Cold Cure

I just have to start by saying how much I am enjoying my life out here. I got a clothesline put up and through a weekend full of laundry I only used the dryer twice. 

We picked close to twenty squash and zucchini last night and have been picking peppers all weekend. Get ready for some canning posts. 

I am also really enjoying my chickens that we have and am getting 6-8 eggs a week. 

 

Now living out here in the boonies has its price. My allergies hit me hard this weekend, hard, I felt loopy and like I was drugged up on muscle relaxers or something. And it was turning into a head cold.
Now us mommies just can't afford the time and energy to be sick or to be stuffy and loopy headed. I have had errand after errand it seems and have had to take the kids along with. I'm worn to a frazzle.
So I needed to find a quick solution.
Of course it was Pinterest where I found my answer, using 4 basic kitchen ingredients.
Honey
Apple cider vinegar
Cayenne
Ginger
Now, the blog I got this from stated that the flavor wasn't bad.... Maybe we have different tastes, because I won't lie, it tasted like spicy vomit. I was able to keep it down, after chasing with Gatorade to rid of the taste and put out the fire on my mouth. I swore to Hubs that it better work, with as bad as it was.
I will add that I took another dose today. Within 30 minutes I felt better! It tastes rough, but it works and works quick. Today I chased it with some sweet tea and the flavor didn't linger. So for those few stuffy headed foggy seconds, chug your tablespoon of this firey elixir and chase it with several swallers of something good and prepare to feel better.  It's well worth it.

 

Cold fighting elixir
Dissolve: 2 tablespoons water with 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne.
Stir in one tablespoon of honey. Take 1 tablespoon as needed.
I keep mine refrigerated, remember to shake well before each dose.

If your case is severe and getting to your sinuses, but you don't have time to see the doctor for some antibiotics, here's a great natural medicine!
1 minced/graded clove of garlic (raw is necessary)
1 tblsp of honey (raw is best, but not necessary)
I would much rather take this than the elixir, but it really helps! Honey is nature's antibiotic, as well as many other things.  Now, it's spicy.  That much garlic is firey, but I promise it's not as bad as the cayenne recipe.  The honey helps masks the garlic pretty well, so it's just like spicy honey.  I had really bad sinusitis that led to an infection while I was pregnant with Peanut, 2 doses of the garlic knocked it out! It's also an anti-inflammatory, which I desperately needed since you can't really take any OVC like ibuprofen during the 3rd trimester. 

Feel well soon!

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

James 5:15