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Best home remedies for the Common Cold?

Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
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?
"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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  • Poopy_JonesPoopy_Jones Posts: 455 ✭✭✭
    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.
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Lessening your symptoms can prolong your cold =/
  • perkinkeperkinke Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭
    last winter the hot toddy got me through a cold. Either helps the symptoms or stops the caring. Win-win. :)

    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-toddy/
  • The3StogiesThe3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    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.
    Hope you feel better.
  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hot buttered rum with lemon. Wrap up in a couple of blankets and sweat it out.
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First Warrior:
    Hot buttered rum with lemon. Wrap up in a couple of blankets and sweat it out.
    Yep. Plenty of whiskey, a stack of wool blankets, and plan to change the sheets after you sweat them all stinky.
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  • avengethisavengethis Posts: 5,686 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
    Team O'Donnell FTW!

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  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    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 ****, but makes it manageable.
    ^Troll: DO NOT FEED.
  • Lee.mcglynnLee.mcglynn Posts: 5,960 ✭✭✭✭
    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
    Money can't buy taste
  • BigshizzaBigshizza Posts: 15,644 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Homemade chicken soup if Mrs. Puff is up for it. Then finish it off with warm whiskey, lemon and some hot water.
  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ice Cold Vodka and hot sauce.....in a shot glass.
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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...
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • The3StogiesThe3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    Sleep and liquids really best thing, especially liquids that help you sleep.
  • MVW67MVW67 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭
    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!!!!!

    Hope you feel better soon!!!
    Life is too short, live it like no tomorrow...
  • dr_frankenstein56dr_frankenstein56 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭
    sex.

    Aj
  • roland_7707roland_7707 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭
    dr_frankenstein56:
    sex.

    Aj
    Trust him, He's a Dr. Lol
    One God, One Truth
  • dr_frankenstein56dr_frankenstein56 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭
    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...

    Aj
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
    In Fumo Pax
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  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    roland_7707:
    dr_frankenstein56:
    sex.

    Aj
    Trust him, He's a Dr. Lol
    Best. Prescription. Ever. :^)
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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 ****, but makes it manageable.
    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.
    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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