This week all four of us have been sick. Not sick with a fever, however, which means we keep plugging along, although we have been resting and napping more, drinking more liquids, and going to bed earlier. Everyday people genuinely ask, "how are you doing?" When you're sick, you say, "sick." We've all had some variation of "a bad cough." Some have had a runny nose, and some of us have had a sore throat. Because people are concerned about our well being, we have gotten all sorts of advice and have tried a number of the remedies.
Some of the advice is the same advice we give in the U.S. for a cold, for example, don't drink milk. Most of the advice, however, is new to us:
1. For a cough, avoid cold food and drink, like cold juice and ice cream.
2. For a cold, drink a tea consisting of cooked orange juice, manzanilla tea, cinnamon and honey. Luisa loves this! (It's not hard to enjoy!)
3. For a cough, boil a "tree tomato" (tomate de arbol, or tomatillo, which is entirely different from the Mexican tomatillo). This was actually Magdalena's homework from her Spanish teacher, so we all tried it. It's a rather bitter fruit, but is tolerable with honey. Luisa couldn't eat it even with honey.
4. Eat garlic, fried in oil.
5. Gargle with lime juice.
6. For a sore throat, wear a scarf around your neck. This one actually came from our German housemates, but locals agreed. Teresa has tried this a few days, much to the dismay of her fashionable daughters.
7. For a cough, cook garlic and raisins in milk, then drink. It sounds like this will be cooked for us this evening, just before heading to bed.
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