Traditional treatment for colds. Methods for treating colds with folk remedies

The cold season has come, and with it various colds begin. The best way to protect yourself during this period will be to use folk recipes that can help you avoid illness, and if you do happen to get sick, then recover from it. So, let's treat a cold with home remedies.

Prevention

Prevention should be carried out regularly, from one to two times a week. Preventative procedures will help prevent infection if they are carried out during the flu and cold season: from September to early December and from March to early May.

We take ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

During colds, you should have foods rich in vitamin C on your table every day. These are primarily citrus fruits: lemons, tangerines, oranges, grapefruits, and also such healthy fruits and vegetables like: kiwi, bell pepper, sauerkraut, lingonberries or, . By the way, you can eat them frozen - all vitamins, including ascorbic acid, are also preserved.

It is good to prepare and drink an infusion from rose hips, and in order for it to contain the maximum of its beneficial properties, it is important to maintain the ratio of water to fruits: 1:10, that is, 1 liter of water is needed per 100 g of rose hips. Brew dry rose hips with boiling water in a thermos and leave overnight. In the morning you will receive a ready-made infusion; it can be sweetened with a spoonful of honey (but not sugar!). Drink a healing drink 2-3 times a day.

We do inhalations

Wonderful herbs like chamomile and mint have anti-inflammatory properties. If you prepared these plants in the summer or purchased them at the pharmacy, you can use them for inhalation for preventive purposes. Take 0.5 cups of medicinal chamomile (flowers) or dry mint, brew a glass of boiling water and leave to infuse in a warm place for 30-40 minutes. Then add 3 glasses of water and bring everything to a boil, turn off the heat. Breathe over the pan with the broth, directly over the steam, first through your nose and then through your mouth - 15 minutes.

Let's harden ourselves and warm our feet

Even if you feel well, still pour cold water on your feet every evening after a shower, and do not forget to rub them thoroughly with a terry towel afterwards.

If you happen to get your feet too cold while waiting for transport at a bus stop, when you get home, be sure to soak your feet in hot bath: Dissolve 2 tablespoons of mustard (dry powder) in a bowl of hot water (42 degrees), and warm your feet for 30 minutes.

We eat medicinal vegetables

Strengthening the immune system

You have already recovered and now, in order not to get sick again, you need to strengthen your immune system.

Nut-honey mixture with dried apricots

Take crushed walnuts, seedless raisins and dried apricots, honey - 1 tablespoon each, add quarter juice. Mix everything and consume this tasty and healthy elixir of health 3 times a day before meals (20 minutes) 1 tablespoon. For children, reduce the dose slightly - 2 times a day, 1 teaspoon.

Infusion with garlic and lemon

The following good folk remedy will help prevent further colds and after illness. Twist one large or two medium-sized washed lemons together with the peel and 7 cloves of garlic, stir. Transfer the mixture to glass jar and pour two glasses of chilled boiled water, close the lid. Leave to infuse in a dark and cool place for 5 days, remembering to shake daily. Then put it in the refrigerator without straining. Drink 1 tablespoon twice daily with meals.

Oat decoction

Pour into two glasses warm water a glass of oat grains (unpeeled) and leave overnight. In the morning, bring the infusion to a boil and cook over low heat until the liquid volume is reduced by half. Then strain and add 2 cups of milk to the resulting broth, wait until it boils again, then immediately remove from the heat and let the broth cool. Drink the oat decoction warm throughout the day (one third of a glass). Can decoction sweeten with a spoon of honey.

Drink made from spruce branches

To strengthen the body's resistance A drink brewed from . will be useful for you. It is useful to drink it especially in winter, when the content of vitamin C in spruce needles is maximum.

To prepare a spruce drink you will need 2 tablespoons of spruce needles. Place the pine needles, washed in ice water, in a saucepan, pour a glass of boiling water, and simmer for 20 minutes, covering with a lid. Turn off the heat and leave to steep for 30 minutes. Drink, after straining, 2-3 times a day, 0.5 cups for 14 days. If desired, in a drink from spruce branches you can add a little honey.

Ginseng honey

Ginseng honey is useful to take on the 5-7th day of illness to replenish vitamins and restore strength. You can easily make it yourself. You will need 500 ml of honey and 2 tablespoons of ginseng root, which needs to be crushed. Mix everything, leave to brew for 10 days. You need to take ginseng honey 1 teaspoon three times a day before meals (30 minutes). Carry out a strengthening course for two months.

