TEA AND A VALENTINE'S LOVE POTION
Voxters, I have exciting news. I have finally locked in a thesis. It's the right one, and I'm overwhelmed with love and bliss. I will post about it very soon.
In the meantime, I thought I'd share a cough remedy since everyone around me seems to be getting sick. I have not been ill since ****my immune system is completely psychotic**** but I used to use this remedy when I would get the flu. It's from an herbal book given to me by my sister.
According to my herbal book, this remedy worked "for a cough which does not respond to anything else". I read this one time when I had the most violent cough of my life and it kept me up all night. I was desperate and none of my OTCs were working.
Licorice, ginseng and rosemary. I used loose herbs and boiled them in a pot of water. The results were amazing - I stopped coughing immediately and I did not cough once thereafter. I may have mixed lemon and honey in the tea as well. It tasted rather yummy! Of course here's the standard disclaimer: I'm not a doctor! Check with yours first to make sure the remedy is safe for you!
! I have been using many herbal treatments over the years, and in my 20's I made a love potion with brandy, apricots and blue vervain. We steeped it in a dark, cold closet for 2 weeks. I'm probably lucky I didn't blow up my liver at 22 years old.
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Yes -- but did the love potion work?
PS Congrats on the thesis, inquiring minds want to know!
It's such a crazy story. All I can say is that his name was Peter, he was like a spooky underworld god. It worked in some ways, not in others. A witch gave me a magic stone and the recipe, and I think the Universe worked the way it was supposed to. Sorry to be vague.
And thanks, I'm working on the post, it has to be extra special!! ;)
Congratulations on finding your thesis!
This makes me happy. :)
I might try your cough tea. Everybody in the house has this dry cough..well, except for Dewitte, he's got congestive heart failure. I wouldn't worry too much about that though, last week he had endometriosis.
Aw Merci mon ami. (no vowels before other vowels in French, right? Geez j'oublis mon Francais!)
I hope you like my idea. ;)
;) Just what we need, right? We'd need a whole new line of obgyns!
I hope the remedy works, let me know! The remedy may have called for Siberian ginseng. Just be careful, any ginseng can be like taking crack. It makes me really racy. (And I don't mean tube skirt racy.) ;)
And those mixtures sound fascinating. Coughs can be do very tiring!!
Hi Maya,
When I was a child my mother would make for us when we had a cough and cold. ! fresh lemon squeezed into a cup and added one clove of crushed garlic and a tablespoon of honey. She gave us a 1 tea spoon to a 1 table spoon full as needed. It Worked....
Garlic inhibits cough and cold microbes and is an effective decongestant. Honey are considered by many to be a respiratory tonic, improving breathing, and is also known to be antimicrobial, assisting the immune system with fighting infection. Lemon reduces and thins mucus and alters the body's pH, which may make it less hospitable to viruses and bacteria.
I sure hope we can all stay well, and if not, with your tea and my syrup maybe we can get through.
Have a wonderful Night Maya and friends...
Holly
But...$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and of course, Sweetie!