May
14
2010
Need home remedies for a cold, please?
Posted by: Alan in sinus remedies, tags: Cold, Home, Need, Please, RemediesOk let me explain my cold… I have a lot of sinus pressure and a runny nose, i have swollen lymph nodes (throat) and have a little cough and some phlegm. I have no medicine and am really broke, but have soup. if anyone knows some home remedies like honey and lemon juice? id be very interested. thank you so much!!!!
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May 14th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Ayurveda:
Colds are kapha -vata disorder, says Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., director of the Ayurveda Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He explains that you develop a cold when your body has an excess of kapha’s cool, moist characteristics, causing a stuffy or ruining nose and lots of sneezing and he says, excess vata energy reduces agni, or gastric fire, so you get the chills, But, according to Dr. Lad, ginger can reduce excess kapha and restore agni, making it ” the best medicine for colds and flus.”
Here is Dr. Lad’s recipe for ginger tea; Add just under 1/2 teaspoon each of ginger power, fennel seeds and cinnamon and a pinch of clove power to one cup of hot water. Let the herbs steep for about ten minutes,then strain them out of the tea before drinking. Drink as much of the tea as you wish, Dr. Lad says.
Because aspirin and ginger are both blood thinner, Dr. Lad recommends drinking ginger tea at least two hours before or after you take a dose of aspirin.