If a cold is just beginning, you have noticed its first symptoms, then check out the article:

The following folk remedies will help you get back on your feet with a cold as soon as possible. According to the materials of the newspaper "Bulletin" ZOZH ".

How to quickly cure a cold at home - a grandmother's method:

1. First, steam the child's legs in plain hot water or with the addition of mustard.
2. Boil the potato peels with a few whole potatoes for better heat retention. Drain the water from the boiled potatoes and evenly pour a handful of soda on the cleaning. Over this saucepan, covering the head with a blanket, seat the child.
3. If the child is small, it is also advisable for the mother to crawl under the covers. Slowly open the lid to release steam. Healing vapors easily reach the throat, warming the nasopharynx.
4. After the procedure, put the child to bed, putting on a hat or scarf.
   After a while, change the child into dry clothes and give not very hot tea with raspberries or honey.

The baby will get better soon! (HLS 2014, No. 21 p. 40).

Alternative treatment of colds with garlic is an effective remedy for adults.

For some people, garlic can cure a cold in 1 night.

• The woman caught a bad cold in the country, at home she felt that she was getting sick. I took my temperature - 37.2. I decided to treat myself with garlic. She took a crust of bread, generously rubbed it with garlic and salt, ate it, chewing it thoroughly and without drinking anything, and ate another garlic clove just like that. The temperature began to drop. When I went to bed, I already felt healthy. The next day, the temperature remained normal, just in case, she ate the same sandwich again. The disease was avoided. (HLS 2014, No. 22 p. 31).
• If you feel unwell, grate a clove of garlic and inhale its phytoncides for 10-15 minutes, do this several times a day. If it burns your eyes, cover them with a towel. Grated onion, horseradish, radish help cure a cold (sniff, keep in your mouth).
• On the street, garlic will protect you, cut into strips and attached with adhesive tape to the foot. When walking, the garlic softens, the juice is absorbed into the skin, and the blood carries garlic phytoncides throughout the body, providing a therapeutic effect. (HLS 2012, No. 18, p. 6).

Ordinary pasta will help you quickly recover from a cold! Cook pasta, add grated garlic, eat hot - an excellent diaphoretic and disinfectant. (HLS 2004, No. 10 p. 18,).

How to cure a cold in 1 day at home.

For over 50 years, a man has been able to treat a cold in 1 day. When he caught a cold in his youth, he turned to the doctors. As a result, the treatment turned out to be ineffective, for 10 days he was broken, lay in bed, suffered from melancholy and swallowed pills. After that, he decided to treat himself with folk remedies.
When he becomes very cold, and chills, sore throat, nasal congestion and other symptoms of a cold appear, he immediately begins to do the following activities:

• Steams the throat hot water with the addition of salt or soda (1 tsp per glass of water), or with tincture of calendula or chamomile (20-30 drops per glass of water). Gargle for 5-6 minutes. With the same solution washes the nose.
• Soaring legs with hot water with mustard for 10-15 minutes, the water temperature gradually increases to 40 degrees. Or take a hot mustard bath.
• Lies under the covers and drinks a cup of tea with raspberry jam or honey, or lime blossom decoction. After drinking tea, he wraps himself up with his head. Half an hour intensely breathes and sweats. Then she frees her head, wipes it off, and wraps it in a towel. Until the morning he sleeps well covered. In the morning he gets up like a cucumber, takes a shower, has breakfast and goes to work. (HLS 2004, No. 5, p. 13).

Milk with garlic and vodka is an emergency remedy.
To catch a cold, quickly get rid of a cough, runny nose, take this remedy:
Finely chop 1 clove of garlic, add 1 cup of milk and bring to a boil. Remove from stove, add 1 tsp. butter and 3-4 tbsp. l. vodka or cognac. Immediately drink, lie down in bed, covered with a warm blanket. In the morning, there is no trace of a cold. (HLS 2014, No. 23 p. 30-31).

Quick treatment of colds in children and adults with milk and onions.
The following remedy will help to recover from a cold as soon as possible: finely chop a medium-sized onion, pour a glass of milk in an enamel mug and bring to a boil, remove from heat. Bending down, breathe steam over the mug, and when the contents have cooled down, eat the onion gruel, add honey to the milk and drink it. Do this procedure 2-3 times a day. The disease will subside. (HLS 2007, No. 24 p. 18-19).

Milk with eggs.
At the first sign of a cold, you need to take 0.5 liters of warm milk, add a raw egg to it, 1 tsp. honey, 1 tsp butter. The milk should be at such a temperature that the butter and honey dissolve and the egg does not curdle. The warm mixture should be drunk in small sips at night. It is possible to cure the disease completely in 2-3 days (HLS 2012, No. 24).

Propolis.

