what's the best home remedy for colds and sore throats?

Answer 1

Hot lemon and honey drink.

dissolve 1 teaspoon of honey in a mug of boiling water, with a squeeze of lemon. Relax in a comfy chair and sip.

Vitamin C in the lemon juice builds your immune system. Lemon juice and honey both have antibacterial properties. Honey also has anti fungal properties, and I wouldn't be surprised if it has antiviral properties as well. The hot water and honey actually sooth a sore thoat and the hot water and steam help to clear your blocked nose. The water also helps to rehydrate your body. And you can have it as often as you like.

To beat a cold you really need to get plenty of rest as well.

Take care.

Answer 2

Take plenty of rest.

1. Ginger Tea Recipe
Ginger tea is thought to improve digestion and relieve nausea. It is also used to improve ward off colds, sore throat and the flu.

It's very easy to make ginger tea. Here's how to do it.

Ginger Tea Recipe
4 cups of water
2 inch piece of fresh ginger root
optional: honey and lemon

Peel the ginger root and slice it into thin slices. Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan. Once it is boiling, add the ginger. Cover it and reduce to a simmer for 15-20 minutes. Strain the tea. Add honey and lemon to taste.

2. Water is beneficial to those with a cold, and warm liquids and soups can add some much-needed nutrition. You probably don't have much of an appetite so try some natural hot tea or chocolate, which will help hydrate your body, sooth your throat, and ease sinus congestion. Chicken soup and broth is not a myth, it really can alleviate some symptoms the accompany the common cold.

3. Vitamin C is a good regimen for prevention and recovering from a cold.

4. Goldenseal (Hydrastis Canadensis) is one of the most popular herbs on the market today. Goldenseal is used for colds and flu.

5. Steam inhalation with eucalyptus oil may help to clear cough, laryngitis, sinusitis, congestion, throat infections, and symptoms from colds and flu. It is believed to work because it has antimicrobial properties and thins mucus in the respiratory tract, relieving congestion, and increasing local circulation.

Answer 3

Definitely a steam inhale including some tea tree oil or eucalyptus oil and menthol. Inhale the steam for as long as it is hot, and make sure you gargle with dissolved aspirin to soothe the sore throat.
If you are hungry then eat, if not, ensure you drink LOTS - hot or cold, doesn't really matter but you lose a lot of fluid with snot etc (sorry) so you must keep up levels.
Do the inhale thing as many times a day as you can, will really help to get rid of the cold faster!
Good luck

Answer 4

Take 20 black pepper seeds just crack them do not powder add this to 30 ml of water and boil it till it becomes 20 ml and then filter the decotion while hot only ( so that the seeds do not reabsorb the pepper oil) cool it and gulp the decotion in one go. This you can do three or four times a day and you will get relief from cold & sore throat immediately and permanent relief within two days. Note This I have done for myself and for more than 100 persons and everybody got the relief much, much better than any medicines.

Answer 5

Gargle with warm salt water for your throat. A cold will go away on its own after 3 to 7 days. If you are stuffed up, steam will help loosen the congestion. That's why eating hot soup is good. You're inhaling the steam while you're eating. If you have a room humidifier, use that.

Answer 6

Sore throat is usually due to a viral infection. Gargling with warm salty water or mouthwash can reduce the pain and inconvenience. More details and home remedies available at http://ailments.in/sorethroat.html

Answer 7

Vitamin C (eg fruits that contain Vitamin C), gargle with salt & water & (first boiled & then cooled to a "safe" tempertaure, the lukewarmish is better as cold water can irriate a sore throat).
Also drink lemon juice & honey with hot water.
Also Echinacea is very good as it boosts your immune system naturally.Health shops & Boots sell it.

Answer 8

Warm a glass of lemonade in the mircowave and then add honey. Tastes lovely and really good for colds and sore throats.

Answer 9

I like this question! Whenever I get a cold I down Echinacea/Goldenseal. It comes in a small bottle and it's a tincture and you put the whole dropperful in some juice and get it down ya. You will start to feel better in less than a week and it'll help fight the infection you've got. I hope this works.

you can buy this at a good health food store.

Answer 10

Lots of juice & water.
Advil Cold & Sinus or Alka Seltzer Plus Cold & Flu.
Sleep with humidifier running in bedroom.
Gargle with warm salt water.
Homemade chicken soup.