John had a bad cold this past week. It was bordering on "man flu," we weren't sure he was going to live through the night, you know how that story goes. (Actually, he really was quite sick.)
To try to help him feel just a wee bit better, I made several cups of soothing lemon honey: freshly squeezed juice from 2 or so lemons, a big spoonful of honey (in this case my special Happy Sheep Manuka Lemon Honey), and hot water.
John remembers his mum making this for him when he was sick, and he queried if we did the same in the USA. My family did not make this remedy at all. If we were sick to our stomachs we had Coca Cola (how American is that?), but nothing specific for colds and flu when I was young. As an adult I remember drinking lots of fresh orange juice. Some people swear by chicken soup.
Which led us into a discussion about when the benefits of Vitamin C were actually publicized. The name Linus Pauling bubbled into my memory banks, but I couldn't remember exactly when. (He published "Vitamin C and The Common Cold" in 1970.)
Seems that this home remedy of well ahead of Linus. Of course John says that his mum always knew best!
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