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Home Remedies

Anonymous032819 — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:20:47 GMT

Are there any home remedies that you take or recommend for when you have a cold?

Sometimes great-grandmas recipe for a home made elixir actually worked to help fight a cold.

Working with the public, one can pick up all kinds of bugs, and I think I feel the start of a cold coming on.

I made a concoction of minced garlic, habanero hot sauce, Braggs Raw Organic Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar, lemon juice and honey.

I downed it in two swallows.

Tasty?

Not by a long shot, but I am hoping that it'll fight whatever bug that I may have picked up.

So, what are some of your home elixirs that you swear by to fight a cold?

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gtx — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:35:29 GMT

Sounds like you made an immunity shot or some are called welness boost. There are recipes on google. Hope it helps.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:38:52 GMT

Gargle with warm salt water for a sore throat.

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Mindy D — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:16:45 GMT

@Anonymous032819 wrote:
Are there any home remedies that you take or recommend for when you have a cold?

Sometimes great-grandmas recipe for a home made elixir actually worked to help fight a cold.

Working with the public, one can pick up all kinds of bugs, and I think I feel the start of a cold coming on.

I made a concoction of minced garlic, habanero hot sauce, Braggs Raw Organic Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar, lemon juice and honey.

I downed it in two swallows.

Tasty?

Not by a long shot, but I am hoping that it'll fight whatever bug that I may have picked up.

So, what are some of your home elixirs that you swear by to fight a cold?

Hot water with honey and lemon juice in it. I use a lot of honey. This is taken after I have symptoms.

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NicksmomESQ — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:19:38 GMT

Homemade chicken soup always works in my house for sore throats & colds!! My mom & grandma always made it for me.

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SharkE — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:20:52 GMT

I never learned how to gargle. LOL

can't get it to do right. ROFL

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gtx — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:21:36 GMT

A cool mist humidifier soothes the nasal passages and throat.

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fthunt — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:34:47 GMT

@SharkE Can you yodel? I went to Google to get the spelling and just watched a 12 year year old girll sing the yodel. She learned it from a tape & book - go watch - she's in pink cute as a button. If you can learn to yodel perhaps you'll be able to gargle. The bad side is you could 'drown'.

P.S. I thought everybody in TEXAS could yodel...........................A state requirement

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bourgs4 — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:36:18 GMT

When anyone in my family has a cold I juice a lemon, finely shred fresh ginger and add some cayanne pepper powder. drink it Like a shot

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Chicagosuburbangirl — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:39:41 GMT

Hot toddy or glugg.

I believe in fighting a cold with alcohol.

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september — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:43:07 GMT

If you’re staying home for the night, how about a hot buttered rum? I’m sure there are lots of recipes online, but from my memory, you need a shot of rum, some very hot water, a teaspoon of butter, a teaspoon of sugar, a squirt of lemon, and top with a sprinkle of cinnamon and nutmeg.

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fthunt — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:38:48 GMT

Grandma with 7 kids - her answer to getting some sleep - before humidifiers were invented.

For plugged nose - no air can get through - coughing due to mucis back of throat dripping

Take washcloth - soak in cold cold water & remove excess water

Over that a layer of wax paper

Over that a dry face towel that will reach around your neck and pin ends together with 2 big safety pins.

To construct this mess - lay out on table the face towel first - lay wax paper and finally the cold wet washcloth raise and pin around neck

You'll sleep like a baby - no coughing - body heat will warm the cold washcloth and produce ..............humidity up your nose

WA - LA

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dex — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:06:19 GMT

We use warm water fresh lemon juice,manuka honey,grated ginger and fresh grated black pepper...works well drink often till feeling better

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Caffeina — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:13:54 GMT

A saline nasal rinse to flush all the garbage out of my nose.

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viva923 — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:23:11 GMT

my grandparents were huge home fixer’er uppers.

One time I fell on a pencil and tip broke off in my cheek on my face. I had to wear a poltice of a black gooey type ointment with a huge white bandage. I had to change this poltice every day.

i think we had to wear a sock around our neck-throat area if we had a sore throat.

these are 2 of i don’t know how many fixers’‘er my grandparents would make us wear for one reason or another.

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alicedee — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:28:56 GMT

When my kids were small and one of us got a cold, I bought a big bottle of ginger ale, a bottle of cranberry juice, and a jug of orange juice. Mixed each glassful with 1/3 of each, and the patient drank it for a couple of days. No one’s cold ever went on long...by the third day, usually, all better or close to it.

The “kids” are in their 40s now, and still swear by this concoction! Luckily, I haven’t had a cold since I retired almost 6 years ago...but if/when I get one,

I will go to “The Concoction “!

Note....I used diet ginger ale and low sugar cranberry juice most times.

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AuntG — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:44:05 GMT

Honey and lemon juice.

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Pook — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 10:49:24 GMT

Warm lemon water with Oozo and chicken soup.

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Skyegirl21 — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:10:38 GMT

My best advice is preventive... When you’re at work, never rub/ touch your eyes or nose unless right after washed your hands. Often this is how we infect ourselves. HTH!

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Allegheny — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 13:56:04 GMT

After marrying my DH (who is a bear when he gets a cold) I have to say homemade chicken soup with carrots, celery, onions. Can't just buy a can of soup, it has to be homemade according to him. I don't think it staves or prevents colds, just helps the symptoms.

When I was in my 20s, I would do something similar to a hot toddy, usually tea, lemon juice, whiskey and honey and then get under the blankets and sweat it out.