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  Home remedies

  If you recall, my recipe for cold relief posted on the 'Can you help' topic contained cayenne pepper. (among other things).

  Posted 21 Mar 07

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  Ribena drinkers anyone?

  I have a recipe for making Ribena wine.

  Posted 28 Mar 07

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  Can you help?

  This is an old one that I have used for many years.

  2 Crushed cloves of garlic.

  ½ tsp ground ginger.

  Pinch of cayenne pepper.

  1 tble spoon honey.

  Juice of 1 lemon.

  Part of the lemon rind. (grated)

  Boiling water.

  Place all the ingredient's in a mug and pour over hot water, and drink as hot as possible. (preferably at bed time)

  This will make you sweat, so in cold weather keep yourself warm.

  The theory behind it is, that the Garlic has an antibiotic effect, the ginger soothes the stomach, the cayenne acts as a thereputic dose of vitamin C, whilst the lemon and honey act to soothe the inflamed membranes of the nose and throat.

  It's an old one but it works for me.

  No doubt you could use fresh ingredients, ie, fresh ginger, and chilli. I have been meaning to try it with the fresh ingredients but have never got around to it.   Anyway when you are sick you don't feel like shopping, and most homes would have ground ginger and cayenne.

  This has a very interesting, (but not unpleasant) taste to it.

  Posted 13 Mar 07

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  Cocoa

  Yeah that's right, remove the good bits and leave the crap behind.

  Posted 12 Mar 07

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  Lemon Grass

  I used to have a huge clump of lemon grass growing in my garden, but one day my mother in law (who was visiting) thought it was just ordinary rhodes grass, and dug it out and put it in the compost bin.  By the time I discovered what had happened the grass had died.

  Posted 12 Mar 07

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  Vitamins increase health risk

  incredibly expensive vitamins and supplements are worth their weight in gold?

  Because they are! .......(well they are to those really nice people)

  Posted 07 Mar 07

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  cholesterol

  Well as you probably know, there are both good and bad types of Cholesterol......

  What does 'good' and 'bad' cholesterol mean?
  Cholesterol, like fat, cannot move around the body in the blood on its own. That's because fat does not mix with water, the major ingredient of blood. So it hitches a ride with some proteins, called lipoproteins.

  There are several types of lipoproteins: very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL); low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL).

  VLDLs are made in the liver and their job is to carry fats to different parts of the body. Once they drop off some of their fat load, they become LDLs, which carry the remaining cholesterol around the body. LDL has been dubbed the ‘bad’ cholesterol, and it's important to have low levels of low-density lipoprotein.

  HDL, on the other hand, carries cholesterol back to the liver. It is therefore called ‘good’ cholesterol, and you want to have high levels of high-density lipoprotein in your blood as a kind of cholesterol police, picking up the bad cholesterol.

   

  Posted 25 Feb 07

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  The bottle of "wow" gathering dust

   Never used Arnica pills, all I know is that arnica is a made from the yellow (daisy like) flowers and roots of the plant. (I think it is a native of Canada).

   We used to use tincture of arnica for bruises etc, and I remember that it had to be well diluted before we used it, as it was very strong.

   I have no experience with it being taken internally.

  Posted 19 Feb 07

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  Omega 3

   I have heard about the mercury problem with large fish.

  Posted 15 Feb 07

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  Edamame

   WHAT'S THAT ??................I CANT HEAR YOU!!

  Posted 14 Feb 07