Best home remedies for the Common Cold?
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Puff_Dougie
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Picked up a doozy from my 12-year-old. I feel like poop. What have y'all found to be the most effective remedies for cold symptoms?
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Wow Puff, sorry to hear that. Whenever I get a cold I isolate myself to one room with a TV. I get plenty of rest, take in lots of fluids like water, chicken soup, sports drink and I bump up vitamins like zinc & vitamin C. Hope you feel better soonest.
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Lessening your symptoms can prolong your cold =/
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last winter the hot toddy got me through a cold. Either helps the symptoms or stops the caring. Win-win.
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Ginger root, ginger root, and ginger root. Read it is one of the only things kills rhino-virus which is the base of the common cold so it is a good preventative measure. I buy ginger root, shave about a tablespoon or so and brew regular tea with it in the basket. I try and drink a cup every other day or so, very tasty. That will build your defenses.
For the cold symptoms I made ginger, hyssop and sage tea, have a heath food store down the road all kinds of fresh herbs. A little honey for sweetness too. Picked up some eucalyptus oil, couple of drops in a bowl of warm water, towel over your head, for vaporizing the congestion. Done this the last 2 times, seems to help. I am no doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Hate going to the doctor and hate taking antibiotics if I don't have to.
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Hot buttered rum with lemon. Wrap up in a couple of blankets and sweat it out.
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Yep. Plenty of whiskey, a stack of wool blankets, and plan to change the sheets after you sweat them all stinky.First Warrior:Hot buttered rum with lemon. Wrap up in a couple of blankets and sweat it out. -
Hot water, lemon juice and honey help ease some of the symptoms and a soar throat. A good couple shots of whiskey help me sleep it off.
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Two possibilities. One is the chemo-therapy approach. Start drinking Jack Daniels until someone dies, you or the bug. The other is Zinc. Tastes like sh!t, but makes it manageable.
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I tend to eat a lot of hot and sour soup plus spicy foods! Kills my gut but you sweat it all out...plus the soup is really good for you
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Homemade chicken soup if Mrs. Puff is up for it. Then finish it off with warm whiskey, lemon and some hot water.
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Ice Cold Vodka and hot sauce.....in a shot glass.
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Thanks, brothers. Still feeling crappy, but a big bowl of Mrs. Puff's 5 alarm chili opened up the sinuses for the moment. Wish I could go to bed for a few days, but there are no paid days off in commission sales. May just have to work my way through all of these great suggestions...
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Sleep and liquids really best thing, especially liquids that help you sleep.
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Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever.....with that said, basically Vitamin C, homemade chicken noodle soup, fluids, and lots of rest... and a couple Hot Totties at night!!!!!
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Trust him, He's a Dr. Loldr_frankenstein56:sex.
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it works in my opinion.
try it, treat it like its the last shot at procreating ever... you will find strength in places you never had...
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Bear root syrup (or Osha root), Nasty tasting stuff, like extremely strong licorice, but it will knock the hell out of a cough.
It's a native thing, but my grandmother used to make us take it when we caught colds.
Probably though, the taste made us forget about the cough. -
Best. Prescription. Ever. :^)roland_7707:
Trust him, He's a Dr. Loldr_frankenstein56:sex.
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I saw this when it was posted and laughed to my self. Every time I feel a cold coming on this is basically what I do, however I start with Rumplemintz (it's like caugh surup) and keep going. 90% of the time I wake fine. No more cold, also steam shower during this "kill process" is key.Ken Light:Two possibilities. One is the chemo-therapy approach. Start drinking Jack Daniels until someone dies, you or the bug. The other is Zinc. Tastes like sh!t, but makes it manageable.
