The common cold is also known as nasopharyngitis, rhinopharyngitis, common cold, or coryza. It is an easily spreading infectious disease of the upper respiratory system which mostly affects the nose. Its symptoms include cough, sore throat, nasal discharge (rhinorrhea) and fever. Symptoms usually disappear within seven to ten days.
Treatment For Colds
- Eating a few dates every day and drinking four to five sips of water helps in thinning the phlegm, clearing the lungs and improving health by getting rid of cold and cough.
- Mix one part rock salt in four parts native sugar and take this powder (half a teaspoon) with lukewarm water or hot milk before sleeping at night.
- Grind celery mix onion juice in it and apply on the body. Rubbing provides relief from cold. Taking celery sticks in the morning and evening is also beneficial.
- Mixing one spoonful of honey and ginger juice and drinking it in the morning and evening cures cold. Take 200 grams of whole coriander and grind it. Take it with jaggery three to four times a day. The phlegm disorder will subside.
- Mix four spoons of salt in lukewarm water and sit in it for some time. While doing this, cover your head in a towel. This experiment will provide relief in four to five days. Chewing two to four blank leaves of Nagerbel (betel leaf) provides relief in cold and flu.
- Grind rock salt and three black peppers and mix them with lukewarm water. Grind two to three cloves in mustard oil heat it and rub it on the chest, all the mucus accumulated in the chest will be cooked and relief will be given.
- Grind an equal quantity of cinnamon and nutmeg on a clean stone and lick it twice a day to get relief from frequent colds.
- Add jaggery and a little ghee to dry ginger powder and make laddoos weighing 30-40 grams. Eating this laddu morning and evening cures a cold.
- Grind mustard with black pepper and two to four cloves to make a pulp, tie it in a cloth and heat it on a pan, repeatedly heat the entire part of the nasika slowly. There will definitely be profit.
- Some people keep getting cold for twelve months, such people will benefit in the following way- 1 ml. Took. Basil juice, one ml. Mix garlic juice, 1 gram black pepper powder in water and drink it twice a day. Consuming this medicine for two months will completely get rid of cold.
- Tie 10 grams of celery in a clean cloth bag heat it lightly on a pan and smell it repeatedly, all the mucus accumulated in the chest comes out.
- Grind about 130-140 grams of coriander and add 500 ml. Boil it in water. When one-fourth of the water remains, filter it add 125 grams of chilli to it and heat it further. When it becomes thick, take it off and lick it like chutney. By doing this experiment continuously for a month, even the oldest cold is cured and all the phlegm comes out.
- Taking black pepper powder with curd and jaggery every morning and evening cures chronic colds. Mixing black pepper powder in hot milk and drinking it also cures cold and cough. Grind green chillies mix a little salt in them and consume them with a mouthful of roti. By consuming hot green chillies, water will start flowing in the eyes and the throat will be cleared by its heat.
- Mixing jaggery in turmeric and milk and drinking it provides relief from cold, cough and body pain.
- Mixing a big spoon of celery with a little rock salt and taking it with lukewarm water gives relief from the cold.
- By making a solution of asafetida and smelling it again and again, the mucus accumulated in the nose will start flowing and the patient becomes completely healthy within a few days.
- Put two to three drops of slightly warm oil of cotton wool and put cotton swabs in both ears while sleeping at night.
- Apply the asafoetida solution near the nose and on the chest. This experiment will also cure colds. This solution can also be rubbed on the soles of the feet.
- Filling a little celery in the dry leaves of Peepal and inhaling it in many ways cures even the most chronic cold.
- Put a little ground asafoetida and two to four black peppers in the middle of the jaggery and make a bullet. Take this pill in the morning and evening.
- Abhrak Bhasma 125 mg. Mixing honey and feeding it in the morning and evening kills cold. Taking caraway powder with betel leaves provides relief from cold.
- In acute cold, both Pravalpishti and Chandramrit juice 250 mg. Mixing 3 grams of Sitopaladi powder with honey and licking it ends cold quickly. Consume it thrice in the morning, afternoon and evening.
- Grinding one tablet of Mahalakshmi Vilas juice in a mortar and giving it mixed with ginger juice and honey ends colic. Consume three times a day.
- Kafketu Ras 200 mg. Consuming this quantity with honey and ginger juice twice a day (morning and evening) cures cold.
- Smelling crushed green fresh leaves of nakchikri opens the blocked nose and is also beneficial in cold. Mixing 125 mg of Shringa Bhasma with ginger juice and honey and licking it twice a day ends cold.
- Grinding a tablet of kaphachintamani juice and licking it with ginger juice twice a day ends cold.
- Grinding one tablet of Kafkuthar juice in a mortar and consuming it along with ginger juice and honey cures cold and cough. Consume morning and evening.