Strengthening balm with aloe

Take 500 g of peeled and not very crushed walnuts, add 300 g, juice from 4 lemons, 100 g of aloe juice and 1 glass of vodka. Mix everything and place it in a jar, cover it with a lid, and put it in a dark and cool place to infuse for 24 hours. You need to take 1 tablespoon of the balm three times a day (20 minutes before meals).

Attention! Children should not take this balm!

Vitamin bath

To prepare a vitamin bath, you will need dry fruits or leaves of raspberries, rose hips, sea buckthorn, lingonberries or currants (you can use all the ingredients together or only those that are available).

Pour 2 liters of boiling water into 1-2 cups of the dry mixture and leave to steep for an hour. Pour the resulting infusion into a warm bath, add a few more drops of eucalyptus oil. Take a vitamin relaxing bath for 10-15 minutes.

Herbal compote with berries

Homemade frozen berry compote medicinal plants will help increase the body's defenses. Drink at least two glasses daily during the winter.

Mix herbs: lemon balm, mint, fireweed and chestnut flowers. Brew 5 tablespoons of the mixture in 1 liter of hot water, leave to steep for a couple of hours. Then throw any frozen berries (cranberries or lingonberries, viburnum, black currants, sea buckthorn) into boiling water and immediately turn off the heat. Cover with a lid and leave for 6-7 hours. Compote does not need to be boiled! Then connect herbal decoction with compote, heat and drink instead of regular tea.

Ginger, which has recently come into use among the Slavic people, is a faithful “comrade” in the fight against colds. With constant use, the risk of getting sick is reduced to a minimum. The root vegetable has a specific taste; not everyone may like it for daily use. However, simple ginger recipes for colds are a godsend for the patient. The simplest thing is ginger tea, naturally, without tea leaves. Thinly sliced pieces are poured into teapot or a cup, in the amount of 10-15 pieces. Pour boiling water over and let sit for ten minutes. If desired, to enhance the healing effect, you can add lemon zest and a little honey. The healing properties can increase with the addition of spices: cinnamon, cloves, black pepper.

To prevent and improve body tone, you can add herbs to ginger drink. For one liter of boiling water you need to add 3 tablespoons of ginger powder, 4 tablespoons of honey and lemon juice. Strain and add mint. The drink must be taken hot. In the cold season, ginger ointment will perfectly warm the body. Dilute dry ginger to a mushy state and rub into the skin. You can also put pieces of dry ginger in your socks or shoes. To boost immunity, it is recommended to take ginger tincture. Peel and grate two small root vegetables, pour in alcohol. Let the drink brew until it forms yellow tint, strain and drink a teaspoon after meals.

Traditional recipes for colds

Nothing is simpler home treatment. There is no need to spend money, all the ingredients are at hand, and you can come up with recipes for colds. First in line to fight the disease are onions and garlic. Absolutely everyone has them in their kitchen. And you don’t have to eat them at all; you can simply cut them up and place them in your rooms. Thus, enriching the space with phytoncides that kill microbes.

One of the most healthy recipes– cranberry juice with honey, prepared in a special way. The berries must be crushed, the resulting pulp must be thrown into boiling water, after squeezing the juice into a separate container. Boil for about ten minutes, cool to 50 degrees, add the remaining juice and honey to taste. This creates a natural ascorbic cocktail.

To relieve one of the cold symptoms - sore throat - gargling with a decoction of herbs: chamomile, plantain, calendula is suitable. An aqueous solution of eucalyptus, freshly squeezed beet juice, a saline solution of soda are easy-to-prepare recipes for colds.

Drinking plenty of warm drinks is common knowledge folk recipe. With the addition of raspberry or currant jam, which are rich in vitamin C. The main thing in the fight is the frequency of intake. For a faster effect, it is recommended to carry out any actions to combat the disease once every 30 minutes.

Mulled wine recipe for colds

From the section both pleasant and useful. Mulled wine is a common drink that in Europe is taken not only as a low-alcohol cocktail, but also as a good cold remedy. The main ingredient in its composition, red wine, itself has antimicrobial properties. Mulled wine is consumed exclusively hot, so its preventive qualities are enhanced. It restores strength, warms, tones. Almost all mulled wine recipes for colds add fruits containing vitamin C.

Interestingly, for a good anti-cold mulled wine it is not at all necessary to buy expensive wine, quite the contrary. Regular wine in tetra packs is fine, one condition is that the wine must be red. Below are several recipes for making this drink.

