LaraMN
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:54 PM
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I think I have swollen glands. |
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Quick! What's the best way to head off a cold? It's not skipping breakfast and lunch and eating dairy queen cake for dinner, is it?:-(
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:55 PM
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I drink echinacea tea, sometimes echinacea with vit. c and zinc.
Seems to work, or maybe I just tell myself it works. :silly:
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LaraMN
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:57 PM
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2. I'll take a heart dose of placebo effect |
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if it means I don't have to feel like crap.
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:08 PM
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I have an echinacea PLANT in my yard. Can I eat that? Or smoke it?:D
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:10 PM
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14. I wonder if you can put the leaves in a cup and make a tea... |
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I wonder that every time I pass my post office, LOL....lots grow there.
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:58 PM
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3. Go to bed and get lots of sleep. The affects won't be as bad in the |
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morning. Feel better. :hi: :(
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:58 PM
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:07 PM
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11. I've done both of those. |
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So I've got that covered.:)
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Fri Sep-16-05 07:59 PM
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This stuff works for me all the time. I may get one cold every year and 3 months. It is zinc in a gel form, and you squirt it in the front pockets of your nose. Kinda gross but it wipes it out usually pretty quick. It costs like 7 bucks at a drug store.
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:00 PM
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followed by ice cream.
Works like a charm.
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:04 PM
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7. Here's Doctor Redstone's prescription: |
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Take one water glass. Fill it halfway up with anything over 80 proof: vodka, tequila, Maker's Mark, whatever.
Fill to the top with orange juice and stir gently. Drink.
(The orange juice gives you good jolt of vitamin C and folate and all that good stuff, and the booze knocks you out for seven or eight hours, and as we all know, sleep is the best medicine.)
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:05 PM
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9. I don't have a cold but I'm trying your recipe! lol |
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:30 PM
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18. It wards off all kind of bad stuff, like scurvy, beriberi, and rickets. |
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Trust me, take the prescription once a day and you'll never get one of the diseases mentioned above.
Or pellagra or schistosomiasis, either.
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LaraMN
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:07 PM
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10. Yeah, but I do that like every other night. |
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Screwdrivers and fuzzy navels. mmmm. So, theoretically, I shouldn't even be getting sick IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! :mad:
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:05 PM
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8. Double shot of medicinal whiskey, then go to bed. |
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My 78-yr-old Mom Swears by this, along with Coriciden for early cold symptoms. She is not ordinarily a medicine-taker, either.
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:08 PM
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12. Possibly "My Defense". Use your google key. |
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:21 PM
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15. I just thought something, |
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the title of this thread could be copycatted in such a way as to be instantly locked.
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Fri Sep-16-05 08:25 PM
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17. Uh, quick! Drink a bottle of booze! You'll still be sick, but... |
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