Comments on: 4 Anti-Cold Cocktails That Work: From Ancient China to German Alcoholics and Modern Labs

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:01:57 +0000

[...] I thought, “what would Tim Ferris do?” and guess what? He has a post on his blog about 4 anti-common cold cocktails. Tim Ferris is a “life hacker” who I greatly respect. His suggestion… an ancient [...]

By: Linda Allen

Linda Allen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:45:51 +0000

I have found that if you have a strong immune system you don’t have to worry about colds and other viruses. I have not been sick in forever, I eat super healthy, vegan, lots of veggies especially greens and take herbs from the rainforest.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:11:17 +0000

This is a very interesting post — although I’m sure I’m coming to the party pretty late on this post.

I do appreciate the fact that some of the folks here reference some of the Traditional Chinese Medicine from their own experience as either a practitioner or as a user of TCM. It is interesting to point out, however, that in reality as someone mentioned – there are different TYPES of cold diagnoses in TCM – Heat invasion, Cold invasion – and sometimes both can occur. Heat typically is observed as sore throat, scratchy eyes, thick mucous. Cold invasion is typically body aches, thin mucous, possibly chills. The treatments in TCM are different; in Western medicine they might tend to treat them the same way.

Certainly, I respect the info in the post and will likely try that if I have the need. I do wish that this country would open up a bit in terms of acceptance that there are other forms of treatment other than antibiotics or pharmaceuticals. And I believe someone rightly mentioned that there really is no incentive in this country for the drug companies to do research on the age old “medicine” from China or elsewhere, because they can’t be patented and therefore there is no incentive. Doesn’t mean that it is all bad, but it is unfortunate that we don’t offer on a wider scale more accepted opinions, experience and learning of things ancient cultures have approached for more than a few thousand years. Not perfect, no doubt – but maybe there are some better things for our bodies than antibiotics for everything. Thankfully, some excellent MD’s avoid the overuse of the antibiotics as well.

An open mind is a great thing!

By: Alice Norris

Alice Norris — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:03:03 +0000

I just heard something about putting a bit of peroxide in each ear at the first sign of illness… anyone tried it?

By: Alice Norris

Alice Norris — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:01:40 +0000

I brewed my own, which is really quite disgusting. Kombucha tastes a bit like beer. I hated that. I used apple juice or ginger ale to cut the taste of it.

I was taking it in hopes of obtaining some relief from Fibromyalgia. I did not notice much difference while on it, so it was discontinued.

I’ve heard stories of folks whose hair started to regain it’s youthful color while they were taking it.

I might try one of the conventional brews rather than brewing my own if doing it again, but wow, you’ve just always got to filter that stuff! It’s always growing, and my tummy can’t handle too much nastiness.

The strong taste of ginger and orange is one thing, the texture of a fungus is a horse of a different color (reference from The Wizard of Oz).