The United States dietary guidelines, based on the 2005 Institute of Medicine report, recommend that the general population aim for sodium levels of 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams a day because those levels will not raise blood pressure.
One of the symptoms of the plague was coughing and sneezing, and it is believed that Pope Gregory VII suggested saying âGod bless youâ after a person sneezed in hopes that this prayer would protect them from an otherwise certain death. The expression may have also originated from superstition.
But you don't have to toss out the chamomile just because you or your children get hay fever (another name for the sniffles, watery eyes, and sneezing that plague many people in the fall). A similar reaction to herbal tea is very unlikely.