ideas?

[elmstreetbaby.livejournal.com]

I am home sick and it's raining (boo!). Does anyone have any good homemade cold remedies to offer? I don't want to walk to Starmarket in the rain, and I have no chicken soup here.

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[tisana.livejournal.com]

Depends on the kind of sick. Stuffed noses and general congestion get a lovely treatment of something with lots of capsaicin--hot pepper, baby. Chicken soup, usually--adding cayenne, chili peppers, maybe wasabi or black pepper for good measure. Clears you right up for a bit. Maybe you could add it to something else, though?

Another favorite, if you feel yourself starting to get a sore throat (and this does sound unpleasant, but isn't really that bad): pour yourself some orange juice, and sprinkle cayenne pepper on it until you get a thin layer covering the top. Toss it back like it's a shot. Not sure what the hell it does, but it seems to help.