Chances are, if you've skied with me often in the last half decade, you got tired of listening to my winter cough.
From November to April, I kept Halls cough drop stock on the rise, in a losing battle against The Cough. Besides Halls, I have been to allergy docs, asthma docs, ENT docs, and tried every modern medicine they could think of. Like a bad penny, The Cough would turn up. by late afternoon on a ski day, I would have a headache from coughing so forcefully. The Cough would follow me home, and follow me to work.
This year, I (knock on wood) don't have a cough. The only remarkable difference is that I take a wild oregano pill every night. @dondenver is one of the many that have had to endure my coughing on the chairlift, and last winter, he recommended I take oregano pills. Oregano has a buncha antioxidants, and is a natural anti inflammatory. I was skeptical, but I did try it late last winter. Unfortunately, the cough was in full force, and the oregano had too much of a hill to climb, I reckon. This year, I started taking oregano pills about six weeks before the lifts started turning. I keep waiting for a brain rattling cough, yet today was day 24 making turns, several of them in single digit temps, and still no cough. The season isn't over, but it's been a very different winter so far.
Thanks, Don!
From November to April, I kept Halls cough drop stock on the rise, in a losing battle against The Cough. Besides Halls, I have been to allergy docs, asthma docs, ENT docs, and tried every modern medicine they could think of. Like a bad penny, The Cough would turn up. by late afternoon on a ski day, I would have a headache from coughing so forcefully. The Cough would follow me home, and follow me to work.
This year, I (knock on wood) don't have a cough. The only remarkable difference is that I take a wild oregano pill every night. @dondenver is one of the many that have had to endure my coughing on the chairlift, and last winter, he recommended I take oregano pills. Oregano has a buncha antioxidants, and is a natural anti inflammatory. I was skeptical, but I did try it late last winter. Unfortunately, the cough was in full force, and the oregano had too much of a hill to climb, I reckon. This year, I started taking oregano pills about six weeks before the lifts started turning. I keep waiting for a brain rattling cough, yet today was day 24 making turns, several of them in single digit temps, and still no cough. The season isn't over, but it's been a very different winter so far.
Thanks, Don!
