Crappy Cold

I have come down with a doozy of a cold today. It's amazing how it just gradually comes on, throughout the day, until finally it is a full-fledged snotzy cold. I feel gross. Of course I am nursing and can't take any good meds for it, so I went surfin to see what I could find in the way of help. You won't believe what kind of crazy advice is out there!

1. Garlic juice made by adding few drops of garlic oil to a teaspoonful of onion juice and dilute it in a cup of water (ewwwww)

2. Ginger tea or a teaspoonful of ginger juice taken with equal quantity of honey. (ewwww again)

3. Slice some onions and then make them into a necklace (this is DEFINITELY not happening)

4. The roots of the bitter gourd plant are used in folk medicine to cure a cold. A teaspoon of the root paste, mixed with an equal quantity of honey or tulsi leaf juice, given once every night for a month, acts as an excellent medicine for colds.
It actually says for a MONTH! Obviously this one is a dud.

I didn't find anything especially useful. I did learn some other "tricks" though. Like, taking the skin/membrane from eggshells and applying them wet side down around toes will cure an ingrown toenail. And if a baby has hiccups, take a piece of red thread (it must be red) and wad it up in your mouth and put it on the baby's forehead. This will absolutely make the baby's hiccups stop. But only BABY hiccups. And for a headache, take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. (Hey, if nothing else you will smell yummy!) And I won't even mention what they want you do do with a tampon for a yeast infection. I don't think so!!

All I have to say is the dudes who thought these up, those are some gifted bums.