Word: anticold
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...cure a cold before it got started. Or so the thinking went. Unfortunately, the logistics, from both a biological and a business point of view, turned out to be a lot more complicated than anyone expected. The crash of the biotech sector, in which some of the more interesting anticold research has taken place, certainly didn't help...
Then there are the folk remedies. These are also beyond numbering, but include traditional notables like hot toddy, hot lemonade, chicken broth, regional potions like the South's horehound and pine-needle tea, and ethnic preparations featuring ingredients like honey, garlic and cayenne. Faith is widespread in the anticold potency of herbs like eucalyptus, mullein leaves, bloodroot and red clover. California Herb Specialist Michael Tierra commends a concoction of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and licorice...
...ameliorate colds; controlled experiments, however, have failed "to provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal anticold regimen: "Don't breathe through your nose or mouth...
...mirror image of its counterpart on earth. On some as yet undiscovered planet there might be antipeople who put freeze in their anti-cars, eat pasto for an anti-appetizer, take a dote to counteract antipoison or a biotic against anti-disease or a histamine for an anticold, who join the Defamation League and who put macassars on their anti-sofas. But antimatter is no joke. What is really fearful about it all is that contact of matter with its antimatter counterpart produces an explosive reaction that annihilates both...
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