Video 004 - Chicken Soup for the Soul

[seishiromustdie]

[Filtered away from Subaru Sumeragi

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[neptanc]

Oh, is someone ill?

[seishiromustdie]

Yes, my housemate.

[neptanc]

Well… medicine won't really help a cold if you're thinking in terms of antibiotics, although if he has a fever then some pain killers might help. Uhmm, well, if you crush a clove of garlic into warm milk, or drink the vinegar out of a jar of pickled walnuts, those always work… ( TRADITIONAL FOLK REMEDIES. ) But so does peppermint!

[seishiromustdie]

[ Peppermint sounds a lot tastier than garlic in warm milk or drinking vinehar out of a jar of picked walnuts. He didn't even think picked walnuts existed.]

Do those things really work?

[neptanc]

Of course they do! They've been used for centuries!

[seishiromustdie]

Centuries? Then it's worth a try

[neptanc]

They're old gypsy cures, actually.

[seishiromustdie]

Gypsy cures?

[neptanc]

I know, it's pretty old fashioned, right? But they did know a lot of folk remedies.

[seishiromustdie]

Anything is worth a try. No matter where it came from.

[neptanc]

What a modern point of view.

[seishiromustdie]

Maybe. But these folk medicines weren't found by luck either.

[neptanc]

You have to wonder about that one, though. I mean, "drink this, it'll help," someone had to be the first.

[seishiromustdie]

Of course.

But I'm the one willing to be the guinea pig. I will never give my housemate something I didn't think was safe.

[neptanc]

These cures are certainly safe, although I don't think they'd be of any use to someone who isn't ill.

[seishiromustdie]

That can be very true,but I can't give someone something that I haven't tried myself.

But it's really up to my housemate to try.