• How to get rid of a cold at home with propolis.
  Inhalations: melt propolis and wax in a water bath in a ratio of 1:1. When heated, steam will rise, which must be inhaled, tilting your head and covering your head with a towel. This inhalation will immediately clear the airways, increase the overall resistance of the body to the disease.
• Propolis can be simply chewed, like chewing gum, especially before bed. With the help of propolis, you can get back on your feet in 1-2 days, if you do the procedures often enough. (HLS 2014, No. 15 p. 30).
• Helps to rise to the feet tincture of propolis on alcohol. You can cook it yourself or buy it at a pharmacy. Half an hour before meals, drink 1 tbsp. l. propolis tincture and immediately drink it with 1 tbsp. l. melted butter. Do 3 times a day. This folk remedy will help to cure, and if propolis is taken in this way for 2-3 weeks, a stomach ulcer will heal, if any. (HLS 2014, No. 20 p. 40).
• If the disease has just begun, Ivan-tea infusion with propolis tincture will help. 1 tsp Koporye tea (fermented Ivan-tea leaves) pour 1 cup of hot boiled milk, leave for 40 minutes, then add 1 tsp. propolis and drink before bed. Then immediately go to bed. During the night, the disease comes out with profuse sweat. In advanced cases, treatment can be repeated every evening 3-5 times. (HLS 2014, No. 21 p. 39).
• propolis in milk can be taken without Koporsky tea. Add 1 tsp to a glass of hot milk. propolis tincture, drink before going to bed in large sips. (HLS 2009, No. 20 p. 31).

Peanut butter.
Anyone who can get fresh young walnut leaves (it is desirable that the leaf sticks to the hands) has every chance of curing a cold in 1 day.
Finely chop 80 g of leaves, pour 100 ml of vegetable oil, heated to 50-60 degrees. Put in a dark place for 30 days, shake the mixture daily. A month later, a thick black oily liquid forms in the jar, it must be filtered, the leaves squeezed out, the liquid drained into a dark bottle. The healing oil is ready.
A healthy lifestyle reader, at the first sign of nasal congestion, rubs the bridge of her nose with this oil so that the skin burns. Then he rubs the hollow on the neck, armpits, under the elbows, feet, back. All this is done before bed. At night, from this rubbing, he sweats, and in the morning he gets up completely healthy. (HLS 2014, No. 17 p. 8,).

Red pepper and milk.
Red hot pepper helps to get rid of the disease. This recipe has been tested over and over again.
Put a small piece of red pepper the size of a fingernail into 1 cup of milk and boil. Throw out the pepper, drink milk and immediately go to bed. Wake up healthy in the morning. Pepper will not only warm up the blood overnight, drive away ailments, but also give strength and energy. (HLS 2011, No. 12, p. 33).

How did you manage to cure a cold in 1 day with folk remedies.

The woman woke up in the morning with chills, a temperature of 38.5, a sore head, a stuffy throat and a sore throat. That day was a day off and she and her husband had to go to visit their parents. The husband did not know what to do, go alone or treat his wife. The wife sent her husband to visit and began to treat a cold.
20 minutes sucked vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l. After 20 minutes, she spat out a white clot. I brushed my teeth and tongue. She drank tea with pureed currants and fell asleep. I woke up an hour later, did the same procedures again and drank tea with raspberries. I decided not to eat anything that day, only every 1.5 hours I absorbed the oil and drank herbal teas with honey, sea buckthorn, raspberries, lemon, ginger, dill seeds. All this helped, by 15 o'clock the temperature dropped to 37 degrees. At 18 o'clock, when the husband returned, there was no trace of the disease, which he was very surprised.
In the spring, the woman fell ill again, repeated the same treatment, and again she managed to get rid of the cold in 1 day. (HLS 2012, No. 1, p. 28,).

Quick cure for colds with herbs.
The man came to the village on vacation with relatives. On the first day I went for mushrooms, got caught in the rain and fell ill, I started to feel chills, and had a high temperature. The man was upset that the whole vacation was gone, he sent his wife to the pharmacy for medicines. But the relatives said that they would be able to cure his cold in 2 days. And in fact, after two days, there was no trace of the disease.
And they treated him like this: in a 700-gram jar they put 300 ml of meadowsweet flowers, 1 tbsp. l. calendula flowers, sage leaves, tricolor violet grass, pour 500 ml of vodka all this, close the jar with a lid and put it in a pot of hot water for 1 hour. The water was periodically heated to keep warm. Then they took it off and gave the patient to drink 2 tsp. 3 times a day before meals.
Now the man himself keeps these herbs at home. (HLS 2012, No. 6, p. 39).

How to lower the temperature during a cold.
The reader has a reliable, tried and true recipe for when the temperature is high.
At night, soak your feet in hot water with baking soda or mustard. Then moisten two pieces of cotton wool with apple cider vinegar and put them on both heels, put a plastic bag and a sock on each foot. In the evening he goes to bed with a temperature of 39, and wakes up in the morning like a cucumber with a temperature of 36.5.
A very effective way to relieve fever. (HLS 2009, No. 17, p. 32).

You felt at work a sore throat, heaviness in the head, a warm forehead and nasal congestion. Why do such troubles always lie in wait for us at the wrong time? In order not to disrupt an important project at work, in order to pass a session without debts, in order not to give up an interesting weekend trip, you need to know how to quickly recover from a cold.

There is no time to regret that cold prevention has not been done. It is necessary to quickly take time off from work or school and start an emergency intake of vitamin C in combination with folk remedies.

In order not to lose working capacity for a long time - know that only emergency treatment of a cold in the early stages of the disease is effective.

Emergency measures at the first sign of a cold

An adult can quickly recover from a cold only if emergency measures are taken at the very first symptoms. Only those people who understand that their health deterioration occurred precisely because of elementary neglect of it can use the following tips: immunity did not increase in time, the body got hypothermia due to inappropriate clothing and shoes.

