I found the recipe on line where someone had traveled to Tibet and was served this when ill. I tried it--amazing! 1:1:1 ratio of honey, lemon juice and powdered ginger in a mug. (I tsp. of each) Fill with hot water and drink. I don't love ginger, but here it is fantastic. It has sort of a peppery sensation, that, if you have a sore throat, feels really good. I had had a really bad infection of some sort; you know, with green mucus, and by the next morning, that had cleared up. I mixed this up for a few days and had it a couple of times a day. It's warming and delicious. Highly recommended.
That sounds amazing! On a road trip many years back we ended up at a Tibetan restaurant, and they just started bringing us food (no ordering). The first thing they brought us the woman called "hot lime" and in broken English the woman described the ingredients. It was fresh squeezed lime juice (with a good bit of pulp), along with honey and ginger, with boiling water poured over. I'd guess it was very similar to what you had there with lemon, and it was out of this world good. All the food was good, but the hot lime stuck with me and we still make it to this day. Yum!
The best thing I find is good old fashion fasting!
Yep go to bed with a good book and a hot water bottle and get lots of sleep, and let your body clean out the junk it has accumulated over the past 12 months of pushing yourself too hard to do what you "need to do".
Listen to your body, it knows what it wants you to do.
When not hungry don't eat.
When sleepy then sleep.
We don't need to suppress the body with pills or potions.
While herbs and good food are great for feeding the body, when it is not hungry, and has a fever, it doesn't need food, it needs rest and care and love and mercy and kindness.
Love yourself, don't ignore your body telling you what it wants you to do.
I have roses growing in my hard so in the fall or spring I collect the hips and crush them to use as tea all year round. These are loaded with vitamin c!
Oops, I got it wrong. It was Morocco! I looked it up and found the article which I had pinned on Pinterest. Here is the link if anyone wants to read it:
Oh interesting! Well they do still have something very similar in Tibet =). It's a great remedy no matter where it's from. (Also, I absolutely love Feasting at Home. You should see her recipe for rose jam, it tastes as good as it looks: https://www.feastingathome.com/rose-petal-jam/ )
Thanks so much for the link; the rose petal jam does look wonderful. I've never had it, but my neighbor has some floribunda roses which are always spreading...it would be nice to pick some for this. Much appreciated!
I used to get a sinus infection over and over again, all winter, until I started all these things and healing my immune system by healing my gut. I also use colloidal silver in saline as a sort of sinus flush after being exposed to the grody-er members of the family.
Everybody still wants the elderberry syrup, for good reasons. We add more flavor and anti-inflammatory goodies to our recipe, (which we posted this week for people to employ). The commercial products are getting priced out of sight. The ingredients of chai are useful for congestion and for cough. If you use the chai spices in honey and/or in a tea, it helps to reduce the misery of cold symptoms. A lot of people have this stuff in the kitchen already.
Sounds about perfect! We also often add chai type spices to elderberry syrup, as most of them are also immune boosting, but they also make it taste so much better too.
I separate the sniffles into the hot sniffles and the cold sniffles. For hot sniffles, no chicken soup, as chicken is warming. Hot sniffels (ie yellow or green snot) need neutral or cooling cures....veggie broth without onions is more cooling, (even warm)...now, a cold cold, with clear snot, thats for the chicken soup. In general, you can look up the nature of foods in chinese medicine, which are classifed as warming, neutal or cooling foods. best
That's a skill I just don't seem to have for some reason, and I never could really pick apart sick the way Chinese medicine does. They do have a lot of very specific cures, and it makes sense...but when I'm sick I can't see past "sick" into warm/cold/moist/dry. It just mostly always feels the same to me...icky. Maybe it's because my body pretty much always experiences the same types of symptoms, and I've never had an illness I'd describe as "dry"...interesting how everyone body reacts in their own way to invaders =)
I am, none the less, amazed at anyone who can pick it apart like that and really get to specific remedies. I am seriously in awe of that capacity, well done.
