With the onset of cold weather, none of us is immune from the flu and a sudden cold. Whatever technique is chosen in the process of treating these diseases — special medicines, homeopathic remedies or recipes of traditional medicine, it is important to comply with simple and universal rules that will recover faster and more effective.
Recommendations for treatment, as a rule, come down to important and necessary actions that cannot be dispensed with. Treatment of colds will be much more effective if you slightly adjust your personal diet and eat light food during illness, the volume of which is better to be halved. It is important to include chicken broth in your diet and avoid sweets. From drinking, fruit drinks should be consumed, which can be prepared from frozen berries with the addition of lemon. For colds and flu, medicinal herbs of various actions are used — bactericidal, diuretic, diaphoretic, immunostimulating and vitamin. One of the best diaphoretics is raspberry and honey tea. To strengthen immunity, it is necessary to use various herbal teas from thyme, chamomile, currant, lime blossom. Milk with honey is a very effective remedy for colds.
It is very important to regularly ventilate the room during the day and use a steam humidifier in the bedroom. At the head of the bed you need to put onion and garlic cut into slices, which should be changed from time to time.
An important rule for the effectiveness of treatment is bed rest, warm clothes with long sleeves, such as a turtleneck, or a terry bathrobe. Do not try to work during the flu, try not to be nervous or worried. Emotional experiences contribute to the chronic form of influenza.
One of the proven recipes of traditional medicine are various inhalations that use yarrow, eucalyptus, plantain, coltsfoot, mint and chamomile. Inhalation with a pharmacy tincture of propolis is very effective, which should be added to boiling water and inhaled steam through the nose and mouth, covered with a towel. The healing properties of dried blackcurrant leaves and calendula flowers are also known.
An increase in temperature during the flu is a sign of the body’s fight against the virus. You can not try to lower it if the thermometer is less than 38 degrees. An effective remedy for quickly lowering a high temperature without the use of drugs is a decoction prepared from pearl barley, to which you can add a tablespoon of honey to improve the taste.
A good remedy in the fight against colds is one of the traditional medicine recipes — mix chopped carrots and apples with finely chopped dried apricots and lemons passed through a meat grinder. The resulting mixture should be taken 1-2 tbsp.l. 3 times a day.
We must not forget that a weakened body is too sensitive to changes in the thermal background. Therefore, it is highly undesirable to go outside with a fever, so as not to expose yourself to the risk of complications.