Pick Me UPs.

Hope all sufferers are feeling better. I'm going for the Zinc and Vitamin C option with plenty of chocolate but thinking about it I've gone off chocolate.



speedy recovery - at least the sun is shining.

Hi Petra and jinglbellsfrocks - this is the beginning of week 4 for me and I'm beginning to feel better. Not so much coughing and I can feel strength coming back into my poor old body. This is the nastiest virus I've had for a long time.

I'm Not. still feel bl---y awful. Glad you are better Petra. Was wondering how you are.

Is everyone over this virus now? I am. Can't believe how weak I felt.

Malt extract with cod liver oil is my pick me up. Either that or Seven Seas multivits for vegetarians

My husband and I have been taking Spiralina for years and are fit as fiddles. I also take CalMag for me bones and Gingko for my poor old brain.

I agree with Vampire - chocolate is a marvellous food source!

Haliborange (sp?) Syrup was the staple tonic when I was growing up. I remember it as being super sweet and therefore yummy.

I must let DH see vampirequeen's post as he believes G&T to be the drink of the devil. His poison of choice is red wine which has similar properties but stains your teeth!

It gets better and better Off to buy shares in Gin distillers.

I did think about fruit and nut but imo that contaminates the chocolate .

Love the thinking on G&T. After all as we get warmer there will be more mozzies so topping up your quinine levels is a good precaution.

As for gin, well it's made from juniper berries which are one of the wonder foods. It combats infection, renal insufficiency, bad coughs and lung congestion, and can jump start a late period. It also helps with tissue renewal and joint pain. Your skin will thank you for having a swift G&T, as will your digestive system and as it's full of free radicals it will help protect you from cancer.

I would think a holiday in the sun would be the best "pick me up" for most people,if at all possible.

Yes I remember Minedex I thought it was revolting.
Do you remember Sanatagen Tonic Wine? My mother used to drink it but I can't say I have seen it for years.

That is the very best justification for G&T I have heard. Well done Pittcity

A bar of fruit and nut with a gin and tonic are my favourites. Healthy ingredients and quinine, so no malaria

I'd make the effort .

Chocolate is an almost perfect food source.

Calcium from the milk....eat it whilst sitting in the sunshine to get the Vit D which helps absorbtion.

Fat for energy, moving vitamins around the body, maintaining cells and skin, brain function.

Sugar gives energy.

Chocolate is a bean. Beans are a vegetable which also provide protein. So part of your 5 a day and helps to repair tissues.

Vampire, did you see that chocolate is again very good for you. They were looking at people who take 100g a day. Even I cannot manage that.

Jingl, I take a Visionace every day, and the vitamins and minerals are pretty similar to your multitabs, but cheaper if you buy them 3 for 2 at Waitrose.

Having had the same virus, I am having a little of what I fancy( so there!)So far, this has been a little of, trifle, fresh cream eclairs,very cold white wine, and some Toblerone.

Hope they do the business, J . Get well soon.

Apparently as we get older, we don't metabolise our food quite so well so don't always get all the nutrients we need. I think a good multi-vit with minerals is a good insurance. It's the road I'm going down after this lot.

I remember Minadex, I gave it to my daughter in the 70's I suspect jingle is right though, a decent diet and enough rest, relaxation and exercise is what we all need.

Boots and Tesco sell a tonic.

I remember Scott's Emulsion. I used to pour it down the back of the bedroom fireplace. Horrible stuff!

Does anyone remember Parrish's Food - an iron tonic? My DM used to dose me and my DF up with it regularly, but I don't remember her ever taking it

In the fifties my mother used to dose us children with a tonic called Minadex which was a combination of vitamins and minerals in a sort of orangey flavoured liquid. Every time we were recovering from some virus or childhood illness, out it came. I remember it fondly. Unfortunately it is no longer available, however you can buy something very similar, by Seven Seas, called Minadex. Have a look at it and see what you think falconbird. I sound like an advert, inadvertantly.