During the ongoing battle against sore-throatness ...
I came across many odd suggestions (those on the list weren't odd; those I
found online, samples below, often were).
Vick's Vaporub, fondly remembered from childhood. Rub on throat and bind
with scarf; sounds good to me, and I'll try it since I wear scarfs anyway.
But there's a weird subset of the VVR scheme: *eat* a bit of the stuff. No
thanks.
Tumeric!
Tumeric and ginger!
Urine therapy. (You look it up.)
I like this one, 'specially because the Orthodox church is in the middle of
Great Lent, when if I were really serious I'd eat nothing but boiled
vegetables and bread made with only wheat, water, yeast, and salt; and
drink only water. (I do try to go vegan for the 6 weeks, but booze is
vegan, in my book.)
Eat ice cream. Any kind of ice cream product is fine. The most effective
may be a milkshake. No magic principles here. The cold also soothes the
inflamed tissue, easing the pain. It's a great excuse to eat lots of ice
cream!
The current professional wisdom is that flu and colds are caused by viruses
and that exposure to cold and damp and so on makes no difference *in se*.
Bullsh*t. I believe that this is an instance of "science" seeing only what
it's blinkers allow it to see. At any rate, it does not correspond to my
own experience, or that of, apparently, centuries of others' experience,
which shows exposure to damp and cold leading to colds and flu. (I think
that a great deal of what is asserted as "science" is simply blinkered
conventional biases; but be that as it may. Read Kuhn, read Duhem, read
Eddington ("What my net cannot catch isn't fish"), and other intelligent
philosophers of science.)
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