I found the recipe on line where someone had traveled to Tibet and was served this when ill. I tried it--amazing! 1:1:1 ratio of honey, lemon juice and powdered ginger in a mug. (I tsp. of each) Fill with hot water and drink. I don't love ginger, but here it is fantastic. It has sort of a peppery sensation, that, if you have a sore throat, feels really good. I had had a really bad infection of some sort; you know, with green mucus, and by the next morning, that had cleared up. I mixed this up for a few days and had it a couple of times a day. It's warming and delicious. Highly recommended.
That sounds amazing! On a road trip many years back we ended up at a Tibetan restaurant, and they just started bringing us food (no ordering). The first thing they brought us the woman called "hot lime" and in broken English the woman described the ingredients. It was fresh squeezed lime juice (with a good bit of pulp), along with honey and ginger, with boiling water poured over. I'd guess it was very similar to what you had there with lemon, and it was out of this world good. All the food was good, but the hot lime stuck with me and we still make it to this day. Yum!
Hi Ashley
The best thing I find is good old fashion fasting!
Yep go to bed with a good book and a hot water bottle and get lots of sleep, and let your body clean out the junk it has accumulated over the past 12 months of pushing yourself too hard to do what you "need to do".
Listen to your body, it knows what it wants you to do.
When not hungry don't eat.
When sleepy then sleep.
We don't need to suppress the body with pills or potions.
While herbs and good food are great for feeding the body, when it is not hungry, and has a fever, it doesn't need food, it needs rest and care and love and mercy and kindness.
Love yourself, don't ignore your body telling you what it wants you to do.
Great advice!
I have roses growing in my hard so in the fall or spring I collect the hips and crush them to use as tea all year round. These are loaded with vitamin c!
Delicious!
Oops, I got it wrong. It was Morocco! I looked it up and found the article which I had pinned on Pinterest. Here is the link if anyone wants to read it:
https://www.feastingathome.com/sore-throat-tea/
Oh interesting! Well they do still have something very similar in Tibet =). It's a great remedy no matter where it's from. (Also, I absolutely love Feasting at Home. You should see her recipe for rose jam, it tastes as good as it looks: https://www.feastingathome.com/rose-petal-jam/ )
Thanks so much for the link; the rose petal jam does look wonderful. I've never had it, but my neighbor has some floribunda roses which are always spreading...it would be nice to pick some for this. Much appreciated!
I used to get a sinus infection over and over again, all winter, until I started all these things and healing my immune system by healing my gut. I also use colloidal silver in saline as a sort of sinus flush after being exposed to the grody-er members of the family.
Never heard of the colloidal silver nasal flush, but it does make sense.
Good to know. Thanks for posting.
Thanks Joe!
Everybody still wants the elderberry syrup, for good reasons. We add more flavor and anti-inflammatory goodies to our recipe, (which we posted this week for people to employ). The commercial products are getting priced out of sight. The ingredients of chai are useful for congestion and for cough. If you use the chai spices in honey and/or in a tea, it helps to reduce the misery of cold symptoms. A lot of people have this stuff in the kitchen already.
Sounds about perfect! We also often add chai type spices to elderberry syrup, as most of them are also immune boosting, but they also make it taste so much better too.
I separate the sniffles into the hot sniffles and the cold sniffles. For hot sniffles, no chicken soup, as chicken is warming. Hot sniffels (ie yellow or green snot) need neutral or cooling cures....veggie broth without onions is more cooling, (even warm)...now, a cold cold, with clear snot, thats for the chicken soup. In general, you can look up the nature of foods in chinese medicine, which are classifed as warming, neutal or cooling foods. best
That's a skill I just don't seem to have for some reason, and I never could really pick apart sick the way Chinese medicine does. They do have a lot of very specific cures, and it makes sense...but when I'm sick I can't see past "sick" into warm/cold/moist/dry. It just mostly always feels the same to me...icky. Maybe it's because my body pretty much always experiences the same types of symptoms, and I've never had an illness I'd describe as "dry"...interesting how everyone body reacts in their own way to invaders =)
I am, none the less, amazed at anyone who can pick it apart like that and really get to specific remedies. I am seriously in awe of that capacity, well done.
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