Natural cold remedies - help me please

[walterismydog]

I am battling a cold (day two) and I need it to just go away, I cannot take it anymore. I am bad at being sick and it rarely happens, and I'm just a big baby and all alone and it sucks.
So far I am:
-ingesting insane amounts of liquid echinacea, liquid vit d, and vit c pills
-drinking green tea
-no dairy, no sugar
-eating soup and oranges/grapefruit
-hot, steamy showers

What else can I do to make it stooooppppp? I really try to avoid western medicine/chemicals (I'm super sensitive to them and every single bad side effect tends to happen to me). I took one damn ibuprofen last night and puked...ugh.

[Deleted]

Have you ever taken Airborne? I don't think there are any chemicals in it and it always makes me feel better when I've got a cold.

[cuddlyevil]

Put lemon & honey in your tea.

Have you tried adding hot peppers or hot sauce to your soups? It'll help loosen things up a bit.

[walterismydog]

Jan 3, 2013 9:47:27 GMT -5 @utahlove13 said:

Have you ever taken Airborne? I don't think there are any chemicals in it and it always makes me feel better when I've got a cold.

No, I have not, but I'll go look into it at lunch - thank you!!

[hbear]

Unfortunately there's not much you can do at this point... let it run its course and your immune system will do the rest. 5-7 days for most colds.

Hang in there.

[dirtyred]

Zinc (cold-eez) is the only thing clinically proven to decrease the intensity and duration of acold.

[walterismydog]

Jan 3, 2013 9:48:20 GMT -5 cuddlyevil said:

Put lemon & honey in your tea.

Have you tried adding hot peppers or hot sauce to your soups? It'll help loosen things up a bit.

Lemon & honey, check.

Hot stuff, yes I wanted to do that yesterday but I just moved and stupidly forgot all my magical hot sauces at exes' house...I'll have to go buy some.

[walterismydog]

UGH no not 5-7 days! BOOOO.

Zinc! I forgot about that!! Thank you

Sorry for whining and sounding like a huge weenie baby, but thank you all so much for your advice!

[mamasaurus]

Throat coat and gypsy cold care are both good teas for colds. Cold Care has menthol, and it helps open your passages to let the crap drain.

[walterismydog]

Jan 3, 2013 9:51:34 GMT -5 mamasaurus said:

Throat coat and gypsy cold care are both good teas for colds. Cold Care has menthol, and it helps open your passages to let the crap drain.

Where does one get these things? Would somewhere like Walgreens have it, or is it more like a whole foods/vitamin cottage thing?

[jerseygrl]

netti pot? I never used it but I have a couple friends who swear by it

[cuddlyevil]

Whole Foods/Vitamin Cottage would have Throat coat.

Neti pots are awesome too, we buy the premade saline mix so we don't have to screw around with mixing the salt & baking soda.

[walterismydog]

Jan 3, 2013 9:53:48 GMT -5 jerseygrl said:

netti pot? I never used it but I have a couple friends who swear by it

Oh man I am scared I would drown myself.

[lilafowler]

Zinc, mega doses of vitamin C. I also have a little remedy that sounds gross but isn't bad-you boil water, crush a few cloves of garlic and some fresh ginger root, pour the boiling water over that and add honey. The garlic is anti-bacterial/anti-viral, ginger helps raise your temperature to fight the infection and honey helps with the taste.

[walterismydog]

Jan 3, 2013 9:55:59 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Zinc, mega doses of vitamin C. I also have a little remedy that sounds gross but isn't bad-you boil water, crush a few cloves of garlic and some fresh ginger root, pour the boiling water over that and add honey. The garlic is anti-bacterial/anti-viral, ginger helps raise your temperature to fight the infection and honey helps with the taste.

Mmm, that doesn't sound gross, it sounds delicious.

[lilafowler]

If you like non-traditional medicine you might like this book-it has some really interesting information:

www.amazon.com/Natural-Alternatives-Antibiotics-supercharge-infection/dp/0007122470/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357225175&sr=1-1&keywords=leon+chaitow+natural+alternatives+to+antibiotics

[lilafowler]

Jan 3, 2013 9:57:06 GMT -5 walterismydog said:

Jan 3, 2013 9:55:59 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Zinc, mega doses of vitamin C. I also have a little remedy that sounds gross but isn't bad-you boil water, crush a few cloves of garlic and some fresh ginger root, pour the boiling water over that and add honey. The garlic is anti-bacterial/anti-viral, ginger helps raise your temperature to fight the infection and honey helps with the taste.

Mmm, that doesn't sound gross, it sounds delicious.

To be honest I think it tastes REALLY good.

[Deleted]

Seriously, go get the Neti pot and the Pre mixed salt. This always does wonders for me and cuts down on congestion and sinus pressure so I'm not living on DayQuil. Just make sure you mix it with distilled water.

[rupertpenny]

For some reason Ramen always makes me feel better even though it is so bad for you. I think it's the combination of the heat, easy to digest noodles, and the salt. It makes me feel better than anything else when I have a cold though.