I love McBride’s book. In my kitchen right now are several items from her recipes: sauté ghee, baking ghee, turmeric honey, winter colds paste, and chai honey. Thanks for sharing this mix and the background details.
Can you add horseradish and garlic to this list of effective remedies (somewhere, somehow), but maybe not to your 'snot tea' mix?
When my sinuses get irritated, I can frequently improve things by reaching for the horseradish. Garlic oil is also very beneficial.
I have found irrigating sinuses to be very useful in addressing upper respiratory inflammation. It's amazing how many "colds" are really caused by an irritating bit of dust or fur rather than a virus, and how fast that irritation resolves once the irritant has been removed.
Yaaa, like wasabi, the horseradish tends to get things flowing. 👍 We don't have a list of cold remedies, but are mostly dedicated to posting weed by weed, helping people to find good stuff right where they live.
We're sort of breaking out of routine with some variety for the season, since in our latitude the weeds are small or dormant in winter.
I need it! I got one hell of an allergy to something during my 3 day trip up in the Australian Alps! But just about everything was flowering so I can't narrow it down to anything!
Wow! It might even be non-specific pollen overload. We get that sometimes in the growing seasons. Massive tree pollen will do it. Cough and runny nose due to sheer bulk of pollen.
You know what, when we came back to Sydney my wife had cravings for Thai. So we ordered a penang curry and my favourite, pad kee mao. The latter dish had no less than four (4) strings of green peppercorns in it which I normally throw out. But having read your recipe just the day before, I decided to eat them all, probably 100+ green peppercorns! My wife was yelling at me, "Are those edible?!" And today my nose irritation is very greatly reduced! Thanks so much!
A bit of chili powder adds to the warming effect and the capsaicin also has an immediate reaction in the sinuses.
Yaaa, quadruple heat, and some drainage.
I love McBride’s book. In my kitchen right now are several items from her recipes: sauté ghee, baking ghee, turmeric honey, winter colds paste, and chai honey. Thanks for sharing this mix and the background details.
Glad you liked it. This was a fun article to do since I like that snot tea, and so does the neighborhood. :-D
Can you add horseradish and garlic to this list of effective remedies (somewhere, somehow), but maybe not to your 'snot tea' mix?
When my sinuses get irritated, I can frequently improve things by reaching for the horseradish. Garlic oil is also very beneficial.
I have found irrigating sinuses to be very useful in addressing upper respiratory inflammation. It's amazing how many "colds" are really caused by an irritating bit of dust or fur rather than a virus, and how fast that irritation resolves once the irritant has been removed.
Yaaa, like wasabi, the horseradish tends to get things flowing. 👍 We don't have a list of cold remedies, but are mostly dedicated to posting weed by weed, helping people to find good stuff right where they live.
We're sort of breaking out of routine with some variety for the season, since in our latitude the weeds are small or dormant in winter.
I need it! I got one hell of an allergy to something during my 3 day trip up in the Australian Alps! But just about everything was flowering so I can't narrow it down to anything!
Wow! It might even be non-specific pollen overload. We get that sometimes in the growing seasons. Massive tree pollen will do it. Cough and runny nose due to sheer bulk of pollen.
Raid the spice cabinet :-D (misplaced this reply)
You know what, when we came back to Sydney my wife had cravings for Thai. So we ordered a penang curry and my favourite, pad kee mao. The latter dish had no less than four (4) strings of green peppercorns in it which I normally throw out. But having read your recipe just the day before, I decided to eat them all, probably 100+ green peppercorns! My wife was yelling at me, "Are those edible?!" And today my nose irritation is very greatly reduced! Thanks so much!
Can't think of a better way to address the nasal symptoms than Thai food. I recently tried a string of green peppercorns for the first time. Amazing!