In the UK you can buy an effervescent powder which has had various names in the past, including Liver salts and Health salts.
The powder dates back to the 1890's when it was sold as a medicinal compound to promote "inner cleanliness", and even now it is sold as a remedy for "symptoms of over-indulgence".
In use, a teaspoon of the medicinal powder is put into a glass of water and stirred thoroughly, whereupon it erupts into a fizzy drink. The taste is slightly sweet and salty. It's quite pleasant actually.
With happy memories of drinking it as a kid, I bought a tub of it recently and was surprised to see that the ingredients are really just household items. In fact, it's just one ingredient more than children's sherbet powder.
So I decided to make some....
The powder dates back to the 1890's when it was sold as a medicinal compound to promote "inner cleanliness", and even now it is sold as a remedy for "symptoms of over-indulgence".
In use, a teaspoon of the medicinal powder is put into a glass of water and stirred thoroughly, whereupon it erupts into a fizzy drink. The taste is slightly sweet and salty. It's quite pleasant actually.
With happy memories of drinking it as a kid, I bought a tub of it recently and was surprised to see that the ingredients are really just household items. In fact, it's just one ingredient more than children's sherbet powder.
So I decided to make some....
Good to know because there is no Andrews available and shall have to resort to your most useful analysis!!
Finding out they've discontinued this is a mere. Life saver, I'll be making it asap!
So in 2017 Andrews was the 5th best selling indigestion product, now discontinued by GSK, selling on Ebay for upwards of £25 (150g)
Why? nothing on Google exept medical advice and outdated ads, don`t get me started on rice milk…
Nice one Clive.apparently there is a "manufacturing problem" ATM and no-one has any of this in stock… Ran around all over trying to find it with no luck .. then I remembered in the dim distant past you'd done a vid about it… Made up 100g of it and you are right, it is indistinguishable from the real thing and girly's tummy is soothed. Cheers
We need this now that Andrews has doubled in price thanks to the Tories.
In the 1960's I remember that Andrew's Liver Salts came in a tin that required something like a knife to prize off the lid.
From time to time mammy would give me a spoonful of the contents of the tin in a glass of water. I liked the fizz.
I don't know what the purpose was because I was certainly not indulging in alcoholic beverages when I was about 6 or 7 years old.
Sooo? How does the liver feel after the treatment?
I thought you were showing us an easy, home made emetic, lol. I thing if overindulging is painful enough that you have to consider throwing up as a treatment, there may be some deeper issues, as well. Seems that we’re just talking light indigestion and/or heatburn… well, the whole Pepto Bismol song really. Thank goodness force purges wasn’t the topic.
Maybe that sugar can be changed for a better keto substitution? No sacrifice there but maybe some taste and quantity 😊
love it
Is the sugar necessary or just for flavour?
I don't get why there are no competitors (it seems). Do they have the rights to mixing the 3?
you dont wanna ingest random epsom salts – you need the food grade stuff not the ones intented for foot baths
I would say you would want the grain size to be equal as if they aren't when you shake your tub they will separate and the heavier will gravitate to the bottom and vice versa.
I question anyone that drinks Andrews and not burps after 🧐
In the USA we call this "Alka Seltzer". 🙂
Yum..(Just had to say that).
I didn't realize you can ingest Epsom salts. I thought you were only supposed to soak your feet in them. With H2O, of course.