Friday evening on my way home from work, after a pretty intense week, I started feeling the first symptoms of an upcoming flu – cold, probably little fever already, body aches and generally feeling very exhausted. Great, I thought, right on time for the weekend.
Vienna seems to be the center of flu-word these days btw, every other person I know is or has been sick lately.
Not really in the mood of becoming sick and actually, looking at my agenda, not the best timing for a week out of order either, I tried with the help of some good old home remedies to conquer the beast. With great success as it turned out today, 48 hours later all symptoms are gone.
The following combination worked for me so far:
- hot home made lemonade with honey
- hot chicken soup
- one day resting in bed and staying warm
- hot Grippostad
Vitamin C and resting makes sense to me, but the thing with chicken soup is still surprising. I just can’t see the connection between chicken and fever, maybe it’s only the hot liquid and it can basically be any soup. Don’t know…