NEEPS

Smooth Hound · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:43 pm Post subject:

i didnt get one,

how will i know what to do, how will i know about things like washing my hands without this leaflet.

Maria · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject:

Should we be worried now??

http://news.uk.msn.com/special-reports/swine-flu.aspx
Plenty of onions, garlic, chilli me thinks - and remembering to take the echinacea. I'm trying to grow it - but it's proving more difficult than my poxy gardening skills can manage.

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earthroots · Neepster Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 146 Location: deeside

echinacea is fairly cheap to buy now in concentrated drops from the local chemists - boosting our immune system with healthy diets and the plethora of herbal teas available for free harvest in the wilderness around us - garlic for sure and all herbal tonics - red clover, meadowsweet, elderflower, yarrow, burdock, dandelion, coltsfoot, nettle. Stock up on berries this autumn too - fill your freezer with blaeberries, rasps, brambles, elderberries and cowberries for strengthening winter smoothies. All too often the answer to modern ailments is staring us in the face - it's just unfortunate that we've had such a break in the ancestral memory - kitchen wisdom lost in time or hijacked by company advertisers who rub their hands together in glee when such epidemics as the swine flu hits the headlines.
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Maria · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:

Have been drinking my very first elderflower cordial for the last couple of days, and it's loverly. Yummmm.

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nina · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

I don't think we need to be overly concerned at the moment.Every year many thousands of people die from flu despite vaccination with hardly a mention.I think the media are creating unnecessary worry with sensationising their coverage.Why can't they just call it Mexico flu?The time to worry will be if it mutates into a more virulent strain because at the moment deaths have been minimal and in people whose health was already compromised.

My advice?Enjoy the summer,keep as healthy as you can and if you get flu, pamper yourself for a few days until you recover-just like you did last time you got flu.

Please don't think I'm being flippant about this.I am a"vulnerable person"due to health problems.And if I get it-well I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.
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earthroots · Neepster Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 146 Location: deeside

grand - i love the stuff - meadowsweet makes a delish syrup too - you can add fizzy water to it for a lovely late summer drink. Yet to collect elderflowers this year - hoping there is still some left - other busyness just keeps getting in the way - but no work for a fortnight starting this weekend - yipee!
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lor138 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:34 am Post subject:

I got 3 leaflets in the same day, maybe i got one of the other neepsters leaflets thrown in!!!
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Maria · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

I know what you mean Nina. I'm boosting our systems, not for this strain o f flu but for all the 'nasties' that it might mutate into. Every year a virus comes and bites us during midmiwinter...as it should...probably to slow us down when we should be hibernating-ish. I'm musing that if i boost our immune systems, we'll cuddle up for the few usual days, and not be kicked too much by any strains.

So....

Time for me to find out what meadowsweet is - sounds scrummy. What do i do with it? Stupid questions i bet.

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Maria · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:58 am Post subject:

Oh, forgot to mention earthroots - you're sure to still get your hands on some elderflower - it's bursting out everywhere just now. I'm going to get another batch next week, A Fine Malt wants to try some wine. He tasted AndyB's at the last meet and is keen to have a few bottles.

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Julie · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject:

That leaflet was a waste of paper and the gist of it went; Blow your nose and throw the tissue in the bin, then wash your hands. Cover your mouth with your hand or tissue when you sneeze or cough.
What rot!
Every time you sneeze you fill an area the size of the Albert hall with the bacteria carried in droplets of water. To suggest that covering your mouth when you cough or doing it into a handkerchief is going to prevent the spread of a virus is ludicrous.
Imo, it was an exercise to allay the fears of the ill informed masses and prevent an over reaction from the bulk of them.
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