home remedies

[lurch70]

so they say if you wake up or have heardburn/acid reflux you should stay away from tomatoes/sauce/pizza, etc. as well as acidy things like orange juice.

I beg to differ ... in the morning when i wake up with bad heartburn, I drink a glass oj OJ and it burns like a mother for like 10 seconds, but then ... pooof ... the heartburn is gone, almost instantly and for good ... I am talking like weeks sometimes.

was watching some stuff the other morning on tv about some of these hearburn/reflux meds that basically said that those meds are actually doing the opposite to your system then what we think. basically to have you hooked on them.

anyone else have some natural remedy tips?

 

[lizard]

when you start feeling a cold coming on, periodic sniffles, the ever so slight soreness in your throat, take a tablespoon of hot salsa and let it sit in the back of your throat for ten or fifteen seconds before swallowing.

and I'm not talking about those insane salsa with names like Bowel Blaster either.

if you nip it before it starts settling into your lungs, you'll stave off the cold. I talked to a nurse about this once and she said its because of the capsacin (sp) level in the hotter peppers.

 

[MFJ]

OJ gives me fierce heartburn...

 

[NAD]

If I feel a cold coming on, I just down a shitload of vitamin C and it usually goes away.

I've been sick all week for the first time in a long time, guess who didn't chug vitamin C tablets when his throat felt a little funny last Saturday?!?!?! :Smug:

 

[Hell Mike]

Just think "BAH what the fucking hell I'm no fucking wimp for fuck's sake" and don't let whatever it is bother you until it's gone. Or have mommy bring you lots of tasty stuff and watch cartoons all day.

 

[lizard]

see that's the thing, they tell us there's no cure for the common cold, but there are definitely things you can do to lessen or even prevent them.

the last time I had a cold (let it get to far before I tried the salsa trick) I bought a box of this homeopathic shit

and it really works. comes in spray and nasal swabs.

 

[lurch70]

OJ gives me fierce heartburn...

that is what's funny ... it gives me too after you drink it ... but once it goes down ... literally relief.

this guy on TV was saying you can cure ... yes cure ... heartburn by drinking about a tablespoon of vinegar a day for about 2 weeks.

supposedely when you feel heartburn, it is not too much acid in your body but a lack of it, meds kill it completely ... and actually when you feel better when taking meds is not from the meds but rather when your system gives you a normal resupply of acid, when it feels it's deficient.

i don't know, but freaking OJ works for me.

 

[lurch70]

see that's the thing, they tell us there's no cure for the common cold, but there are definitely things you can do to lessen or even prevent them.

the last time I had a cold (let it get to far before I tried the salsa trick) I bought a box of this homeopathic shit

and it really works. comes in spray and nasal swabs.

heard good things about this ZICAM stuff also ... this chick I know swears by it.

 

[lizard]

I was dubious 'cause you know how advertising is, but I used the spray, and it doesn't leak into your mouth with a shitty taste like most nasal cold sprays...and my symptoms really lightened up.

 

[J.]

NAD stole mine. I was gonna say drink a shitload of orange juice if you've got a cold.

I rarely get heartburn (mostly because I don't eat a lot of crap food), but man I had a bowl of chili a few weeks ago and it killed me with damn heartburn, and I didn't know how to treat it. So I just stuck it out like the fucking man that I am.

Generally, I hate medicines. Just deal.

 

[NAD]

this guy on TV was saying you can cure ... yes cure ... heartburn by drinking about a tablespoon of vinegar a day for about 2 weeks.

supposedely when you feel heartburn, it is not too much acid in your body but a lack of it, meds kill it completely ... and actually when you feel better when taking meds is not from the meds but rather when your system gives you a normal resupply of acid, when it feels it's deficient.

That sounds really weird, but worth looking into since I've been on acid reflux pills for like 6 years now.

 

[lizard]

they say you can take too much vitamin C but Linus Pauling took mega doses and lived to be 93, and he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, so the dude was shit smart.

ref acid reflux, papaya enzyme is supposed to be the fix. you can buy it in pill form so you don't haveta be walkin around chowing on papayas all day.

 

[NAD]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm papayas.......

 

[lurch70]

That sounds really weird, but worth looking into since I've been on acid reflux pills for like 6 years now.

yes, i was taking them for awhile also ... and never made me feel better besides the temp relief.

gave up coffee, pizza, oj ... all the shit they tell you to give up when the diagnose you with it.

then a few years ago, i was craving OJ and had it ... and it made the heartburn go away.
giving up smoking helped as well.

meds ... basically they are there to hook you.

ever wonder why the F D A is one organization?

 

[Chromatose]

they say you can take too much vitamin C but Linus Pauling took mega doses and lived to be 93, and he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, so the dude was shit smart.

ref acid reflux, papaya enzyme is supposed to be the fix. you can buy it in pill form so you don't haveta be walkin around chowing on papayas all day.

but also, didn't he suffer from the onset of scurvey once he tried to drop the megadose? And though he was still taking way more than the average person, his body became accustomed to such a high level, a regular dosage was too much of a deficiency.

well if it wasn't him, it was someone else anyway.....

 

[lizard]

haha beats me.

"Linus Pauling...isn't he the dude who took like 9,876.543 milliwatts of vitamin c and turned into a heroin addict?"

 

[Reign in Acai]

For acne of any sort. Rub lemon slices on the the epidermal invader. It'll be gone in no time.

 

[Hell Mike]

BTW, COMPLETELY unrelated almost but sieg heil do I look like I care? When I stopped taking my OxyContin after two weeks (I had pills for a month but I hated that crap so I decided to take the pain rather than the braindeadness) I felt like complete S H I T for a day, everything was as bad as it possibly could be.. I needed to crap BADLY but couldn't sit up, needed to puke BADLY but couldn't sit up, headache worse than ten hangovers hell mike-style, tired, couldn't sleep etc etc, everything was SHIT. Was this abstinence-shitz or just plain ole being sick?

 

[lurch70]

hmm ... not sure what these new age pain killers are ... but a friend recently was prescribed Vicodin for some hemeroid pain ... and he was literally bragging about the "cool feeling" he gets from it. and this guy never even smoked pot in his life.

these new gen drugs are definetelly made to get you hooked.

 

[NAD]

I took 4 vicodins over the course of a weekend (teefus) and I felt a craving for them for 2 weeks. Shit is potent. Fun too.

yes, i was taking them for awhile also ... and never made me feel better besides the temp relief.

gave up coffee, pizza, oj ... all the shit they tell you to give up when the diagnose you with it.

then a few years ago, i was craving OJ and had it ... and it made the heartburn go away.
giving up smoking helped as well.

meds ... basically they are there to hook you.

ever wonder why the F D A is one organization?

Yeah, fuck the FDA, I hate those bastards. The whole drug industry really, fuck 'em. I need to try the OJ or vinegar thing, but what I really need to do is quit fucking smoking. I don't want to, but I know I need to. Haven't smoked all week, should have that carry over but probably won't.