With the changing weather, many diseases start rearing their ugly heads. Among these, cold and cough is a very common illness. People coughing and sneezing in every nook and corner becomes a common site. Being a contagious disease, it spreads like a fire taking over one person after the other. As it is quite a bothersome condition, people often go for antibiotics to get rid of it as soon as possible. But truly speaking, antibiotics only suppress this condition rather than curing it of its very roots. Sometimes, it comes back with a much bigger force in the form of tuberculosis or influenza. Besides this, antibiotics have some side-effects as well.
Therefore, it is highly advised to go for natural home remedies to get yourself relieved from cold and cough. These home remedies will definitely take some time to cure a cold and cough but they will provide you with a prolonged relief if taken along while adhering to some preventive measures like avoiding spicy food, cold beverages, or curd. Treat your cold and cough with these home remedies which are easily available within a hand's reach-
1. Ginger: Ginger is a widely known remedy to treat cold and cough naturally.
This root is enriched with twelve antiviral components which help in fighting the viruses causing cold and cough. It is a great remedy to treat all the symptoms of cold like sore throat, coughing or swelling of the mucous membranes. Having drinks made with ginger will not only stop the dripping nose but also help in clearing the respiratory tract of the phlegm.
- Regular Ginger Tea: You can add some crushed ginger to your regular tea to cure cold and cough symptoms.
- Ayurvedic Ginger Tea: You can add some crushed pieces of ginger in a glass of hot water. Let the ginger sit for about 10 minutes. Strain the water and add some honey and lemon to the strained water.
- Ginger Steam: You can either add a drop of ginger oil or add a few ginger slices in a bowl of hot water. Inhale the steam coming out of this solution.
- Honey Ginger: Add finely crushed ginger in a spoonful of honey. Heat the spoon a bit so that the extract of the ginger juice gets mixed with honey.
- Haldi Doodh: Add a teaspoon of turmeric in a glass of milk. Boil it and drink this milk while it is hot. You can add a tablespoon of honey to sweeten it.
- Turmeric tea: This tea is highly medicinal in nature as it contains turmeric, honey, and lemon. All the three ingredients are beneficial in treating symptoms of cold and cough. Just add a tablespoon of turmeric in 2-3 glasses of boiling water. Strain the solution and add a tablespoon of honey and lemon juice to it. You can also add tulsi to this tea.
- Day 1: Drink it 6 times a day at an interval of 2 hours.
- Day 2: Drink it 4 times a day at an interval of 3 hours.
- Day 3: Drink it 2 times in a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.
- Day 4 onwards: Drink it once in the morning.
