It has been a while since my last post, but I do have a reason for at least a few of those days. Saturday, as most of you know, was the local home auction extravaganza where we did not actually get the house we bid on. It was a fascinating process, though, and an introduction to the whole world of auctions as a way of life, livelihood and live entertainment. But I digress.
For whatever reason, I got sick on Sunday and it was pretty scarily bad on Monday. As in "I felt like this when I got pneumonia 4 years ago" bad. Mucinex wasn't touching it. And with no fever (yet!) there wasn't much a Dr. could do. I needed some serious get-this-crap-out-of-my-head-and-chest kind of stuff.
Fortunately, I had some. I had about 8 coffee cups of "tea" yesterday made from marshmallow root, hyssop, licorice root and hibiscus flowers. The marshmallow and hyssop are good expectorants. The licorice root is good for my allergic/histamine reactions. The hibiscus has tons of Vitamin C and ｔａｓｔｅｓ ｌｉｋｅ tangy goodness.
And I feel pretty good today. Not ready to run a marathon - or even hit the elliptical at the gym. But I didn't need a nap after every thing I do now. So, just in case you're wondering, yes there is something you can do between the OTC stuff not working and the Dr. having to give you antibiotics. Bronchitis tea. Who knew?
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So do you have a recipe or did you just pull together the things you know work? Your dad has been/is sick too. He is definitely better, but you should hear his voicemail message. It's hilarious - or would be if it weren't so very pitiful!
I just kind of put together some stuff that I knew worked. I use my french press that makes 2 big coffee cups worth of tea.
1) I put about 4 T of marshmallow root and 2 T of licorice root in the bottom of it and pour water over it.
2) I heat the water in the microwave with the roots in the bottom. (If I had a tea kettle, I'd boil water in that and then pour it over the roots, but I make do.)
3) I then add 1-2 T of hyssop and a few hibiscus flowers and let that steep for a while.
It works AMAZINGLY well. CAN'T believe it! You could do the ingredients in a tea ball - just steep the roots longer than the leaves/flowers to get the good stuff out of the roots.
Glad you are feeling better! No fun being ill...
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