Some traditional - and NOT so traditional - cures for the common cold
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Friday, January 30, 2015, 2:07 PM - Every year I try to beat it but after those sneezes, sniffles and coughs start at work – it’s hard to not catch it.
I certainly did a few weeks ago, and while I used the more “traditional” methods to fighting it I wondered and asked ...
@NicoleKarkic @weathernetwork I was just discussing this w/ my followers. One suggestion I hadn't heard before was to drink wasabi in water
— Canuck | Anne-Marie (@PeopleOfCanada) January 26, 2015
I’m out on that one!
@NicoleKarkic @weathernetwork - heard today that carrots soaked in sugar and then drink the juice- sounds strange but apparently works.
— Excel Thru Learning (@ExcelThru) January 26, 2015@NicoleKarkic @weathernetwork sleep with half an onion in a bowl by your head. And also tie onion halves to the soles of you feet
— Ali K (@aliheardkelly) January 26, 2015
No onions in the house? I also read that wearing wet socks covered in warm ones to bed helps.
According to Leslie Solomonian, assistant professor from the College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, it stimulates circulation and relieves head congestion.
If you’re not up for that apparently eating oysters for the zinc helps, dark chocolate for the theobromine to suppress a cough, and eating whole cloves of garlic. I vote chocolate, but by all means pick your poison.
Then of course there are the more mainstream ways to beat that cold. These are probably ones your mother always told you about – I know mine did.
Many studies have actually shown that a good bowl of chicken noodle soup does help, and my twitter followers offered these:
@NicoleKarkic get well soon Nicole! good remedies like warm water and lemon helps and alot of rest 😉
— JC (@Spanish_Lover86) January 19, 2015@NicoleKarkic Feel better soon. You may want to look at Cold-FX as well.
— Victor Young (@youngvic) January 18, 2015@NicoleKarkic I hate that feeling! In addition gargle multiple times a day with warm salt water and lots of liquids
— Donna (@donna192) January 18, 2015
And this could always work as a last resort!
@NicoleKarkic Move to Arizona!
— Glenn Manderson (@GHManderson) January 26, 2015
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