If there is a suspicion that you have become a victim of a flu epidemic, immediately call a doctor at home, go on sick leave and do not self-medicate! Do not joke with serious diseases!

These tips can not be applied if the child is sick. You are responsible for the lives of children, but it is not for you to judge how they got sick. Only a specialist will be able to make a correct diagnosis: among childhood diseases, there are many diseases with symptoms similar to those of a cold, but treated in a completely different way.

How to quickly get rid of a cold for an adult:

1. If you have a mild form of a cold, then going to the doctor for sick leave is fraught with standing in long lines at the clinic and a real possibility of getting a complication. Therefore, we definitely take time off from work: we take a day off or leave at our own expense for several days. We never get sick at work, your sacrifices will not be appreciated by anyone, since you still won’t be able to work productively.
2. We start home treatment of a cold with a temperature measurement. Wrong do those who, at the very first sign of malaise, try to drink the advertised expensive remedy in order to stay on their feet. Knocking down the temperature below 38 degrees is a real delay of the disease for a longer period.
3. An effective remedy for colds is vitamin C, it should always be in your home first aid kit in the form of dragees or tablets. Taking a loading dose of ascorbic acid is very important in the initial stages of treatment. If you do not like medications, then you can replace them with citrus fruits: about five oranges or two lemons with honey - this is both tasty and healthy.
4. Treatment of a cold at home will be quick if you take a lot of liquid: absolutely any, but warm. This is necessary for the speedy removal of toxins from the body. Use the recipes below for a wonderful drink that tastes good and thanks to which you can quickly cure a cold.
5. The best cure for a cold is sleep. Having taken warm tea, covered with a soft blanket, try to fall asleep. Warm socks and comfortable clothes will help you sweat well, which is an indispensable step in the treatment. It is possible that when you wake up in the morning, you will not feel even the slightest sign that you were seriously disturbed in the evening.

Anyone who wants to know how to get rid of a cold should tune in to a quick result and not become sour. And definitely do not abuse alcoholic beverages.

If you feel sorry for yourself too much: that, even if you are practically cured, you will not go out into the fresh air, then the disease can take on a protracted character.

Short walks for all patients who do not have a temperature are useful and must be. If you didn’t manage to recover quickly, traditional medicine offers various methods for treating a runny nose, cough, and sore throat.

What to drink with a cold?

The treatment of colds with folk remedies is necessarily a plentiful drink, which helps to remove toxins from the body. What liquid will help effective recovery? Not cold, but not hot, so as not to cause a complication in a sore throat.

Choose the drink option that suits you best:

• Rosehip infusion is a storehouse of all possible vitamins.
• Raspberry tea is an old way to lower the temperature, the berries can be frozen, dried or even made from jam.
• Chicken broth - when you don’t particularly want to eat during an illness, this dish will saturate and drink, and reduce symptoms.
• Lemon decoction made with several lemons and honey. These products are boiled in two to three liters of water. The broth cools and a wonderful compote with a high content of vitamins is obtained.
• Cranberry, currant, viburnum juice is a traditional Russian drink made from berries valued for their healing properties.
• Warm milk with honey, butter or soda.
• Plain tea with honey. In order to preserve its beneficial properties to strengthen immunity, you need to eat honey with a spoon and only then drink it with tea. Dissolved honey in a hot liquid will no longer be healing.
• Ginger tea for colds has been a popular remedy in recent years. A well-known spice that improves the metabolism of the body, it is also famous for its expectorant, analgesic, wound healing properties.

How to prepare medicinal ginger tea? For 0.5 liters of boiling water, one teaspoon of green tea and about three tablespoons of grated ginger (approximately a 3-4 cm root area) are taken, lemon juice is squeezed out and honey is added. After insisting and cooling, the drink is ready to drink.

Such folk remedies for colds can be prepared without problems, do not forget about them, but relying only on them is also reckless. Of course, disturbing a doctor with minor ailments is not entirely correct, because at this time a seriously ill person may need him, but are you sure that your health is not threatened by problems?

When should you not treat a cold at home?

If the symptoms of the disease do not decrease for a day or two, remain unchanged or even increase, be sure to call an ambulance or your local doctor.

What should alert you:

• the high temperature is kept within 39 degrees for more than three days;
• a severe cough appeared, accompanied by strong wheezing;
• you have difficulty breathing;
• it is impossible to take food and water due to swelling of the throat;
• headaches torment non-stop;
• there is pain in the paranasal sinuses, eyeballs;
• worried about brown or green sputum mixed with blood.

This is no longer a simple cold, but a serious illness. To avoid bad consequences, immediately start the treatment that your doctor will prescribe.

Do not refuse necessary hospitalization. Every second lost while you thought you had a commonplace mild cold counts. Never self-medicate and be healthy!

I will say a banality, but autumn or winter without a cold is not a real thing. Few people have such strong immunity to do without this scourge. But there are no people who want to sit at home with not too severe symptoms in the form of a cough, runny nose and even a temperature. Therefore, keep a few tips on how to quickly cure a cold at home with folk remedies. They are suitable for both adults and children, we will talk separately about the treatment of nursing mothers and during pregnancy.

And the truth is, everyone wants to return to normal as quickly as possible. And if you start the fight against the symptoms of the disease in time, then it will be crowned with victory, in 1 - 2 days you can put yourself in full order and return to your usual way of life.

