Hello everyone! I’ve been away for the past three days because the bug got me, hopefully not Covid. Thank God, I’m a bit fine now, so I’m back on my computer to write this and publish. I promise myself not to indulge more than two hours of screen time, guess this will be quick.

Last Sunday afternoon it rained here like crazy and I got soaked after a day from work. Right there and then, I was sneezing, plus a terrible headache. I went to bed early hoping that it would be gone in the morning, but no. I woke up feverish, still with a little headache. In the afternoon, I was running with fever already, with a clogged nose and dry cough. My symptom thus looked  like Covid, but since my fever and colds disappeared after day three, I think I’m safe. I’m really praying that I would feel better Tuesday or Wednesday, so I could count this as an ordinary flu, and I am. Praise God!

Now, I still have a cough that is bugging me. I hate to leave home suffering from a cough because most often my throat gets itchy when I’m around people, and everyone will look at me like a consuming predator! Huhuhu! Facepalm**

Anyway, I started taking Carbocisteine, a mucolytic, every eight hours yesterday. Our doctor told me to take it only for three days. Hopefully this will work.

Moreover, my brother is a fan of herbal medicines and home remedies, and he is prescribing me to take 1 cup of lagundi tea, with a teaspoon of calamansi juice. I’m not so familiar with herbs, so he volunteered to get the lagundi leaves in someone else’s backyard, haha! He came home tonight with the leaves and the calamansi! Perfect! I did a quick research regarding Lagundi in English, and this is what Google has to say, “five-leaved chaste tree,” or “vitex negundo” its scientific name. It’s a shrub that grows perennially everywhere, so I think this is pretty easy to find.

Of course, I can manage preparing it with verbal instructions from my brother, so I’m off to the kitchen to make a miracle tea as what my quack doctor said, hehe!

How to Prepare?

Wash the Lagundi leaves 

Get a small pot, put 3 glasses of water or more depending on the leaves you have. I have 5 and my brother said 3 to 5 glasses.

Boil it for 5 minutes, low to medium heat. 

Pour a cup of Lagundi tea, and it is better to put a teaspoon of calamansi juice into it.

I already have my cup now, and it tastes fine. 

“Ahem,” Ahem,”

I still have a cough, I guess. Sigh. I told my brother “why it’s not gone yet!” 

Well, he just told me that “Nature takes time to heal.”

Awww, that really makes sense and I have to agree! Tomorrow, I’ll be drinking some more Lagundi tea.

Then, hydrate myself with lots of water infused with this lemon, so nature can finally heal me, by God’s grace!

This article might be confusing you because I'm in the medical field, but I'm into the traditional methods as well. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with science and nature, giving us solutions for our ailments. As long as we know how to balance things, and get the best help you need if worst comes to worst.

Thanks for reading, guys!

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08/16/2022

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