On December 25th 2021, I tested positive for Covid. I am assuming based on my symptoms that it was Omicron, but I really don’t know for sure. I wasn’t really worried when I first got sick. I had advised many people who were isolating at home with Covid and thought I had a handle on it.
Having it though, gave me an entirely distinct perspective than walking people through it. I should point out that I am vaccinated and have been working with a physician who quite honestly wasn’t particularly helpful.
I first tried all the things I would normally do when faced with cough or congestion with limited success. So, then I put on my researcher hat and looked around for something different to try.
Omicron is different in that most of my congestion was, thankfully, in my bronchi. In my case though it was quite persistent. I dutifully did my herbal steams and used my chest rub, which helped but not as much as they usually do. I tried my cherry thyme syrup which was not at all useful.
Two weeks ago, I remembered the formula below which I first talked about in an article for Natural Herbal Living and so I pulled it out and threw it together. I can never really leave a receipt alone, so I made a simple syrup with an orange in the same manner I make lemon syrup. I thought the extra pectin and bioflavonoids would improve what I felt was a rather “lacking a nutritional element” formula.
Percolation means to make the extraction by letting alcohol strain through plant material in a percolation cone. For those of you who don’t have a percolation cone don’t fret. I have seen what could be considered crude percolations in which they placed plant material in a cloth sieve and poured wine over it like this receipt for a remedy meant to protect one from the plague.
Take a handful of Sage of vertue, a handful of Herbagrace, a handful of Elder leaves, stamp them in a Mortar, and strain them through a linnen cloth with a quart of White-wine, and a quantity of White wine-vineger.[1]
You can just make it that way if you get yourself some nice butter muslin for straining. Someday I should write a whole blog post on the wonders of butter muslin.
[1] W.J. gent. A Collection of Seven and Fifty Approved Receipts Good against the Plague Taken out of the Five Books of That Renowned Dr. Don Alexes Secrets, for the Benefit of the Poorer Sort of People of These Nations. By W. J. Gent. EEBO. London, England: Printed by Peter Lillicrap, for John Wingfield at the Bible and Anchor in Tower-street near Mark-lane end, 1665.
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