What alternative meds help with a cold? Or shorten the duration?!


Question: What alternative meds help with a cold.? Or shorten the duration.?
please be specific and how much should i take.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
If you can catch it at the beginning, take three echinacea tablets per day for the first few days and zinc tablets every two hours FOR TWO DAYS ONLY.

Drink a lot of fluids, warm tea and honey is very soothing. Stay away from milk products and eat lightly. Don't worry if you are not terribly hungry -- your body needs fluids much more than it needs foods to heal from a cold.

Hope you feel better soon....Health Question & Answer

Vitamin C, but you can't take Vitamin C thats made in the laboratory, the body doesn't recognize it as food and won't assimilate it. You want a whole food Vitamin C.

You can get a good daily amount of Vitamin C from two kiwi fruit daily, or take a whole food vitamin C as it is concentrated food that gets absorbed and used to fight the cold.Health Question & Answer

This is a controversial one but it has directly worked for me. I had been taking Mangosteen juice-first Xango which I don't believe helped-then pure Mangosteen juice 1oz. 1x a day for a few months. I got my first cold of the school year (I'm a teacher). It was the cold that was going around last month that was combined with fever, and severe fatigue. People told me it knocked them out. Well, colds usually last a week. I woke up on a Friday in October and could barely walk I was so tired and dizzy with congestion. No fever, though. I called in sick went back to bed and slept the ENTIRE day and night. I woke up Saturday and felt better. By Monday morning I felt myself again. I attribute this to Vitamin C I take every day and the mangosteen juice I was taking every day.

Good luck!

Zinc can also help but be careful of taking too much as over 40 mg. a day can lower necessary copper levels.
also avoid cheese, milk products and cold things. They will produce more mucous.Health Question & Answer

I have a terrible cold right now. I just discovered how to overcome all the symptoms though. You will need a glass of warm jell-o, a drug called an expectorant, a slurpee, nachos and cheese and bean dip. It's made my throat feel a whole lot better. Try it!!!!!

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Honey or apple cider vinegar in warm to hot water. Garlic. Probably capsules for that. Chicken and vege soup/broth.Health Question & Answer



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