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We have a local chili parlor that serves a very very hot chili. This place made it to Man vs Food once. Long ago I had the flu and went to eat there with a buddy. Lets just say everything burned all the way through! But the next day the flu was gone! I have read that spicy foods are good for your immune system. I know I always feel pretty good after the burn subsides. ------------------------------------- Always the pall bearer, never the corpse. | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
Spicy Asian soups (like Pho, Tom Yum, Tom Kha, Ramen, etc.) are great when you have a cold, sinus infection, or serious allergy bout. | |||
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| Character, above all else |
My dad would always ask for a bowl of hot, spicy Menudo when he was feeling bad. He always seemed to perk up and get better after that. "The Truth, when first uttered, is always considered heresy." | |||
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I'll make ramen when I'm sick and I make it as hot and spicy as I can handle. I'm usually sweating like a whore in church once I'm done but I feel great. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Here's why you feel better after eating hot spicy foods: https://www.everydayhealth.com...ling%20of%20pleasure. When capsaicin – the chemical in spicy foods that makes them so hot, Hot, HOT – hits your tongue, your body registers the sensation as pain. This in turn triggers the release of endorphins, otherwise known as “happy” chemicals that give you an instant head-to-toe feeling of pleasure. | |||
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Alternatively, a capsaicin-marinated contact lens has the opposite effect & returns a bout of enduring pain until you can manage to extract it.  Not an experience I'd like to relive. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
I figure there's gotta be something to be said for cleaning yourself out through the sinuses, pores and anywhere else. Pho and kim chi are two of my favorite things for allergies, colds and the flu. | |||
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I had the misfortune of getting liquid capzasin on my nether bits down below. The burn was exhilarating! ------------------------------------- Always the pall bearer, never the corpse. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
Hot spicy is good to my liking although when sick. like up-chucking sick, I'm out on just about anything other than oatmeal or some such. I love it hot... so hot you might break a sweat. But oddly, onions and garlic powered do me in. Not a bit of fresh garlic, just the powder which I can taste in an instant. Onions for me taste delicious, but they make me suffer for days so I just avoid them. I wish it wasn't so as I hate asking at restaurants if there's onion in the dish, but I've learned over the years for me it's just not worth it. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Driving home, I had to pull over to the side of the road in pain. My wife thought I was having a heart attack. We had just finished eating at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants. What caused the pain and for me to pull over was that I rubbed my eyes with my fingers. I didn't bother washing my hands after eating but simply wiped my hands with napkins. I guess enough remained on my fingers and on my eyelids. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Maybe that’s why I never get sick. Just eat hot food often and avoid getting sick all together. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
^^  If you check out some of the more everyday references in histories about the US in the 1700s and 1800s, you'll find that a lot of people said the same thing about moonshine. I could swear that's where Dr. Pepper got its old marketing tagline about having one "at 10, 2 and 4!" | |||
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Bun Bo Hue is great for clearing out the nose. | |||
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Well, I have used hot chili to recuperate after a stomach bug, but I never new it improved a guy's sex life! (Of course you could have told me before I hit my late 70's!) | |||
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I put Ghost Pepper Salsa on my sandwiches for lunch every day, and I use it to spice up omelets and lots of other food. Been retired for 16 years and have not even had a common cold since I retired. Love that hot and spicy food. --------------- Gary Will Fly for Food... and more Ammo Mosquito Lubrication Video If Guns Cause Crime, Mine Are Defective.... Ted Nugent | |||
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Not sure about moonshine, bu t I do know that beer saved thousands of lives. They never figured out back then, but boiling the water for brewing killed the bacteria that cause dysentery. ------------------------------------- Always the pall bearer, never the corpse. | |||
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Pho with lots of sriracha and sliced jalapeños when you’re sick is like golden nectar from the gods.
That’s because if you’re not an alcoholic, it tends to make you sleep. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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In my case, I took my contacts out about 2 hours after cutting jalapeños, then put them back in the next morning. Searing eye pain & couldn't hold my eye open to get the thing out. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Frangas non Flectes |
I tempted fate by posting in this thread. Felt fine yesterday morning. By mid-afternoon, I felt burning in my sinuses. This morning, sore throat and cough, no appetite and a sore neck. I think I'll be sending the wife to get me a huge bowl of pho here in a bit.  ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
This is my experience as well. I put hot pepper sauce on just about everything and have been doing so my whole adult life. I don't remember the last time I got a cold. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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