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Thursday, July 28, 2024
  No More Echinachea
Like clockwork, every winter I get laid out with a nasty cold, and like clockwork, all my earthy, Brooklyn-based friends inform me that, although I should have taken echinacea the second I felt a twinge of illness coming on, it's not too late. I know they mean well, but it's kind of annoying. So imagine my delight—immature, I know, but still delight—to discover that I haven't missed a thing, and echinacea is nothing more than snake oil....
  9:03 AM  
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Have you ever wondered, why "snake oil"? Why not "possum oil" or "squirrel oil" or "trout oil"?
And how does one get oil from a snake? Are there snake juicers for sale at the Vermont Country Store? Makes you wonder, eh?
# posted by Anonymous : 11:42 AM
 
http://www.kishelscents.com/preservatives.htm
# posted by Anonymous : 4:06 PM
 
your brooklyn-based friends? ahem.
# posted by Anonymous : 9:04 AM
 
Well, it's true. Brooklyn and echinacea go together like birkenstocks and white socks...
# posted by richard : 4:29 PM
 
I absolutely swear by echinacea! Works for me every time - and I now take mega doses to avoid full onset of a cold. Why am I a believer? Because when I first tried it, I felt better, but thought to myself..."well, I'm better so it must not have been a cold coming on, just allergies or something"...or another time .."Well I had cold, but I'm cured now and it only lasted two days because my immune system's so strong" In both instances I stopped taking the echinacea because I was "cured". And what happened? They symptoms can smashing back! Reintroduced the echinacea and back to feeling good again. Hallelujah! LOL
# posted by Anonymous : 10:10 AM
 
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