Getting sick again

So, I damn near never get sick. Anyway, I had to call in sick for the first time ever at my current job last Thursday and Friday for a nasty sore throat and fever. I get better, go to Vegas for a week, now I'm getting sick again. This time it's coughing, slight fever, and I feel some good old fashioned stuffiness coming on pretty strong. What have I done wrong? I read somewhere that eating your own boogers is a good way to keep from getting sick. I may try that.

 

You need some of my medicinal chicken noodle soup and ginger/echinacea tea for two days. Leave the tea bags in a little longer to fully get the goody out of it, but it will taste horrible- add lemon and honey to flavor to toleration level.
Here is the Chicken Soup recipe.
It's really not even that good, but it absolutely takes 1-2 days off of this type of illness. It's more medicinal so it's not supposed to sound/taste good. Here goes if you can find someone to make it for you.

Free Range Chicken Breasts with skin on
Fresh Cilantro
Fresh Rosemary
Fresh Tarragon
Fresh green onions
1 Ginger Root
Pearl Onions (about 5)
Black Pepper Whole Kernels
5 stalks of celery
2 cloves of garlic or more if you can stand it
Red hot pepper, dried
Carrots chopped



Boil Chicken about an hour with lots of rosemary, 1 clove of garlic, the pearl onions, cilantro, the ginger root, celery and red pepper. When done, keep the broth- throw out the ginger or any wilted vegetables.
Take the chicken out, debone and skin it and put the chicken back in. Chop up the rest of the ingredients and use any more that were previously used if they are wilted looking, take them out of the broth and put new in. Chop up the carrots and add your favorite noodles (i use whole wheat egg noodles). Get it all hot and add as much red pepper as you can stand and eat as much as you can eat. It'll make you well, I promise. It will cost 40 - 50 dollars to make if you do it right.

 

I'd hold off on the boogers and invest in some antioxidant vitamins.

 

Thanks ya'll. Pluto, that sounds inviting, but I don't know that it's for me. I woke up without a fever, but aching pretty much everywhere and coughing up a storm. I'm gonna go shoot myself, or eat boogers. One of the two. Oh yeah, and I already have some vitamins. Took them, too.

 

plu, is the chicken in the soup necessary? does it work with just the veggies, herbs, and spices?

 

It's them there fat molecules that are in the chicken skin that boil out to make the broth. You could not eat the chicken, but you need the broth.

 

a-ha. what if i just dump a can of broth in? all that talk of fat molecules has my mouth watering.

 

Dunno. the hippie/nutritionist/tree hugger/naturalist/ goofball who gave me the recipie (ok i made part of it up) told me the skin in the chicken is the part that had the healing power in it. I could think of the name of it if i thought long enough, but er ummm I tired.

 

I didn't know that but it makes perfect sense!

 

Bring me the chicken and the skins. You can have the herbs, veggies, and spices. I just want the boiled chicken. Just like momma made, with salt.