The mangy cats growling in their cages.

[reddragdiva]

Coughing up yellow slime, dammit. Don't expect me to be out at B-Movie tonight. Or indeed all weekend. Two damn weeks off sick. I'll be having a quiet time communing with the new laptop and trying to rest.

I spent yesterday morning doing the poster for My Own Private September. The article needs two more paragraphs — I haven't actually seen the film, so if anyone can point out other important subplots to take off please do. It also needs more cowbell in general.

I am spending the day in bed with my lovely laptop and Liz next to me. Browser, IRC, VLC, headphones and my music collection. Neo has flooped on my chest as well.

Update: Just back from doctor with a week's high dose amoxycillin. Now to do nothing.

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[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Yellow slime, ewww. I'm there though. The cold I had a couple of weeks ago seemed to clear up fine, but it sure left a lot of crud on my chest that needed to come up. It's still mucking my asthama about, woke up really wheezy yesterday. What is the best thing for clearing it off? I've heard various things but nothing seemed particularly effective. Everything from sudafed to old fashioned chest sweets.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Sniff frankincense essential oil. Fancy trying herbal remedies? Hyssop and licorice tea - brew tea from the hyssop leaves, boil the licorice root for 10 minutes, mix together and drink. You can add peppermint for its relaxing properties. Coltsfoot tea is good for opening the airways.

If you have problems getting the herbs, try cumin seed and aniseed (not star anise), boil together for 10 minutes, strain and drink.

You can get licorice and thyme expectorant cough syrup from Holland & Barratt; I can tell you from personal experience that it really does work. And I can also recommend Rocket Tea - a handful of yarrow, a handful of elderflower, a heaped teaspoon of dried ginger and a dash of lemon, brew for 5 minutes then down it. Really clears the passages, I can tell you! There are various herbalists you can buy the herbs from; there's a medical herbalist in St.Albans by the name of Jill who has a market stall on Wednesdays and Saturdays where she sells dried herbs and remedies.

These remedies all came from yellowrocket who trained as a medical herbalist herself. She's married to cymrys, my ex-husband, and she's been treating his chest infections and asthma attacks for years now. She's the person I turn to when conventional medicine just isn't doing the trick.

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

(grins, salutes)
Though to be strictly accurate, I did half my training and then moved house, so quite a bit is experience based rather than BSc stuff...

A handful of the dried herbs in the tea is probably a bit much - it's more like a couple of teaspoons.

Jill is Jill Wright, and you'll find the NIMH (no, not as in The Rats of!)has a list of herbalists in the UK on their website :-)