Post by WVsnowflake on Aug 1, 2009 19:26:19 GMT -6
This was posted in one other group I belong to and thought everyone might like reading about it.
I've only posted once before; I've just been quietly reading and learning. But I learned something Thursday that I think I need to share with the groups I belong to.
Thursday at my physical therapist's office here in Nashville, I read a book in the lobby by a country music photographer. It consisted of vignettes of memories of famous classic country artists. While reading the one about "Stringbean" (for those who don't live in Nashville or follow country music, he was a banjo player on the TV show HeeHaw, and in the Grand Ole Opry. He and his wife were murdered in their home back in the 80s, I think).
There; enough background. Let me cut to the chase. In that article was an antecdote about how the author of the piece was touring with Stringbean and caught the flu on the road. He said Stringbean flagged a watermelon truck driver down and bought the biggest watermelon on the truck. He made the author eat the entire thing. The author said that within 2 hours (and a roadside nap)he felt good enough to continue driving to the venue. And, he said by show time,
he was completely cured of the flu. Stringbean said it was "an old mountain cure".
Just something for us to possibly keep in the back of our minds, should we need it. I know I would rather eat God's watermelon than Rumsfeld's Tamiflu!
Grace to you all.
I love old fashioned cures. Found this one.
Flu Ointment
An early Lethbridge
druggist, J.D.
Higgenbotham,
made this ointment
for the flu epidemic
of 1918.
2 large jars white
Vaseline
2 oz. turpentine
1/4 oz. menthol
crystals
2 cakes of camphor
gum
1/3 oz. oil of
peppermint
1/4 oz. eucalyptus
1/4 oz. oil of
wintergreen Melt
and mix well over
low heat and store
in
covered jars.
I wonder what's in the watermelon, by the way. I know it's water but interesting to find out what properties it has other than that! Thanks for the info :-)
watermelon's high in antioxidents, especially vitamins a, b6, and c, and
lycopene. it also has an amino acid in it which the body can reprocess to
help lower blood pressure. that and all the water probably helps with flu
symptoms and recovery.
I've only posted once before; I've just been quietly reading and learning. But I learned something Thursday that I think I need to share with the groups I belong to.
Thursday at my physical therapist's office here in Nashville, I read a book in the lobby by a country music photographer. It consisted of vignettes of memories of famous classic country artists. While reading the one about "Stringbean" (for those who don't live in Nashville or follow country music, he was a banjo player on the TV show HeeHaw, and in the Grand Ole Opry. He and his wife were murdered in their home back in the 80s, I think).
There; enough background. Let me cut to the chase. In that article was an antecdote about how the author of the piece was touring with Stringbean and caught the flu on the road. He said Stringbean flagged a watermelon truck driver down and bought the biggest watermelon on the truck. He made the author eat the entire thing. The author said that within 2 hours (and a roadside nap)he felt good enough to continue driving to the venue. And, he said by show time,
he was completely cured of the flu. Stringbean said it was "an old mountain cure".
Just something for us to possibly keep in the back of our minds, should we need it. I know I would rather eat God's watermelon than Rumsfeld's Tamiflu!
Grace to you all.
I love old fashioned cures. Found this one.
Flu Ointment
An early Lethbridge
druggist, J.D.
Higgenbotham,
made this ointment
for the flu epidemic
of 1918.
2 large jars white
Vaseline
2 oz. turpentine
1/4 oz. menthol
crystals
2 cakes of camphor
gum
1/3 oz. oil of
peppermint
1/4 oz. eucalyptus
1/4 oz. oil of
wintergreen Melt
and mix well over
low heat and store
in
covered jars.
I wonder what's in the watermelon, by the way. I know it's water but interesting to find out what properties it has other than that! Thanks for the info :-)
watermelon's high in antioxidents, especially vitamins a, b6, and c, and
lycopene. it also has an amino acid in it which the body can reprocess to
help lower blood pressure. that and all the water probably helps with flu
symptoms and recovery.
