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health advisory Hospital Alternative Medicine 2007-11-16 3:14:12

Tired of the over the counter meds or prescribed from dr, I'm willing to try ANYTHING to get rid of this stuffy nose, headache, earache, congestion...yada yada yada...whats some home remedies or wives tales that might work? I can't breathe! *sniffle...

Answer:

Starve the flu, feed a cold!

Also, chicken soup...it is a classic.

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My Grandma makes her own cold medicine and it works I swear! She takes a bag of horehound candy and puts it in a pot with a fifth of liquor and lets it melt together over low heat. She then puts it in a sealed jar and when someone gets sick she gives them 2 teaspoons of it. It works wonders though I am not sure how.

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Steamer. Purchase one that you can add some mentholated salve to enhance it. Put a towel over your head as a shroud and breath in the steam through your nose. Do this for about an hour and I guarantee your cold will be gone in 1 day.

Also, take 500 mg of chewable vitamin C every 4 hours.

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Peppermint & Eucalyptus, Cinnamon Essential Oils are good for colds and congestion. Peppermint & Lavendar are good for headaches and migraines. The best ear oil I know of is Olive Oil and garlic. Take several cloves smash them and put them in a sauce pan cover with olive oil and cook them down until the garlic get mushy (the point is to cook out as much of the garlic and it's natural oils as possible) do this all over low to medium heat watching it so it doesn't burn. Find a small glass eye dropper bottle to put this in because your next step is to strain off the cooked cloves and retain all the oil for use as ear drops. The next time your ears feel itchy or sore put a couple of drops in, preferably lay on one side to hold the drops in for awhile and then put cotton in your ears. I save all the cotton from my vitamin bottles (good vitamins use real cotton not synthetic). Teas like echinacea, peppermint, spearmint, ginger would all be good for colds. Chamomille has a calming effect if your stressed. Something warm always feels good with a cold. Collodial Silver is a great thing to keep around as well as Wellness Formula and Elderberry all of those things work really well at keeping my family health. There are several homeopathic remedies that work well for colds too. Find yourself a good health food store (not GNC -- products are overpriced for what your get and staff is not very knowledgable), ask for their assistance. Purchase a book called Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis Balch (4th edition). Use it, this book and it's companions are a great, easy to understand resource for all of us interested in healing ourselves and our families.