QotD: Take Two of These...
What's your cure for the common cold?
Curing the common cold... This takes me back to when I lived the apartment life alone with no health insurance. I opted out of health insurance mainly because I just couldn't afford it. I remember catching the worst cold one year and had to literally fend for myself to get better. I remembered some of the old remedies to attempt to heal up, because it would quickly become a "now or never" issue. My sinus drainage was terrible to the point that basically I got a sore throat from the mucus basically drying out my throat. I had to devise a plan to attack to fight off my viral assailant and slay it quickly! Here was my battle plan:
- Chicken soup or chicken porridge ("Chicken soup cures all!" being the old saying)
- Orange juice or a 1,000 mg dose of Vitamin C (Immunity booster)
- Supplement a diet of clean grains and carbs to support the "energy drain" from fighting illness
- Removing sugar from my diet (Soda, candy, junk food)
- Hot lemon tea with a shot of honey to act as a sore throat and to aid in expectorating the mucus
- LOTS of BED REST (a huge key to victory)
This battle plan would be grueling as depending on how much sleep you get... you can recover in either 2-3 days or as long as a week. It is grueling because if you're suffering from the mucus drainage... you quickly loose the ability to taste anything. So chicken soup, orange juice, or even the lemon tea soon "taste the same". Lay off on the late night TV, movies, porn, internet and even video games and watch your recovery quickly speed up.