For one liter of wine, add three tablespoons of granulated sugar, a cinnamon stick, an orange, a little nutmeg and dry cloves, about ten pieces. Add spices to boiling 100 ml of water, leave the resulting mixture for 10-15 minutes. Strain and add to the wine, cut the orange into slices, add sugar and let stand for a couple of minutes.

In this recipe, in addition to orange and spices, you can add half sour apple and 4-5 black peppercorns. You can also replace sugar with honey. The taste will be completely different, but beneficial features will only get stronger.

The next recipe requires sweet red wine. Add the juice of half a lemon, 5 cloves and a little cinnamon to 150 ml of wine. Place the resulting mixture on the fire and heat, stirring constantly. Drink hot, but in small sips.

Recipe for colds with vodka

Vodka is a product that can also be used to treat colds, but only for early stages. The most common recipe for colds is still vodka with pepper. A very easy to prepare remedy - for 50 grams of vodka, take one third of a teaspoon of ground pepper. The pepper can be anything (black, white, red), as long as it is hot. The resulting “hot mixture” is shaken well and drunk in one gulp. It is not recommended to have a snack or drink something to drink within a few minutes. It is important to remember that it is not recommended to increase the dosage of pepper, nor is it recommended to take the product for people who have gastrointestinal problems.

Next up are recipes for colds with a warming effect. Add half a teaspoon of radish juice or mustard to 30 grams of vodka. Mix thoroughly and take before bed. Then wrap yourself in a blanket or warm blanket. As a result, heat is released in the body, body temperature rises, which contributes to the death of bacteria. Harmful toxins are eliminated through sweat and the next day the person feels much better.

Vodka is also used for external use, as a body rub or compresses. For a sore throat, it is recommended to mix vodka with water (1:2), wet a small towel or rag and apply to the throat. Apply a layer of cotton wool on top of this, wrap the throat with a bandage and leave overnight.

Recipes for colds with honey

The first medicinal product that comes to mind when you have a cold? Of course honey. The variety of options for its use is endless. It can be consumed raw, as additives in various decoctions, infusions, teas, and can even be used with vodka. By the way, very good and effective method at the first manifestations of a cold. Mix vodka and honey in a 1:1 ratio, add a slice of lemon, a little cumin and ginger to taste. Heat the solution, but do not allow it to boil. Drink the prepared mixture in one gulp. It's good to cover up and sweat.

The next recipe for colds, which has been known since childhood, is milk with honey. Heat milk in a saucepan of any volume. Pour into a cup, add a dessert spoon of honey, a piece butter And baking soda. The last ingredient is added as desired, but for colds, doctors recommend drinking plenty of alkaline drinks. Be sure to take it warm so as not to burn your throat. Then everything old scheme: warm blanket or blanket, good to sweat.

And finally, a recipe for a drink that should be consumed not only for colds, but also for Everyday life. Tea with honey. Can be taken daily, with any tea, added to water, or simply as a snack. Especially good with the addition of lemon. Honey relieves inflammation, and lemon tones the body.

Homemade recipes for colds

There are many homemade recipes for colds, known since the time of our great-grandfathers, which have been passed down from generation to generation. Breathe over boiled potatoes, covered with a towel, drip carrot juice into your nose, gargle with soda and iodine and many other recipes are well ingrained in your heads. Time does not stand still and recipes change. Thus, a recipe for hot beer-based drinks appeared. Mix two yolks with two tablespoons of sugar until foamy. Heat light beer (0.5 liters) to 50 degrees. Finely grate the lemon zest and mix with cinnamon and cloves. Mix all ingredients and put on fire. Heat for five minutes, drink a glass at night, put on socks and go to bed.

An “onion soup” option is also possible. Finely chopped onion, pour boiling water, cover with a plate and leave for 7 minutes. You need to drink immediately and quickly. It won't be very tasty, but it will be very useful.

Radish helps with colds. It is necessary to squeeze out the juice and mix with honey in a ratio of one to two. Take one spoon three times a day. Especially good for coughs. Or, cover the chopped radish with sugar and leave in a closed container until syrup forms. You can take a tablespoon every hour.

When a runny nose appears, the most in a simple way- nasal rinsing saline solution, you can use steam inhalation of herbs, essential oils.

Colds are not very dangerous condition. However, a cold is fraught with complications that can cause serious damage to the body.

