Cold/flu Home Remedies

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gaylejackson2
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Cold/flu Home Remedies

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What are your cold and flu home remedies? Do you have special teas you make & use? Do you rub Vicks on the feet? Are you a proponent of essential oil use (diffusers, inhalers, body rubs, etc)?

Tell me please. I wish to learn something new. 😊
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Re: Cold/flu Home Remedies

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My favourite is homemade chicken soup, with either noodles or rice.

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gaylejackson2
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Re: Cold/flu Home Remedies

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For us, I brew “Gypsy Cold Care,” or “Immune Support” teas, I think they are both made by Yogi. I, this year, made Elderberry Syrup. (Then steeped the same ingredients again for a weak tea that I’ve been drinking a bit of each day since dd6 turned up sick.) I have been giving dd6 the gypsy cold care tea w/Elderberry syrup each day too.

In recent years, I would brew a very strong herbal tea, mix some of it with honey, and cook it slowly to hard-crack stage & make cough/throat drops—but due to my surgery healing restrictions, that likely won't happen this year.

I like to run my essential oil diffuser with a cold/flu blend (every brand has their own name for the same thing: Thieves, On-guard, Deliverance, etc). I also do the personal inhalers, and the rub for soles of feet.
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Re: Cold/flu Home Remedies

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I do hot tea - lemon/ginger is good - with a shot of whiskey if needed for coughing. Honey would work for teetotalers.

For soothing a sore throat and unclogging a head, Chinese hot and sour soup does the trick.
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Re: Cold/flu Home Remedies

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Freshly squeezed lemon juice - heat it up in the micro. Add a few spoons of local honey.

Drink it down. Helps clear up my congestion.
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gaylejackson2 wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:46 am For us, I brew “Gypsy Cold Care,” or “Immune Support” teas, I think they are both made by Yogi. I, this year, made Elderberry Syrup. (Then steeped the same ingredients again for a weak tea that I’ve been drinking a bit of each day since dd6 turned up sick.) I have been giving dd6 the gypsy cold care tea w/Elderberry syrup each day too.

In recent years, I would brew a very strong herbal tea, mix some of it with honey, and cook it slowly to hard-crack stage & make cough/throat drops—but due to my surgery healing restrictions, that likely won't happen this year.

I like to run my essential oil diffuser with a cold/flu blend (every brand has their own name for the same thing: Thieves, On-guard, Deliverance, etc). I also do the personal inhalers, and the rub for soles of feet.
some of the essential oils are not good for dogs, if you keep your pups inside.
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