flitterbit wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> I feel like shit. I may have about ten minutes, here, before I have to
>> go back to bed. Can't sleep, but don't have the energy to do anything
>> else, either -- not even read. (And that just kills me.) So I've been
>> flashing back to little home remedies from growing up in the 1950s...
>>
>> I think sometimes Mom would give me small amounts of what I remember as
>> a weak solution of sugar in water. Ever heard of that?
>>
>> Burnt Toast: I distinctly remember Mom burning a slice of toast and
>> scraping the ashes into a glass of water. I guess this was to settle a
>> stomach (the charcoal or whateveer) -- probably more from acid upset
>> than from feeling urpy.
>>
>> Liquid Jell-O. I guess that was a variant on sugar water; it's not like
>> there was sugar-free Jell-0 in 1953.
>>
>>
> Sorry you're feeling poorly; is it some kind of flu? I had a bout of that
> at Christmas and spent Christmas Day in bed with a fever of 102 -- such
> fun!
>
> When we were little, for nausea, Mom used to give us flat gingerale, and
> if that stayed put, a half orange to suck on. The flat gingerale may very
> well be an analogue of your mom's sugar water remedy. For chest colds,
> Vicks Vaporub on the back and chest.

God, how I hated Vicks. Felt awful, and that tee shirt all gooey with it
and stuck to my chest and back made it ten times as awful.


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