Ash Wednesday, la Cuaresma, Lent

https://youtu.be/tG0mm_gxnFg

Red Root in Winter 

La Guadalupana En la pequeña casa de ciervos, las plantas están creciendo.

Plantada por la Virgen,

Plantada por la Virgen, 

La Gobernadora del jardín. 

In the little deer house, the plants are growing. 

Planted by the Virgin,

Planted by the Virgin,

The governess La Gobanadora of the garden.

      

During this season of tree popping moon, we prepare for la Cuaresma, the Forty Days, and the new year, the first month of the new year, marzo, March and the spring equinox.

 Martius, the planet Mars, action, the Spanish Marzo, to move ahead, forward-march.  Calendario Litúrgico Tradicional Febrero 2021

Cuatro días hasta el miércoles de Ceniza. 

Four days until Ash Wednesday

Lent, from Old English lencten "springtime, spring," refers to the 6 weeks, la Cuaresma, the 40, Ash Wednesday to Easter and is a time of purification and fasting, this year begins Wednesday February 17, 2021A.D. Known as Féria Quarta Cinerum, the day of ashes. The palm fronds from the previous Palm Sunday, el Domingo de Ramos and applied to the forehead. Then follows six weeks of fasting and penance. 

la luz cambió, 

el domingo Septuagesima,

la savia de algodón de Birch alza, 

tu vida es miserable,

empieza a rezar.

The light changes 

Septuagesima

Sap of birch and cottonwood rising

Our life is miserable 

Begin to pray, purify.

Forty days.

Acuérdate de que eres polvo y al polvo volverás

for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. Gen 3:19

Mamacita Take me Home

Song written, music and lyrics written by Paul Manski, all guitars, slide, bass, acoustic, percussion recorded March 1, 2021. Mamacita Take Me Home:

"Up on the mountain where red root grows.

Long tailed ginger, devil's club, arnica.

I can feel the cold bony fingers of La Niña Blanca.

Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios .

Santo Muerte, no te quiero, 

ni te necesito más.

Your lips are red with blood, just like my heart.

Thighs are white like snow, like the clouds above.

Put on earth to help one another,

learn every remedio that grows.

Mamacita, take me home.

Watching snow, snow melt into spring.

The cold icy white blanket of Niña Blanca finally ending.

Up on the mountain, 

where red root grows.

Long tailed ginger, devil's club, arnica.

I can feel the icy fingers of La Niña Blanca. lifting.

Cedar mountain, sitka valeriana , parrot's beak.

Watching snow melt into spring, 

the cold icy fingers of La Niña Blanca finally ending, 

finally gone.

Mamacita take me home.

Mamacita take me home.

Up on the mountain where red root grows.

Long tailed ginger, devil's club, arnica.

Cedar mountain, sitka valeriana, parrot's beak.

I can feel the cold icy fingers melting.

Watching snow melt into spring, the cold icy fingers of La Niña Blanca finally ending, finally gone.

Mamacita take me home.

Nuestra Señora of the Remedios." -by Paul Manski.

The song is about the continuous interplay between evil and good, death vs life, , cold, La Niña Blanca representing the cold icy frozen  juxtaposed by Señora de Los Remedios, the ultimate Mamacita related to the healing plant of living things and authenticity. -blessings for the re-Navidad of everyone, to make all things new in love -pm

https://youtu.be/x80lMON4jQo

       We were taught as children, as believers to move far away from the magic flag wave of  "his"-story, which is the dominant culture narrative and accept a minority tradition here. Our founding fathers made that clear as they dedicated the New World to La Conquistadora, Mary, Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios. 

(L to R)Helen Chávez, Robert Kennedy, César Chávez, February 14, 1968.

César Chávez American Catholic begins 25 day fast. 

Fasting, penance and prayer in the time before spring, Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday is part and central to a minority tradition living in a Fourth Variant landscape

     We do not consider our founding fathers to be those who composed the fake constitution of fear in 1789, or their magic flag waving occupiers today. Not the violent criminals who nauseated on about rights, freedom and independence while defending in law their slave owning so called rights. 

“When you are about to pray to our Lady 

the Holy Virgin, be firmly assured, 

before praying, that you will not depart 

from her without having received mercy."

St. John of Kronstadt

Иоанн Кронштадский

Russian orthodox saint 

     

   

 So we move towards her story, Nuestra Señora, the Blessed Virgin Mary who alone made possible salvation. 

