My Russian girlfriend put hardboiled eggs on my sinuses,

[CanuckAmok]

and now my cold is gone!

Chrazy home remedies...what are your favourites?

[fugue]

1. Details please!

I currently have a sinus infection, and all my usual home remedies (ginger and mustard soup, Gypus Cold Care tea, ginger tea) have struck out.

(And I'm even on antibiotics!)

[CanuckAmok]

9. straight from the pot...

still in the shell, wrapped in a tea-towel. Place on either side of your nose, about an inch below your eyes. Keep them on there for about a half-hour or until they are room temperature.

Supposedly they slowly raise the temperature of your sinuses, helping them drain and stay clear.

[fugue]

18. Thanks!

Sounds like a plan!

My grandmother had a wonderful heating pad shaped like a half-mask; it kept her sinuses warm. Now that it is becoming apparent that I inherited her sinuses, I went looking for such a heating pad, but it looks like they don't make 'em anymore. I got one of the gel pack ones, but it doesn't hold its heat for very long.

The eggs might do it!

Thanks again!

[otohara]

14. Hope You're Taking

pro-biotics too!

[Maple]

2. Hot or cold?

With or without the shell?

[MrScorpio]

3. Mmm, About your Russian girlfriend...

You have any pics?

This is coming from a guy who's always amazed at the hotness of Eastern European women.

[CanuckAmok]

6. Try this on for size:

Russian microbiologist/belly-dance instructor, former Soviet-junior marksman, and former gymnast.

Lemonade from lemons, my friend, lemonade from lemons :D

[MrScorpio]

11. God. I love foreign women

So much in fact, I married one.

Yessiree

[RetroLounge]

17. My wife is Estonian

but born here 3 or 4 generations removed.

Has the look, just not the accent.

RL

[HEyHEY]

4. Commie

;-)

[Liberal Veteran]

7. No shit! Everyone knows capitalist cures are better than commie cures!

:)

[HEyHEY]

8. YA! You should be purchasing drugs for that cold!

[shawcomm]

5. Did she shove them up there whole?

[CanuckAmok]

10. You owe me a new keyboard!

And your "force an entire mouthful of tea through your nose" treatment needs some tweaking!

[greenman3610]

12. what's a tea towel?

[Maple]

15. A towel you use

to wipe dishes dry, after the dishes have been washed.

[HEyHEY]

16. Wash? Dishes?

Oh yeah, I guess you could re-use them.

[shawcomm]

13. The tea treatment obviously won't work

when you've got two eggs lodged up there.

:evilgrin: