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beowabbit ([personal profile] beowabbit) wrote2004-09-16 06:08 pm
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Very slightly gross where-to-purchase question

Does anybody know where in the Boston area I could purchase a neti pot? I have this feeling it would have made this cold go away more quickly.

[identity profile] keyne.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a crunchy-granola market in Central Square -- coffee bar in the front, racks of all-natural soaps and beeswax lipsticks and massage toys in the middle -- that sells 'em. Can't think of the name, though.
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[identity profile] qwrrty.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Harvest Co-Op Markets is the place you're thinking of. I don't remember them selling neti pots there, but I'll take your word for it. :-)

[identity profile] keyne.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a very big store. :) As of about ten months ago, they were on the opposite side from the massage toys, but I dunno how useful that'll be now...

[identity profile] jewelweed.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Harbett's in Harvard Square will have everything you need.

[identity profile] surrealestate.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
You can buy one in any of the crunchy supermarkets: Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Harvest (the last will likely cost way more). Also, the crunchy-sorta drugstores whose names escape me like the one in Harvard Square and the one on Mass Ave between Harvard and Porter have 'em. Any yoga-oriented shop is likely to as well.

I have a very pretty green one. :)

[identity profile] weegoddess.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm almost sure that Whole Paycheck (Buck-a-grape) has them. Harvest Co-op in Central too, though I agree that they would likely be more expensive there.

Another idea:

[identity profile] cathijosephine.livejournal.com 2004-09-16 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you tried a saline nasal spray? It's not quite as drastic, but it's the same idea. The salt water kills a lot of the germs in the parts of the nasal passages that get most exposure to germs. It also helps break down the mucus that gathers there when you are sick, and it keeps the nasal passages from getting dehydrated and irritable.

I've had several doctors tell me to use it. Not that I've ever managed to remember to do it every day. Or even really at all.

[identity profile] zzbottom.livejournal.com 2004-09-17 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I would think that Harvest would have one.

[identity profile] hrafn.livejournal.com 2004-09-17 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I first purchased mine (at Harvest) when I had a bad cold. I don't think it made it go away any quicker, but since I haven't had a cold since (and it's been well over a year!), I haven't been able to test it further . . . It does help clean out the sinuses nicely, though, which helps relieve the pressure a bit, even if the cold itself lingers.

[identity profile] mittelbar.livejournal.com 2004-09-19 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
Just snorking salt water out of your hand (or other shallow cupping device) works OK, too, if you can hack it. :-p