Every year around this time of year sickness breaks out in school and more noticeably in band. You're out of that field and at times all you can hear is sniffling, coughing, and sneezing. My fellow flutes talking about all the cold medicine they had this morning, and how many tissues they've used, not exactly pretty. On Monday I could feel something coming on, by Tuesday at the end of band practice, I was really tired, came home and simply rested for an hour, something I haven't done in a while. Usually when I get a cold I avoid the traditional American cold medicines and take my mum's favorite Aruvedic remedy a paste of turmeric and honey. The stuff works, for you have to take it six times a day and it tastes disgusting x100. When I told my mum she had better do something for me Tuesday night she made me take this new remedy she has. The name is really long I don't feel like spelling it all out, but it's basically a paste of healing herbs and plants, with Cinnamon sugar, and honey. I can't say it tastes good, but immediately after taking a spoon tip of it I felt better.
Also I have been doing the traditional Vedic netti pot. Basically (I'm sorry if this sounds totally gross) you use the "pot" to pour light salt water up one nostril and down the other. What it does is totally clear the sinuses. After three days of taking the paste twice a day and doing the netti pot every morning I am all better! Just three days, when normally I would have had a cold for weeks.
So not to bore you all with my details of strange medicines I wanted to just state again how the vedic tradition has so many hidden sciences that most of the world doesn't know about and then just suffers. While just by taking a simple concoction and pouring saltwater in my nose I am all better. Hope you enjoy reading many more posts soon!
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