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Home Remedies For Cold

Do you already feel a cold coming on? Have you been experiencing chills, mild fever, headache, stuffy nose?

For dry and stuffy nose, try normal saline or salt water nasal drops made by adding 1/4 teaspoon of table salt to about 4 ml lukewarm water. It is an effective home remedy for common cold.
Garlic juice made by adding few drops of garlic oil to a teaspoonful of onion juice and diluting it in a cup of water is helpful for common cold.
Rub the chest with vicks vapour rub.
The Indian style - Take a face cloth and soak it in very cold water and squeeze out the water and fold into three layers and put this on the forhead.
Finely grate an apple and spread it 1/2 inch thick on a piece of double-layered cheesecloth about 6 inches in length. Apply this over the forehead. Make a similar poultice for the throat area or chest if necessary. Leave on for one hour. It is also a god remedy for cold.
Take half a teaspoon of ginger juice with half a teaspoon of honey, three times a day. In winter, warm the mixture by mixing a teaspoon of warm water in it.

Mix half a cup of warm water with one teaspoon of lemon juice and one teaspoon of honey. It is also a good home remedy for cold.
Make a cup of linden flower tea, tea with mint leaves and lemon, oregano leaves, lemon and honey and some skinned apple to improve the taste.
Take equal amounts of cardamom, ginger powder, black pepper and cinnamon (1 teaspoon each). Make a fine powder. It is very effective cure for common cold.
Wrap yourself warmly when you get out, and with a hot soup such as Hot and Sour, Vegetable Soup or good ol' Chicken Soup.

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Crush 7 peppercorns and mix well with 1 teaspoon honey. This will immediately help with chest cold.

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