Treatment of colds and runny nose folk remedies

Catarrhal diseases are a number of diseases, including infectious diseases, associated with inflammation of the upper respiratory tract; They may also include rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago.

Causes of the disease: fluctuations in air temperature and humidity and the consequent hypothermia of the whole organism or its individual parts; Low body resistance.

Symptoms of a cold: body aches, headaches, runny nose, sneezing, cough, fever, sore throat.

Folk remedies for colds and colds

• During the epidemic of influenza with a preventive purpose, it is useful to do the following procedure. Grate the onion and for 10-15 minutes, inhale the smell of freshly prepared gruel.
• Finely chop several cloves of purified garlic and stir in a glass of milk. Then boil this mixture and allow it to cool. Take several times a day for a teaspoonful - this will significantly soften the clinical course of the disease.
• With a cold, bury 3-5 drops of menthol oil in your nose while lubricating your forehead, whiskey, nose. You can mix menthol oil with camphor and do the same procedure.
• Fresh pine needles (100 g) rinse and grind, then pour 1 liter of boiling water, bring to a boil and turn off the fire. To insist 1-2 hours, strain and drink 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day, dissolving in a drink 1 tablespoon of honey. Infusion is rich in vitamin C, as well as other vitamins and trace elements. It has a bactericidal effect, accelerates recovery in case of flu, cold.
• From the cold, tea with ginger and honey will help. Rub 1/4 cup of ginger on the grater, add a glass of honey and cook. In the tea, add 1/2 teaspoon of this mixture.
• Mix 30 g of sea buckthorn oil, 20 g of fresh marigold juice, 15 g of melted cocoa butter, 10 g of honey, 5 g of propolis. With a cold, moisten the fleece in this compound and insert it into the nose for 20 minutes.
• To cure a cold it is very useful to sweat in a steam bath of Russia. It is recommended to grate the sacrum with grated radish (mixed well with grated horseradish), mixed with a small amount of honey and salt, and after leaving the bath, drink 2-4 cups of decoction from linden, elderberry or chamomile flowers with an admixture of sour berry juice.
• With a protracted runny nose, the child sew a narrow bag of linen cloth, fill it with a warm, steeply cooked millet porridge and put the pouch on the nose area so that it covers the maxillary sinuses. Keep as long as heat remains.
• With a cold, dig in 3-5 drops of aloe in each nostril 4-5 times a day, throwing back your head and massaging after digging in the wings of your nose.
• It is very useful to use a decoction of fresh or dried berries of strawberries or raspberries, going to bed, and at the same time to breathe a decoction prepared from sage leaves, a divine tree (medicinal wormwood) and wormwood.
• With a cold, it is recommended to instill 2 times a day a mixture of the extract of Ledum and vegetable oil. 1 g of Ligulide extract is mixed with 9 g of vegetable oil, boil and steal this mixture in the oven for several minutes. Extract of Ledum: brew 2 teaspoons of Ledum 1 cup of boiling water, put on a low heat, keep until you boil half the water.
• Bring a glass of milk. The onion head of medium size, grate on a fine grater, pour boiling milk and stir well. Let it brew for 10 minutes, then drink warmly for half an hour.
• Stir in a glass of hot milk 2 tablespoons of honey and drink during the day for 2-3 hours.
• Garlic, grate on a fine grater and mix with honey in a ratio of 1: 1. Take 1 tablespoon 1-2 times a day, drinking water.
• A glass of black currant berries fill with a glass of vodka, add a glass of sugar syrup and insist 30 days in a dark place, occasionally shaking. Take 1 glass a day or pour 1 tablespoon of tincture into a glass of hot tea.
• At the very beginning of the common cold, if it does not accompany a disease like the flu, it is recommended to drink 1/2 cup of water with five drops of iodine.
• Against a chronic cold, iodine will also help. Dissolve 6-7 drops with 2 teaspoons of boiled water and bury the mixture 2 times a day, in the morning and in the evening. In addition, during the day, you often need to inhale vapors of iodine directly from the vial at first one, then another nostril. Sea salt is also rich in iodine and has a strong antiseptic effect. It is diluted in the proportion: 1 teaspoon per 250 ml of warm water for adults and 500 ml for children. With this solution, wash the nose with a thin trickle pouring liquid into one nostril so that it pours out from the other.
