Adora
12-19-2007, 07:48 AM
So I'm here in Japan and stuck with a nasty throat infection in Kyoto. Unfortunately, like many tihngs, Japan has yet to get with the program* regarding pharmacy and start using codeine and pseudoephedrine in their cold medication.
So I need to know of some good alternates that might be available over the counter here, or of some dead-certain natural remedies I can get my hands on. I can read the katakana to an extent where I know what the generics in the box I'm getting are, and I only got home today with my little yellow box to realise they basically gave me a bunch of shitty vitamins that will do nothing.
I think I can get ibuprofen in one, so maybe that will help. But anything else is greatly appreciated. I can't even find a fucking vegetable store to buy some lemons to make lemon tea. ;_;
*Ditto with smoking allowances in restaurants and pubs, which is one of the reasons my tonsils are all swollen and gross and infected at the moment. Fuckin' idiots...
So I need to know of some good alternates that might be available over the counter here, or of some dead-certain natural remedies I can get my hands on. I can read the katakana to an extent where I know what the generics in the box I'm getting are, and I only got home today with my little yellow box to realise they basically gave me a bunch of shitty vitamins that will do nothing.
I think I can get ibuprofen in one, so maybe that will help. But anything else is greatly appreciated. I can't even find a fucking vegetable store to buy some lemons to make lemon tea. ;_;
*Ditto with smoking allowances in restaurants and pubs, which is one of the reasons my tonsils are all swollen and gross and infected at the moment. Fuckin' idiots...