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veekI am feeling remarkably better today. Not yet entirely recovered, but markedly better. Here is what it took:
- Two days' worth, and counting, of Paracetamol (the UK generic wonderdrug that does a whole lot more for me than Tylenol etc.)
- Being forced to get out of the house for a while, and consequently move
- Chicken soup
- Two cups of different herbal teas right before bed, both from Tealuxe: Throat Tender (cardamom, slippery elm, cherry tree bark, and boy was it bitter until milk was added) and Orange Echinacea (much more pleasant)
- Half an hour or so with a couple of ... er, gorchichniki -- mustard packets -- on my chest. They're these paper packets with mustard powder in them. You soak them in warm water, then get excess water out and press them to strategic respiratory points (upper chest, upper back, calves for whatever reason). They start burning after a while, and continue burning until you take them off, and it heats you through. I'd been doing this ever since I was a kid, when Mom put them on for colds; they are a pretty common thing back in the USSR. In fact, I got the ones I have now from a Russian store.
It worked. I am less congested, am still coughing but less than I would have been, and can generally spare the energy to think. Tonight, more mustard packets, chicken soup and all that other stuff.
- Two days' worth, and counting, of Paracetamol (the UK generic wonderdrug that does a whole lot more for me than Tylenol etc.)
- Being forced to get out of the house for a while, and consequently move
- Chicken soup
- Two cups of different herbal teas right before bed, both from Tealuxe: Throat Tender (cardamom, slippery elm, cherry tree bark, and boy was it bitter until milk was added) and Orange Echinacea (much more pleasant)
- Half an hour or so with a couple of ... er, gorchichniki -- mustard packets -- on my chest. They're these paper packets with mustard powder in them. You soak them in warm water, then get excess water out and press them to strategic respiratory points (upper chest, upper back, calves for whatever reason). They start burning after a while, and continue burning until you take them off, and it heats you through. I'd been doing this ever since I was a kid, when Mom put them on for colds; they are a pretty common thing back in the USSR. In fact, I got the ones I have now from a Russian store.
It worked. I am less congested, am still coughing but less than I would have been, and can generally spare the energy to think. Tonight, more mustard packets, chicken soup and all that other stuff.
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All these new-fangled remedies
Date: 2003-01-07 06:42 (UTC)Re: All these new-fangled remedies
Date: 2003-01-07 07:18 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-07 07:25 (UTC)Glad you're feeling better. Wish I was. :(
(My back's gone out on me...)
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Date: 2003-01-07 07:35 (UTC)Mustard Plasters! Another thing we had in the Old Country are Pepper Plasters. They're a bitch to take off, though (ow ow OW), so I'm just Not Going There.
I hate to say this, but...
Date: 2003-01-07 10:38 (UTC)Re: I hate to say this, but...
Date: 2003-01-07 10:45 (UTC)I have since experimented with the two, again. As before, tylenol works unreliably and sometimes makes me woozy; paracetamol just works. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's some inactive ingredient somewhere. Maybe it's the dosage (though I thought the active ingr. dosage was the same). It continues to be a mystery; but on the other hand, a tomato is a tomato is a tomato, but they are an entirely different animal in Italy.