Getting a cold is not fun. Feeling it coming on can be a helpless feeling. You are dreading the next 10 days if the cold goes its normal course. But, it doesn’t have to be this way. Here is what to do
When you feel it coming on, act fast. Time is precious in this event.
Start taking vitamin C. 2000 milligrams a couple times a day. Drink fluids of course. Orange juice is a natural choice and a good one.
Start eating apples. As many as you can. My parents were visiting me one time and I was feeling like I might be coming down with a cold. I was in my little t-shirt shop in the Woodlands Wharf Mall and my dad was helping me build some shelves to display Texas souvenir items for sale. He went next door to the Jamail’s grocery store and bought two large apples. And I mean to tell you, these two apples were the biggest I had seen.
I ate them, stuffed them down, and a couple hours later, the symptoms I had been feeling were gone and the cold never took hold. It doesn’t always work so, there must be some other factors.
One of them is getting enough rest. I have noticed that, when I feel this little tickle of a preliminary warning of a cold, if I drink fluids and get plenty of rest (I’m talking go to be right now), I can ward off the cold. This worked well when I was working for myself from home and I had that luxury.
So, that is stage I and what to do. If that doesn’t work and you feel the cold still coming on, go to stage II.
For stage II remedies, the cold already has hold of you and you haven’t been able to shake it at its onset.
Keep eating apples but now, go with a stronger potion for your fluids, namely, a mixture of healthy ingredients in tea. These ingredients are: Ginger, Lemon, Honey, and Raspberry Tea in a black tea of some variety.
Brew some tea, black is what I prefer.
Grate the ginger on the small holes and put in about a teaspoon of the little strands. You can chew them as you stir and drink your tea. Stir while you drink so you don’t have all the solid particles left in the last gulp.
Squeeze about a half of a small lemon (quarter of a large lemon) into the tea. I even scrape, with a spoon, the little crushed juice pods in the lemon right into the tea.
Make about 6 cups or 3 large mugs a day.
I did this on my most recent cold and, even though the cold had settled in, my remedy got rid of the cold in 5 days. I wasn’t blowing my nose or sneezing or feeling bad in any way. If I don’t do that stuff, the cold lasts 10 days or more.
There you have it. I hope you try this if your next cold sets in and I hope you have the good results that I have experienced.
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