     We are taught that graces and salvation flow and originate in the Mary, Queen of Heaven and Empress of Hell. 

La Guadalupana 

grabó Aladdin Road, 24 de febrero de 2021

https://youtu.be/58NtZ4fvBzg

Desde el cielo una hermosa mañana

La Guadalupana

La Guadalupana bajó al Tepeyac.

Su llegada llenó de alegría

de luz y armonía, todo el Anáhuac.

Toda montañas.

Por/junto al monte pasaba Juan Diego

y acercóse luego

y acercóse luego al oír cantar

Madrecita de las Montañas,

Madrecita de las Montañas,

Estas en el cielo, estas en el cielo,

Ruega Dios por nos. 

En la pequeña casa de ciervos, las plantas están creciendo.

Plantada por la Virgen,

Plantada por la Virgen, Gobernanza

La Gobernadora del jardín.

From heaven, one beautiful morning

the Virgin of Guadalupe

descended to Tepeyac.

Her arrival brought happiness,

light and harmony 

When Juan Diego passed through the mountain

and drew closer when he heard it sung:

From the sky a beautiful morning.

It's a glorious day in the mountains. Our Holy Mother, La Guadalupana, beautiful morning, herbs growing.

In the little deer house, the plants are growing. 

Planted by the Virgin,

Planted by the Virgin,

The governess La Gobanadora of the garden.

      Yet our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has given us a get out of jail free card, His resurrection. So as above grounders, be cognizant of the dead, of the roots stirring, honour them by preparing for the balanced equal light, spring.

     The calendar, from calare, to call out, to call out the new moon and popping trees, cannapopa wi, ‘moon when trees crack from the cold., to announce through observation and arrange things accordingly. February- refers to februum, februare, the  ‘to purify. Preparation for Lent spring Easter resurrection of Christ, Quadragesima 40 days beginning Ash Wednesday Feb 17, 2021, el Miércoles de Ceniza. 

      Lakota call February cannapopa wi, ‘moon when trees crack from the cold.’ Another name was the Old English lyme, lide, loud referring to the loud arranging of things, to make noise, sound off, let off steam, like moving sap and popping frozen trees.   

   Preparation for Lent spring Easter resurrection of Christ, February- refers februum, februare, to purify. Quadragesima 40 days beginning Ash Wednesday Feb 17, 2021. This morn -17F -27C Lakota cannapopa wi, ‘moon when trees crack from the cold.’ Stay warm prepare to purify J+M. We feel the sap rising, yet it is not straight line, it comes and comes, with light and dark, day and night, in fits and starts and cracking popping trees. We embrace a calendar of fasting, prayer and penance to engage the good changes within and without, spring and the resurrection that comes from Our Lady's birth and rebirth. 

     #Cuaresma2021 Es arrogante leer la Biblia como lo hace el protestante, en lugar de eso rezamos. Vamos a la Cruz Verdadera de Nuestra Señora de los Siete Dolores. No podemos entender a Jesús, sin embargo caminamos con Jesús.

     During the Forty Days, we don't become arrogant Christians reading the Bible, instead we fast and pray. We go to the True Cross of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows. We don't pretend to understand Jesus, yet we walk with Jesus.

La #Cuaresma2021: Cuarenta días son un momento de ayuno y penitencia. A menudo el Christero de hoy sólo se dirigirá a rezar en las montañas para encontrar la verdadera Cruz, la Virgen del Dolor y caminar con Jesús. temporalmente lejos de las familias, esta práctica sigue en el suroeste de América en lugares solitarios con pocos visitantes en carreteras sin pavimentar.

Lent, Believe and Do, the Forty days, is a time of fasting and penance. Often the Christero of today, still in a fight, will go to pray on his ranch, in the mountains, temporarily away from familia to find the true Cross, the Sorrowful Virgin and walk with Jesus. This practice still continues in the American southwest and in other lonely places with few visitors, on dirt roads.

Septuagesima, Imbolc midpoint

 "The light changed, 

Septuagesima Sunday

St Brigid Imbolc

 Birch & cottonwood sap rise, 

 Fast and pray." -pm

Connected to a calendar from calare "to announce solemnly, call out," seeing changes, tuning in, the progression of things. The dominant culture offers you a freedom from tradition which is a false magic flag wave. Fasten you're heart to a calendar of seasons.   

