Folk Medicine and Remedies Colds – Misc tips

Colds – Misc tips Keep your throat moist. Drink at least 10 glasses of water and do 4 steam baths a day if you can. Heather is good to breathe in when you have a cold. It’s also good for coughing and diarrhea. It’s mildly sedative and soporific. There is some superstition around heather. They say that if you bring heather into the home, someone in the same house will go to sleep for ever. Elder is good against fever and colds and is causes sweating. Drink 2 tsp of flower/bud hot. Note! Larger amounts can cause nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. Vitamin C is good against colds (prevention). There’s a lot of it in citrus fruit, black currant, carrots etc. Against a sore throat you can use curry dissolved in tepid water. Use 1 tsp for 1 cup of water and gurle with it. To get rid of mucus, you can squeeze the juice out of a lemon into a cup and drink it. Swallow 20 whole pepper corns with a glass of water. Grind white or black pepper and mix it with as much full milk as you can drink. Boil and drink it, add honey if you want. Add a few drops of Japanese peppermint oil in some water and drink. You can also gurgle with pure peppermint oil. Bergamot tea was used by Native Americans to ward off colds and a soar throat. Six leaves are allowed to steep in a cup of boiled water for 15 minutes to make an antiseptic tea. The leaves, stems and flowers can be brewed to soothe a sore throat. Take 1 cup of boiling milk, add 1 tbsp of honey to soothe a sore throat. Some say it pays to avoid meat and eggs until you feel better. When you’ve had enough of drinking this and that for a sore throat, try taking a teaspoon of crem now and then.