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Tuesday, January 13, 2004Davenport squeezes the juice from several lemons into water and adds the rinds and boils the liquid until the water starts turning brown. He adds a tablespoon or so of honey and a bit of whiskey. (The amount of whiskey varies, depending on who it's for: His adult children get a double shot; his grandchildren -- the youngest is 12 -- get about a tablespoon. He gets it as hot as his patients can stand to drink it and encourages them to drink it before it cools off. Then the sick one is tightly tucked under the covers. Sweating is to be expected! After the sweating ends, he or she changes clothes, gets back in bed and sleeps. Sleep is as much a part of the remedy as the mixture, Sampson Davenport said. His tonic hasn't failed a Davenport yet. Usually, one dose plus rest does it for a bad cold or the flu. It might not cure the flu, but I bet it makes you feel better. I'm not so sure about his wife's remedy, though: Mattie Davenport, a retired registered nurse, also believes in home remedies, though. Several years ago she passed on a remedy to Remonia Chapman of Detroit, who directs the Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Program, a division of the Gift of Life Michigan. Whenever Chapman feels a cold or flu coming on, she swallows a teaspoon of baking soda, quickly followed by some juice. ``You have to drink some type of juice behind it to keep it down so you won't gag,'' Chapman said. ``All my friends laugh at me and say it's gross, but I tell you what, I haven't had a serious cold or the flu since I've been doing this. And I've been doing this for almost seven years.'' posted by Sydney on 1/13/2004 08:30:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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