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A ounce of creative prevention is worth at least a couple of hundred bucks to say the least. By time you pay the doctor for your visit and thank him or her for the prescription and then drive to go get it filled at a pharmacy and pay that bill and finally rush home so you can get the much needed rest that you need only to find your wallet has a more than a few dollars missing. Oh and don't forget the cost of the gas for all that running around.

I used to live like that all the time when I was in my late teens and early twenties. And then by chance I was hired to work at a local Oriental Restaurant. At first I was a waiter and within two months I was made manager. I worked eleven to twelve hours a day three hundred and sixty two days a year. Within three months I was sick with the flu and I was really sick. The restaurant owner needing my services at work due to my ablity to translate between English and Cantonese. My oriental boss took me to his home after work and told me his wife was making some medicine for me. Feeling really bad and the time being after ten at night I went home with him. Upon entering their home after arriving I was blasted by the strong sence of ginger root cooking with something else. Feeling week in the knees I asked what was that offending odour and they replied that it was my medicine. They didn't tell me what was in it and that I needed to drink it hot as I would coffee. After fifteen minutes it was gone and man was I glad to get to bed.

I couldn't believe it. I was shocked. How could this be? It was nine a.m. and I felt pretty good considering how bad I felt just hours ago. And yes I actually got up and went to work at eleven a.m. Later in the day I started to feel a little ruff again later and so took another dose of the oriental drink and by the following morning I was back to normal.

Now for the recipe: It is a can of Coca Cola Classic and three inches of ginger root sliced thin and boiled together for five minutes. Let it cool for only a minute or so and strain into a cup and drink it hot. The ginger heats you up on the inside and dries up all the congestion.

The most days I have taken it has been three consecutive days. The best time to start taking it is when you first feel the onset of the flu or cold. I have many friends that will swear to it amazing affects. And the best part of the whole thing is that a six pack of Coca Cola and a piece of ginger root is less than five dollars at the store. And you don't even need a prescription.

I have been using this same recipe for the last twenty five years and I have only had three colds in that time.

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