HOW TO TREAT COLD

Easy cold at our climate - rather widespread phenomenon, especially in the spring when after long winter our organism is weakened and requires vitamins. But it is not necessary to resort at once to different tablets and mixtures, try to begin with folk remedies.

Very much helps to drink "a shock dose" vitamin C - 1000 mg, hot to tea and to go to sleep, having taken cover more warmly, than usually. As a rule, in this case cold passes, not having had time to begin. But if all the same cold took over you upwards take advantage of other our councils.

At простудных diseases and diseases of bodies of breath has long since deserved glory of universal house medical means beer medical lime honey which causes the greatest sudorific effect is especially useful. At cold honey is recommended to be applied with hot tea or milk for the night (1 table spoon on 1 glass of tea or hot milk), with lemon juice (100 г honey and juice one or half of lemon), a raspberry and other herbs possessing sudorific or отхаркивающим action. Mutually strengthening medical effect of honey and a herb is thus observed. Good противопростудным as means the syrup from horse-radish and honey juice (a parity 1:1) serves. With the preventive purpose prepare a mix of honey, onions and horse-radish juice, drink on one spoon three times a day before meal.

Juice of an aloe with which it is necessary to dilute a little with water is very useful and to dig in in a nose. For adults there is still such recipe: 1 parts of juice of an aloe, 1 part of vodka, 1 part of honey. Carefully to stir, drink on a table spoon. The mix can long be stored in a refrigerator.

Good medical means considers honey, garlic and a lemon which should be crushed and mixed in any proportions, it is possible to eat, not crushing. A portion equal approximately to one teaspoon to use three-four times a day.

Drink more liquids - more than one and a half litres a day. It is better, if drinks are sourish - that is well compotes, berry juices (the frozen berries of a cranberry and a cowberry) or grassy teas with lemon juice will approach. Fine "grandmother's" means - a strong chicken broth with кореньями - according to recent researches reduces an inflammation of the mucous. Vitamin C in big (500-1000 mg a day) doses reduces displays of cold and accelerates recover.

Well fresh juice of a beet which dig in on 4—5 drops in each nostril 3—4 times a day at a strong cold helps. Boiled beet juice also wash out a nose at a cold with dense выделениями.

One teaspoon of the crushed colours of a camomile medicinal insist 30 minutes in a boiled water glass. Wash out this infusion a nose at mucous membrane inflammations. Hot tampons with infusion help at экземах and furuncles.

Pound just welded potato. Inhale potato steam at cold, for treatment of the top respiratory ways.

At cold the raspberry well helps. 2 table spoons of dry berries of a raspberry ordinary make in a boiled water glass. In an initial stage простудного the period drink within an hour 2—3 glasses of hot crimson tea. Also can use a currant. A teaspoon of berries of a black currant make in a water glass for 20—30 minutes. Filter. Accept at cold as a sudorific 3—4 times a day on a table spoon.

Also it is recommended to do inhalation

Usually houses do steam inhalations with addition of the medicines appointed the doctor. In a pan or a teapot with boiling 4—5 glasses of water add 5—10 drops of tincture of iodine, or 5 drops of liquid ammonia, or 1—2 teaspoons истолченных dry leaves эвкалипта, or a slice of a briquette of a coniferous extract, either 10—15 drops ментолового or camphor spirit, or a teaspoon ментолового, тимолового oils. It is possible to lower in a pan or a teapot garlic or onions juice (about a teaspoon), broth of a camomile from calculation 2—3 table spoons on 3 litres of water. An onions or garlic rub on a small grater and wring out through three layers of a gauze.

How to spend inhalation? You can curtail a funnel from a dense paper, with its wide end to cover a pan or a teapot, and through a narrow gleam to inhale steam. Many prefer to breathe the ferry over a pan, having covered a head a towel. It too is not forbidden, only be cautious not to overturn on itself casually pan with hot water. Also consider, that suffering hypertensive illness, at the raised arterial pressure such way is counter-indicative.

Duration of any inhalation for adults — 5—15 minutes, for children — till 5 minutes. Do it 1—2 times a day.