There are various recipes for colds, for example, in case of hypothermia, you need to dissolve a handful of sea salt and steam your feet. It is important to ensure that the water is not very hot.

The procedure should not be continued for more than 15 minutes. After this, the person wipes his feet dry and puts on warm socks.

When it is not possible to make a foot bath, you can put sea salt crystals on your tongue and suck them for a while. We must not forget that only the salt that is purchased is a food additive.

The cold season is the period when people catch colds most often. This is also affected by a lack of vitamins, which weakens the immune system. Thus, a person becomes defenseless against low temperatures and drafts. Registered at clinics maximum number sick, and doctors are massively diagnosing “ARD”.

The onset of a cold

If a person has been in a state of hypothermia for a long time, it is useful to acupressure. Use your fingertips to press:

at the collarbones,
in the area of the carotid artery,
in the area of the seventh cervical vertebra,
between the eyebrows,
at the wings of the nose.

It is best to press until it hurts, 6-8 times for each zone. Massage should be performed once every 2 hours.

After hypothermia, it is useful to immediately take a hot shower and rub with a washcloth; this is a kind of massage of many points.

The symptoms of a cold are well known:

temperature increase,
general malaise and weakness,
muscle and head pain,
runny nose,
cough.

If you have these symptoms, it is not advisable to immediately use antibiotics. Don't overload your body chemicals, there are no less effective traditional methods of treating colds, for example, herbs.

If treatment of a cold with folk remedies does not bring the expected results within 3-4 days, then the help of a doctor is required.

Also medication assistance required when:

severe coughing attacks,
waste of blood,
attacks of shortness of breath and suffocation,
the appearance of purulent sputum.

All of the above is a signal that the cold has become dangerous and needs to be treated urgently.

If present colds V regular form, then there are recipes against colds, coughs and sore throats - just apply effective remedy from the arsenal of traditional medicine.

Inhalations

These procedures are used already at the first attacks of cough, runny nose and sore throat. The most the best way Inhalation is considered to be the use of a special heat-moisture inhaler.

Using such a device, it is impossible to prevent burns to the nasopharynx, since the outlet temperature of the steam reaches only 38 degrees.

For steam inhalations the following are used:

baking soda,
salt,
mineral water,
oils: menthol and eucalyptus,
medicinal herbs.

If you treat colds and runny nose with oils, you should add 3 to 5 drops of the product to a glass of boiling water. are carried out for about 15 minutes, not earlier than an hour after various exercises and meals. It is not recommended to be distracted during the procedure.

When inhaling, you should not breathe deeply so as not to provoke a coughing attack. After the procedure, you should not strain your voice or smoke for about an hour.

Thermal treatments

It is important to approach thermal procedures with caution, especially for elderly people and those with cardiovascular problems.

Traditional medicine advises treating colds and runny nose this way: soak wool fabric vinegar, camphor and olive oil, then apply the bandage to your chest and leave until the morning. You can put a compress with grated horseradish on the back of your neck.

Often in medicinal purposes Mustard plasters are applied to the heels of the feet and bandaged with flannel. Woolen socks are also filled with mustard powder. Mustard cannot be kept on your feet for a long time - maximum 2 hours.

It is optimal to perform the procedures before bed; as a rule, the runny nose stops by morning. If a sore throat occurs when swallowing, it is recommended to tie a woolen scarf around your neck or apply a compress to it: dip a piece of gauze in heated sunflower oil and apply it to the sore spot.

Place wax paper or polyethylene on the compress and wrap your neck with a scarf. To avoid burns, keep the compress for no more than 4 hours.

Means for oral use

Before you start taking folk remedies, you should make adjustments to your diet. It is important to balance it so that the bulk of the meal consists of herbs and dairy products, which are easily digestible and contain many vitamins.

It is especially important to introduce the habit of eating fruits with a large amount of vitamin C. Daily dose ascorbic acid during the course of the disease should reach one gram.

The largest amount of vitamin C is found in rose hips and black currants. If you leave the rosehip infusion for 10 hours (1 large spoon per 250 mg of boiling water), you will get a daily dose of the vitamin.

Blackcurrant contains vitamin C in both the leaves and fruit. This means that both fresh frozen and pureed berries can be used against coughs and colds. Tea made from the leaves is also beneficial.

If there are neither black currants nor rose hips, they are replaced with plenty of lemon. An effective treatment for a runny nose is to sniff a few drops of lemon juice through your nose and lie down for a while.

