OUCH!

This week I have been feeling the onset of a cold and cough. I have been doing what I can to rebalance my body and establish a 'right relationship' with the cold. What I mean by 'right relationship' is rather than view myself as battling a cold, I'll just make friends with it and gently coax it into leaving my body (or never fully arriving). It is a less combative way of looking at it and enables me to balance myself better.

In many indigenous cultures there is little difference between being killed by a snake or by a staff infection; in both cases the victim did not have a 'right relationship' with these items to avoid getting sick in the first place. Of course, once you are bitten it is even more difficult to create the 'right relationship' to heal!  But the principle still applies.

Ok, enough on that. That said, last night I awoke with a searing sore throat and that inevitable dry cough that comes so frustratingly along with it. Clearly I was not in the 'right relationship'. I stumbled around my medicine cabinet at 5 in the morning looking for any relief. It was one of those sharp, painful, sleepless sore throats from which you can find no relief. I realized that I had no meds in my medicine cabinet because I am generally opposed to pharma products. So I turned to my food cabinets and looked for healing foods.

And there it was, right in front of me -- a radiant, glowing bottle of raw honey. I took two delectable tablespoons and my throat felt like magic. I slept like a baby for the next couple hours.

I told a friend about my experience (not that this remedy is anything new) and he recommended the following remedy for conquering a sore throat/oncoming cold:

Grate ginger, squeeze the juice, add lemon and honey and drink a spoonful every hour or two.

I'm giving it a go.