Boil an asian pear and some ginger for, say, an hour. Sweeten with honey if desired. You can keep adding water and boiling it again, apparently.
I'm going to try this later after my nap.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Shameless Bid for Sympathy
I'm sick. This is the first time I've gotten sick in Korea. These days the days are warm, the nights are cold, and a lot of people catch colds in the fluctuating temperatures. I feel exhausted and my throat is sore. I've been drinking lots of tea and hot water and I had a wonderful spicy chicken broth soup full of unidentifiable (to me) dark green vegetables, served with rice. I don't think I'm really ill enough to take the day off work, so I went to school and whined to my students about how ill I am. I also asked them what Korean people do when they're sick. Here's one remedy that was suggested:
Boil an asian pear and some ginger for, say, an hour. Sweeten with honey if desired. You can keep adding water and boiling it again, apparently.
I'm going to try this later after my nap.
Boil an asian pear and some ginger for, say, an hour. Sweeten with honey if desired. You can keep adding water and boiling it again, apparently.
I'm going to try this later after my nap.
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3 comments:
Are you supposed to eat/drink the pear thing at some point? Or is the act of boiling it the thing?
Sorry you're sickipoo.... Get well soon!
sounds potentially yummy (although probably mega hot - that's a looong time to cook ginger)? hope it did the the trick and you're starting to feel better Bee!
@Michael: I have tried two methods. First, boiling for an hour and drinking the juice. This seemed moderately effective, though more extensive studies are needed to draw generalizable conclusions. Second, I tried forgetting the pot on the stove and boiling it dry. Although my impression is that this had no direct effect on the state of my health, more extensive studies are needed in this case as well. There may have been oblique beneficial effects of relief as I discovered that I had not, indeed, burned the house down. (We may laugh, but my friend's apartment building actually had a severe fire recently started by a forgotten candle. She had to move out and everything. Horrible.)
P.S.
Because this is my blog, I can write long irrelevant tangents in my comments if I want to! Wa ha ha!
(Actually, I suppose so can anyone else...)
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