This weekend wasn’t as planned! Definitely wasn’t! So… as you might know, we wanted to start our first small travel trailer trip to visit my mom. We didn’t! Why? Girls were ill but getting better (on Friday morning). So we thought that we will go… We tried our caravans Truma gas heating system for the first time and we end up with travel trailer full of smoke and burning smell! It was late night already, so we decide to turn off the heating system and check everything in the next day. But then I start to sneeze and cough… felt tired and chills shower up (on Friday evening). Girls got a temperature (again!) and we have to say “NO!” to our plans for the weekend.
I woke up today (Monday) feeling a bit better. I guess it’s a virus that caught us! My favorite all natural remedies for such cases are:
- ginger root
- garlic
- honey
- warm milk with honey
- herbal teas: yarrow, cowslip, lime blossom, chamomile, and garden mint
- local berries: cranberries, blackberries, raspberries (from the freezer)
As the spring comes my tea jars are getting empty! We use herbal tea every day… and that means, that this summer I have to collect more.
Ilze
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Sorry to hear about the turn of events. Get well soon. All of you.
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Thank you, Jodi! Actually, that night it was -3C it is way to cold for camper van. brr! I’m kind of glad we stayed at home! 🙂
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Too bad; luck for next time..
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Thank you! I hope it will be soon!
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Hope you all feel better soon, and can get on the road. :>)
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Thank you!
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Oh sorry to hear about the trouble with the things.. oh Yes I do trust on natural remedies 👍🏼
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It works for us 🙂
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What teas do you have in your jars??
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In these two: yarrow and cowslip… or what’s left of… 🙂 Do you like herbal tea?
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Yes, but I’ve never picked my own! Have sat down with a camomile concotion tonight. Yarrow sounds intetesting
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Latin for yarrow is Achillea. When fever is building, it (as a tea) can help it to break by relaxing the circulation and the pores of the skin, allowing us to sweat freely and ridding the body of infection. I wish I knew more about old Latvian medicine. But there is few things I know and one is yarrow is good 🙂
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I think you should do a post on teas. I like trying different ones
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What a good idea! I hope I find time for that. Still need to find out about herbal infusions and teas from old and vise relatives.
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Have these worked?
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Still having a Cough but it’s not dry anymore. Now I’m drinking cowslip tea to get mucus out and lots of other fluid. I can say – yes!
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We are going to have to find this cowslip tea because if it works with the mucus it will be a God send.
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I hope it’s called mucus!!! Look in the internet: “cowslip herbal tea” or other, yarrow for example.
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Okay.
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