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posted by [personal profile] devohoneybee at 09:01am on 13/05/2010
Folks, I have a chest cold. And the coughing is making my throat sore, but I am loath to use the usual sort of drops because they either have sugar in them, or honey, both of which trigger candida issues for me, or aspartame, which can trigger a migraine. What I stumbled on is this:

Refrigerate a suger-free apple sauce cup. Take several capsules of slippery elm and open them, then stir the powder into the apple sauce. The slippery elm is a time-honored soothing herb for throat and the whole GI tract (singers use lozenges made from it), and the cool apple sauce is tasty and soothing. Use a spoonful after each coughing fit (or whenever the throat starts stinging), and let it glide down your throat. Yummy and nice!

(going to doctor today -- this has gone on long enough. I'll probably have to get over my resistance to inhalers...)
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posted by [personal profile] brightfame at 05:41pm on 13/05/2010
Hey, get better soon, hear?

(I would only have been able to prescribe lime, honey and rum, which would not have been helpful to you :( )
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posted by [personal profile] devohoneybee at 08:41pm on 13/05/2010
ah, sounds tasty, though! but nah, would create other problems, alas.
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posted by [personal profile] lferion at 06:24pm on 13/05/2010
I've been pretty happy with Throat Coat tea (Traditional Medicinals), and I know a number of singers use it on general principles.

I do hope you are feeling better soon!
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posted by [personal profile] devohoneybee at 08:40pm on 13/05/2010
Yup, I'm using that too, which has slippery elm in it, which made me think of going for a more direct version. And thanks for the good wishes!
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posted by [personal profile] dragonfly at 03:09am on 14/05/2010
I adore aspergum for a sore throat. I don't know why it works for me so well, but it seems to give me almost instant relief. ("instant relief" I sound like a commercial)

::sending healing energy::
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posted by [personal profile] devohoneybee at 03:14am on 14/05/2010
::sending healing energy::

thank you!

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