Fit, Lean & Beautiful #45 Cold Remedies
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
Fortify system and immune with vitamins and minerals
Vitamin C
Ensure Vitamin Supplement Drink (for energy)
Zinc Tablets or suck on Zinc Lozenges (doctor recommended)
Emergency C
Fresh Oranges, Mandarins, Clementine’s
Vitamin C Fruit Salads
Honey, lemon, ginger tea
Chicken soups, make stock add fresh vegetables, kales, carrots, onion, chicken, thyme, garlic, salt, coconut milk, curry
Macha Green Tea
Roasted garlic on toast
Herbs: Goldenseal infusions and Echinacea infusions
American Ginseng, 500mg Dose(for energy)
Lots of liquids: herbal teas, water, fresh fruit and vegetable juices
Yin Chiao Chieh Tu Pien-Chinese Remedy to balance unbalanced system
Homeopathic Remedy: Gelsemium 30C three times a day
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper, juice one lemon, one minced clove of garlic, one gram of vitamin c, sip slowly or add hot water to make herbal tea
Herbal Teas: Chamomile, Lemon Balm, Boneset, Elder, Pennyroyal (no more than one cup), Vervain
Polish Remedy: heat a cup of milk until scalding hot, add one teaspoon of honey, tsp. butter, last a tsp of grated garlic or garlic powder sip slowly before retiring
Penicillin
Flu Vaccine
To draw out or dry mucous
Antihistamine Nostril Sprays-eg. Meijer 12 Hour Nasal Spray
Boil an onion drink broth (similar to how eyes tear, draws out moisture)
Inhalations from water infused with drops of Eucalyptus in a pan after letting steam rise, towel overhead or Eucalyptus on a cotton ball in a pill bottle and inhale
Vicks Vapor Rub around the nose and on chest and inhalations
Sudafed
Kimchi-Korean fermented cabbage in broth as a soup
Nasal Douching-use a small paper cup filled with ½ teaspoon of salt and warm water, tilt head back and to the right, slowly pour in left nostril and it will come out of right
Sprinkle cayenne pepper into soups
Nasal decongestants
Cough
Halls Lozenges
Chicken Soup
Finely chop one onion place in a pot and cover with honey, warm for about 5min and take as cough syrup
Osha Root Tincture two or three times a day
A massage
Fresh or dry thyme leaves brewed into a tea
Anise seeds brewed in a tea in small quantities safe
Gargle with a white sage tincture drops and water-Native American
Homemade Herbal Cough Syrup: equal parts honey and wild cherry bark syrup; mix in two grams Apricot Seed, an ounce of Garlic tincture, and an ounce of Osha Root
Decongestants
For fever and headaches
Aspirin or ibuprofen
Middle Eastern Mint Tea-fresh mint, with orange blossom water and sugar steeped in a teapot
Other Treatments
Handwashing
Disinfectants
Antibacterial clothes for doorknobs
Warm comfortable environment
Warm blankets and sweaters
Rest
Citrus Juices
Bibliography
The Merck Manual
The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing
Uncommon Cures for Everyday Ailments
Jude’s Home Herbal