Late autumn, winter and early spring are the seasons when it is easiest to catch a cold. Acute respiratory infections are always associated with all known symptoms: runny nose, headache, cough, and sore throat. Is it worth it to turn to medication at the first sign of a disease? Traditional medicine here will perhaps be more appropriate, because the simple and effective advice of our grandmothers has been tested by more than one generation. How to treat a cold? First of all, you should stay at home, observe complete peace, wrap yourself as warm as possible and conduct treatment using several simple recipes. It is very important during the disease period to maintain a proper diet, excluding heavy and fatty foods from it, to consume as much liquid as possible (hot vegetable soups and meat broths), drink warmed milk with honey, tea with raspberries and currants, cranberry juice, warm kefir.
Another important factor for quick recovery is warmth. You should dress warmly, wear woolen socks and a sweater, and wrap your throat with a soft downy scarf. And, of course, compresses from mustard, flaxseed, salt warm the body very well and relieve pain.
How to treat a cold with the first symptoms of the disease? For this, there are recipes for decoctions based on red wine or beer. A glass of red dry wine is heated on the stove to 40 degrees, gradually adding a pinch of cinnamon, juice and zest of half a lemon or orange, a spoonful of honey, a little clove and ginger. A hot drink warms very well and improves perspiration. Another composition: half a liter of dark beer is heated to 40 degrees, add half a spoonful of cinnamon, lemon zest and clove stick. Separately, in a saucepan, beat two egg yolks with two tablespoons of sugar, add hot beer and, stirring, keep on low heat for 5 minutes. This medicinal drink is good to drink at night, hiding in a warm blanket.
How to treat colds and coughs? A few simple folk recipes help you quickly get rid of dry cough. These are, first of all, decoctions of rosemary, licorice roots, birch buds. Black radish juice with honey (one part of juice and two parts of honey), as well as milk broth from onions and garlic, helps a lot. To prepare it, two medium onion heads, grated, and two or three cloves of garlic, pour a glass of milk and simmer for 40 minutes, then filter and add a spoonful of honey. This broth should be taken during or after meals.
Inhalation with essential oils and chamomile broth, which have good disinfectant properties, will help to treat colds and runny nose. For inhalation, you can use a special device or simply, covered with a towel, breathe over a pot of boiling water, in which several drops of fir, eucalyptus oil, tincture of chamomile or calendula are added.
How to treat a cold in a child? The general recommendations here are the same. It is very important to give the baby as much water as possible. Broths of rosehip, viburnum, raspberry and currant, cranberry juice, sweet tea with lemon are well suited. The more a child drinks fluids, the better, since along with it, infections and toxins are eliminated from the body. Be sure to ensure that the air in the children's room is humid, and the temperature of the environment does not exceed 20-22 degrees. This will not allow the mucous membranes of the throat and nose to dry out. It is advisable to use room quartzing, after which the air is enriched with ozone and disinfected. To prevent the disease and increase immunity (especially during the period of growing incidence), it is recommended to give children anaferon or arbidol in the dosages indicated in the instructions for the drugs.
The question of how to treat colds in adults and children is directly related to the symptoms of the disease and its duration. In the early stages of the usual symptoms, folk remedies are more preferable and no less effective than drug treatment.