Cold remedies
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Random fact for the day...
Upto about 1990 Vicks inhalers contained some methamphetamine.
Upto about 1990 Vicks inhalers contained some methamphetamine.
Frsh orange juice(or carton if you can't get fresh) tumeric and ginger. Delicious and a great nutritional cold buster.
For the gunk. Hot water in a bowl, with a few drops of eucalyptus oil, towel over head, and breath in the steam.
For the gunk. Hot water in a bowl, with a few drops of eucalyptus oil, towel over head, and breath in the steam.
Night Nurse and a glass of Scotch, you'll be flying so high you won't care about a cold. 
Grate up an onion, put it in a jar, cover it in sugar (brown is good, but any will do ) cover the jar and set it aside...the fridge is fine. By tonight you'll have a syrup formed. A teaspoonful of that sooked slowly will soothe a sore throat, and help clear your head.
The alternative is a good hot curry
The alternative is a good hot curry
Grate up an onion, put it in a jar, cover it in sugar (brown is good, but any will do ) cover the jar and set it aside...the fridge is fine. By tonight you'll have a syrup formed. A teaspoonful of that sooked slowly will soothe a sore throat, and help clear your head.
The alternative is a good hot curry
That was my mother's recipe for cold, cough, sore throat ... Worked too.
If you treat it it'll be over in seven days. If you don't, it'll last a week.
My method is to grumble and whinge to my wife about having stuffed sinuses, sleeping poorly and generally feeling crap. This strategy goes one step further than oldtimer's approach, and tends to get it out the way in just half a fortnight.
I don't drink coffee, and think one of the advantages is that when suffering from a cold/flu taking paracetamol & caffeine does wonders.
Ancedotal, but since prescribed Vitamin D, and making a decision to form a habit of blowing my nose everytime I washed my hands after producing two handfuls of gunk one night. My symptoms have been mild and more importantly no longer affects my sleep.
Of the belief that things get exponentially worse when can't get decent sleep.
And think the neighbours are grateful, because the coughing fits in the night were pretty loud.
Ancedotal, but since prescribed Vitamin D, and making a decision to form a habit of blowing my nose everytime I washed my hands after producing two handfuls of gunk one night. My symptoms have been mild and more importantly no longer affects my sleep.
Of the belief that things get exponentially worse when can't get decent sleep.
And think the neighbours are grateful, because the coughing fits in the night were pretty loud.
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In all honesty, I think the best solution is not to catch one (cold, cough, flu that is).
I must be lucky as if i get a cold, which in itself very rare, it's normally gone in a few hours.
Ahh more divine wisdom!!! Bless the vintage learning of the community elders.
May your pyjamas never be scratchy and your horlicks is always the right temperature!
Shoot them in the head?.....
A combination of Vit C and D3 normally minimises symptoms by boosting your immune system to fight it off quicker.
Shoot them in the head?.....
A combination of Vit C and D3 normally minimises symptoms by boosting your immune system to fight it off quicker.
Yep, exactly. In particular, good levels of Vit C are essential. I can't eat a lot of fruits so for the last 15 years or so I've taken 1000mg/day of Vit C in winter and 500mg/day in Summer; I've not had any cold or flu since (touches a big oak beam quickly). I used to get serious bouts of cold leading to swollen glands at least twice a year before that. There are other benefits as well.
Really?
Or was it pseudoephedrine?
I find that pseudoephedrine works really well to unblock my nose. If I have a blocked nose and then take an aeroplane, I end up with nasty sinusitis and fever, and then need antibiotics for a week. Sadly the powers that be don't want me to be able to buy it, because a few people used it as an ingredient for synthesizing methamphetamine.
The proper cure for a cold is sleep and food. I can tell when I've caught a cold but not yet got symptoms because I am permanently very hungry. My grandmother used to give me a cup of hot milk with a spoonful of honey and a spoonful of whisky.
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