What is a cold? Acute respiratory disease (ARI), manifested as a result of hypothermia, reduced immunity, or contact with a sick person. If the cause of a cold is a virus, then the disease is referred to as SARS. And there are a lot of such viruses, at least 200 have been identified to date. In the group of viruses, the influenza disease stands apart, since its symptoms are slightly different from the manifestations of other colds.

Depending on the causes of occurrence, the symptoms of a cold are sometimes different, but there are common ones that unite this group of diseases:

• Lachrymation.
• General weakness.
• Runny nose.
• Sneezing.
• Cough, often dry.
• Headache.
• Sore and sore throat.
• Temperature (not always).
• Aching in the joints or muscles.

One of the symptoms of the disease is under the nose, the treatment of which I wrote in another article on the site. Read - will be a good help in treatment.

It is bad that at the beginning of the disease a person does not always understand that he is sick - a cold develops gradually. Therefore, the patient misses important hours for a quick cure, and aggravates his situation, enduring a painful condition on his feet.

If you start acting immediately, with only a few signs, then it is possible to cure a cold in one day, well, a little more, because you will not allow the infection to gain strength and be distributed throughout the body.

How to quickly cure a cold at home

Surely, in your family piggy bank of recipes for quick treatment, there are many proven and very effective ones. It is only important to act as a united front and use everything at the same time, without neglecting the little things. I will outline the most important ways.

• Get sick at home.

Many adults, referring to a not too serious condition and circumstances, tend to endure the ailment on their feet, trying not to fall out during the illness of their lives. And they make a big mistake. It is not at all necessary to endure bed rest, but it is impossible to tire yourself with work - a rested body resists diseases better. Relax, take advantage of the moment, stay warm. In addition, take pity on colleagues, acquaintances and fellow travelers in transport - spreading the infection further is not a good idea.

Sleep, wrapped in a warm blanket, read. Take a lot of time for sleep, because it is known that it is in sleep that the body fights the disease.

Be sure to dress warmly, do not forget about socks and a scarf around your neck.

• Steam your feet.

In the absence of temperature, hot foot baths can be done, which contributes to a quick recovery from a cold. It helps adults well, the child can also steam his legs, but pregnant women cannot carry out the procedure.

• In a basin of hot water, I throw a handful of ordinary or sea salt. There mustard powder. When the procedure is completed, there are two options for the development of events.
• The first one is kind. I draw a grid on my feet with iodine, then put on my socks and dive into bed to keep warm. But there is a more extreme method of treatment that boosts the immune system well: from a basin of hot water, I move my legs to a basin of cool water for 3-4-5 seconds, no longer.
• Water should not be icy, namely cool, room temperature, well, maybe a little colder. Then the legs for a minute - two return again to the basin with hot. After that, it remains to wipe dry, put on socks and head for the bed.

It helps to quickly cure a cold by rubbing the feet, which you can do in addition to the main treatment. For the procedure, take vodka, alcohol or the cheapest cologne and rub your feet and calves with active movements. It is better to do it at night shortly before bedtime, then immediately put on your socks and go to bed.

Healing drinks for a quick cure for a cold

Drink a lot. This advice is given by both doctors and traditional healers. And absolutely right. Drinking plenty of water is one of the first steps to take. To quickly recover from the manifestations of a cold, the body needs to be helped to get rid of all toxic substances: viruses and pathogenic bacteria.

Make sure you get enough fluid. In addition to ordinary water, it is very good for:

1. Herbal teas and decoctions.
2. Berry fruit drinks, in which there is a lot of vitamin C. Traditionally, viburnum, red and black currants are suitable (I always have a supply of white, I like it more), sea buckthorn, cranberries.
3. Plain hot tea with honey and lemon. And, do not forget - honey should be eaten with a spoon. Diluted in too hot tea, honey will lose most of its medicinal properties.
4. Mineral water, preferably alkaline, but without gas.

Traditional medicine, which you need to pay attention to with a cold - various herbs and plants:

• Bactericidal, anti-inflammatory: chamomile, pine or spruce needles, thyme.
• Diaphoretics that reduce the temperature: ginger, raspberry, linden.
• Diuretic: leaves of strawberries, lingonberries, carrot tops.
• Improve immunity: wild rose, red mountain ash, echinacea.

Do not limit yourself in the amount of fluid you drink. You can use up to 3 liters, or even more. True, swelling may occur. To remove them, add something diuretic, by the way, there are herbs that simultaneously expel excess fluid and work anti-inflammatory.

Vitamins for the treatment of colds

The importance of the intake of vitamins in the body of adults and children with a cold cannot be overestimated. It largely depends on whether the body will resist the disease. Especially important in our case is vitamin C, which ensures the production of interferon, which protects us from viruses.

• Change and adjust your diet by adding many more fruits and vegetables than usual. The high content of vitamin C will improve immunity and recovery will come faster. A few tips about P read in another article.
• Add apples, persimmons, citrus fruits and kiwi to the menu, pay attention to sweet peppers and sauerkraut.
• Try to refuse fatty and carbohydrate foods, it takes a lot of energy to digest it, and it is needed to fight viruses.

How to quickly get rid of a runny nose with a cold

A runny nose almost always accompanies a cold, and each of us tries to quickly cure it. It is much easier to get rid of an incipient runny nose if you use rinsing with a special solution and drops. There are folk remedies for washing the sinuses that help to effectively treat the problem.