Lemon is taken with its peel and zest. Useful in the cold season grape juice and raisins, consumption of such products stops the progression of colds.

Carrots are the most accessible remedy that can be used to easily treat colds. The product contains vitamin A, which has healing properties. If there is an increase in temperature, it is important to take a drink with a detoxifying effect.

Against cough, runny nose and sore throat, drink up to three liters daily. Added to the composition:

cranberries,
lemon,
lingonberries.

The products have a slight diuretic effect, which allows you to remove pathogenic microbes from the body. Linden, raspberries and chamomile have pathogenic and antipyretic effects.

Not only berries, but also dried and fresh leaves of shrubs have medicinal properties. Herbal decoctions can be made by brewing the raw material in 200 mg of water and used as a gargle.

You can treat your throat with a decoction of dried flowers. pharmaceutical chamomile. To do this, you need to brew 2 tablespoons of the herb with 250 ml of boiling water, leave for half an hour and drink half a glass of tea three times a day. Tea with linden blossom is prepared in the same way. It is best to take a herbal decoction before bed. It is also excellent as an addition to the main treatment.

An anti-cough infusion is made from black elderberry. To do this, take one tablespoon of dry herb and pour a glass of boiling water over it, then leave for 1 hour. Consume 6 times a day, two large spoons at a time.

Course of the disease

You can treat the disease by eating garlic and onions. The products should be grated and the medicinal vapors should be inhaled twice a day for about 15 minutes. 2 cloves of garlic are also crushed and poured with a quarter cup of boiling water. You need to infuse the product for 2 hours, after which two drops are instilled into the nose 4 times a day.

Onions and garlic do not have to be used in recipes; they are healthy to eat as is. It is best to chew these products for several minutes in the acute stage of diseases associated with:

gastrointestinal tract,
kidneys,
liver.

You can easily get rid of the smell of garlic by chewing it with parsley.

For preventive purposes, you can wear a gauze bag around your neck at home with chopped garlic inside. A plate of chopped garlic is also placed at the bedside of a sick child.

All family members can gargle with freshly squeezed red beet juice. Add a small spoon of 1% vinegar solution to 250 mg of juice.

A sick person should consume as often as possible hot tea With raspberry jam or lemon. In addition, it is useful to drink 250 g of warm milk with one tablespoon of honey.

To treat sore throats and coughing attacks, traditional healers recommend rinsing the nasopharynx with an infusion of onion and honey (take the ingredients in equal volumes).

You can also make a solution: mix a glass of warm water and half a teaspoon of salt, adding 4 drops of iodine tincture. This solution should be poured into the nose and poured out through the nose.

Take five large spoons of blackcurrant leaves along with the buds and pour a liter of hot water over them. Leave for 2-3 hours. The medicine should be taken warm, 100 mg five times a day to achieve an antipyretic and diaphoretic effect.

One small spoon of crushed thorn roots should be brewed in a glass of hot water. Leave for about two hours. The medicine is drunk a quarter glass 5 times a day as an antipyretic.

An additional treatment measure for severe cases of the disease is the use of decoctions of various medicinal herbs. For example, a sick person is given 250 ml of elecampane decoction to drink three times a day. To prepare the decoction, you need to take 15 g of raw material and brew it in a liter of water.

When influenza with vasomotor rhinitis is diagnosed, an effective remedy can be made as follows: chop the garlic, mix with a similar amount of honey (preferably linden), and take one large spoon at night with warm water.

Another effective recipe: grate the onion, pour in 0.5 liters of hot milk (do not boil), leave in a warm place, drink half of the product at night, and the second in the morning, also hot.

To make another remedy, you will need:

10 g pine buds,
200 mg hot boiled water,

Brew the raw materials with water, close the lid and heat in a water bath for half an hour. Strain and let sit for 10 minutes, then squeeze.

Boiled water should be added to the resulting decoction so that the total volume is 200 mg. Take half a glass several times a day after meals. The product has a disinfectant and expectorant effect.

You can also use the recipe with raspberries. You need to brew 100 g of dry or fresh raspberries in a glass of hot water. The remedy is infused for 15 minutes, after which a large spoonful of honey is added to the decoction, stirred and taken warm before bed, as a diaphoretic.

It is effective to treat a runny nose by injecting fresh aloe juice into the nostrils, 5 drops every few hours for 2-3 days.

