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- MackDiesel2010, on 10/12/2007, -2/+265Summary: gargle warm water with cayenne pepper in it.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+182that's not the remedy that i try to sell my wife on.
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -2/+137
In case it has to be said, don't gargle with bleach. And if you're taking medical advice from comments on Digg, it probably does. - sansdevin, on 10/12/2007, -18/+103@sherwinn
"White people"? What is that supposed to mean? Are you making a generalized racist statement that white people have never heard of a classic remedy such as this or are you making a generalized racist statement that everyone of your non-white race knows all about this? How do you even know if the author was white? Please spare us your ignorant racially loaded comments. Thank you. - aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -7/+79Not sure if anyone will take to this idea but, I simply gargle with peroxide. I've been doing this since I was a teenager and it works every time.
- tehloki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+56Spark plugs.
- ryodoan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45I wouldnt say ripped, he mentions about 4 times during the article that he cant take any credit for it, and that all his information came from earthclinic...
- diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43She falls for it every time.
- bobonot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44Voice teachers have for years recommended tincture capsicum to alleviate a sore throat and increase vocal range when congested so I have no doubt this remedy has some positive effect.
Here's a quick google on tincture capsicum in case you are interested: http://www.google.com/search?q=tincture+capsicum - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42"Not sure if anyone will take to this idea but, I simply gargle with peroxide. I've been doing this since I was a teenager and it works every time."
Not sure why you're getting dugg down. That actually works really well and takes out a lot of the infection. - andycr512, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41Do they have a recipe that cures a sore server?
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Open BSD
- Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39My brother had this one girlfriend who I will never forget; in the middle of the movie Twister, among a group of friends, interrupts to say:
"I don't understand why she has to use big words like 'metaphor' to sound smart"
You sir have just joined the ranks of Twister-girlfriend, I dub thee Sir Elixir, too elaborate for the common man. - TehJlo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38Exceeding a CPU's quota helps cure a sore throat? Intriguing...
- milk93rd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Dr. McGillicutty's FAMOUS Elixir! It'll cure all that ails you! Sore throat? Gone in a flash! No hair on your chest? This'll put it there! You sir, yes you, you appear a bit under the weather yourself, come up here and give it a shot ABSOLUTELY free of charge! Look at him now, folks, right as rain! Only twenty dollars a bottle! Step right up, step right up!
- MrSidnet, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33I find it such a pain that the recipe is so simple, yet the submitter didnt bother putting it in the description. He didnt even put in the main ingredient. So then I had to click the link , only to find out it's broken already. So then I had to find the original digg link again, click to the comments section, wait for comments to load, and click on a mirror. Maybe I complain too much, but it's just as easy to put the word "capsicum" in the title...
- CaseyUCF, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26"As a kid I had tonsillitis and strep throat probably on average 5-6 times a year"
Holy *****... what did your parents feed you?? - creep303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I'm going to try this now. My throat feels like a truck ran it over with razor-wire tires.
- Winters, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Peroxide is a mutagen. It can alter/damage your DNA. Some say that a 1% solution is not enough to cause this problem, other say that it's still possible to end up with DNA damage and it is listed as a carcinogen on the MSDS.
Long story short: The jury is still out about it's health benefits. - TheTap, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23I'll stick with Tussin-X.
Loaded with Hydrocodone. Two tablespoons later you're asking yourself "what sore throat?" - Kyle660, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"The caffeine was giving me two stones a year and they were the size of marbles."
Forgive me, but you sound like the Jewish pharmacist from Family Guy. - ness0013, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I've been using hotwings to cure sorethroats for years. I dont see why this wouldnt wor as well.
- Rocketbird, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Why is "***** and balls" in quotes?
- Azuroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17He is.
No really, go try it. Then come back and let us know how it felt. - po43292, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"The real cure: mash (or chew) up a couple aspirin, gargle with a little water, and swallow. Tastes horrid, but works everytime."
Also known as Alka-Seltzer: main ingredient = aspirin, and it dissolves in water and doesn't taste that bad. - lensman00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Curing a sore throat is kind of like curing a pain in your chest. A sore throat is a symptom, not a condition.
- TheWorkz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21http://duggmirror.com/health/How_to_cure_a_sore_throat_almost_instantly/
- haelios, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16All you need to do is this:
1. Right click on comments link and chose to copy link address
2. Paste said address into address bar
3. replace the 'digg.com' bit with 'duggmirror.com'
4. Hit enter. - jakatak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14My doctor told me to take 2 tablespoons of concentrated Lemon Juice every morning. The acetate will loosen and remove any build up in your kidneys preventing a stone from forming. Thank God, because I almost had to give up drinking coffee. The caffeine was giving me two stones a year and they were the size of marbles.
