COMMON REMEDIES FOR THE COMMON COLD &SORE THROAT

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COMMON REMEDIES FOR THE COMMON COLD & SORE THROAT

 

Echinacea offers natural protection against colds and flu.

It stimulates your immune system and helps your body defend itself against virus' and bacteria.

 

Garlic is said to work wonders. Take a large clove, peel and keep it in your mouth. Bite down every so-often to release the natural juices. Replace with a new clove every four or five hours. Your cold symptoms are reported to be to gone in twenty four, to forty eight hours.

Your Spouse and friends are gone in 1 hour.

 

Your nose all stuffed up? Try eating some hot or spicy foods which should open up those blocked nasal passages and you won't have the rebound effect of taking too many nose drops!

 

Not hungry? Try a few minutes of vigorous exercise. The increased oxygen demand of your body will almost certainly cause you to breathe deeper and help open-up your blocked nasal passages naturally.

 

Chest congestion can be effectively cleared up by any of the over-the counter vapor medications, or try breathing a mixture of hot vinegar, or white wine. Breath in the vapors for a few minutes, and you should get relief!

 

Coughs and sore throats can be controlled with several home remedies. A classic required a large lemon. Start by slowly roasting it until it just splits open. Now take up to half a teaspoon of honey with the juice from the lemon. Repeat at hourly intervals until the cough is under control.

 

To cure a sore throat Juice 3 pineapple rings and a 1/4 thick slice of Ginger.

They both have anti-inflammatory agents to help speed healing of a sore throat.

 

Influenza! Yarrow herb known as milfoil has been used with good results to stop hemorrhaging of the lungs. If the tea is taken freely at the beginning of a cold, mixed with elderberry blossoms and peppermint, and the patient remains in bed, it will break up a cold and flu within 24 hours.

 

For a bad cold, take a teaspoonful of Arm & Hammer soda in a glass of cold water. If taken 15 minutes or so before a meal for 5 meals, it will banish a cold.

If the stomach is empty, the soda passes on through it into the intestines and kills the acid forming there. The soda stops acid formation, which during a cold forms in the intestines, is absorbed into the blood and filters out through the membranes of the nose, throat, eyes and lungs.

 

Cayenne and eyebright teas will dry up a cold quickly.

 

Cream of tartar in a glass of water, one teaspoonful, will quickly banish fevers.

 

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