Everyone knows how suddenly a cold comes and for some reason does not want to leave for a long time. At the first sign, it is not particularly useful to feed your body with pills that negatively affect the stomach. Therefore, folk remedies often help, proven over the years and, as a rule, created on a natural basis.
What torments us the most: a persistent runny nose (and because of it, a red nose), sore throat, cough, fever and a terrible headache.
Dealing with stuffy nose and runny nose
a) Sea salt (washing). Dilute sea salt in warm water: 1 tsp. to 250 ml, and for children - by 0.5 liters. We wash the nose with this saline solution.
b) Red beet juice (drops). We instill freshly squeezed juice into the nose of children.
c) Onion, vegetable oil (oil for the treatment of the nasal mucosa). We rub one onion and pour one glass of vegetable oil (hot!), Wrap it up and insist for 6-8 hours, and then filter it. This oil is good for treating the nasal mucosa.
d) Kalanchoe and aloe (drops). Squeeze out the juice of Kalanchoe and drip into the nose 3 drops several times a day. Or add aloe juice to it.
e) Eucalyptus oil (breathe). If the nose is blocked, put a cotton swab next to your pillow, previously slightly moistened with eucalyptus oil.
If your throat hurts
Treatment of the throat with folk remedies is very effective. For example, it will help you:
a) Lemon. Slowly and carefully chew a raw lemon (plus zest). We do not eat for an hour.
b) Garlic (inhalation). We rub a few cloves of garlic in a small container, bend over it and breathe for about five minutes with both our mouth and nose.
c) Fresh egg (rinsing). Pour a fresh egg into a glass of warm water and gargle with this composition throat 5 times a day.
d) Beetroot juice and vinegar (gargle). Grate beets, squeeze, make juice, add 1 tbsp. l. vinegar. Gargle as often as possible.
e) Sage, fragrant violet or chamomile (rinse). Preparing a decoction: 1 tbsp. l. herbs to 1 glass of water. Pour the grass with boiling water and leave for 15 minutes. We rinse several times a day.
Fighting cough
a) Onion, garlic, milk, honey. 10 onions and 1 clove of garlic three and cook in milk over low heat for half an hour, then add 2-3 tbsp. l. honey. We drink 1 tbsp. l. before each meal, but not on an empty stomach.
b) Radish juice, honey. Mix black radish juice with honey (proportions 1:2). We use 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day.
c) Tea, milk with honey. We take it at night (we dilute 1 tbsp of honey in 1 glass of tea or milk).
d) Lemon juice, honey. We mix 100 g of honey and the juice of half a lemon, take it at night.
Bring down the temperature, reduce the heat
a) cherry. Boil dried berries (100 g of berries per 0.5 l of water and evaporate a third of the volume of liquid over low heat).
b) Thyme, linden flowers and chamomile flowers (herbal tea). In 1 cup of boiling water, add 1 tsp. mixtures. We insist 5 minutes, drink warm 3 times a day.
c) Linden or black elderberry (tea). In 1 cup of boiling water, add 1 tsp. herbs. We insist 5 minutes, drink hot 3 times a day.
Get rid of headaches
a) massage. The area between the thumb and forefinger.
b) Menthol oil (massage). Massage the temporal, frontal, occipital areas with menthol oil.
c) Lemon, raspberry, cranberry, honey. Tea with these ingredients.
d) Cinnamon (tea or lotions). 1 tsp powder per 100 g of hot boiled water, we insist for half an hour. We drink 2 tbsp. every hour or make lotions on the forehead, temples, nose.
And remember, if a cold persists, you should still consult a doctor. Folk remedies are good, but, unfortunately, not everyone helps. It is better to supplement the main treatment with them.
Olga, especially for BiWomen.ru.