- laterallateral, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22That's fair.
You realize that makes you the Pathetic Anecdotal Insult-Man though, right? - travitherabbi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Very small rocks!
- howdareyou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10He was worried he had strep throat (Streptococcal pharyngitis). So he turns to the internet for solutions. That seems like a wise choice?
I usually go to the doctor first. I guess I'm a big believer in "the mans" medicine. - MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Easier: Install Duggmirror Firefox extension. Adds a duggmirror link next to every article on the homepage for easy clicking.
- fingerdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Avoid getting sick all together. I've been drinking a gallon of water everyday since I had a kidney stone surgically removed 3 years ago. The doc told me to drink this amount to avoid another stone and believe me, I would eat pieces of ***** for breakfast to avoid the pain I went through. Since then I have yet to contract any type of cold or flu virus.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Yes, the mirror works, but it's kind of ripped from here:
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/sore_throat.html - intense321, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Drinking douche? You've actually done that? That's sick, dude.
- cosulliv755, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Gargle with luke warm salt water. (one or two spoons per glass) Just DON'T drink it or you will be sick. It works every time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8no, cough drops usually contain menthol, which is an contact anaesthetic and mildly antibacterial. so don't use regular candy (you just feed the bacteria without anything to kill them) and don't use cough drops as regular candy (who knows what the long term effects of too much menthol can be).
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Crocodile Dundee does cocaine that way...
- cruzlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8A half cup of frozen poison. And after we drank it he used to kill us. Twice.
- zizzybaloobah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9And if the cayenne burns a little, try a couple sips of warm water in which a couple of spoonfuls of sugar have been dissolved. Plain water does nothing because of the way the capsicum binds with the receptors on the tongue.
- kidford, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Here in New Mexico, we eat plenty of green chili regularly. My best bet when I have a sore throat is to go to a restaurant and order a small bowl of chopped green chili and a glass of milk. In fact, that's where I'm heading in a few minutes.
By the way, everyone who has been posting saying "it's got capsicum in it, that's why it's hot" or whatever is a moron. Capsicum is a genus of plant. Capsaicin, on the other hand, is what makes crap hot.
And, yes, capsaicin can be used as a pain killer; my neighbor has chronic back pain and was prescribed a capsaicin gel for topical application. She didn't give it a serious try, though; the immediate burning sensation was too overwhelming to consider using it and have long-term benefit. - matthistory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6One word:
Whiskey - ihatekevinrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6oh *****. you were supposed to gargle it? I didn't read to that part. I just chugged a glass...
- CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@vornan19
Milk is not a starch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starch
Neither is a spoon full of sugar, although it does have the same effect as starch on spicy foods. Starch is a complex carbohydrate storing glucose. Table sugar is a simple sugar storing Sucrose. Either way, it's sugar.
The milk cure for spicy food is said to be due to the fat in the milk binding with the oil-based capsicum and lifting it away from the surface. That's what I've read. There is also lactose (milk sugar) that helps. - MikiMac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Just use Drano® and your throat will be clog free forever!
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This will make it feel better... but you should still get a strep test. Untreated strep can migrate to your bloodstream and infect your heart, causing scarring on one of the valves which requires surgery to fix. You could actually die from it, even years later.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I barely have a sore throat... just enough to be annoying though so I'm trying it as well. Even if it doesn't work at least I ate some yummy cayenne pepper. :-)
- niczar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6There was an article about capsicine 10 years ago in SciAm. Basically the author said that one of the main beneficial effects was that its chronic use saturated pain receptors and neurotransmitters, kind of the opposite of how pain-killers tend to make one more sensitive to pain over time, thus creating dependence. The cool thing is that it uses the mechanisms of addiction in reverse. Bonus: there doesn't seem to be any negative side-effect -- apart from the pain it induces, that is (as long as you're not allergic, obviously).
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In the comments:
This is not a good idea, because it will treat the symptoms rather than the disease. Capsaicin (the active ingredient in cayenne peppers, jalapenos, habaneros, and so on, that give the peppers their spice) acts as an anti-inflammatory agent. In particular, it shuts down the cyclooxygenase pathway in a manner similar to aspirin, ibuprofen, and other COX-2 inhibitors like Celebrex and Vioxx. Thus, if you gargle with cayenne pepper powder it will stop the swelling and reduce inflammation. Yet these are exactly the defense mechanisms your body uses to protect you against the disease. Shutting down these symptoms will only allow the strep or whatever it is to grow faster and further infect your system. You are much better off just getting a lot of sleep. -
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