Home remedies for a cold

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  • kgonsman1
    kgonsman1 Posts: 8 Member
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    Yup - a hot toddy ... And, if it's during the day, hot water, ginger, honey, cinnamon. Feel better!
  • peggy_polenta
    peggy_polenta Posts: 322 Member
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    3 days to catch it. 3 days to have it. 3 days to get rid of it.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,986 Member
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    cheryldumais wrote: »
    Echinacea 1200 mg. I take two in the morning and two at night. Vitamin C 1000 mg twice daily. Zinc 50 one a day. These are more effective as a preventative before it takes hold but will reduce symptoms just like any cold tablet. Be careful if your digestion is iffy. Echinacea and Vitamin C can loosen bowels. Vitamin C can also aggravate kidney stones if you are prone to them. I have found these three items invaluable during cold season. Hope you feel better soon.

    I take Vitamin C to "bowel tolerance" and it is amazing how much my tolerance goes up when I am under the weather. I realize Vitamin C is not the panacea that Nobel laureate Dr. Linus Pauling once claimed, but high doses are not completely lacking value either, in my experience.

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