Welcome to Steepster, an online tea community.

Write a tea journal, see what others are drinking and get recommendations from people you trust. Sign Up or Learn More

Dinosara

275 Followers / 229 Following

Dinosara drank Rose Tieguanyin by Custom

I feel like death warmed over this morning. I immediately caught some cold the first day I was in China, and it’s not improving so far. The fact that I don’t have easy access to western medicines I would normally turn to (omg I would kill for a cough drop) isn’t helping. Yes, there are places that sell western medicines, but there aren’t any around me and I don’t have the time or energy to go off looking for them. And it’s not like I can just waltz into a Chinese pharmacy and ask for cough medicine because I speak next to no Chinese. Trying to do that to find a decongestant got me some nasal allergy spray which is helping some but not exactly what I wanted.

Anyway, a cup of hot tea is helping a bit and I’ll probably try to go to the grocery store again and look for some others with some helping herbs. This tea isn’t as rosy today, or maybe I just can’t tell.

2012-03-28 19:55:03 -0400

Boiling

3 min 0 sec

I Like This

11 likes

6 comments

People who liked this

Comments

Azzrian 2012-03-28 20:56:04 -0400

Would be an excellent time to seek some eastern remedies which I prefer anyway :)
Go in point to your throat and see what they hand over. It has to suck big time being sick on vacation though! So sorry.

ashmanra 2012-03-28 22:56:53 -0400

My oldst just left Budapest to go to Northern Ireland and she is in the same shape! She thinks they got overtired traveling and trying to see so much so fast. The happy news is that is buying tea for me everywhere she goes….local things mostly that we can’t get here in the states! :)

ashmanra 2012-03-28 22:58:03 -0400

You could try a saline nasal rinse if you can get some non-iodized salt to mix n warm water. Maybe that would help? I hope your tea soothes your throat!

Birdman 2012-03-29 01:28:42 -0400

Ashmanra is right about the rinse. It will make a huge difference. I’m sure you can’t be too far from a neti pot retailer. Or if you’re really desperate, use your tea kettle? Just don’t post any tasting notes…lol. Hope you feel better!

Dinosara 2012-03-29 05:26:00 -0400

Thanks for the thoughts, all. My stuffy nose is on it’s way out already, but I now seem to have contracted a bad case of “Beijing cough” due to the extreme dryness and pollution in the air. I don’t have anything against trying Eastern medicines, but without speaking any chinese I don’t want to risk taking something without knowing what it is. I did pick up some new tea additives today, though, so I am looking forward to trying new blends.

Heather Martin 2012-03-30 01:46:01 -0400

Buy an onion and some honey…peel the onion and put some in a bowl, add some honey and keep layering the two. Let it sit overnight and about a cup of cough syrup should be there. I’ve not tried this myself, but I have have tried garlic and honey, and whoa…this should be a bit gentler on the palate I think.

Follow Get this person's updates

Profile

Bio

I am tea obsessed, with the stash to match. I tend to really enjoy green oolongs, Chinese blacks, and flavored teas with high quality bases, especially florals, bergamot-based teas, and chocolate teas.

I’m a grad student and in my free time I am a birder, baker, and music/movie/tv addict.

I have an Adagio Teas UtiliTEA kettle and a Tea Forté Kati cup for brewing. I also have a Chinese Ru Kiln tea set for gongfu brewing.

Here are my rating categories, FYI:
100-90: These teas are mind-blowingly good to me.
89-80: I really really like these teas and will keep most of them in the permanent collection, but they’re not quite as spectacular as the top category
79-70: Tasty teas that I enjoy, but definitely won’t rebuy when I run out.
69-65: Teas that I would probably drink again, but wouldn’t seek out. They don’t quite do it for me in one aspect or another; often just not quite my style
64-60: Teas that I don’t really enjoy all that much and wouldn’t drink another cup of.
59-50: Bleh. I usually choose not to finish the cup because life’s too short to drink tea I dislike.
49 and below: Mega yuck. This tea is just disgusting to me.