Winter came early to Iowa and brought me a special gift this week. That’s right, I have a cold. This will get … interesting.
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There are a thousand recipes for fixing a cold, most of them involving soup. There’s matzoh ball soup, otherwise known as Jewish penicillin. There’s the “Magic chicken soup” at the local Mexican restaurant that my wife swears by. There’s an Indian restaurant in Berkeley that makes a ginger heavy broth that has cured me more than once.
Personally, I think it is mostly the warm steam that cuts through the mucus and the nutrients in a good bone broth. The warmth has a way of loosening the nasties and letting the air in.
Eastern medicine believes in the power of ginger and turmeric to heal such illnesses. There’s definitely a connection in my mind between your body and what you put into it.
Also baths. I love a good bath to restore the soul.
And then there’s just getting schnockered to make the course of the cold bearable.
What are some of your cold treatments, homeopathic or otherwise?
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