     "These times, by day blinding blue sun on snow, by night waxing gibbous moon, between the fir groves her chest high virtues, rival blazing Orion. Now to build a fire, and drink a cup of tea, to glimpse the hero under thick blankets, who will claim the prized embrace?" -pm

"to the north brothers sisters, life on edges, birch, fir, tamarack, steaming hot rocks, Oplopanax, cedar, inside the sweat Holy name of Jesus, ice fog bobcat and turkey, St. John's wort butter, bees wax." -pm

     

Sap begins to rise in birch, some cottonwoods have tiny fragrant buds to be gathered, placed in oil to soothe nourish skin. Mark these changes, announce them.

 In my tradition, Septuagesima Sunday, the music takes a minor sound preparing for Ash Wednesday and Lent. Although festive there is a tone of melancholy, mourning, things, people, relationships situations that have passed. Yet our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has given us a get out of jail free card, His resurrection. So as above grounders, be cognizant of the dead, of the roots stirring, honour them by preparing for the light, spring.

I Hope To See Jesus, When He Comes

 "I Hope To See Jesus When He Comes", 

original song by Paul Manski, all guitars, lyrics, vocals and pictures by Paul Manski. Recorded 12-5-2016

https://youtu.be/Md1hA7xlLvk

"I hope to see Jesus when he comes,

I hope to see Jesus when he comes,

The father son and holy ghost one are one, I hope to see Jesus when he comes.

Chorus: When He comes, When he comes,

the father son and holy ghost are one. 

I hope to see Jesus, I hope to see Jesus, 

I hope to see Jesus when he comes. 

I hope to see Jesus when he comes./

 I hope to see the rapture when it comes

 all those sleeping now will be walking in the sun, I hope to see the rapture when it comes./ 

Chorus: 

I hope to see sweet Mary when she comes,  I hope to see sweet Mary when she comes, wearing a blue

Mantle the queen of of Heaven reign's has begun 

I hope to see sweet Mary when she comes./ 

Chorus:

I'll see Moses and Elijah when they come,

I'll see Moses and Elijah when they come. I'll see Moses and Elijah and all the Hebrew prophets, when they come

I'll see Moses and Elijah when they come ./

Chorus:

I will see the four Horsemen when they come, I will see the four Horsemen when they come,

Matthew Mark Luke and John with these you can't go wrong. I will see the four Horsemen when they come.

Chorus:

 I'll see the four Horsemen when they come. I'll see the four Horsemen when they come.

Chorus:

 I hope to see Wovoka when he comes,

I hope to see Wovoka when he comes

it will roll up like a carpet, Buffalo will thunder, 

I hope to see Wovoka when he comes.

Chorus:

It will roll up like carpet when he comes,

It will roll up like carpet when he comes.

Buffalo thunder, the grass will be greener 

it will roll up like a carpet when he comes.

Chorus:

I hope to know God's mercy when he comes,

I hope to know God's mercy when he comes.

i've been such a poor sinner my faith just getting thinner,

hope to know God's mercy when he comes.

Chorus:

I will wear my ghost shirt and be dancing when he comes. 

I will wear my ghost shirt and be dancing when he comes. 

I will wear my ghost shirt and be dancing when he comes, the weapons can not stop me,

I'll be wearing my ghost shirt dancing

 when you he comes.

Chorus:

I hope to see Jesus when he comes,

I hope to see Jesus when he comes,

The father son and holy ghost one are one, I hope to see Jesus when he comes.

Chorus: When He comes, When he comes,

the father son and holy ghost are one. 

I hope to see Jesus, I hope to see Jesus, 

I hope to see Jesus when he comes."

Words and music by Paul Manski, traditional melody. 

Aspen tangle roots

 "#aspen is a tangle of roots living by fire and ice. The pronouns of deciduous trees, cool wet mountain #Populustremuloides, eighty thousand years of roots. In #hibernalis, #hiver, the leaf shaking nation, auprès de ma blonde gold, doug fir, north aspen meadow. 

I remember spring, soft bitter barked forest eyes watching green. 

Warm wet white clouds straight up on creosote saguaro ocotillo plains, past the blue and san francisco, along juan miller past fred fritz daffodil grave, past silk tassel sycamore creeks, yerba santa manzanita cliffs, soaring into single seed juniper. 

Cold shadows grow, desert meets mountain on fields of red root fendleri. Remnant north #ligusticum islands below raspberry peak with gentian. #Arctostaphylos #uva-ursi, great bear, raindrops dropped pedicularis sweet cicely rainbows. Lightening pumps and thumps the ground, thunder exploding the crown. Fire flows down sap red orange embers in twilight. Smoke like water sinks to the ground. Hail begins to fall, summer turned to winter. Feeding #neanderthal paleo roots, snow covered #walkingmountain.

