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modelbuilder
Guest
I am really sick....any home brews to kick the cold/flus ***?
Desertdude
Expedition Leader
The spice-ist indian food you can take.
Vindaloo - its contains many healing spices.
Vindaloo - its contains many healing spices.
Connie
Day walker, Overland Certified OC0013
Ditto on the spicy food. We have a restaurant that called their Ginger Miso soup, "Flu Killer Ginger Miso soup" but of course that had not been scientifically proven, so they had to remove the flu killer part. It had loads of ginger and red chili in it, and for a while we kept some in the freezer just in case of colds.
Hope you feel better soon!
Hope you feel better soon!
S
Scenic WonderRunner
Guest
Here is what I do.........
You probably can't breathe very well through your nose.
#1. Go to Wal~Mart and buy some "Saline Solution". Lay down and pour some in your nose! The salty solution will begin to kill da bugs and start to help you breathe better. THIS is the key! I'm Serious! I travel with this every where I go!
#2. Start taking 2000mg. of Vitamin C per day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
#3. I make some wonderful home made chicken soup! I get a whole young chicken. I put it in my crock pot the night before. Top off with water. Put in onions and spices and slow cook for 18 hours! The next morning I take out the chicken and de~bone. Put all the meat back in and then add carrots, celeray, potatos....whatever else you like, another fresh onion and more spices. It's now ready by lunch time! Have egg noodles on hand. Don't put them all in the crock pot at once, they will get too soggy.
There must be something about the cooking with bone in....that does the trick, because I feel better in no time!
............:beer:
You probably can't breathe very well through your nose.
#1. Go to Wal~Mart and buy some "Saline Solution". Lay down and pour some in your nose! The salty solution will begin to kill da bugs and start to help you breathe better. THIS is the key! I'm Serious! I travel with this every where I go!
#2. Start taking 2000mg. of Vitamin C per day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
#3. I make some wonderful home made chicken soup! I get a whole young chicken. I put it in my crock pot the night before. Top off with water. Put in onions and spices and slow cook for 18 hours! The next morning I take out the chicken and de~bone. Put all the meat back in and then add carrots, celeray, potatos....whatever else you like, another fresh onion and more spices. It's now ready by lunch time! Have egg noodles on hand. Don't put them all in the crock pot at once, they will get too soggy.
There must be something about the cooking with bone in....that does the trick, because I feel better in no time!
............:beer:
Harald Hansen
Explorer
Ditto on the saline solution. It won't make you any less ill, but will clear out your nose and enable you to breathe again. Don't bother with any brand name nose sprays, plain old saline solution works just as well. At least that's my experience on myself and two kids.
rusty_tlc
Explorer
I always go for a big noodle bowl at the Phó shop. Load up on the chili paste and or Rooster sauce.
Then get into bed with a big mug of hot water dosed up with honey, lemon, and whiskey. The acid from the lemon helps clear mucus out of your throat, the honey soothes it and the whiskey helps you relax and sleep.
Also Quinine helps, if your into a holistic approach. I had a great Holistic Dr that was also a MD. He gave me a perscription for quinine one cold season. I've used it ever since.
Then get into bed with a big mug of hot water dosed up with honey, lemon, and whiskey. The acid from the lemon helps clear mucus out of your throat, the honey soothes it and the whiskey helps you relax and sleep.
Also Quinine helps, if your into a holistic approach. I had a great Holistic Dr that was also a MD. He gave me a perscription for quinine one cold season. I've used it ever since.
cnynrat
Expedition Leader
X2 or 3 on a number of suggestions already made.
There are products made that you can use to thouroughly rinse out your sinuses with saline solution - one example is Sinus Rinse from NeilMed. I like this product - it works very well for me, keeps me breathing, and helps keep my sinuses draining.
Like SWR I swear by mega doses of Vitamin C, despite all the naysayers that say it doesn't work.
Some people have good luck with Zinc lozenges. It's supposed to stimulate your immune system, but I've never really noticed much difference.
If you like Thai food find a good spicy hot Tom Ka Kai soup.
There are products made that you can use to thouroughly rinse out your sinuses with saline solution - one example is Sinus Rinse from NeilMed. I like this product - it works very well for me, keeps me breathing, and helps keep my sinuses draining.
Like SWR I swear by mega doses of Vitamin C, despite all the naysayers that say it doesn't work.
Some people have good luck with Zinc lozenges. It's supposed to stimulate your immune system, but I've never really noticed much difference.
If you like Thai food find a good spicy hot Tom Ka Kai soup.
DaveInDenver
Middle Income Semi-Redneck
The nasal irrigation that my doctor recommended to me is isotonic saline with a baby aspirator (the big sucker deal for noses and ears). If you have a big syringe, that would work fine, too. You want volume without pressure, you're not hosing your sinuses down, you are washing them. And blow gently while irrigating, if you mat down all the nose hairs you could make yourself more susceptible to getting a cold.
You can mix your own solution for cheap. An isotonic saline solution is just 1 tsp baking soda + 1 tsp salt + 16 ounces of water. That's it, nothing fancy.
Some people think hypertonic saline is better, but in my estimation it depends on where you live. A hypertonic saline solution would increase the salt to 2 tsp and will tend to work better to draw moisture. But in Denver the air is dry enough that isotonic solutions work plenty fine without giving me nose bleeds. If you are doing a nasal irrigation only during the time of being sick, then hypertonic will work better, I just happen to irrigate regularly because of allergies and stuff.
You can mix your own solution for cheap. An isotonic saline solution is just 1 tsp baking soda + 1 tsp salt + 16 ounces of water. That's it, nothing fancy.
Some people think hypertonic saline is better, but in my estimation it depends on where you live. A hypertonic saline solution would increase the salt to 2 tsp and will tend to work better to draw moisture. But in Denver the air is dry enough that isotonic solutions work plenty fine without giving me nose bleeds. If you are doing a nasal irrigation only during the time of being sick, then hypertonic will work better, I just happen to irrigate regularly because of allergies and stuff.
UK4X4
Expedition Leader
"Vindaloo - its contains many healing spices."
no need for me to repeat....
or a good hot thai curry..
concidering you can't taste normal bland food anyway...why not..
I normally do the high vit C thing too which seems to help
and when your feeling like cr5p anyway...a hot tody-mulled wine- whateveryour poison..won't make you feel much worse in the morning either
so a simple all of the above should have sufficed ...
just ordered the chicken tikka and garlic naan:eatchicke
no need for me to repeat....
or a good hot thai curry..
concidering you can't taste normal bland food anyway...why not..
I normally do the high vit C thing too which seems to help
and when your feeling like cr5p anyway...a hot tody-mulled wine- whateveryour poison..won't make you feel much worse in the morning either
so a simple all of the above should have sufficed ...
just ordered the chicken tikka and garlic naan:eatchicke
BigJimCruising
Adventurer
FshTaco99 said:
You have a microwave in your duck blind???: I'm IMPRESSED!!!:bowdown: :bowdown: