Honey for a cold

I wonder why honey can be good for a cold?

I awoke this morning and my throat was burning terribly. It felt like a serious infection going out of control in the back of my throat. After brushing my teeth and extensive gargling with mouthwash I brought it under control. I remained mostly under control throughout the day with continued brushing and gargling. I believe in using mouthwash frequently, especially when there is a cold.

But by night I could feel that burning was trying to re-emerge. It seemed like all the things I had been doing were not helping my body win against the infection. Then when I was in my kitchen I suddenly had the thought of having honey. I almost never use honey at all. I am vegan and I guess a strict vegan wouldn’t even have honey. But I did get a jar of it a long time ago and its been sitting on the shelf this whole time.

Well tonight I took the jar and a small spoon and began dipping the spoon in the jar and taking small amounts in my mouth, along with some essene rye bread and pecans.

There’s something about the honey that seems to have really helped my body. I can still feel the infection in me but its not as bad as before. Right now it feels like my body is winning against it.

Honey has some kind of therapeutic aspect which even the best herbs seem to not be able to match. I’ve been sucking zinc lozenges all day, and taking a herbal capsules called Wellness Formula. I’m sure all that helps, but the honey provided my body with something extra that it really needed.

I hope I can win against this infection.

It seems like every year we read in the news about how infections are becoming more and more virulent. There has been a strain in the mideast which is alarmingly severe. 2 out of 5 people infected with it died. Often with these new virulent strains it is people with the healthiest immune systems who are the ones who die, contrary to what most would think. That is how it was with the great Spanish Flu outbreak in the 1920’s. It killed a disproportionatly higher amount of younger, healthy people.

I know over the past years I’ve been hit with some nasty infections. I remember when the Swine Flu was going around and believe I had it twice. It was an extremely persistent infection that lingered for weeks. Yes weeks.

Humans are doing all this fucked up shit and one consequence is that there are this horrendous diseases. Factory farms are totally disgusting and should be shut down. Why the hell do people have to kill sentient life forms to eat? Its totally disgusting, cruel, and barbaric.

Today as I was riding my bicycle I thought about how most people’s health is fucked as they get older. By the time they reach middle age its like they’ve mutated into these completely different entities from when they were kids. Its not supposed to be that way.

We are supposed to have youthful, agile bodies our whole lives. That energy of youth should stay with us. Its because humans kill animals and they pay a heavy karmic price later in their lives when they in essence lose their bodies. Once they hit mid age its like they lose their bodies. Its a tragedy.

And all the gruesome shit people do. Like liposuction. Different surgeries. Instead of practicing compassion for other beings and having a little discipline and will, they keep killing and harming themselves, then they compensate for it but it only makes things worse. What a sad mess.

I can’t imagine being in the medical profession. All they deal with are the consequences of this bad karma. They’re cleaning up the messes caused by ignorance and destruction.

When I go into different neighborhoods it always gives me a dropping feeling in my heart to see these restaurants which serve crap. Its so sad.

And now there’s genetically mutated food also. Genetically mutated salmon which is absolutely disgusting. Even among non-genetically mutated foods things are disgusting. New pesticides like neonicitinoids are designed to be taken up by the plants they are sprayed on. Well, who eventually eats those crops? Its disgusting.

Humans are doing all this crazy, absolutely crazy, sick shit right now.

I wrote in a post earlier that one really sick thing about now is that people who should be the ones leading are in fact the worst destroyers. Everything is turned on its head right now.

I want truth. I want truth. I want truth.