Home remedies for cold, cough and flu: stay healthy this winter

 

Home remedies for cold,

cough & flu

We all know that catching cold is not a pleasant thing at all. Suffering really increases when person has running nose, puffed nose and running eyes and feeling feverish. The symptoms of flu can include fever or feeling chills, cough, sore throat, runny nose, muscle or body aches, headaches, and tiredness. Cold symptoms are almost same as the symptoms of flu. People with colds are more likely to have a runny nose. There are some excellent natural remedies which can give you instant relief from all this. Here are some ways to cure cold and cough.

Understand one point very clearly that cold and cough comes gradually under proportion. When it is just beginning, immediately attack on it and protect yourself. Immediately use this remedies and it does not go further, otherwise it will grow in real influenza, difficulty in breathing and so on which will be too late. Start immediately when you find that you are sneezing or nose is getting little stuffed or eyes are watering or you are feeling little feverish, attack that with homemade remedies.

 

1. Combination of Black pepper, Ginger, Pan and tulsi.

There are variety of wonderful herbs and available in every household. Sometimes pan may not be available but other three are available.

Boil these ingredients in water for sometimes 10 minutes or so and then strain it and drink it. If it is too pungent put jiggery inside and drink it. But you must take such a liquid twice a day at least, that could really help you. Dry ginger is excellent anti-inflammatory. According to me every human being should take inspire dry ginger every day. Fresh ginger, smashed and take juice everyday. Ginger has substance called gingerly. It really helps in preventing further inflation, black pepper is also strong anti-inflammatory, Tulsa and pan could boost the production of antibodies. This combination is an excellent combination to protect you from cold and cough.

 

 2. Ginger juice, Honey and Haldi  

Take a spoon of honey, put few drops of fresh ginger juice in that, put haldi in that just mix it and sip it slowly in your throat. It is an excellent treatment for cold and cough. Honey has a soothing effect on the throat. Haldi is a strong immunity booster. This combination is also excellent for cold and cough.

 

3 Jiggery , Ginger powder and Turmeric

Try and make laddu out of these three things. Take jiggery make it into the paste put little turmeric and ginger powder make a roll. If you have a sore throat then add some ghee into it and make laddu. Keep it in your mouth and go on sucking it little little and then chew it up. That is an excellent treatment for dry cough and cold. When person has dry cough nothing else works. This combination is going to work.

 

4. Salt water gargling

Yoga says very clearly that saline liquid really helps at loosening up the mucus, so gargle with salt water. Water should be warm, put some salt and gargle you can put even haldi in it and gargle.

Gargling really helps at nasal passage as well as throat . Do this 3 to 4 times a day will really help in settling problems.

5. Use of warm water

Water’s job is to wash away the unwanted things, warm water helps in removing toxins from the system and gives soothing effect to the body. Body also has water into it, so goes really well that you don’t need any other medicine. Just warm water every hour and you will be able to handle your problems.

All these remedies are excellent remedies, you can use any one of them. Find out what suits you, what gives you instant relief that’s beautiful but the problem does not solve here. You should know why you get into trouble, why you got cold, why you got cough, why of everything. The root cause of everything has to be found out then you will be doing perfect job.

 

 It is observed that there are few mistakes people do that’s why people suffer from cold and cough. One amongst the mistakes people usually do.

 1: Sitting under the fan

Sitting under the fan means fan is moving on head is getting cold. Getting cold means automatically sinuses getting disturbed, running nose and bad throat starts, so avoid directly sitting under fan. Fan could be used very slowly not fast like blast of air on your head rather the room should be ventilated. When you sleep and the fan is on that's still more harmful. It is better you cover your head while sleeping cover your ears with a scarf and that will save you from getting in the trouble.

2: Avoid taking bath immediately after waking up

Once you wake up do some exercises, once you finish your morning duties drink warm water evacuate your bowel ,walk a little bit here and there, do all normal activities and then go for bath.

 3: Eating frozen food and drinking cold drinks

Cold drinks directly affect your alimentary canal, mouth till stomach and it irritates inner lining and that will definitely cause cold and cough. Frozen food is still more harmful and person should totally avoid it. When anything is put in the fridge, you remove it at least one hour earlier to your food that is Ok not immediately, remember all this things that definitely causes irritation and problems.

  4: Not drying your hair after bath

If your head is cold, your hair is wet, it is going to directly affect your sinuses and so you will catch cold and cough, seeing that your head is always dry. Sometimes people sweat a lot, head becomes wet, they should open their hair, take a nice Turkish towel, rub it nicely and make it dry.

 5: Constipation

Constipation is the root cause of many diseases many problems one of them is cold and cough. Whenever the person has cold and cough the person has to see that his elementary canal is absolutely clear, clean and that is why eat sufficient fruits like papaya, chikoos and eat sufficient vegetables. Your elementary canal should be clear, you should evacuate your bowels rather twice or thrice so everything is clean, no constipation at all. 

Remember that cold and cough is not really acceptable, It is irritating factor it is definitely a painful factor.  Don't allow cold and cough to increase further, immediately do all these remedies and take care of yourself. We always believe in prevention is better than cure. This has to be prevented. Take proper precautionary measures, stay healthy, stay happy, Laugh giggle and dance, stay active and you will feel fine don’t catch cold and cough remain healthy.