1. Infusion of calendula flowers, which is easy to prepare at home. To do this, pour a large spoonful of the flowers of the plant with boiling water and let it brew. Rinse your nose often with strained infusion.
2. The nose is also washed with potato juice, aloe, diluted red beet juice and onion.
3. A solution of soda helps well, half a teaspoon of which is diluted in a glass of warm water. The effect of adding table salt will improve the effect.

Is it worth it to bring down the temperature

On this issue, there are differences of opinion, and directly opposite. Someone advises not to shoot down, arguing that in this way the body fights the virus. Many are supporters of the fact that the temperature should not be allowed to rise high.

In fact, you need to carefully monitor the body's reaction to the treatment started and monitor the thermometer. If the indicators on it exceeded 38 degrees, the condition worsens - the muscles ache, the head is spinning and the eyes hurt, then you should not endure the condition for a long time. Take a pill, rub your hands and chest with water mixed with vinegar to stop the fever and reduce it.

I offer you a recipe for traditional medicine to reduce the temperature:

• Grate a couple of raw potatoes and add a large spoonful of apple cider vinegar to it. Stir and make a compress on the frontal part of the head. The temperature will drop fairly quickly.

Treatment of a cold with folk remedies

Having gone through a lot of remedies for the quick treatment of colds offered by traditional medicine, I have chosen for you the most delicious ones that adults will like. Alcohol-free recipes can be offered to children, women who are expecting a baby, and nursing mothers.

1. Milk with honey and butter will reduce sore throats, help with coughing, improving sputum discharge. It is only important to remember: milk should not be taken hot; when warm, the remedy acts no less effectively. The advice is especially for children.
2. When starting a cold, it is useful to warm up a little Cahors by adding a pinch of black pepper, a little honey, and drink shortly before bedtime. The next morning you will get up like a “cucumber”.
3. The following recipe for a drink for the treatment of adults: heat a glass of any red wine almost to a boil, add a couple of slices of orange and lemon along with the zest. Send a pinch of hot red and black pepper. If you want to get mulled wine, flavor the drink with cinnamon and cloves.
4. Beer. For a long time, I had no idea that beer could also be healing. With a cold, you can cook something like mulled wine from it, replacing wine with a drink. Slowly heat the beer over low heat, first throwing in a little cloves, lemon peels and cinnamon. Separately, beat 3 egg yolks and 3 tablespoons of sugar until fluffy. Pour the foam into the hot beer and simmer until the beer is thick. You don't need to boil. Drink a delicious medicine in a glass, and a cold will disappear in just one day.
5. Mint. Prepare a healing mint elixir for the night: put a few mint leaves in a glass of boiling water, let stand for 10 minutes, and then add a spoonful of honey and a clove of chopped garlic. When mixed, pour in a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice. Drink a cocktail hot and go straight to bed.
6. Lemon. Make a decoction of several chopped lemons in 2 liters of water. Cool, add honey and drink several times a day.
7. A recipe quite well known in folk medicine: put a lemon in boiling water for a couple of minutes, and then grind it in a meat grinder along with the zest. Next, add 100 gr. butter and a couple of tablespoons of honey. The mixture will turn out to be pleasant to the taste, so it is also suitable for children. Take a large spoonful every 3 to 4 hours.
8. Kalina. Take a glass of viburnum juice and the same amount of honey. Stir and take warm, a tablespoon 2-3 times a day.

Inhalations for quick treatment of colds

Treatment of a cold at home with inhalations is a long-standing and proven folk remedy. Official medicine treats this procedure very favorably. I remember, as a child, my mother specially cooked potatoes in their uniforms and planted me over the pan, covering me with a towel. And a runny nose, and, indeed, all the symptoms of a cold passed quite quickly. Then we bought a special inhaler and used herbs.

Medicinal herbs that help with the disease:

• Mint.
• Lavender.
• Sage.
• Melissa.
• Eucalyptus.
• Pine needles.

Do not have a special device for inhalation - use a regular pan. Put one or several of the listed herbs at once, pour in a liter of boiling water. After a few minutes, when the herbs are a little brewed, and the steam stops burning, you can proceed to the procedure. Bend over the container, cover yourself with a towel and slowly breathe over the healing steam.

Be sure to visit the clinic

Anyone who pays attention to their health will not delay home treatment for a cold if some alarming symptoms appear.

Should be alert:

• High, within 39 degrees, the temperature lasts longer than 3 days.
• Headache that doesn't go away.
• Constant pain in the eyes, paranasal sinuses.
• Difficulty in breathing, heavy cough with strong wheezing.
• Sputum that is coughed up is green or brown in color, there is an admixture of blood.
• Swelling of the throat, making it difficult to eat and drink.

Remember, friends, how many times a completely harmless acute respiratory disease or SARS developed into a more serious bronchitis and even worse. Therefore, treat the disease with attention. Take sick leave, and try to cure your cold as quickly as possible. You will learn a few more tips from the video. With love… Galina Nekrasova.

