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Dear Herbalist,

My children are going back to school, and every year it's the same scenario. After a couple of weeks, invariably, they are home with a cold or the flu. Is there anything natural that I can do to prevent this from happening again this year?

Signed, sick of being sick!

Dear Sick,

Great question, and congratulations on being proactive instead of reactive about this. We all go through this every year when children go back to school. They've come off three months of playing, running, spending time in the sunshine and fresh air, only to be locked in a building for eight hours a...