What's your cure for the common cold?

Here's a website about rubbing Vicks on your feet to heal a cough .. when I do get a cold, I'm sure I will try it.
Can't hurt anything!


http://peoplespharmacy.com/2012/02/20/vicks-on-soles-calmed-cough/

I also have put Vick's Vaporub on the soles of feet to relieve symptoms of nighttime cough in various members of my family. It always works and I believe it works because, in reflexology, the pads of the toes and fatty tissue just below that represent the sinus/lungs in the body.
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TWHRider said:
All things in moderation - lol lol

I've been doing that for more than 30 years without issue.

The trick is to just put a little bit right inside the nose, then inhale the fumes. If I don't use the Vicks Trick while I'm in the barn, I will sneeze until I sneeze something loose that shouldn't be loose:fatigue:
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:eek:kay:.. you know what you're doing .. :) .. I'm guilty also, and I do it your way too.
It's just that some people overdo it, (sticking Vicks up their nose) and it causes headaches and bleeding when they have enough other ailments going on.
 
Time for Mr. Wet Rag ...

There IS no cure for the "common cold" - all you can hope to do is to lessen the symptoms, and that's been handled quite well by the responses here.

But of course the drug manufacturers don't want you to believe that - they want you to believe that just by swallowing their magic elixirs you'll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

... in reality, it's more like zombied-out and stumbling.

In my opinion the best advice so far has been avoiding people and plenty of rum, a regimen I followed for many years. I never had a cold in all that time.

... I fell down the stairs, kicked the cat and married a Swedish midget, but I never caught a cold. :eek:
 

Thought I was getting better but back today in its full blown splendor! Have been doing everything that you guys have suggested, and just in case anyone else gets this, I'll tell ya now that the hot toddies are the best "symptom remover". I've just been making lemon tea, lots of squeezed lemon juice, honey and a healthy shot of rum and it really does help with the breathing. Problem is that I can't bring myself to have one until at least after it gets dark outside. I was just thinking that I bet that if someone could bottle hot toddies and sell the bottles in the liquor stores, they'd make a mint. Hmmmmm

I've blown my snozzz so much that I'm beginning to look like Rudolf. Oh well, I'll suffer through the day and keep busy as I can and wait for the sun to go down.........
 
Here ya go ...

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GROSS!
 
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