*ed* Re: Echinacea and don't break a fever

*ed* - clarification: when I say "starve" I mean do not feed in the typical sense that we've all been trained to think of when we see the words "starve", "food" and "feed". IE> don't be shoving "food" that is not really food into your piehole. Instead, "feed" using only essential nutrients that are generaly best served via liquid...... tea.....tincture......juice.

Been wanting to get these remarks out there for a good while but just never found a good place to put them until now.

How many people were raised with the adage that, depending on the people it's being bandied between, invariably ends up in an Abbot&Costello-like dialogue; A - " granny always said to feed a cold, starve a fever "; B - " wait, are you sure its not feed a fever, starve a cold?"......who's on first base, third base, weeEEEEEoooooo.....

After nearly 50 years of trying to remember this adage during those unexpected times when it had instantly become important to have some knoweldge of how to handle an illnesses, it finally dawned on me that perhaps the purpose intended when such adages are poured into the mainstream of popular opinion / wisdom, is to help keep the population continually in a state of confusion...... ? Long story short, my policy in this context is now - starve a cold, starve a fever, if its an illness, pretty much any illlness / cough / flu / bug / etc, starve the blasted thing. If it happens to be causing a fever, starve that one too, just be sure to keep it wet....yeah, that's it, starve a cold and starve a fever, but also be sure to drown the fever, do not let it run dry.

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