Squeeze a lemon, add a couple of tablespoons of honey, fill your mug with hot water and ... voila ... a few cups of this tasty mix over the course of a couple of days and you're going to be feeling better in general - and the sore throat will likely be gone within a day, if not almost immediately.
If, however, you're SICK sick with one of those colds from Hades, with a cough, congestion, and all that ... you can go on line and find lots of things that will help.
That's what I did, yep.
Here are the things I chose to try: honey, lemon, apple cider vinegar, garlic, ginger, and red onion.
Cut everything up that you can cut (including the whole lemon and a whole bulb of garlic, not just a clove) cover it with a cup or so of good honey (not processed too much, go local if you can) and dump in a hefty amount of apple cider vinegar.
My cut up ingredients came to just about a quart (didn't use the whole of that honkin' big onion I got; once it made me start crying I stopped at about half) and I put about a quart of apple cider vinegar with it. Oh, and because our store doesn't carry ginger root I just dumped in a tablespoon or so of ground ginger.
One recipe said to keep the concoction in a jar and give it a shake every day for 2 - 4 weeks (that one didn't have all my ingredients but was kinda halfway close) but ... well ... y'know ... I'm not feeling all that great right now and didn't want to wait a month - I'd be long over this by then so what would be the point.
I let it simmer for a little while on low (which none of the recipes said to cook anything but I figured it might speed things up a little) and then poured myself about two ounces of the medicinal liquid off the top of the concoction.
That's where the HOLY HANNAH !!! came in.
If this stuff won't cure what ails you I doubt anything will. It surely tastes like medicine I'll grant it that. It's one of those 'hold your nose and don't breathe when you take it' things, trust me.
On the plus side I'm feeling a lot better already.
I think it's my body's defense mechanisms kicking in to prevent me from having to take a second dose any time soon, to be honest.
There's nothing in it that could possibly do me any harm, of course - they're all proven to be really good for a person - but the combination really does pack a powerful punch.
It's not just got curative power - it's also a great preventive tool. It will give you tremendous motivation to not let yourself get sick in the first place.
Some folks swear they down a couple of tablespoons of their versions of this stuff on a daily basis and are never sick. Me, I'm not absolutely sure it's the daily dose that's responsible. They must come from hardy stock in the first place to make it through those daily doses. That, or it's a daily reminder to their systems of what's in store if they DO get sick. Motivation, I tell you. Motivation. Stay well or else ...
In conclusion - yeah it works. Whooo-eeee does it work!
Just don't forget to hold your breath. And for God's sake don't drink it out of a glass you're going to drink Pepsi out of next, not without boiling said glass for an hour or so first.
Chase it with fresh pineapple (for coughing, as you don't want to be coughing this stuff back up) if your store carries pineapples which ours does not so I chase it with that sweet syrup of honey and lemon.
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