• Aloe juice, mixed with honey and dry wine, protects against colds, increases the body's resistance to infectious diseases. The mixture is infused for 5-6 days. Take before eating 1 teaspoon. The juice is made from the lower leaves of the plant. They are washed with cold water, cut into pieces and squeezed through gauze.
• With a cold, decoctions from the leaves of eucalyptus and althea are very good. Eucalyptus has an effective disinfectant and astringent property, and marshmallow - anti-inflammatory and enveloping. Cook the broths separately: a glass of boiling water take 10 grams of crushed eucalyptus leaves and 20 grams of althea leaves. Cook them for 5-10 minutes and strain. Mix the broths in equal proportions, pour into the teapot and rinse the nose 5-6 times a day 2-3 times per each set.
• At the first sign of the flu, you need to cut a large fresh bulb, and then inhale the onion pairs, repeating this process 3-4 times a day. In between the procedures, soak cotton wool in crushed garlic and put it deeper into the nose or cook garlic drops: crush two small heads of garlic (100 g), pour a glass of vodka and shake thoroughly; 1 drop drip onto the tongue, as if spreading all over the mouth, and then swallow. Such treatment will be effective if carried out within 3-4 days.
• Effective folk remedy for flu is black currant. Prepare from it a drink with hot water and sugar. A day should drink no more than 4 glasses. In winter it is easy to prepare a decoction from pre-prepared currant twigs. Brew a full handful of finely chopped branches with 4 glasses of water. Boil for 5 minutes, and then cook over a low heat for 4 hours. Drink at night 2 cups of broth in a warm form, slightly sweetening. Such treatment during illness should be done twice.
• With a common cold, often draw in your nose and rinse your mouth with such a composition: 4 teaspoons of baking soda and 5 drops of iodine per glass of water.
• Rinse your nose with warm, slightly salted water with the addition of tincture of calendula or eucalyptus (1 teaspoon per 0.5 liters of water). To do this, you need to bend over the vessel, draw in the nose and release it from the mouth. So rinse your nose with all the solution without lifting your head. Blow your nose. Do this twice a day, morning and evening, with a chronic cold.
• The flu will pass without complications if you take the juice of burdock leaves 1 tablespoon 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals. In the harvest season, that is, from June to September, it is recommended to take pure juice, and in the rest of the time - tincture: 50 g of vodka for 250 ml of juice, insist 5-7 days.
• Squeeze the juice from one lemon. Dissolve it together with 100 g of purple honey in 800 ml of boiled water. This drink should be drunk during the day. For the prevention of colds, it is useful to take honey inside: children 5-7 years - 1 teaspoon, and adults - 1 tablespoon at night. Honey to dissolve in 1/2 glass of a broth of a dogrose. Carry out procedures for a month.
• In 1 glass of hot tea, dissolve 1 tablespoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of cognac. Drink in small sips.
• A glass of hot tea diluted 1 tablespoon of raspberry berries or jam and 1 tablespoon of 70-degree alcohol or wine balsam. Drink in small sips. For sweatshops, cover your head with a handkerchief or towel.
• To children, especially small ones, with a cold to dig in the nose freshly prepared red beet juice.
• In the Siberian villages with the "severe cold" and strong cough used the following remedy. 20 grams of wormwood insisted in 0.5 liters of vodka - the longer, the better, but not less than a day. We took 1 tablespoon 3 times a day and at bedtime. Children this medicine is not recommended.
• Pour dry mustard powder into your socks and do not remove them for 2-3 days. In the first hours of the disease, colds can be stopped by 10-minute foot baths with mustard powder.
• 4 teaspoons of leaves or raspberry fruit brew 2 cups of boiling water and leave for a few hours in a thermos. Drink warm 1/2 cup 4 times a day. Infusion of leaves can also gargle. Or: a tablespoon of dried raspberry fruit brew 1 cup of boiling water and leave for 20 minutes. Drink 1 glass of hot infusion 2 times a day. Use as a diaphoretic.
• With a cold, it is recommended to wrap the feet of gauze moistened with alcoholic infusions of capsicum, top with woolen socks and go to bed.
