Ray

No ..that just a sore throat ...

Kaffy Mintcake

Jerseygirl

if it's that bad you'd better get yourself to the ER!!

Kaffy Mintcake

Don't mind me - I'm just whining and having a go at Ray. I wish whoever had been sick at the office had just stayed home. Oh well.

JG - your remedy isn't bad - I wonder if the lemon or the honey is the active ingredient.

snowbunny

Hi KJ,

It's the honey coating the throat that soothes the most:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sor...26/DSECTION=10

I've mentioned this before, but my mother the good Southern Baptist would sneak into a liquor store to buy whisky to make my brother the lemon, honey and whisky cough syrup our pediatrician recommended.

Oh, and I was kidding about the Oxycontin -- though Rush Limbaugh recommends it! If your sore throat is that painful, it's probably strep and you should see a doctor. To me, strep throat feels like I'm gargling shards of glass.

cindyabs

A friend of mine was telling me about this remedy a few weeks ago-take a clove of garlic peel it and stick it on your tongue, bite on it, but don't chew it, just keep it on your tongue for as long as you can stand it. Supposedly there are things in the garlic which are a natural antibiotic?

snowbunny

If it can repel vampires I reckon it'd chase off the bacteria as well as all humans who might come close!

cindyabs

That's what I thought, but remember in a Tree Grows in Brooklyn Katie washed the kids' hair with kerosene to kill nits and put garlic or camphor or something in bags to wear around their neck to ward off colds.

snowbunny

It was garlic.

I realised yesterday that I'd read my grandmother's Reader's Digest Condensed Book version of ATGIB.... meaning I now need to go back and read my daughter's full edition copy. However:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/brooklyn/section6.rhtml

has excellent and free summaries of each chapter.

Tarkak9

It may be out of print in the US (can't be bothered to check) but if you can find a copy:

The Kitchen Pharmacy - Rose Elliot

It been years since so I can't recall what it had in the book but it would have home made remedies for common ailments etc.

dunroving

Gargle with warm salty water (cheap and easy) or

Put a couple of drops of tea tree oil on a zinc lozenge