I got flu last Saturday. And it has been so long since I had flu, I felt completely miserable. With the fact that I am all alone at home. I woke up with a heavy head on Saturday morning, to open the door for our part-time domestic helper. That was around 8.45
She finished working at around 12+ and after that I decided to meet a friend & wife, together with my other half. We talked a lot and caught up with each other but after the meeting ended, my head was very heavy and my throat was sore and the flu began to take a tool on me. And yet I still managed to finish steak from Jack's place. Wow. And I went to pharmacy to get medicine.
I took the medicine promptly after reaching home, sleeping from 7.30 and woke up startled at 9.30. Wondering why the medicine (drowsy kind) does not knock me off till morning.
Anyway, I was feeling quite miserable & tortured with the stiff neck & shoulder, the blocked nose, the sore throat, etc. For once I wished someone else is in the house.
For once too, I had a craving for ginger tea. Somehow I believed that it would help me with the flu.
Ginger tea:
Well, I did not have any ginger at home, nor do I have the instant one. But if you ever need ginger tea, just cut a bit of ginger tea (maybe 2 cm), smash it (you can use your knife to smash it) & boil it.
Anyway, today I bought instant ginger tea from GoldKili and it does help me with blocked nose and the feverish chill I had. It does not gel well with the sore throat but all in all it is worth it.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Heatiness & A (hafl) day of rest
TCM
Last weekend my dearest had fever. He literally slept the entire weekend away. I dropped by and I brewed him luohanguo. Different to the previous rounds, this time I added red dates.
The taste was good and not overpoweringly sweet, but for some reason, I felt something was still missing to make out the complete taste. I just couldn't figure out what it is. Is it the dose? Is it because of too much water? Contrary to the popular drink, I think adding longan will not work and will just waste your effort boiling. Luohanguo is cooling, Red dates is neutral (it helps against fatigue and nourishes blood). Longan is heaty. In terms of strength, I don't know which is stronger, luohangouo or Longan but it serve no purpose having them together.
Next time round maybe I will add Chinese Wolfberry (Qi Zhi?). I'll let you know how it turns out. But the drink cleared my heatiness. As for dearest's fever, well it turns out that it is caused by viral infection instead of heatiness.
As the title rightly said, I had half-day worth of rest. This morning when I wake up I was grumpy and could hardly open my eyes. I was just aching all over. After lunch, I went for foot massage and I am glad I did. I did, however, feel kind of embarrased with the many black and blues that I have of which I can only account 2 of them (knocked against bed frame). The other few, I don't know how they ended up there. I am thinking if I should go and visit Sinseh though.
Project update:
On the knitting part: Hurray! I finished little Megan's present. Megan is the name of my unborn niece yet. The thing was wide enough to cover my shoulder..ahahaha...
Veronica really helped me a lot. She stayed back extra hour to help me with the last 3 rows (decrease pattern unknown), sewed them and casted them off.
Not only that, she also helped me crochet a pretty string to tie around and shape the size.
No, it is not one of those single chain crochet. It is a 3-chain crochet, and she did a half-treble (? is this right?). So far learning from her has been a joy because Veronica is willing to share her experiences and impart her skills and knowledge. Thank you Veron :)
Last weekend my dearest had fever. He literally slept the entire weekend away. I dropped by and I brewed him luohanguo. Different to the previous rounds, this time I added red dates.
The taste was good and not overpoweringly sweet, but for some reason, I felt something was still missing to make out the complete taste. I just couldn't figure out what it is. Is it the dose? Is it because of too much water? Contrary to the popular drink, I think adding longan will not work and will just waste your effort boiling. Luohanguo is cooling, Red dates is neutral (it helps against fatigue and nourishes blood). Longan is heaty. In terms of strength, I don't know which is stronger, luohangouo or Longan but it serve no purpose having them together.
Next time round maybe I will add Chinese Wolfberry (Qi Zhi?). I'll let you know how it turns out. But the drink cleared my heatiness. As for dearest's fever, well it turns out that it is caused by viral infection instead of heatiness.
As the title rightly said, I had half-day worth of rest. This morning when I wake up I was grumpy and could hardly open my eyes. I was just aching all over. After lunch, I went for foot massage and I am glad I did. I did, however, feel kind of embarrased with the many black and blues that I have of which I can only account 2 of them (knocked against bed frame). The other few, I don't know how they ended up there. I am thinking if I should go and visit Sinseh though.
Project update:
On the knitting part: Hurray! I finished little Megan's present. Megan is the name of my unborn niece yet. The thing was wide enough to cover my shoulder..ahahaha...
Veronica really helped me a lot. She stayed back extra hour to help me with the last 3 rows (decrease pattern unknown), sewed them and casted them off.
Not only that, she also helped me crochet a pretty string to tie around and shape the size.
No, it is not one of those single chain crochet. It is a 3-chain crochet, and she did a half-treble (? is this right?). So far learning from her has been a joy because Veronica is willing to share her experiences and impart her skills and knowledge. Thank you Veron :)
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