An alcohol tincture of eucalyptus leaves demonstrates a positive effect:

Grind 20 g of dry raw materials,
pour eucalyptus with alcohol,
Cover the container tightly with a lid and leave for a week.
strain,
Use 25 drops, diluted in a quarter tablespoon of warm water.

In Tibetan and oriental medicine, raspberry branches are used against cough and flu, which can be used at any time of the year. The recipe is very simple: pour a large spoonful of chopped stems into a glass of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes. Take small sips 6-7 times during the day.

A teaspoon of elecampane root is infused in 250 ml of hot water for 10 hours, this is the daily dose of the product. You can prepare a decoction: boil a small spoon of the root in a glass of water for half an hour. Drink a large spoon every hour.

Brew two small spoons of dry black elderberry herb in a glass of boiling water and leave in a warm place for about an hour, then strain. Take half a glass of herbal decoction in small sips with breaks.

Take a small spoonful of chopped black currants and pour a glass of boiling water. Wrap it up and leave for 4 hours. After straining, drink half a glass 5 times a day.

A medium-sized onion needs to be peeled, grated, and then pour in 250 ml of boiling milk. The mass is mixed well and infused for 10 minutes. Drink the product in small sips.

Take raspberries and linden flowers in equal proportions. Pour a large spoonful of the mixture into a glass of boiling water. Infuse the product, wrapped, for about an hour, then strain. Take half a glass 4 times a day against cough.

Brew spring branches or leaves of black currant together with linden blossom in equal volumes in 500 ml of boiled water. Boil for about 5 minutes, leave for half an hour and strain. At one time, drink about a glass of warm product several times a day.

Tactile contacts treat flu

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania believe that stroking, touching and other tactile contacts help treat flu and colds.

However, researchers emphasize that it is better to postpone sexual contact until recovery. Pleasant strokes and massages help relieve the stressful symptoms of the flu, which means the patient begins to feel better.

There is another opinion: one intimacy allows the body to secrete a large number of endorphins, that is, natural painkillers, which in their own way chemical composition similar to morphine. The effect of endorphins on the body helps against coughs, runny nose and colds.

Family doctor from the USA, Margaret Litton, confirms that touch gives a person a feeling of comfort, calm, relaxation, reducing the stress that is caused by a cold.

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There is no age limit for the common cold. She catches everyone who has relaxed even a little. Why not? Winter is only a name on the calendar and reminds us of itself. And that’s what a cold needs. Its elements are dampness, slush and dankness. Rejoices. Whoever was gaping, didn’t wear a scarf, didn’t put on a hat, and right away she’ll blow the wind and kiss you on the nose. Receive a runny nose, cough, chills as a gift. He attaches sick people like toys to a Christmas tree.

How to get rid of colds using folk remedies

You need to kick out the uninvited guest cold as soon as it shows up and begins to “bother” with a runny nose and chills.

It is best to immediately drink aspirin and tea with linden and raspberries.
Get into bed, cover your head and sweat. It is with sweat that you can expel the first cold symptoms from your body.
During this period, you should not stuff yourself with hearty breakfasts, lunches and dinners in the hope that you will gain strength and increase your immunity. Give the body the opportunity to use the energy that is released from the process of digesting food to fight the disease.
These first measures will already yield results. And in the evening, before you get ready for bed, steam your feet in mustard and put on socks.

You need to lie down for a cold, sweat and evaporate, then the disease will recede at the very beginning. This treatment is recommended by healers and traditional healers.

Drink warm diaphoretic teas with chamomile and calendula, with currants and linden, and raspberries.

If you feel that a runny nose is preventing you from breathing, do not immediately reach for drops and sprays. The best remedy- this is inhalation using a soda solution, ideally - brew the very useful herb thyme and breathe it from the spout of the teapot into each nostril in turn. In the morning you will feel healthy, cheerful and energetic.

If you don't have what you need at hand medicinal herbs You can drink Theraflu, milk with honey and pepper, but be sure to stay in bed.

Preventive measures against colds

Lubricate the nose with laundry soap.
Chop the garlic and onion into a saucer and place in each room.
Place a few drops of essential oils on a napkin or handkerchief and keep them with you, sniffing them periodically.
Take vitamins.
In villages, they still make beads from garlic cloves and hang them around the rooms; such amulets will destroy viruses and eliminate harmful microbes. Colds don’t come into this house, they’re afraid.
If you have children, finely chop the onion and add sugar. Drink the juice with them as it comes.
Wash the black radish well and make a hole in it. Put honey (sugar) in it. Drink the juice that appears.