If you are cold, the first thing you need to do is warm up. Frozen feet will be perfectly warmed by a hot bath with mustard - what we simply call "steam feet". In a bowl of hot water (not lower than + 40-42 ° C), dissolve a spoonful and a half of mustard powder and keep your feet for 15 minutes, adding hot water as needed. After that, you need to thoroughly dry your feet, put on woolen socks and lie down under a warm blanket. Instead of a hot foot bath, you can simply pour mustard powder into your socks and go to bed. And if you don’t have dry mustard on hand, rub your feet with vodka and put on warm socks.

We warm our cold hands under a stream of hot water: for about five minutes, raising the temperature from pleasantly warm to hot (+ 42-43 ° C). Then we wipe our hands dry and put on something warm with long sleeves. To enhance the effect, you can put warm mittens on your hands and spend the next 60 minutes wrapped in a woolen blanket.

To sweat, and, therefore, get rid of toxins and try to cure a cold in a day, the body needs more fluid than usual. Therefore, we will drink - exclusively hot: tea with raspberry jam, tea with lemon and honey, a decoction of lime blossom, thyme, chamomile or elderberry flowers with mint. It is not difficult to prepare decoctions of medicinal plants: take 2 tbsp for a glass of boiling water. spoons of dry color or herbs, brew with boiling water, close the lid and let it brew for 15-20 minutes. Herbal teas for colds drink 0.5 liters per day. And the total daily volume of fluid for symptoms of a cold or ODS should be at least two liters.

"Just in case" you measured the temperature and saw that the thermometer went up - do not panic. If the body temperature does not exceed + 38 ° C, then doctors do not advise knocking it down, because a rise in temperature is evidence that a person's immunity has begun to fight the disease. And we can and should help him cure a cold in one day, for example, by drinking hot tea with ginger root, which strengthens the body's immune system and prevents infections from developing. To prepare ginger tea, a piece of root 2 cm long is peeled, finely cut, put together with tea leaves in a cup, pour 200-250 ml of boiling water and let it brew for 15 minutes. You can add a slice of lemon and a teaspoon of natural honey to this healing drink.

By the way, after you have sweated, be sure to wipe your skin with a well-wrung out hot towel to remove the released toxins, and change into dry clothes.

How to quickly cure a runny nose with a cold?

If a cold has made itself felt with nasal congestion, you need to take the initiative and apply generation-tested methods to deal with the first symptoms of a runny nose.

Among the many folk remedies for the treatment of a runny nose with a cold, there are a sufficient number of very effective ones - especially at the initial stage of the disease.

It is recommended to lubricate the nose with Kalanchoe juice - 2-3 times a day (or instill 2 drops of juice in each nostril). Common salt is often used, which is mixed with butter. This homemade ointment (a third of a teaspoon of oil is mixed with the same amount of salt and warmed up a little) is smeared on the outside of the nose. And for washing the nose, which moisturizes the mucous membrane and facilitates nasal breathing, a teaspoon of salt is dissolved in 0.5 cups of warm water. Washing is carried out as follows: one nostril is closed with a finger, and the second is drawn into the nose with a salt solution (the same is done with the second nostril).

An old folk remedy for a runny nose with a cold is an ordinary onion.

It is enough to cut the onion in half and breathe in the phytoncides that stand out from the cut. Onion phytoncides have a bactericidal property and are able to neutralize even the diphtheria bacillus and the causative agent of tuberculosis, the Koch bacillus. So they can easily cope with a runny nose: you need to keep cotton swabs moistened with onion juice in your nostrils several times a day for 10 minutes.

An effective remedy for a runny nose with a cold is to bury your nose with any warm oil (for example, olive, sea buckthorn, menthol) or an oil solution of retinol acetate (vitamin A). The Asterisk balm should also help, if you smear the bridge of the nose and wings of the nose before going to bed.

Of the pharmacy nasal remedies for a stuffy nose, drops of Galazolin, Naphthyzin, Nazol, Nazivin and sprays Sanorin, Otrivin, Vibrocil, Delufen, etc. have proven themselves well.

How to cure a cough with a cold in a day?

When coughing is the first sign that you have a cold in store, you need to start by rubbing your back and chest with ointments that contain essential oils and have a disinfecting, distracting and irritating effect.

You can rub the chest area at night with a mixture of castor oil (2 tablespoons) with turpentine (1 tablespoon) or ready-made pharmacy turpentine ointment. This remedy is rubbed into the skin of the chest (except for the heart area) and into the soles of the feet, wrapped warmly. With the help of two or three rubbing, you can cure a cough with a cold in almost a day. But it should be borne in mind that such procedures cannot be carried out at elevated temperatures.

Badger fat has proved to be an indispensable cough remedy (and not only). Due to its composition, badger fat has a tonic, anti-inflammatory and even immunostimulating effect on the human body. This fat should be rubbed at night on the back and chest area. And in folk medicine, such a recipe is very popular: mix 100 g of badger fat, honey and cocoa powder with 50 g of butter and 50 g of crushed aloe leaves (agave). Add 5 g of mummy and propolis, as well as 50 g of medical alcohol. Mix all ingredients until smooth.

For the treatment of cough with a cold, 1 teaspoon of this mixture is diluted in a glass of water and rubbed overnight on the back, chest and calf muscles of the legs. And for internal use - as a powerful tonic - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of the mixture is dissolved in a glass of hot milk and drunk in small sips (before meals).

