Feeling Poorly? What are your remedies?

Scottland · 4 Sep 2011 at 20:31

So I seem to have picked up a bout of Manflu, which is my cue to whip up a batch of my personal lurgee remedy: Hot & Sour soup

Ingredients:
1 piece of ginger, about the size of a stock cube - chopped
1 clove of garlic
1-2 tablespoons of chilli oil
500ml chicken (or veg) stock
1 chilli chopped (use as much as you want)
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1-2 chopped spring onions
1 egg beaten, with a drop of sesame oil
1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with water

Recipe:
Heat oil in a wok, quickly fry the ginger and garlic. Add the chilli oil and then fry for a minute.
Add the chopped chilli and the stock and simmer for a few minutes before adding the vinegar, soy and cornflour mix. Simmer for another couple of minutes until the soup has thickened a little. Then finally add the chopped spring onions and stir in the beaten egg.

What are your secret recipes for when you're feeling rough?

Skillmister · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:30

Orange juice. Its the only thing i can seem to drink when ill, get through litres of the stuff

ganesh · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:51

Hot ribena.

Uriel · 4 Sep 2011 at 22:12

Hot toddy: Cheap blended whisky (famous grouse will do - about a single to double's worth), honey (couple of teaspoons), lemon juice (ditto) and hot water in a mug.

I've quite fancied doing a laphroaig and lapsang souchong tea version but like drinking them on their own too much to waste by experimentation.

krooton · 5 Sep 2011 at 12:11

I'm nursing a sore throat with Vicks First Defense, Strepsils and Manuka honey + lemon juice in boiling water.

aceface57 · 5 Sep 2011 at 16:36

A shot of krupnik vodka.

bsoltan · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:08

Chicken soup + lemon.

Whisky + Ginger Wine.

Vitamin C tablet.

Doctor McNinja · 6 Sep 2011 at 01:24

A couple of slices of Marmite on toast and a glass of cold lemonade. Or if I've got a sore throat I'll mix a small Thermos of whiskey, lemon juice, honey and hot water and take sips of it occasionally to sooth my throat... just thinking about it, I don't quite see the point of the whiskey but I'm not complaining. As long as it's not my Lagavulin that is!

bsoltan · 6 Sep 2011 at 12:43

Doctor McNinja said:
A couple of slices of Marmite on toast and a glass of cold lemonade. Or if I've got a sore throat I'll mix a small Thermos of whiskey, lemon juice, honey and hot water and take sips of it occasionally to sooth my throat... just thinking about it, I don't quite see the point of the whiskey but I'm not complaining. As long as it's not my Lagavulin that is!

I think it is the other way round.

Lord Marbury: You know, there are some marvelous flu remedies known in the certain remote parts of the subcontinent. Licorice root, for instance, combined with bamboo sap and a strong shot of whiskey. Ginger root, also, mixed with, uh, citrus peel.
Bartlett: And a strong shot of whiskey?
Lord Marbury: Actually, you can leave everything out except the shot of whiskey.

rarryawn · 6 Sep 2011 at 12:49

I do absolutely nothing, if I get ill I try to take the who cares attitude and carry on and try to forget about it. Seems to work just as well as any concoction of medicine!

LeJosh · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:46

Chicken and gammon chowder.

Russinating · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:30

Skillmister said:
Orange juice. Its the only thing i can seem to drink when ill, get through litres of the stuff

This. I absolutely OD on orange juice and my cold (bar side effects such as sore throat etc) will be gone within 24 hours.

Pate · 7 Sep 2011 at 11:14

Whiskey.
If I'm feeling really bad I'll make that a hot whiskey (couple shots of whiskey + hot water + sugar)