Common Cold Remedies: Homemade or Store Bought

Lets face it, with all the advancements in the medical field blah blah blah, they still cannot come up with a cure for the common cold. Is this some kind of cruel trick or something?!?

The only thing we can do is remedy the symptoms and endure the cold as long as it may last. The low tech way to treat the common cold includes various homemade remedies while the high tech way would be to stock up on over the counter meds and possibly even a humidifier.

My grandmother (as I am sure most other are) is certain that she knows the cure to the common cold. She stresses that her homemade chicken noodle soup, and gatorade are essentials to fight any cold. Not only will the chicken soup help your symptoms, but will assist the ultimate goal of a speedy recovery. Chicken soup (made correctly with many vegetables) will provide the body with the nutrients it needs to recuperate from the cold. A canned soup might have some nutrients but wayyyy too much sodium and preservatives to be healthy! Sometimes she also recommends a rather strange method for decongesting. She puts water to boil in a large pot and then when it begins to release steam she says one should carefully lean over with a towel over your head and inhale the steam. This is suppose to have you non-congested in a matter of minutes, without hours or painful nose blowing. She also suggests drinking about half a cup of lemon or orange tea right before bed. In the morning she suggests you drink a tall glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. There are just endless little remedies to aid the symptoms with homemade concoctions as well as simultaneously supplying nutrients to aid for a speedy recovery!

Many of us in this high paced life we lead, find it very difficult to spend hours making soups or creating homemade remedies for a common cold. The are hundreds of over the counter symptom relievers that will diminish headaches, stuffy nose, sore throat, and any other symptom that may tag along. But the problem with these relievers is that they don't cure or alleviate the underlying issue, the actual immune deficiency that the cold has attacked. Therefore, it is only a minor fix that wont actually help you fight the cold.

The bottom line is that there is no comparison to an actual low tech homemade cold remedy that will aid your body in regaining control and fight that cold! There is not secret, there is not a cure to the common cold, but any of the homemade remedies will relieve the symptoms and give your body what it really needs.