Instead of tea to treat a cough with a cold, you need to drink decoctions of medicinal herbs: oregano, coltsfoot, elecampane, sweet clover, thyme, peppermint. A handful of herbs is taken into a glass of boiling water and brewed like tea, which after 15 minutes of infusion is ready for use - a glass three times a day. Special chest cough preparations are sold in pharmacies. For example, “Breast Collection No. 1” contains marshmallow root, coltsfoot leaves and oregano herb; and in "Breast Collection No. 2" - coltsfoot leaves, large plantain leaves and licorice root. These herbal remedies are available in filter bags and are very easy to brew.

A good remedy for severe coughs is fresh black radish juice, which has anti-inflammatory and expectorant properties. The radish should be washed, peeled and finely chopped. Then mix with sugar in a ratio of 1: 1 and put in a jar, tightly closing the lid. After 4-5 hours, the radish will give a healing juice, which you need to take - 1 tablespoon at least three times during the day.

One of the effective methods of treating cough is steam inhalation. For example, with eucalyptus, mint, juniper or pine oil. Put a few drops of oil into a bowl of boiling water, sit down, tilt your head over the container, cover yourself with a towel and breathe in the steam. These simple home treatments have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, expectorant and bronchodilator effects.

Aerosol inhalations are also useful, which are carried out using pocket inhalers. Most often, the mixtures include essential oils (menthol, anise, eucalyptus, peach), as well as natural honey and propolis (alcohol solution). Here is a recipe for honey inhalation with propolis: dissolve 1-2 teaspoons of honey in 0.5 cups of boiled water and drip 6-8 drops of propolis. Water can be replaced with a 0.2% solution of furacilin. The duration of the procedure is 5 minutes.

Hello to all readers! Autumn is not only the time for a round dance of yellow leaves, but also for a cold, which, as usual, comes at the wrong time. How to treat a mild cold at home? And for this, there are home remedies for colds, proven for decades and even centuries.

Vitamin C on the table

During the period of colds, it is necessary to have foods rich in vitamin C in your diet: oranges, lemons, tangerines or grapefruits.

It's not bad if you include Bulgarian pepper, sauerkraut, rose hips, lingonberries in your diet.

By the way, a mild cold is cured healing drink from wild rose. Pour 100 grams of rose hips into a thermos, pour 1 liter of boiling water. In 4 hours your medicine will be ready! Add a spoonful of honey and drink 3 times a day.

Garlic, lemon, honey

A remedy such as a garlic drink will not allow viruses to roam.

Take 4 cloves, boil in 1 glass of water, add 1 teaspoon of honey. Consume a decoction 3 times a day.

Without honey, we cannot cope with the autumn sickness.
The simplest mixture: 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and 2 teaspoons of honey. Drink the mixture every 2 hours for a sore throat.

Help in the initial stage

One of the effective methods of getting rid of the common cold is the inhalation of the ether of fir, eucalyptus, juniper.

What is needed for this? Drip oil on a handkerchief, applying it to your nose, inhale the healing aroma. If a runny nose does not work, rinse the nasal cavity with a saline solution (half a glass of water plus 1 tablespoon of salt).

How to wash? Take a syringe, remove the needle, draw a saline solution into it and. After washing, drip 5-6 drops of fresh aloe juice.

In general, good nasal rinses are now sold in pharmacies - Aqualor, Dolphin. Ask!

Good remedy for nasal congestion: dip cotton swabs in, insert into the nostrils, after 10-15 minutes the nasal passages will “break through” and you will start breathing again.

What happens if a runny nose is not treated

Many people do not take the common cold very seriously. But it can turn into a purulent runny nose, which is extremely dangerous for its complications.

The most harmless method in the treatment of nasal congestion is inhalation.

How to make the simplest inhalation? Boil potatoes in their uniforms, drain the water, sprinkle it with soda, cover with a blanket, breathe over the potatoes.

Treatment of otitis media

One of the most effective methods of treating ears is onion juice. Squeeze the juice from the onion, soak a cotton swab in it, put it in the ear, hold for 30 minutes.

Another useful recipe:
Pour 1 cup of water into the pan, add 5 bay leaves. Bring to a boil, leave the broth to brew for 2 hours. Bury 7-10 drops in each ear, and also drink a decoction of 2 tablespoons.

The most excellent method, repeatedly tested. Moisten a cotton flagellum in warm sunflower oil, insert the ear, insulate with a layer of cotton wool, tie with a scarf, keep it all night. It will help from the first procedure if the disease is not running.

Dangerous herpes

A cold on the lips at the very first signs is well treated with ordinary toothpaste. And if bubbles appear, then attach the cut onion, hold for 3 minutes.

A good result is the application of salt. Sprinkle salt on gauze, then apply to the affected area several times a day.

To get rid of, use the following folk medicines:

• apply a mixture of apple and garlic to a cold;
• apply 4-5 times a day sleeping tea, preferably in bags;
• apply a leaf of aloe or Kalanchoe to herpes;
• several times a day, apply a slice of lemon to the affected area.

How to treat barley on the eye

This is the name given to a cold that appears on the eye. This disease can be treated with lotions from chamomile flowers, plantain.

To make barley ripen faster, a boiled hot egg or hot potato is applied to it. When the abscess bursts, then no treatment is required, it will pass by itself.

Cold acne

The appearance of this type of acne most often occurs with a sharp change in air temperature. The most unpleasant thing in this situation is that a cold on the face does not heal for a long time.

