Get Rid of a Cold without Using Medications

When Some people know that cold season is going around, they take zinc. They started taking them late last week, which may have been too late. Zinc is a preventative thing however, it has been known to shorten the duration of a cold once it’s started. So, I’ve continued taking it. It’s best to get lozenges you can suck on -because it absorbs best throughout your mouth. Leaves a weird after taste, depens on the brand you get.

The easy process I can simply follow is :

1. Chop garlic up really small, put in a little jar in the fridge about 2-3x a day,  get a half tea spoon of it, drench it with honey, and swallow in one gulp. Garlic is effective antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal. It got rid of the sore throat I woke up and by noon it was gone. You don’t taste the garlic if you swallow it in one gulp with the honey.

2. Drink TONS of hot waters with lemon added (or you can use a number of kind of tea that you like). I just drink plain warm water with lemon. It flushes things out (you’ll know because you’ll have to pee a lot – but that’s a lot of junk leaving your body).

3. Take LOTs of extra vitamin C. Sickness is not a time to use the optional amounts (which are known only to prevent scurvy). I take 3-4 Emergen-C packets a day when fighting illness. They have several flavors! My local Meijer store has them in a big box for $9.99. They should last you pretty a while.

4. Drink lots of V-8 juice normally we get the “low sodium” kind, but during illness we use the usual kind. The v-8 is good for 2 things: the Vitamin A content, and the sodium. When you’re fighting a cold, sodium is a fine thing.

5. Have plenty of soups (again, here’s the sodium thing).

6. Eat as much fresh as you can, raw fruit as you’d like (particularly citrus, but any fruit will be beneficial). Fruit is cleansing to the body.

Few things to avoid

Sugar of any kind (except the fruit), sugar products, candies, sodas, white flour products (pop tarts, cake items, little debbies, etc.), processed foods (except for the soup – but homemade is best). recessed foods would include frozen dinners, hamburger helper, anything that is ready made – they have TONS of extra ingredients that are just plain junk and will weigh your protected system down.

Cleansing bath – use 1 – 2 cups of apple cidar vinegar (not white vinegar), and 1/2 cup of salt (just plain table salt is fine), in a warm bath. Soak for 20 min. This draws toxins out of your body. My 4 yr-old son had the “cold” yesterday, accompanied by a low-grade fever, this bath brought down his fever & helped him feel improved and finally he woke up this morning very well.