I remember a scene from the first Crocodile Dundee movie, where Mick finds a guy snorting a line of coke in the kitchen of the restaurant; he proceeds to "help" the guy and get a bowl of hot water and a big towel and pour the smack into the bowl as a family remedy. He then instructs the flabbergasted waiter to breathe in the vapors.
On a more serious note .... Salt water nose drops are an old-school antibiotic; both bacteria and viruses hate a saline environment and get killed off if they're soaking in really salty water. It's one of the few things that a virus will respond to, since they don't respond to antibiotics and antivirals are usually saved for pneumonia-type life-of-death infections, since antivirals often have a lot of side-effects.
That's been a family remedy in my family for decades. You can get sophisticated and buy packaged saline solution with a mini-baster from the drug store, or just grab a handful of Morton's best, stir it into a glass of hot tap water, put a representative amount in the palm of your hand, place under nose and snort. It's not elegant, but it's effective.
Bono's getting ripped for using that "strange" salt-water solution here, per singer Danny O'Donoghue-
"Myself and Bono share a vocal coach. Whenever the high notes aren't
feeling that high or in the morning you're groggy, you snort salt water
up your nose.
"It cleans out cavities, it's a natural antiseptic for your throat."
It may not clean out dental cavities, but it will clean out your sinuses. I'm not a singer, but I know if I have too much phlegm in my system, I do a great Barry White imitation.
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