Homemade alka seltzer question?? Thanks

[nao57]

So in this video this kid shows that you can make homemade alka seltzer at home by mixing citric acid powder and baking soda. Then you just add water when you want to. By the way this is how soda pop was invented too. But back to my question... when watching this they don't tell you the ratios of each to use. So I wanted to ask what you think they should be? Or if some have tried this?

Because... this stuff goes in your guts I wanted to get a 2nd opinion in it and not chance it. But I think this is a good idea to do not just for me to make and have homemade alka seltzer on hand.

Plus the stores are raising prices like crazy on things that cost pennies to make. Its disgusting. I think alka seltzer costs like 5 dollars and then some in the store right now... But I know doing the math on it that alka seltzer is only a few cents worth of dollar store baking soda and then a cheap box to put it in, so it can't be that expensive. Lately I've tried to make lots of things myself to save money because of inflation. I think others should do this too. For example, those emergency epi-pens that beekeepers use should only be about 10 to 15 dollars in the store. For many years they were 10 dollars. Then within just 2 years they are now 200 dollars, because of robber barons. Other products they are charging a killing for also like cough syrup, benadryl, and anti-hystamine products that are cheap too make.

This means I want to suggest people need to learn how to make their own stuff. So you don't go broke.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Best i could tell looking it up it's 1 part citric acid to 2 parts baking soda by weight. By volume its closer to 2:3

And an aspirin.

Citric acid and baking soda are pretty safe so if the ratio is off its not too big a deal. Kool aid is basically straight citric acid and baking soda is consumed straight by professional athletes as an electrolyte. Aspirin is the most dangerous, well it's medicine not food.

On the topic i like to make fake Gatorade with no sodium salt (potassium chloride) and regular salt mixed 1:4. Hits the same spot

And since this is a gardening forum, aspirin was inspired by willows and in my opinion willow bark tastes like aspirin but the plant they actually grew to get the raw chemical was meadowsweet which is on my to grow list

 

[Meadowlark]

...This means I want to suggest people need to learn how to make their own stuff. So you don't go broke.

Welcome back @nao57 Seems like it has been a while.

This being a gardening forum, I like to see people learn how to grow their own veggies....and grow them without the use of expensive synthetics.

Alka-Seltzer is not my bag.

Curious what % of the veggies you consume do you grow for yourself?

 

[Meadowlark]

....And since this is a gardening forum, aspirin was inspired by willows and in my opinion willow bark tastes like aspirin but the plant they actually grew to get the raw chemical was meadowsweet which is on my to grow list

Interesting...meadowsweet. Did not know that.

 

[nao57]

Welcome back @nao57 Seems like it has been a while.

This being a gardening forum, I like to see people learn how to grow their own veggies....and grow them without the use of expensive synthetics.

Alka-Seltzer is not my bag.

Curious what % of the veggies you consume do you grow for yourself?

Sorry I didn't post in a while. Lost track of time. But thank you for remembering me! You are wonderful.

Regarding your % of veggies question...

I have to share the backyard with the rest of the family. And 2 years ago they mutinied because I was doing too much stuff. They were worried I was turning it into a real farm. The irony is they mutinied before they realized how bad the economy was getting and now they are seeing that I was right.

But the result is I can't do as much back there as I used to because of threat of city complaints. I can still garden. But ducks are out. And I can't do as many bees now too.

I used to fill the entire thing with ducks or poultry, beehives and fill all the space with vegetable plants. Then we'd can everything.

I don't have ducks anymore or poultry. I have 1 beehive still (they are hard to overwinter right. so I'm not in a hurry to get back to lots of colonies like before. And I hate honey processing. Its really terrible to mess with honey for a week straight trying to do it without heating it up). I try to only grow stuff we can eat and that will produce volume. So we do squash, pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes. Not doing melons this year but we do melons some years.

Because we're in the city the bees get a lot of chemical exposure so I don't dare buy bees anymore. I only swarm trap them now. If you don't have a truck to take them south for winter its too easy to lose them all. But bees are interesting.

If you make the pumpkins into a soup with meat and butter or just bacon you can turn it into a food item that people can eat and like together. So there are ways of eating it without wanting to die first.

If any of you get a chance ducks are wonderful. Ducks overwinter (survival) better than chickens because them being waterfowl means their blood temperature runs a bit hotter and more fat. So you don't have to worry about them as much as you would chickens. And usually ppl allergic to chicken eggs can eat duck eggs still.

I think there's going to be a lot of farm trouble this year because there's a huge fertilizer problem. So I want to encourage you all to grow a lot of vegetables.

Thank you for treating me so nicely.

 

[Meadowlark]

Ducks...great idea!

 

[Sheal]

In Britain bought medicines have to have the ingredients listed on them, I'm not sure if it's the same in America. If it is, you could check the ingredients and their percentages on bought Alka Seltzer which will give you a guide.