I must try this one the next time i´m making my porridge.

This thread would be perfect for my mother. She believes very strongly in natural ingredients. She has given my sister and I echinacea also for colds, and garlic, and vitamin C. Garlic is suppose to lower blood pressure in addition to its other benefits.

Speaking of lemon and honey in tea, that was another remedy my mother gave us when we were sick as children (plus a shot of whiskey inside too). Needless to say, at the first sign of a scratchy throat, my sister and I were asking for a "hot toddy"

 When I was pregnant with my third child I had a mid-wife and did only herbal medicines as I was trying everything to avoid having another developmentally delayed child due to the illness which led to nutritional deficency in my previous pregnancy. I followed the Bradley birth plan for this method. I highly recommend it! Anyway, I developed pneumonia early in the pregnacy. My doctor and mid-wife colaborated on treatment and gave me capsules of Cyanne for the lung congestion! The only problem was when the obligitory morning sickness came around there are very few things more painful than vomiting a dissolved capsule of full strength cayanne pepper! To combat this heat, my mid-wife suggested small sips (not enough to cause harm) of light beer! The cold and the alcohol would numb the throat and the hops would make the nausea go away (as would the little carbonated drink). Boy that´s a sight! A pregnant woman with a beer hanging over the toilet! !!! Not something I ever want to repeat. But I have to say that the Cayanne I could keep down did work on those lungs!

Be Well!

Susan (Suzee to my Turkish Friends! )