritate your nasal bites, it’s just too much.

Right, and I use warm water, do you say warmer?
Yes, warm water, not too hot, be careful.
Ok, alright, you put the salt in there, mix it with the warm water and then basically you just kind of draining it through your side. I know, I know, I know, I already know this is gonna do on Twitter. But you basically kind of do this and the water run through your side and then it’s out the other side into the sink.

Yeah, do it over a sink. You can teach kids as young as three-year-old to do it.
Phenomenal. Thank you so much, Kiwi magazine. Doc. we appreciate you taking time to do our Just One Thing, a little healthier ways to try. And you are right, some folks may need to be medicated, but why not just try it this way for…

Absolutely.

 
 

1 allergy   

n.(因食物、药物等而引起的)过敏症

参考例句：

• He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。
• The patient had an allergy to penicillin.该患者对青霉素过敏。

2 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

3 allergies   

n.[医]过敏症；[口]厌恶，反感；（对食物、花粉、虫咬等的）过敏症( allergy的名词复数 )；变态反应，变应性

参考例句：

• Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms. 食物过敏会引发很多不同的症状。 来自辞典例句
• Let us, however, examine one of the most common allergies; hayfever. 现在让我们来看看最常见的变态反应的一种--枯草热。 来自辞典例句

4 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

5 pollen   

n.[植]花粉

参考例句：

• Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
• He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。

6 pharmaceutical   

adj.药学的，药物的；药用的，药剂师的

参考例句：

• She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
• We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。

7 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。

8 antihistamine   

n.抗组胺剂

参考例句：

• Taking an antihistamine isn't the only way to battle seasonal allergies.采取抗组织胺并不是唯一防止季节性过敏的方法。
• Antihistamine drugs may offer an effective treatment.抗组胺剂药物可以提供比较有效的治疗。

9 swelling   

n.肿胀

参考例句：

• Use ice to reduce the swelling. 用冰敷消肿。
• There is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes. 淋巴结处有明显的肿块。

10 congestion   

n.阻塞，消化不良

参考例句：

• The congestion in the city gets even worse during the summer.夏天城市交通阻塞尤为严重。
• Parking near the school causes severe traffic congestion.在学校附近泊车会引起严重的交通堵塞。

11 iodine   

n.碘，碘酒

参考例句：

• The doctor painted iodine on the cut.医生在伤口上涂点碘酒。
• Iodine tends to localize in the thyroid.碘容易集于甲状腺。