is tea and coffee good for colds?

Question

I have cold and want to know if drinking tea and coffee will help?

Answer 1

Some forms of tea have very good vapors that are good to breath in and can help break up congestion in your head and chest, others have the soothing effect on a sore throat.
There are lots of different kinds to choose from. A quick trip to the grocery store should set you up with a good all rounder.
I like a cup of green tea with lemon and lots of honey. It always makes me feel better!
If you have a chest cold and are in the habit of keeping fresh herbs in the house, here's another way to help you feel better.
Take some fresh Sage and Rosemary and simmer in a saucepan on low heat. It will produce a nice steam that will help with a chest cold. Kind of like a natural humidifier.
One last thing. Make sure that you drink lots of water. A lot of people forget and suffer for it.

Answer 2

Coffee Good For A Cold

Answer 3

Tea, and especially green tea are advisable in moderation during a cold. The light caffeine content can help perk you up and fight the weakness and sluggishness. While green tea does contain ingredients that are thought to have anti viral properties, getting them into you in medically relevant doses via tea would be unpleasant at best. Typically tea as a remedy works best if it's something you have a long term habit of drinking. It wont cure you any faster to suddenly start drinking green tea as soon as you have a cold.

Having said that, be aware that caffeine robs your body of water. Hydration is always important but it has an increased significance during times of sickness. Coffee, being high in caffeine and also a diarrhetic is something you should take pains to avoid. So are foods with high sugar content. Keep your body fed with vitamine c rich foods and soothing warm, not hot, drinks and plenty of water to give it the fuel it needs to get you through.

Answer 4

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is tea and coffee good for colds?
I have cold and want to know if drinking tea and coffee will help?

Answer 5

Yes, Rosemary infused tea is used for colds. It is also an antibiotic and anti-fungal. Cover 1/2 cup of the leaf with boiling water, steep 5-10 minutes. Use three times daily.

Answer 6

Tea with lemon is the best remedy. Forget the cough medicine, forget antibiotics. Fluids and rest... fluids and rest, that's all you need.

Coffee is not so good because caffeine weakens your immune system. Tea also has caffeine, but it also has a lot of good things as well. Coffee, no good.

Hope you get better.

Answer 7

Tea-Lipton or Herbal tea, 7UP-where ever you find it., OJ

When I was not feeling good I actually up-chucked the herbal tea.

Chicken Broth, or chick soups hot drinks clear the congestion

Popsicles soothe sore throats.

hope it helps you! :D

you might not have a common cold it might be a virus.

Answer 8

NO CAFFEEN tea is very good for you.. if you have a sore throat drink tea with ginger or tea with honey dont drink coffee... if you have a raw throat garggle salt water

Answer 9

Drinking lots of hot liquids, especially tea with honey and lemon juice, hot chicken soup sure help relieve your cold.

Get well soon.

Answer 10

Well, the famous Lakota healer Black Elk did refer to it as "black medicine".

If anything, it will increase lung capacity and relieve tiredness.

Coffee has been touted at one time or another in folk medicine to cure many other ills: snakebite, narcotic poisoning, heart disease, pleuritic effusion, asthma, atropine poisoning, flu, fevers, headaches, jaundice, malaria, vertigo and other ills.

Caffeine is a common ingredient in aspirin and other modern analgesics used to battle migraine headaches and pains of a vascular origin.

Although many of the effects of coffee are attributed to its caffeine component, there are over 300 other alkaloids in coffee that have effects unknown, one of which is responsible for its benefit to the liver.

An international study shows that coffee drinkers suffer from asthma 25% less than non coffee drinkers. This is further confirmed by a Study at UCLA that showed a 15% increase in breathing capacity after drinking coffee. These facts reinforce the idea the coffee can descend Lung Qi. It reduces the risk of colon cancer as it moves Qi and Blood in the Large Intestine. Coffee also decreases alcohol induced liver cirrhosis by 80% due to an unknown ingredient. This reconfirms the idea that coffee powerfully moves blood and enters the liver as well as the large intestine and lung.

The current consensus is that coffee depletes the kidney essence. However, some new information indicates the assumption might have been made in error. Coffee contains anti-bacterial compounds that slow tooth decay (at the expense of yellow teeth). Recent studies have shown that coffee can help prevent Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease. Since tooth decay, Parkinson and Alzheimer are related to a lack of kidney essence and marrow, it would be better stated that coffee actually nourishes the essence as it greatly benefits the CNS. It also has been shown to benefit Type 2 diabetes due to a chemical unrelated to caffeine: another indication that kidney’s benefit from coffee

Coffee is currently the largest source of anti-oxidants in the American diet which, sadly, says more about the American diet than coffee. These anti-oxidants, though decreased in darker roasted coffee, act as an anti-inflammatory when taken in low doses. However, in large doses, coffee acts as an inflammatory. This last insight is interesting in terms of the temperature of coffee: cool in low doses, but warm in higher doses. Similar to other herbs, some properties are dependant on quantity and preparation methods