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Cough Remedy
A sure-fire cure for one of those tickling, dry coughs:
Mix lemon juice, honey and - important! - ground ginger.
Add a little hot water to dissolve. Equal amounts of lemon
and honey, but the ginger is more or less up to you. The less water, though, the better.
With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring, And asters purple asterisks for autumn.
~Conrad Aiken
What causes the feeling of butterflies in the stomach?
These are actually small muscle contractions in the digestive tract. The gut's muscles are normally well co-ordinated - but when disrupted by stress, the body's priority is no longer digestion. So, rather than wasting vital blood and oxygen supplies on processing food, the body diverts them to the legs where they can be better used - for example, to help us run out of the way of danger. The gut is therefore shut down by the brain, leaving it with irregular rhythmic contractions.
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