The pronouns of lightning torched aspen, i us them we."

-Paul Manski 12/4/2020

Advent, Ultimate Christmas

      Merry Advent ultimate Christmas, season, Christmas welcome! 

We, you and I all who in perfect accord are doing prep. Prepping Jesus, Mary, time place, person. 

      We are all in this time proclaiming ultimate redemption, salvation, winter solstice dark time awaiting Jesus, love. We will overcome the shun and be who we are, experiencing what is meant to be! Have no fear in Christ Jesus our savior. Trad European Christmas identity tradition of Advent begins now, four weeks before Christmas. What a gift to prophet this voice, even in shun. We celebrate this season, our people inhabit this celestial place awaiting the birth re-birth of Jesus Christ, our kinsman redeemer. Preparing the time and place. If you find the freakzoid losers co-opting our virgin birth Christ winter season allow them to go into their antifa safe space. As such it is a bioregional biospirit season of northland. It is not meant for everyone or meant to be everything. It is us and among us. You are northland. Like many inauthentic, dystopian undertakings in this psyop one world 5G state that seeks to zombify the Christian into cyborg fusion of machine and biology, this is a defacto illegal banned hate speech activity. Yet it is told. We are Christmas. There is a sanctioned 501c3 official state church Christmas and then there’s Christmas, the one with Jesus Christ, Joseph and the virgin Theotokos, God-woman Mary, the woman who carries the salvation of the world in her belly. We as authentic persons don’t justify our northland holy day holiday. In our homelands we effortlessly inhabit the bioregional space that is white Christmas. We are what remains as remnant white Christmas. I salute you, their shun has no jurisdiction over my, your, our experience. 

In our exclusive tradition, the angel Gabriel, being the messenger of God announces to Mary, she would be the Mother of God. Within this annunciation is the fiat, be it done to me according to thy word. Yes, to give assent.  You as Mary, as woman are likewise mother. No one in northland can exist for a single breath of moment without you, perfect exquisite woman. With you, I, we will do ultimate Christmas. Prounouns, we, us and yes. At this point there is absolutely nothing in common with this government season of Thanksgiving, black friday, or any of the overt trash that is dominant culture Disneyland Christmas. It’s important to note it is the mass of Christ, the unbloody sacrifice on the altar in the mass of all time. If you do not believe in the body and blood of Christ shed for many, not all, then you are a psyop colonialist walking on our sacred ground. Leave us alone, do kwan za or something but decolonize yourselves from Jesus Christ, advent and Christmas. 

During the 4 weeks prior to Christmas called Advent time, we prepare for the birth of Jesus Christ. No not a shopping mall orgy of consumer spending, keep a distance and find your own senseless stupid narrative. Just as the birth of Jesus was the most important event in our western history, and we are western history, the birth of Christ as the celebration of Christmas is the most important event in our lives. It has nothing to do with dominant culture psyop america theatre of the absurd, zero. Some would try to explain this tradition to dominant culture Americans, if I do it is only to reinhabit and detoxify the stolen robbed space. Never is there an attempt to explain to dominant culturalists the what of who we must be. The majority having been programmed at atheist government schools with no exposure to faith, lack capacity and reciprocity of understanding, perhaps it’s best to revert to geography. Just say 50 north, 50N rather than Adent, Christmas or other culturally embedded terms. People become frustrated with lexicon, as if is there was a sound spoken with the tongue separated  from experience. There is no separation of experience in overcoming. 

     My grandparents came from a mountainous region of what is now Poland. Silesia borders Austria, Germany, Slovakia. It is a geographic area of traditional Christians for nearly 2000 years. It’s latitude is 50.5N and if in north America would be further north than any area of the lower 48 states. Geography and latitude determine much of our tradition of Christmas. Wreaths of evergreens, the Christmas tree brought into the house decorated with ornaments, specifically the time of year late November with the celebration December 25 to January 6, all are connected to the obvious dark cold, winter, where the sun darkens at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Until 1254AD there was one Christian church Catholic Orthodox, with a common tradition. It was in the people on the land. It has not changed significantly for us. We remain embedded in Christ.