• 30 g cognac or vodka, 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 tablespoon raspberries (wiped with sugar or fresh) stir in a glass of hot milk, add 0.5 teaspoons of soda and drink overnight. Prepare a change of clothes, as there is a lot of sweating. To children this cocktail is prepared without alcohol, with a half dose of components.
• With a cold, take honey with hot tea or milk for the night (1 tablespoon of honey for 1 glass of tea or milk) with lemon juice (100 g of honey and 1/2 lemon juice per day), raspberries and other medicinal plants that have sweat or expectorant Action. In this case, the therapeutic effect of honey and a medicinal plant is enhanced.
• A tablespoon of linden flowers should be brewed in 1 cup of boiling water, insist 20 minutes, strain and add 1 tablespoon of honey. Drink 1 / 4-1 / 2 cup. The use of honey increases the diaphoretic effect, so it is desirable to take infusion overnight.
• When influenza it is useful to take alcoholic tincture of eucalyptus leaves. 20 g of dry crushed eucalyptus leaves pour alcohol, tightly cork and infuse for 7-8 days. Strain and discard the remainder in the tincture. Take 20-25 drops, diluted in 1/4 cup of boiled water.
• The broth of pearl barley is recommended as an antipyretic for children and adults for colds. 100 grams of cereals pour 1 liter of water and simmer for 10-15 minutes, cool and strain. Take the entire dose in 1 overnight. To improve the taste, you can add a tablespoon of natural honey, better than lime. Children dose reduced depending on age.
• Flowers chamomile pharmacy, black elder flowers, linden flowers heart-shaped and peppermint leaves mixed equally. Prepare an infusion of a tablespoon of collection on a glass of water. Take 2-3 glasses of hot infusion per day for colds.
• With a cold, coughing, respiratory diseases, foot mustard-salt baths are recommended. In a bucket of warm water add 200 g of table salt and 150 grams of mustard. Put both feet in the bucket to the shins, covering the top with a warm blanket. Keep feet in solution until redness, then rinse them with warm clean water and, putting on woolen socks, go to bed. With varicose veins, foot baths are contraindicated.
• Motherwort and chicory root of the ordinary in equal proportions brew with steep boiling water, like tea, let it infuse and take 3 times a day for colds, 1/2 cup.
• Collect raspberries (2 parts), leaves of mother-and-stepmother (2 parts), common grapefruit (1 part). A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 20 minutes, drain. In a warm form, this diaphoretic infusion should be drunk at night.
• With cold diseases with fever and diseases with a febrile condition, it is advised to eat red currant berries or drink their juice.
• As a febrifuge, it is recommended to boil the dried cherries. To prepare a decoction of 100 g of berries pour 0.5 liters of water and on a slow fire under the lid evaporate the third part of the volume of liquid.
• Mix the fruits of anise ordinary and herb wormwood in 2 parts, the bark of willow white, the flowers of the lime heart-shaped, the leaves of the watch are three-leaved - in 3 parts. Prepare a decoction of 1 tablespoon of salt per 1 glass of water. Take 1-3 glasses a day for colds.
• The grass and roots of the spring primrose, the roots of elecampane high, the leaves of the medicinal sage, the pine of the pine, the herb of peppermint, the flowers of marigold, the leaves of the plantain of large, the licorice root is bare, the herb of St. John's wort, the grass of thyme is mixed equally. Prepare the infusion from the shredded mixture, strain and take 70 ml 3-5 times a day after meals with acute respiratory infections.
• 0.5 liters of slightly warmed raw milk mixed with fresh chicken egg, add 1 teaspoon of bee honey and the same amount of butter, mix everything thoroughly and drink at night. There is a very good effect of curing colds.

Diet for the treatment of colds

With a very severe cold with a high fever in the early days you need to refrain from food, drink plenty of fluids, fruit and vegetable juices diluted with water. It is recommended to increase the body's resistance and reduce the duration of the disease 1-2 times a day to drink the juice of one lemon (vitamin C), dissolved in a glass of water with a teaspoon of honey. It is useful to take once a day garlic broth (3 4 crushed garlic cloves pour a glass of water and boil), which has antispasmodic and antiseptic effect, flushes toxins from the body and removes heat. After the acute stage of the disease is over, you can gradually move to a balanced diet, initially limiting the consumption of meat, eggs, cheese and starch-containing foods.