{"id":1018,"date":"2005-06-01T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/allergies\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:25","slug":"allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year seems to be especially bad for allergies.  I&#8217;m not suffering (yet), but I&#8217;ve been collecting people&#8217;s remedies.  Sure, you could just take pills for it, but think of what they may or may not be doing to your liver!  Here are the remedies I&#8217;ve heard of.<\/p>\n<table border = 1>\n<tr>\n<th>Remedy<\/th>\n<th>Does it work?<\/th>\n<th>How?<\/th>\n<th>Negatives<\/th>\n<th>Summary<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eating local honey<\/td>\n<td>I dunno<\/td>\n<td>the bees collect pollen from local plants and use it for honey.  somehow this is supposed to help<\/td>\n<td>none, unless you&#8217;re allergic to honey, a really hardcore vegan or mistakenly hate carbs.  Honey is healthier than refined sugar.<\/td>\n<td>Honey in tea is yummy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Taking vitamin C<\/td>\n<td>Anna, Jamilla&#8217;s wife, swears by it<\/td>\n<td>got me<\/td>\n<td>Taking too much vitamin C over a long periodof time is supposedly bad for you.  But hey, it&#8217;s water-soluable and you&#8217;ll piss it out.<\/td>\n<td>I&#8217;d try it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Air purifier<\/td>\n<td>some do<\/td>\n<td>removes allergens from air<\/td>\n<td>Probably incompatible with open windows, increases electricity usage.<\/td>\n<td>this works really well in cars with high-quality air filters installed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.active.ch\/gerstei\/main.en.html\">Nessie pot<\/a>: pouring (sea)salt water in one nostril and letting it run out the other.<\/td>\n<td>Seems to<\/td>\n<td>clears gunk like pollen and dander out of your sinuses.  A good way to start your day.<\/td>\n<td>Feels like getting water up your nose.  Especially annoying the first few times you do it (that burning means it&#8217;s working.)  Remember to keep your mouth open while you do it.<\/td>\n<td>I&#8217;ve done this.  It helped<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Allergies\" rel=\"tag\">Allergies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year seems to be especially bad for allergies. I&#8217;m not suffering (yet), but I&#8217;ve been collecting people&#8217;s remedies. Sure, you could just take pills for it, but think of what they may or may not be doing to your liver! Here are the remedies I&#8217;ve heard of. Remedy Does it work? How? Negatives Summary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/allergies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Allergies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}