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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Update on my cold: Chicken soup (with a full head of garlic, I brought out the big guns) had no noticeable effects, though it was tasty, and I'll try again tonight. Voice bears no resemblance to a normal person's voice. Nyquil continues to keep me from drowning in my own lungs at night. Previously thought it was impossible to cough this much.
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I have had that dreadful cold for the past two weeks (it keeps lingering, but started off as you describe complete with eyeball pain). Now all I have is a cough, but it's a nasty one. My voice still keeps coming and going. Argh. Actually, if you want to know, my home remedy tonic made it a lot better:
1 head garlic
2 red hot chile peppers (non-musical kind)
2 inches horseradish root
2 inches ginger
1 white onion
apple cider vinegar (unpasterized if you can get it)
peel and put everything in a blender. Cover with apple cider vinegar and puree. Take two teaspoons right away (swirl in mouth and swallow). continue to take two teaspoons at night and in the morning until tonic is finished. You don't have to refrigerate it, just keep it in a glass jar.
It's utterly foul and the first time you take it, you might want to throw up (I didn't, but some do). Sit down the first time you take it. It seemed to work very well for me, though, at turning abject misery into just a lingering annoyance.
Oh: and miso soup. I've been living on the stuff. Dee-licious.
