Going back to nature for cold, flu remedies

It starts with a sneeze. Then there’s a tickle in the back of your throat.

Right after lunch you just can’t seem to keep your eyes open, and are doing that annoying head-bobbing thing at your desk.

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That night you fall asleep during an episode of your favorite television show, but you still haven’t put two and two together yet.

Then your mother comes over and the first words out of her mouth include: “Are you getting sick? You look awful.”

At least that’s how it goes for me.

And ya know, I’m never really sure if I am getting sick or if my mother’s power of suggestion is really that good, but either way, at least once a year I seem to come down with some combination of cold/cough/flu/sinus/laryngitis bug that has me running to the drug store for, well, drugs.

Not this year. This year I’m going more holistic.

I mean, it’s not like years ago. Back then, things were so much easier. You had your aspirin, your Sucrets, some kind of liquid elixir laced with alcohol and my Uncle Vito’s “cure-all” enemas. These days, what was once confined to a quarter of one shelf takes up both sides of several aisles — and comes in drowsy and non-drowsy formula.

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This season I’m going rogue. I’m going to try things the old-fashioned way — treating things the way our grandparents did — although, in this case, maybe not the way my grandmother did, who felt a shot of whisky always did the trick.

Back in her day she might have been able to get away with it as holistic — after all the ingredient list is all natural: corn, rye, barley, malt, yeast and water.

When I was growing up and was living with gramma she was slightly more sensitive to my age and never gave me “a shot.” She mixed it with 7-up. All I can say is that it did make me feel better and tasted way better than most other remedies of the time.

These days she’d probably be arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Aside from the alcohol, I do believe that the old-world cures our grandparents and great-grandparents swore by are probably still the best way to go. And though I could just go to the Internet and “Google it,” I decided to ask random people at Upland’s Brunswick Zone Wednesday night, how their elders treated various ailments.

To combat congestion, a tip Maria Frias got from her elders was that right after a warm shower slather Vicks VapoRub on the bottom of your feet and cover them with socks.

Anna Frias, Maria’s grandmother-in-law, said her father used potato slices as a fever reducer.

“My father would peel and slice a raw potato and put the slices on my forehead, then put a towel over the slices. The potato slices would absorb the fever. You could actually see the edges of the potatoes cook.”

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Steve Hastings said when he had strep throat his doctor told him to eat Popsicles — one of the more pleasant remedies.

“The syrup coats the throat and the cool numbs the pain,” Steve said. “I eat them every time I have a sore throat and they always make it feel better.”

I do understand that this tip didn’t come handed down, but Steve does wear T-shirts that read, “Old Guys Rule” so I’m saying he’s starting this tradition in his own right.

In Sandy Cluster’s family onions are the key to fight colds. Sandy said to place a half an onion on your chest and it will draw out the cold. Just putting it in the room will absorb the germs in the air, she said.

Juliet Orozco, whose family emigrated from Chihuahua, Mexico, said her grandmother used Monsonia, a plant, in liquid form to thwart off ear aches and congestion. Two warm drops in each ear will soothe the pain or two warm drops up the nose will clear the sinuses in about two days, she said.

Never hearing of this plant/herb before I did Google it and though it didn’t mention Juliet’s grandmother’s unique uses, botanical.com did say it is “a valuable remedy for acute and chronic dysentery, specially of use in ulceration of the lower part of the intestines.” Very multi-use.

Here’s a remedy sent to me by one of my Facebook friends — an actual recipe to tackle sore throats and chest colds: two lemons cleaned and sliced, two pieces of ginger about the size of your pointer finger and middle finger together sliced into coin size pieces, and about a cup of honey.

In a 12-16 oz. jar combine lemon slices and sliced ginger. Pour honey over it slowly letting the honey sink down, around and covering the lemon and ginger slices. Close jar and put it in the fridge, it will form into a “jelly.” To serve: Spoon jelly into mug and pour boiling water over it. Stores in fridge 2-3 months.

Through my research I have found many interesting and potentially helpful remedies but, hey, who am I to ignore my own family traditions, so in memory of gramma, the next time I get that old feeling this winter I think I’ll do my cold and flu shopping at BevMo.

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