Jennifer Juniper and I just ran a highly unscientific test on Airborne, the fizzy tablets that you drop into some water and drink when you feel an incipient cold stuffing up your nose and throat.
I awoke on Thursday morning with a very swollen throat. I sucked on a few Zicam lozenges (don’t use them on an empty stomach! Whoa, the nausea!) and went about my day. On Friday I felt much the same and brought out the Airborne. I took three tablets yesterday and one this morning — and I feel no throat or nose swollenness at all. I should add that I slept a lot yesterday, too, which always helps.
This isn’t the first time that I would attribute a miracle healing to Airborne. Juniper, tell the people what happened for you.
Ok, so everyone at my church is sick right now, and that really really bad kind where you blow mucus for days and then cough for weeks. On Weds I started to get the chills and a bad sore throat, so here’s what I took:
Before bed:
Two PM Airborne and 2 cups Cold Care PM Tea from traditional medicinals.
Next Day:
Airborn 4 – 5 times
gypsy cold care tea all day in my thermos cup (3-4 cups)
and the miracle drug UMCKA! Have you seen or heard of it? It works so well – it’s a yummy sweet tincture of something homeopathic (which I dont actually believe in, but let’s face it, it sometimes actually works).
This seems annoying when I write it down, but so much LESS annoying than being sick. By the end of Thursday my symptoms were gone. I’m continuing the umcka and cold care tea until after church tomorrow and maybe longer. But I think I licked it.
TMI from your Oregon buddy,
J.
Also, took naps.
And Zicam never works for me, but my family swears by it.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=airborne-baloney
Ahhhh, the Cold Cures. I just recently had a similar conversation, and would be glad to share. First, the tried and true– NyQuil. The second I’m starting to feel rundown and stuffy and drippy, that night, I take a dose of NyQuil about a half hour before bedtime, try and stay up reading, and then get so sleepy I pour myself into bed for the Best Night’s Sleep Ever. Typically, I get colds because I’m stressed and tired, so a really great night’s sleep can sometimes do the trick. It leaves me well rested in the morning, and ready to fight the cold away.
If that doesn’t work and I’m hit with a cold, I’m a true believer in echinacea and goldenseal. I’m not a huge homeopathic person, but this stuff WORKS. I went to Romania on a choir trip a few summers ago and got caught with a nasty cold that landed right in my throat. And how, PB, was I to minister my loving, lilting tones of the Szekely Anthem and other hymns if I felt like death? My lovely roommate had the answer. Echinacea Goldenseal Throat Spray. It tastes like bark and moss and makes you gag a bit the first time, but about an hour before showtime I sprayed it three times in the back of my throat, every fifteen minutes. And lo and behold, the stabbing feeling was gone, and I could perform. I used the spray for the next few days and still enjoyed my entire two week long trip with no cold in sight. Amazing.
In addition to the spray, there’s also a liquid version that you can mix with hot water for a tea-like mixture, that also does the trick. I actually found that the last time I was sick and I smelled the horrible bark/moss mixture, I was CRAVING the taste, because my body knew it would make me better.
Here, links to the brand I’ve used (from Whole Foods!):
http://www.gaiaherbs.com/product.php?id=56
http://www.gaiaherbs.com/product.php?id=70
Love and healthy thoughts,
-Sarah
Oh, that’s what “Airborne” is.
I’d been seeing these commercials with this nice lady in a classroom talking about how she’d bought the company back.
From the looks of things, I figured she’d seized back control of a PTA somewhere in Connecticut.
For months, I’ve been thinking, “Well, if you’re so good that you had to buy the company back, why don’t I know what the frick you’re sellin’?”
But what I wanna know is: Is this “Airborne” stuff better than my beloved Alka-Seltzer Plus?
Placebos of choice, dear friends. Take what you believe works for you, and be well.
That’s not a sneer. Placebo is about the most single effective therapeutic element I know of. Believing is healing. So is plenty of rest, warm fluids… oh, and chicken soup (which actually seems to have therapeutic value itself).
My mom’s a nurse and she swears by Zicam – but only the swabs. We do cheat and use ’em twice (they’re really expensive otherwise), dropping them, closed, in a clean cup to be used again in four hours. No nausea, and they really help that stuffy nose!
But ogre is right, no medicine is worth anything if you don’t prescribe yourself rest and a good diet.
I enjoy the Airborne placebo, tis true. I figure it’s a tang-fizzy drink with vitamins, it’s cheap, and even if it only works in my head–that’s enough for me.
(I just use it as a general immune boost.)
Airborne is nothing but a scam. Trust me, I’m a registered real doctor who doctors almost ever day to real patients and at a clinic too.
I read this article about airbor and it was goodL:
http://voont.com/airborne_dietary_supplement
IT IS THE TRUTH! [I still love it. Because … it works. Even if it’s just a placebo effect. – PB]