The difference between colds and acne:

• Usually appear in the cold season;
• When you touch them, there are sharp painful sensations;
• For a long time they do not respond to treatment;
• Appear in the area of ​​the nose, lips, auricles, on the chin.

How to treat

The first simple remedy is toothpaste. Lubricate the problem area until the paste dries completely. Every 2 hours, fir oil can be applied to the pimple.

Lubrication with iodine, a cut of onion will help get rid of painful pimples. Onions can be applied several times a day for a few minutes with a fresh cut.

Treatment of a cold cough

Cough is a protective reaction of the body in many diseases. But today we are analyzing the treatment of cough with a cold.

Proven folk remedies:

1. Boil 1 glass of milk, add 1 teaspoon of butter and honey to the hot milk, mix each component well. Then add soda on the tip of a knife, beat 1 yolk, drip 2 drops of iodine and drink. It will take 2-3 such procedures to pass even the most protracted cough.
2. Black radish- the best folk doctor. Cut the peeled radish into rings, sprinkle them with sugar. After a few hours, juice will appear, which must be taken in 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day.
3. If you have lost your voice, then also do not hesitate with treatment. Do every night foot baths with mustard. For 10 liters of hot water 2 tbsp. spoons of mustard powder. Lower your legs for 20 minutes. After the procedure, dry your feet, put on warm socks, and wrap your neck with a scarf. Also, put mustard plasters on the chest.
4. Gargling with warm Borjomi water will help restore the voice.
5. Has no less effect gargling with soda solution. In a glass of warm water, dissolve 1 teaspoon of soda and every hour. Compresses can be made with a soda solution by applying gauze soaked in a soda solution to the neck, capturing the lymph nodes. Keep the compress for at least 30 minutes.
6. Another recipe: squeeze red beet juice and gargle. For this, use a decoction of chamomile, eucalyptus and sage. And try to dissolve 1 chicken yolk in a glass of warm milk, drink in small sips.

Ear congestion treatment

With a cold, it often stuffs up the ears. Usually the cause of this phenomenon is a runny nose. When you cure a runny nose, congestion will also pass.

But this phenomenon also needs to be treated. Try . Close your nose with your fingers, then blow out the air until you hear something like popping. Did you hear? Immediately make 6-8 swallowing movements.

Another element of gymnastics: inflate balloons, you can even through a straw. And also chew gum, while chewing, massage the entire ear. Just do not heat and do not drip alcohol!

Home remedies for colds

Everyone wants to quickly cure a cold so as not to waste time on bed rest. If the malaise occurs in adults with a high temperature, then you can’t do without a doctor’s call at home.

As an addition to the treatment prescribed by a doctor, you can use folk recipes, for example, honey with milk. Heat a cup of milk, drink in small sips, eating honey.

At an early stage of development, raspberry tea will help. This old remedy is really very effective.

Do not forget about rubbing your feet with triple cologne or alcohol. Rub your feet and calves, then put on your socks and lie down under a warm blanket.

If a child is sick

A high temperature in a child must be brought down if it has gone beyond 38 degrees, almost all mothers know this.

As an addition to the treatment prescribed by the doctor, you can also give tea with raspberries, all kinds of fruit drinks, compotes. It is important to give more to drink!

Great prescription for cough- carrot juice with milk: tasty and healthy! Take equal parts of carrot juice and milk, give your child 2 times a day. It will help you very quickly.

For a sore neck, herbal inhalations are suitable -, lemon balm, mint, eucalyptus.

From sore throats and coughs, rubbing the feet to redness with ordinary sunflower oil will help. After rubbing, warm socks should be put on the legs. This technique is especially effective at an early stage in the development of the disease.

How to treat a cold at home for pregnant women

Everyone knows that pregnant women should not be treated with antibiotics. Therefore, during pregnancy - only folk remedies!

But many women may be allergic to honey and raspberries! Then let's look for other means, for example, ginger.

• Grate fresh (2 tablespoons), pour 2 cups of hot water. Boil for 10 minutes, let it brew, add a slice of lemon and drink. If there is no allergy to honey, then add another 1 teaspoon of honey. This portion should be drunk in a day.
• Rosehip and lemon. Take 3 tbsp. tablespoons of the berries of this plant, pour 1 liter of water, boil for 10 minutes, then drink. This drink perfectly strengthens the immune system, and this is very important during pregnancy.
• Also prepare yourself tea with honey and lemon. Such a simple remedy will quickly help to recover.
• Inhalations. Among the fast-acting remedies, inhalations with eucalyptus can be distinguished. Add a few drops of eucalyptus oil to a bowl of hot water and breathe over it, covered with a blanket. Its vapors will clear the lungs, bronchi, nasal passages of mucus, as a result, a quick recovery will come.

These simple recipes can be used while breastfeeding. No mother wants her baby to drink antibiotics with milk.

Don't forget to drink herbal teas as well.

• Linden flower tea is a great fever reducer.
• A decoction of the leaves of coltsfoot, plantain, blackcurrant is an excellent expectorant and antitussive.
• Tea from chamomile flowers, lime blossom with the addition of honey will have an anti-inflammatory effect.

In parting, I want to wish: to be healthy even on the coldest days. And when you get sick, use these simple home remedies for a cold.

But remember, these remedies are only good for a mild cold. In case of any complications, you still need to contact the clinic.