https://pgmanski.blogspot.com/2020/06/abies-grandis-fir-tree-medicine.html?m=0

America for most of us has always been a weird secular, communist, atheist banana republic tropical state with oranges, magic flag waving, chanting free, free, free mantra litanies and virtue signaling to a fake Judeo-Christian heritage. It never meant a thing to us. The obvious concept, we will bury you, because we are not limited to psyop. In the catholic faith there is no common ground with jews, none. There will never be a dialogue or ecumenism with elements whose impetus is our enslavement and occupation. Of course it’s important to preface this with, the current pope is at best an imposter pope. The so called vatican 2 novus ordo, new order, new world order church from 1958 on, is a new kind of Neo-protestant, Judeo-Christian fake religion impossible. Judean=Christmas bashers, with the emphasis on jew, have absolutely no input into this discussion. It’s on the same level of everything magical america, constitution, rights, elections, conservatism, democrat, republican, liberal dysfunctional, dystopian medical police pharma 5G surveillence stasi, multiple gender atheist new world order state, bad theatre meant to fill one with fear and dread. Keep your fear, guilt, apology and dread, we apologize to no one. 

     Starting at the garbage dump civil war, with 700,000 americans dead Lincoln became the ultimate disgusting anti-hero. If people in their legitimate politic decide to separate, do you slaughter them to preserve a fake union? Lincoln was a significant supporter of the coastal elite Atlantic ocean vs heartlanders dynamic that has defined America. Current surveillance state America views Lincoln as a hero and all the death song diplomat traitiors of sovereignty that came later who made a mockery of life abundantly. The traumatic ritual suicide of ww1, ww2, korea, vietnam, iraq, all the flag waving enemies of autonomy conspire to conceal the obvious, culminating in the psyop covid presidential selection steal of 2020.    The 1940's saw a deeper slide into fiction and wealth redistribution through a tax system empty of group politic representation, the ocean going gloabalists in ww2, this time taking a two ocean approach, Atlantic and Pacific. A bi-coastal east west coast steal of the heartland. The errors of Jewish Bolshevik atheist Russia communists in 1917 spreading, culminating in the election of commie FDR in 1932. The destruction of nationalism as a policy at home and abroad. Joining with the UK atlanticists and communist Soviet Union in ww2. The emergence of the bi-coastal Pacific Atlantic grandiosity of now two ocean dominance continuously reducing the heartland blood and soil. Then the absurd wars Korea, Vietnam, Gulf, Iraq, Afganistan, draining what little was left of nationhood of the heartlanders. Who were the fake Bush neocons? One thing for sure the epic gulf Mideast boomer wars stripped the center heartland of hopes, dreams and sovereignty. The world wide communist covid-19 reset plandemic to bankrupt small business transfer more wealth to the oligarchs with the cherry in the cake, theft of the election win of Donald Trump and install a 78 year old incapable pathetic patsy president for a antiChristian banana republic. Each chapter unfolding more decadent and stupid than the last. 

Let’s get back to Jesus, the virgin Mary, Advent and the Christmas tree...America has a strong protestant anti-Catholic, anti-Orthodox tradition. In America you live, move and have your being in an occupied zone and the goal is always an anonymous consumer, anti-Christian empire. As such it’s anti-Christmas. Spend, spend, spend, buy buy buy, die die die consumer paradise. Open Borders, the great reset, vaccines and refugees to dilute the heartland. In the protestant tradition there is a tendency to always go to the Bible to justify and to vilify traditions. There is no Christmas tree in the Bible. As in so what? For many Christian sects the traditions of Christmas are some how suspect because they are not mentioned in the Bible. There is a tendency to Americanize all and any celebrations, especially the celebration of Christmas, to call it a holiday, seasons greetings, turn it into a generic consumer orgy of money, spending, shopping and so on. Christmas is the game changer of world history, BC vs AD, before and after. In America, not so much it’s pathetic magic flag waving slogan. I mean a nation that outlaws prayer, any and all prayer or mention of God, Christ, the heritage of her own people in their public tax payer schools is going to have a massively garbage take on a Christian season. A enormous loser approach at cultural appropriation of our holiday, holy-day, holy-season, advent, our Christ Jesus kinsman redeemer. 

