I’ve caught it . . . that nasty little bug affecting the throat and gut. Despite my best hygienic efforts at not catching the malady that many of my friends have recently endured, I have come down with it.<\/p>\n
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It started as a scratchy sore throat. Then a queasy stomach. Hoarseness and discomfort when swallowing followed. And the queasiness intensified to the point where even the sight of food sickened me. Oh, joy! Just what I didn’t want for the upcoming Thanksgiving week!<\/p>\n
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It’s always a good idea when you’re coming down with a cold or flu to increase your intake of fluids–herbal teas, juice, water, and popsicles. My former Chinese Tai Chi teacher advocated ginger tea to treat this type of malady; it’s my favorite home treatment for colds and flu.<\/p>\n
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Honey soothes the inflamed throat passages. Ginger settles the stomach. In fact, ginger has been used medicinally for 2,000 years in China to treat stomach upset, nausea, flatulence, and diarrhea.<\/p>\n
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GINGER TEA WITH HONEY<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.5 inches of peeled and sliced fresh ginger root (about 1\/2 cup)<\/p>\n 5 to 6 cups of water<\/p>\n optional: 1\/2 lemon, washed and sliced<\/p>\n optional: 2 sticks of cinnamon<\/p>\n honey or brown sugar, to taste<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pour the water into a sauce pan.<\/p>\n Drop in the slices of ginger. Optional: add slices of lemon and cinnamon.<\/p>\n Simmer for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n Pour tea into a cup.<\/p>\n Stir in honey or brown sugar to sweeten.<\/p>\n Enjoy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve caught it . . . that nasty little bug affecting the throat and gut. Despite my best hygienic efforts at not catching the malady that many of my friends have recently endured, I have come down with it. It started as a scratchy sore throat. Then a queasy stomach. Hoarseness and discomfort when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,10,1],"tags":[1325,65,769,143,1323,17,1324,632,1024,1322],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-well-being","category-recipes","category-uncategorized","tag-brown-sugar","tag-cinnamon","tag-flu","tag-ginger","tag-herbal-teas","tag-honey","tag-juice","tag-lemon","tag-popsicles","tag-tai-chi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennypennyfarmette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}