Taking over the counter medication isn’t the only way to feel better when you catch a cold. You can often prevent your illness altogether with a few preventative measures. Obviously sometimes, even if you do everything right, you get sick anyway and without any warning start feeling like the people you see awake all night in the cold and flu medication ads on television. Don’t give in to the urge to drug yourself so much that you just sleep through your bout of the flu. Sure it’s tempting but there are better ways to help yourself feel better and to get over your flu. Nature is full of material that you can use to combat your symptoms and to fight against your cold or flu. This article has a few remedies that you should look at.
Did you know that onions can help your health? Combining onions with honey to make syrup is one popular method of curing a cold. Slice up an onion, put the slices in a bowl and cover them in honey. Make sure that the two are mixed well together and let it sit overnight. Eat one spoon full of the syrup once every three hours or so for a few days and your cold or flu should get better! You can also just add some onions to your food-they go well with just about everything!
Garlic is well known for its detoxifying properties. If you want to get better fast, take 500 mgs of garlic thrice daily when you have a cold so that the garlic can really do its job. One clove of garlic has about 500mgs in it. This can be accomplished by either taking a tablet of garlic or by including a clove of garlic into your meals at least three times a day. You don’t have to spend a bunch of money to keep garlic on hand-it doesn’t cost a lot of money (natural garlic is cheaper than the supplemental tablets). Don’t carry your 1500mgs a day intake longer than five days. If you still show severe cold or flu symptoms after five days, call your family doctor.
Drink tea! Herbal teas are great because they contain ingredients that help people feel better but do not contain caffeine which can slow down the immune system’s response to illness. You can also make your own tea if that is something that you know how to do. When you drink these teas you usually start to sweat, which is helpful in fighting colds and flues.
Using herbal and natural health methods to get well is a great idea. Are you so desperate to not feel your symptoms that you’ll fill your body with chemicals even though natural health methods work just as well? Natural remedies are better than a bunch of drugs and pills. Don’t forget to give yourself permission to rest up otherwise nothing you do will help you get better.
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