Treating the common cold with folk remedies

In the winter - spring period, the body of any person can be exposed to a cold. Most common cold results from a strong weakening of the immune system.

Treatment of a cold at an early stage is very effective with the help of traditional medicine, which will not prolong the inflammatory processes and not clog the body with components that are part of the pharmacological expensive drugs.

Cold: causes, symptoms, types of colds ^

Cold refers to a group of viral and infectious diseases that occurs when ingested pathogens, with severe supercooling or in close contact with sick people.

Symptoms of the common cold are:

• General malaise, headaches, slight increase in temperature;
• Cough or sore throat;
• Runny nose.

The difference between a cold from flu, ARVI or ARI is that the first is much easier and with timely treatment lasts no more than a week. The remaining diseases occur in a fairly acute and severe form - high fever, severe nasal congestion, sore throat, etc.

The cold is divided into the following types - infectious, stressful, caused by hypothermia or rhinovirus. Depending on the inflammatory processes, the common cold disease is divided into rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis and bronchitis.

Folk remedies for the treatment of colds have natural healing properties and purposefully affect the onset inflammatory processes that cause a runny nose, pain, cough and other symptoms. Traditional treatment of common cold is carried out with the help of the following procedures:

• Warmings, compresses, trays, oral irrigation and inhalation;
• Preparation of decoctions, infusions;
• Application of natural homemade droplets in the nose.

Any method of traditional medicine aimed at getting rid of colds consists of the following antimicrobial, antibacterial, fortifying, sweatshops and anti-inflammatory drugs:

• Berries - cranberries, cranberries, currants, sea buckthorn, rosehips, raspberries;
• Vegetables - potatoes, beets, onions, horseradish, garlic, etc.;
• Bee products;
• Varied medicinal herbs - plantain, string, chamomile, St. John's wort, oak bark, etc.:
• Citrus;
• Essential oils - lemon, eucalyptus, fir and others.

Treatment of colds in children

At the first signs of a cold a child does not need to start medication. At this point, excellent help can be provided by treating colds with home remedies.

If a child has a cough, runny nose or sore throat, mustard warming, inhalation, herbal or soda irrigation will come to the rescue.

With a slight increase in the temperature of the child, it is desirable to put it in bed and provide it with a vitamin-rich drink.

Treatment of colds in pregnant women

The intake of pharmacy medicines during pregnancy is severely limited, so for a cold disease, the expectant mother should immediately begin the procedures that make up home treatment for the common cold.

To increase the body's resistance and remove pathogens, it is advisable to use tea with raspberries, currants or dogrose, milk with honey, chamomile tea.

It is useful to add onion or garlic as natural antibiotics. Plants such as aloe or calanchoe will help cope with the common cold, and decoctions of medicinal plants used for inhalations will relieve coughing attacks.

Treating a cold at home: folk recipes ^

Cold Cures for the First Symptoms of

• Mix equal parts of cranberry juice with potato juice and use this composition for ¼ cup three times a day.
• Grind in a meat grinder a lemon, a glass of cranberries, an orange, then stir well, divide into small portions and use this composition for a day.

Treatment of cold and cough

• Mix two parts of chamomile flowers, one part of coltsfoot and oregano. For half a liter of boiling water take three tablespoons.collection, put them in a thermos for six hours. Drink this infusion is necessary for ½ cup three times daily before meals.
• Badger fat combined with honey, then in the amount of st.l.use before bedtime.

Treatment of colds and runny nose

• Juice half a lemon diluted in three cups of boiled water, add st.l.honey and consumed within a day.
• Mix onion and garlic juice, dilute them with water( one drop of 20 drops of clean water), then add a little honey with aloe, stir, then dig in two drops into each nasal passage three times a day.

Treatment of colds and sore throat

• Fill st.l.chopped leaves of burdock with a glass of boiling water, put on a fifteen-minute water bath, then cool, strain and consume two tablespoons.six times after a meal every day.
• Pure the water in half with the Kalanchoe juice to rinse the area of ​​the larynx.

Cold and temperature treatment

• Softened berries of the viburnum are mixed with honey and in an amount of 200 ml to be consumed during the day.
• Two tbsp. Berry raspberries mixed with ch.l.black leaf tea for tea leaves, pour them for an hour with three glasses of boiling water, and then use a diaphoretic infusion for two meals.

Treatment of a cold and headache

• Menthol oil or an asterisk lubricate the area of ​​the temples with the wings of the nose three times a day.
• ½ tspElderly pour 200 ml of boiling water for 20 minutes, then strain and take for twice during the day.

Treatment of colds with garlic

• Tooth clove garlic, pour 100 ml of hot milk for a few minutes, then use in a warm form.
• Garlic to pass through a grater, combine with lime honey( 1: 1) and take over the night with a tablespoon, washing down the mixture with warm water.

Treatment of colds with vodka

• At night, moisten feet with vodka, put on warm woolen socks, go to bed.
• 25 gr.combine vodka with 25 grams.juice of radish or honey and drink before going to bed.

Treatment of common cold with honey

• Squeeze the juice of one lemon with 100 gr.honey and take two tablespoons.with hot raspberry tea before going to bed.
• A small turnip to grate, squeeze juice, connect it with st.l.honey, bring to a boil, then after cooling take three times daily on a spoonful.

Treatment of common cold herbs

• Connect equal parts of the string, chamomile, raspberry leaf and St. John's wort. Take two tablespoons of herbal tea, pour 500 ml of water, then bring to a boil.
• Allow the broth to steep for two hours, then add st.l.honey, divided into four equal volumes and taken during the day, beginning in the morning.

Prevention and useful advice on how to protect yourself from colds ^

The first invaluable aid for colds can be provided by natural, herbal and natural remedies that, without harm, will help the body to quickly cope with the disease. They primarily include the use of citrus fruits, berry fruit drinks and herbal decoctions.

To effectively help the sore throat is able to rinse with soda solution, and inflamed mucous nasal juices of medicinal houseplants.

To protect against colds, the following preventive measures exist:

• Take antiviral drugs during epidemics;
• Do not overcool;
• Avoid stress;
• More eating useful and fortified foods;
• Do not contact with colds;
• Regularly ventilate your living space.