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Things to Try

Date and Time  - Oct. 30th, 2007, 02:09 pm

Current Mood  - blank blank
Current Music  - Mazzy Star - Mary of Silence

From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

   Things to try. — Try popcorn for nausea.
   Try cranberries for malaria.
   Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.
   Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.
   Try clam broth for a weak stomach.
   Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.
   Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.
   Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.
   Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.
   Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.
   Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.
   Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make it palatable.
   Try hard cider -- a wine-glass three times a day -- for ague and rheumatism.
   Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.
   Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping cough.
   Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat.
   Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head."
   Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.
   Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold piercing wind.
   Try planting sunflowers in your garden if compelled to live in a malarial district.


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The Nutmeg

Date and Time  - Sep. 16th, 2001, 12:08 pm

Current Mood  - groggy groggy
Current Music  - Cranes - Watersong

The experience of the nutmeg was, all in all, a good one. I felt trippy and happy. Only mild visuals. Didn't get switchy like I do on pot or acid.

At one point I felt my entire body stripped to just bones. And the bones turned to ash. It sounds awful, but it actually was a nice feeling somehow.

The nutmeg flavor stayed with me longer than I'd have liked. The aftertaste is awful, but nothing compared with the actual taste. Putrid.

I feel extra groggy right now. I'm going to try to drink some coffee and wake up more. I'm still getting the mild visuals. I often get visuals right when I wake up, but this seems slightly more than normal.

I will probably do it again someday, but not for a while. The flavor is enough to make me hesitate as well as the facts that with heavy usage it can be a carcinogen and can become hepatotoxic.

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