     There are various parts of America whose intention is to secularize Christmas, make it into a generic non-religious celebration of glutony and debt. The recent covid-19 Great Reset psyop pushes this narrative and uses various usually hostile forces to come together in the great mission of Christmas bashing. So you may have atheists, Jews, evangelical Christian sects, satanists, antifa, Islam, pagans, wicca, all coming together, taking turns in their own disgusting way to guilt shame shun our exclusive Celebration of Christmas. They have no victory over us consumed in love. Consumed in love for our people, place and tradition. Proclaim this good news celestial, earthly, superspiritual, He is here among us on this field of dreams. Wrapped in your perfect embrace woman I proclaim now and forever, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, salute Christ the king and prepare. Us together in synchronous unity, believe and do this advent season. I would tell you everything in this shun. I promise  you we together will break this shun. You are, just as she was, and death shall have no dominion. 

Fire Cider

       #FireCider is an excellent way to get the community based free herbalism thing going. Keeping it simple with food/slash/medicine plants people are familiar. You can later add more controversial less understood plants after people get ok with it. Preaching to the choir is cool yet it's important to help mitigate suffering by using things people can relate. Then later go further. I go heavy on the onions, garlic, horseradish, ginger less so on cayenne. The whole meyers lemons add a different kind of tartness and the rind a bitter element. The honey here is more aesthetic, taste rather than a medicinal amount. 

Fire cider recipe:

equal parts: fresh chopped: 1)garlic 2)horseradish root

3)onion 4)hot peppers 5)ginger 6)meyer lemons place in 1/2 gallon jar cover w apple cider vinegar, let sit for 14 days, drain, add 4oz honey, take 1oz every morning during winter. Keeping it simple here, herbs can help people along on their road. Fire cider is accessible, familiar and by going soft on the pepper you'll find you can gift it and people are open to using it.

     You can add elderberry, rose hips, turmeric astragulus. This is a simple community based recipe. #FireCider is an example of an acetum, oxymel an excellent way to keep herbs for winter use. The heavy alcohol thing can be a turn off, especially with kids and families. Begin to use experiment, play around with vinegar honey with herbs at this time. As an example rather than an elderberry tincture, make a cooked syrup or use vinegar acetum to get the herbal stuff, the herbal constituents into people's bodies. No matter how fine or excellent an herbal remedy is, it's totally useless if people don't take it. Some people go too heavy on the cayenne, making fire cider too hot. The main thing is to get the food/slash/plant herbal medicines into bodies. Garlic onions have good properties, healing therapeutic properties. Ginger horseradish, are warming herbs, work together to help cough, loosen bronchial secretions, all important for damp cold stuck conditions. 

     In a vitalist approach, the without is within and the within is without, meaning that the winter itself, the winter that is happening outside, rain and snow, a cold damp condition, is not a pathological condition, just a condition, a season. Moving towards descriptive, what is, rather than prescriptive, what should be. Winter is cold, it's just what it is. The body at certain times gets cold and damp, stuck in a cold damp condition. I tend to be going into a place where i don't want to use terms like antiviral, antibiotic, anti-anything. Describe and note conditions, presentations, symptoms, what is actually happening rather than a medical diagnosis.  Fire cider is a small miracle because it works, it's simple, familiar and available, people are willing to use it and once you strain it out you still can use everything remaining in the jar as a food condiment, add a little redmonds utah red salt and you have excellent tasty seasoning to add to soups, salad, omelettes. Food, life, herbs, community.

      I am Using equal parts by chopped cut up volume, eyeballing it. Roughly a glass Pyrex 8oz measuring cup rounded full of each. Since this may go to a general public without a lot of experience with herbs, I go with a medium hot jalapeño rather than cayenne powder or something like a habernero. I go heavy on garlic, onions, horseradish, ginger, not so much peppers. The honey amount 4oz added to the strained liquid result of a 64oz jar is less than say a Rosemary Gladstar recipe. While having about the same ratio horseradish ginger onion, a lot more garlic, more jalapeño compared to Rosemary G. 

     I kind of view it as a prophylactic, within that continuum of food plant  to medicine plant, closer to food plant, like an introduction to herbs although potent in its own right. 

      If some was coming down with a low grade fever, achy, no obvious chest involvement or overt congestion, dry unproductive cough in our current situation:i would probably go with a Sambucus dried leaf tincture, lobelia tincture or acetum, ginger/tumeric tincture tea, Elderberry flower tincture or tea, Red root tincture, Ligusticum Angelica combo tincture, Yerba mansa or elephant tree tincture, an Asteracea ally like echinacea, rudbeckia or balsam root, with Skullcap, Pedicularis,  Anemone, or a strong Prunus bark not for cough but  to encourage sleep rest, and  fairly large amounts of those herbs, and since that's a lot of herbs, back off on the fire cider to avoid stomach upset. That's off the top of my head.