Curing a cold
- Thread starter ARW
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I was having silly amounts of cinnamon and sugar on hot toast last week. Cold hasn't gone properly but shook the worst of it in 3 days.Cinnamon is supposed to be a good aid to health. Sprinkle some on your porridge
Super hot curry with extra chillies, whiskey, brandy and bedroom window open and electric blanket on, showers as hot as I could bear each evening. Paracetamol on the bad days.
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
whisky is good just before bed
but remember whisky is not just for colds, works well if the staff are pi55ing you off
but remember whisky is not just for colds, works well if the staff are pi55ing you off
Old McDonald
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- Harray, Orkney
you wanna be careful with the water drinking a lot at once can be dangerous......
Many a true word is spoken in jest as the old saying goes. What you posted is true.
It happened to me in Australia - working outside in temps well over 40C and I drank two gallons of water during the day. Ended up silly, as if drunk, and I was driving. Knew there was something wrong and called in on a neighbour (relatively speaking since it was Oz) and fortunately the wife had a good idea what was wrong with me. A hefty dose of a mix of soluble vitamins and I was fine in a fairly short time. It happened again on another occasion when I was at home and my wife just made a big mixture of various foods and again I was fixed. I suppose it could happen in the UK too despite the lower temps.
Old McDonald
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- Harray, Orkney
Have you ever tried Olive Leaf Extract?
llamedos
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No I havn't
Old McDonald
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- Harray, Orkney
@llamedos, I hope this post does not break the rules. If it does then no doubt you will delete it.
I sell a range of dried leaves and am experimenting with extracting whatever there is to be extracted from olive leaves - Oleuropein being the main one. I find it easier, and, with limited experience, it seems better, to use fresh leaves. The dried leaves are fine for making tisanes.
I do not know how well fresh leaves would travel through the post, although I think since delivery time to the UK is very quick and given the nature of the leaves they will be OK. Would you like to try some? Or indeed any other poster? Free of cost for the leaves of course. My family and other contacts in the UK would not be prepared to try it, so I have not bothered to ask them. I know from past experience that they would not try making any "herbal teas" either.
40g of fresh leaves need about one quarter bottle of vodka, preferably 40% abv rather than 37.5% because it will extract that tiny bit more - or so my research led me to believe. I am not so philanthropic as to send the vodka too.
The leaves are whizzed in a blender with the vodka, or can be cut finely and the vodka poured over. The exact amount of vodka will vary slightly depending upon the shape and diameter of your container. A 3/4 pound jam jar with screw top lid is the ideal extraction container. Further details would be sent with the leaves, and naturally I would appreciate some feedback on how the leaves travelled as well as use of the end product.
I sell a range of dried leaves and am experimenting with extracting whatever there is to be extracted from olive leaves - Oleuropein being the main one. I find it easier, and, with limited experience, it seems better, to use fresh leaves. The dried leaves are fine for making tisanes.
I do not know how well fresh leaves would travel through the post, although I think since delivery time to the UK is very quick and given the nature of the leaves they will be OK. Would you like to try some? Or indeed any other poster? Free of cost for the leaves of course. My family and other contacts in the UK would not be prepared to try it, so I have not bothered to ask them. I know from past experience that they would not try making any "herbal teas" either.
40g of fresh leaves need about one quarter bottle of vodka, preferably 40% abv rather than 37.5% because it will extract that tiny bit more - or so my research led me to believe. I am not so philanthropic as to send the vodka too.
The leaves are whizzed in a blender with the vodka, or can be cut finely and the vodka poured over. The exact amount of vodka will vary slightly depending upon the shape and diameter of your container. A 3/4 pound jam jar with screw top lid is the ideal extraction container. Further details would be sent with the leaves, and naturally I would appreciate some feedback on how the leaves travelled as well as use of the end product.
Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
Sort of a red letter day for me this week, I've gone 12 months without a cold! Last winter I had 3-4 colds lasting a total of five weeks. Suppose I've made myself a hostage to fortune now.
I only 'manage' them by a dose of paracetamol at bedtime and some form of linctus if it develops into a cough.
Lambing with a cold is the most misery for me, starts next week.
I only 'manage' them by a dose of paracetamol at bedtime and some form of linctus if it develops into a cough.
Lambing with a cold is the most misery for me, starts next week.
Stay away from humans and you'll have another cold free year
llamedos
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Apologies, I must have missed the alert for this post.
I would have been happy to try it if it were not for the vodka,or, if there was another way to extract the active ingredient.
Alcohol simply sends me to sleep, even in very small amounts.
Old McDonald
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- Harray, Orkney
@llamedos There is another way. It can be extracted in water, but it is not as effective as alcohol.
I understand that pure alchohol is used on a commercial scale. Water extraction is just a longer version of tisanes, and of course does not have the preservative qualities of alcohol. This is not something unique to olive leaves, the same goes for extractions of other food supplement leaves. It is easier,even if slightly more expensive, to make the tisanes as and when required if alcohol is not used. There are many people who do not want to consume any alcohol so they make tisanes instead, accepting that they are weaker than extractions.
The amount of acohol in a dose is miniscule - you begin with half a teaspoonful mixed with an equal quantity of whatever helps you get it down - fruit juices appear to be popular since the extracts are bitter, but water is OK too. The extract is kept at full strength and the water added to the dose taken from the bottle.
I understand that pure alchohol is used on a commercial scale. Water extraction is just a longer version of tisanes, and of course does not have the preservative qualities of alcohol. This is not something unique to olive leaves, the same goes for extractions of other food supplement leaves. It is easier,even if slightly more expensive, to make the tisanes as and when required if alcohol is not used. There are many people who do not want to consume any alcohol so they make tisanes instead, accepting that they are weaker than extractions.
The amount of acohol in a dose is miniscule - you begin with half a teaspoonful mixed with an equal quantity of whatever helps you get it down - fruit juices appear to be popular since the extracts are bitter, but water is OK too. The extract is kept at full strength and the water added to the dose taken from the bottle.
donniedingle
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well I found a great cure for a cold ....a quick gargle of TCP and then rub vick into the soles of your feet, just before bed then put a pair of thin socks on..........magic it works .