All remedies are good for colds

Colds can be driven away by any means:

rub your feet with “Star” balm and insulate them with socks;
iodine mesh on the back and calves of the legs is good at the first signs of cough;
Ginger tea with honey is also good, it will warm you up and extinguish viruses;
apply a woolen rag soaked in the mixture to your chest vegetable oil, vinegar and camphor (contraindicated for heart patients);
apply mustard plasters to your heels and fix them, this will help with a runny nose;
you can put mustard powder in your socks and keep it there as long as you can; then walk around the room in socks with powder, take them off, shake the remaining powder off your feet, put on clean socks and go to bed.

As soon as the cough starts, you need to boil 4 hard-boiled eggs. Quickly peel one after another and eat (only hot and without salt and if you are not allergic to eggs). Do this while lying in bed. Afterwards, take good cover. An hour of no drinking.

Black radish and onion will cure cough

The radish needs to be peeled and cut into circles, and do the same with the onion. Place in a cast iron pot and add sugar. Add for the scent of spruce needles. Put it on the fire or in the oven. As soon as all the juice is released, it needs to be poured into a jar. Drink warm in a few sips. And you yourself won’t notice how the cough will leave you.

Black radish can be grated (large) and applied as a compress to the bronchial area. Place a film on top and insulate it. It gets hot, take it off and stay in bed. Do it at night.

Anti-cold tea made from pine cones

If you have jam from pine cones(and they need to stock up for the winter), then eat it a spoonful, washed down with hot chamomile tea. Such a bouquet of useful substances and aromas will scare away the cold with all its manifestations.

Garlic and onion salad will help against colds

If your health allows (no heart disease or stomach problems), at the first signs of a cold, make yourself a salad of onions, garlic, natural vinegar and vegetable oil. We ate, sweated, and went to bed.

Vitamin C for colds

This vitamin is simply necessary. If you have a cold, you should give it to your body up to 1 gram per day.

If you have reserves of rose hips and black currants, then the issue with vitamin C is resolved:

boil rose hips (1 tbsp) in water (200 ml), leave and drink;
Pour boiling water over currants (fruits and leaves) in a thermos, leave and drink;
there is lemon in fresh, add to tea. Lemons are best eaten with the peel on.

An unpleasant but effective remedy for a runny nose. Pour a drop of lemon juice into both nostrils and lie down. If you are afraid, dilute the juice with warm boiled water.

eat raisins and drink grape juice when you have a cold - this will stop the disease;
grate carrots and make salads with vegetable oil - saturate your body with healing vitamin A.

Breathing exercises for colds

Lying in bed and looking at the ceiling, do not waste time and help your body cope with a cold with breathing exercises.

Inhale through your nose, filling your stomach a little with air, while sticking it out. Hold your breath. Exhale forcefully through your mouth (keeping your lips half-closed), helping with your stomach (pulling it up). Hold your breath. So - 21 times.
Close your right nostril with your finger and inhale through the left. Hold the left one and exhale through the right one. So - 21 times.

With these exercises, the body is saturated with oxygen and it is easier for it to cope with painful processes.

Drinking for a cold

To successfully remove pathogenic microbes from the body, drink self-prepared drinks that have a detoxifying effect in the form of infusions with cranberries, lemon, lingonberries.

If your temperature begins to rise, drink antipyretic and diaphoretic teas in the form of raspberry teas with linden and chamomile.

In general, drinking trump card in the fight against colds. Drink up to 3 liters of liquids per day.

Vegetable oil against colds

This method is quite effective not only for colds, but also for other diseases, and how prophylactic. Put enough vegetable oil in your mouth so that you can “drive” it back and forth. Like rinsing your mouth. Do not rush, do the procedure for up to 20 minutes, until you feel that the oil has become liquid, similar to water. Spit it into the toilet and rinse your mouth well. During the day you need to do this treatment several times. Yes, it’s a bit boring, but what can’t you do for a speedy recovery?

Have you felt the first signs of a cold? Do not delay treatment, especially since everything necessary knowledge there is, and the means are at your fingertips.

29 Irina27.01.2012 Treatment of colds with folk remedies

With the onset of cold weather, we are all susceptible to colds and viral diseases. Of course, it would be nice to practice prevention over a long period of time. But what to do now if you still get sick? It all depends on whether you intend to treat a cold with pills or folk remedies. I am always for simple folk remedies.

How can you overcome ailments and illnesses using simple folk remedies?

