"The secrets are in the plants. To elicit them, you have to love them." George Carver With the arrival of cold and flu season, stocking up on my antibacterial and antiviral herbs always comes to the forefront of my thoughts consistently by November. It's thought that for a multitude of reasons, illness increases in the winter season. First and foremost, we tend to be going more indoors more frequently, in closer quarters and coming in contact with more people to begin with. Second, the colder and drier air is thought to for many people increase the symptoms from any particular illness that may have been hardly noticeable in the spring and summer months.