Home remedies
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I've been really sick for a week now. Coughing up yellow phlegm. Fatigued. Dizzy, constantly blowing my nose. Possibly feverish.
It's not typical for me, usually a few days on some cold pills and I'm good to go.
Therefore I am pulling out one of my home remedies to kick this cold's ass. I don't go to the doctor/hospital in China unless I'm dying or visiting someone who is dying.
The remedy is from my grandfather, who is in his 80s and still hunts, gets his own firewood out of the forest with a chainsaw, an axe and his truck, and is a bad-ass of the first degree.
Black rum, hot water and honey. I'm going to JL's right now to get the rum, I already have the honey. You're f-ing dead, cold. Dead.
Later when I eat, whatever I eat, it's going to be accompanied with Sriacchia hot sauce and raw garlic cloves.
What home remedies do you know and trust?
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pang duner
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复方氨酚烷胺片（Compound Paracetamol and Amantadine Hydrochloride Tablets）
two times one day!
you can take this medicine when you had a cold!
i am still a kid.
RemmyM
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Yum.
Remmy be pimpin' in BJ, yo!
pang duner
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plus if your throat is painful, you also need to take some medicine of reducing inflammation.
PS: when I have a cold, I often cover thick quilt to let myself sweat. but take care, you are bound not to kick your quilt off without awareness when you are sleeping, or your ill might be terrible. and drink more water.
that's all! good luck to everyone!
i am still a kid.
herojuana
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My grandfather refers to this drink as a "hot toddy".
He swears by it.
Just got back from JL's, so I'm getting aboard the night train in a couple of minutes.
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Beckah Lee
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If I get hiccups, I drink from the far side of a glass. It sounds like total bullsh*t but it really, actually works. I got so good at it I can mimic the motion and swallow my spit and my hiccups just go away almost immediately. No more hiccups for life!
Unfortunately it doesn't work for everyone...
BTW Hero, your grandfather sounds like an amazing badass.
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RemmyM
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Oh yeah, that's a classic!
I taught that to a lot of the locals here and they're always really amazed when it works, haha.
Remmy be pimpin' in BJ, yo!
Aier2
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......is bullsh*t
The far side of the glass?
As in...defying gravity?
Beckah Lee
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It seriously works. It's kind of like this:
The head motion is about the same. For whatever reason, like maybe the position or opening the throat or sinuses in a certain way, I dunno, but it takes away my hiccups every time.
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chaofan
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Always heard it called "hottie toddy", they have mixes for it in the U.S. in little chip dip type containers, been around for a long time. Did it work? I always have various degrees of sucess drowning colds with booze, not that ever stops me from using that as my first line of defense! And if you are already sick then it can't any worse with a little booze!
My remedy is vodka and pure lemon juice. I usually start my night with that sick or not. If you are not sick then it prevents you from getting sick. Sure feels better after a few of those than anything Tylonol Cold puts out!
wefrucar
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This is my home remedy for dire colds or throat infections:
Boil a decent amount of chopped ginger; partway through add garlic, chili peppers, coriander and onion.
Drink the broth, with enough honey to make it taste alright.
Also, go out to any pharmacy and get some hydrogen peroxide (shuang1 yang3 shui3), 1 kuai per bottle. Lay your head on its side on a towel and fill your ear up with it, with a dropper if you have one. Wait 5-10 minutes until the fizzing stops (empty it out and re-add if it's still bubbling after that), then repeat with the other ear. Many infections start in or travel through the ear canal, and hydrogen peroxide is a miracle at cleaning it out.
This is best done at the very *beginning* of a cold, but I find it makes me feel better pretty much anytime, sick or not.
Sometimes I feel it is maybe unbearable always be traditional Chinese girl.
herojuana
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I feel roughly 60 percent better today after half that bottle of rum with hot water and honey. Next time I'll add lemon juice as well.
Also had a bowl of chicken soup with diced garlic and hot sauce. Slept about 12 hours last night.
Never heard of the ear/peroxide thing, wefrucar, sounds cool. I'm going to try it, thanks.
For getting rid of hiccups I usually just hold my breath until I start seeing stars/spots. The water drinking method seems much more pleasant.
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pang duner
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you should have more sleep!
i am still a kid.
waitaitai
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it's kind of gross, but gargling with warm salt water also helps.
It dries up all that yuck inside your throat.
They aren't easy to find here, but those big snyder's beer pretzels have a similar effect.
Ginger ale, snyder's beer pretzels for dinner. Tylenol cold and bed.
Hope the other 40 percent snaps back soon!
herojuana
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Thanks waitaitai.
Just forced myself to run a couple of km on the treadmill.
Very unnatural amounts of sweat coming out of my body, I hope that's a good thing. Feel a bit nauseous now.
Anyone have an opinion about exercising when you're sick? I never know if I should to try to "sweat it out" or just rest.
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Count_zero
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> Anyone have an opinion about exercising when you're sick? I never know if I should to try to "sweat it out" or just rest.
I think do as little exercise as possible. Working out lowers your immune system.
The Lizard King
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yeah, hero.
i do the exercise thing.
run, workout, shower. all good in the morning.
i've not had a cold i didn't beat this way as far back as i can remember.
i'm not big on medicine and i only take any when i really must.
i like something my grandpa used to do.
chamomile tea with black rum and lemon...it's delicious and does the trick.
i just mostly opt out for the running, working out and,
if it's someone who's health you don't care about, lots of sex.
oh yeah? well, let me ask you this: shut up!
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herojuana
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That makes sense I guess.
Though as the nausea fades I actually sense an appetite for the first time in days.
More rum potion this afternoon with chaofan recommended lemon juice!
I'll be healthy AND cool!
I'm too afraid to laugh at the funny pictures in the other thread! DF! Yikes!
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The Lizard King
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haha, i guess it works differently for everyone.
oh yeah? well, let me ask you this: shut up!
contemporary china = crouching tension, hidden anger.
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veronicaZora
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I suggest some home remedies for skin.
1. Take a banana, mash it in a bowl and then pour small quantity of milk to bowl and mix them. Apply it all over to your face and leave it for 10-15 minutes.
2. Remedies like lemon, turmeric to whiten your skin.
3. Wash your face daily with cold water.
4. washing your face with milk can remove black spots.
maryjones
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Apply a mixture of honey,cinnamon powder and raw milk on your skin and then rinse it with cold water.Apply this mixture once in a week.It helps to prevent and reduced acne completely.
ashleybb
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I tried these tactics myself too. These are great and effective. I felt the change just in 3 days.
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