If you are not protected from a cold, then try to go to bed as soon as possible. During sleep, your immune system will have the opportunity to recover. And please remember about the diet. It should be aimed at strengthening the immune system. Sugar in any form depresses our immune system, so we need to avoid sweets. All types of meat and dairy products, animal fats, coffee, canned foods, margarine, and hot seasonings are not recommended.

It is very useful to include whole grains of oats, wheat, barley, bran, nuts, seeds, carrots, beets, garlic, onions, fresh fruits or juices from them. Apples, grapes, blueberries, black currants, and sweet peppers are healthy.

If you are ready, then it is best for effective treatment At the first symptoms of a cold, you will fast for one to two days. That is, we set up our body to fight infection, to mobilize internal forces, and not to digest food. For people who are thin and have a relatively clean body, a one-day fast is enough. However, I would like to remind you once again that fasting for more than two days should be carried out under the supervision of a doctor.

Nowadays there are so many different recipes offered for the treatment of colds and flu. traditional methods. I will share with you my, as I call, “recipes on duty”, which always help out our family.

As soon as I feel a runny nose starting, I always use oil tea tree . I haven't found anything better this whole time. But you need to buy very high quality oil. I bought Austrian oil at the pharmacy, and then switched to oils from the Neways campaign. Believe me, good oil cannot cost 60 rubles. It is better to spend on quality oil once and use it for a long time. One bottle of oil is enough for our whole family. Of course, at the very beginning you need to check if you are allergic to it. Lubricate the wings of your nose with this oil, just a little inside the nose, only shallowly, and you will be surprised by the effect.
I take a thermos and brew it rose hip. It's better to lighten it up a little. Leave overnight and take instead of tea. Amazing. But under no circumstances boil it, do not kill all the best that is in rose hips by heating it like this.
To avoid infecting others, cut onion not a saucer, place it in different places. Children can also tie garlic on a simple string like this. When my children were small, I often did this.
If you feel your throat starting to hurt, chew lemon. An excellent remedy.
Great to take cabbage juice. It has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Now about herbs. Take what you love and what suits you. For me it is chamomile, St. John's wort, yarrow, linden blossom. I take a little bit of everything and also in a thermos. I'm not boiling. Take instead of tea.
Cranberry. There is nothing better, healthier and tastier than it. But also without boiling. It is better to crush the berries, brew with boiling water, strain and drink.
More wonderful recipe when coughing and general malaise:onion, honey and apple Grind in equal proportions and take a tablespoon 3-4 times a day. Nothing could be simpler.
10 lemons with peel, but without seeds, grate on a fine grater, then grate 10 heads of garlic, mix everything thoroughly, pour 3 liters. cool boiled water, leave in a tightly sealed container in the refrigerator and take a tablespoon in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before bed. This mixture can be taken as a flu prevention.
if you have viburnum, then tea with it is very good. It's a good idea to add dried raspberries there.
The largest amount of vitamin C is found in juice sauerkraut, as well as citrus fruits - lemons, kiwi, tangerines, oranges, grapefruits. Healthy fresh cabbage salad with sunflower oil, containing a large supply of vitamins and microelements.
At the first signs of discomfort, it is recommended to do the following. In a glass of freshly prepared carrot juice stir a paste of 3-5 cloves of garlic and take 1/2 cup of the mixture 3-4 times a day 30-40 minutes before meals for 5 days.
Wonderful recipe from propolis. A piece of propolis the size of 1-2 peas should be kept in the mouth, occasionally moving the tongue from one side to the other, and placed behind the cheek at night. Keep it for a day. You can use regular lump sugar, soaking it in alcoholic propolis extract.
If you don't have a fever, they will help you perfectly mustard baths . After this, rub your feet with some warming ointment or just put on woolen socks. And of course, you can go to the bathhouse or sauna. You will find a catalog of saunas on the portal sauna.ru.
You can simply pour dry mustard into your socks at night.
You can read about other healing drinks here.

Of course, there are a huge variety of recipes. I only shared what our family uses. It's simple, accessible to everyone.

When choosing a remedy to fight a cold, it is worth remembering that natural products There is contraindications . Honey has this diabetes. People suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract need to be careful with lemon, red pepper and garlic. Raspberry decoctions are not suitable for heart patients and hypertensive patients. Thus, when chronic diseases or feel very unwell, do not self-medicate and at the first sign of a cold, consult a doctor.

Health to all of you.