Juggling Diversity

A survival kit for Newcommers to Jacobs University Bremen

Diagnosis: Cough and Sore Throat May 6, 2008

Filed under: Diagnosis: Cough and Sore Throat — Survival Kit @ 11:06 pm

Something one can tell oh so many stories about when living in Bremen, where it is windy and rainy most of the time.

I personally (Dominique) have the pleasure to face this problem every other day!

To make this very annoying maladie somewhat less painful, here a few solutions:

Germany:

1. Cut onions wrapped into a hot cloth – put the filled cloth on your chest (cough)

2. Cut onions and put sugar on top (be generous) – leave it to soak for abt 2-3hrs, the

sugar will have extracted the juice from the onions. Onions work as disinfectant

and as the natural form of antibiotics (cough)

India:

Ginger, lemon and salt in hot water (cough)

Colombia/International :

Hot water with honey and lemon, simply honey or honey in hot milk (sore throat)

Hot milk should only be applied when you have a dry cough, because milk encourages mucus

to develop

Gargles with hot water (sore throat)

Romania:

Black radish juice, extracted in the same manner as onion juice (cure the cough)