Last week, I wrote some tips on how to stay healthy during colds. But what if you do get a cold? What do you do? The advice I gave last week also applies then (except that you shouldn't exercise when you're sick), but you can also try the following:
• Eat only light food; always warm, and soups are good. Avoid meat, fish and eggs.
• Reduce salt, sweet and sour food.
• You can try chewing on clove, cardamom, or roasted cumin seeds.
• Boil a litre of water with 2-3 pinches of black pepper or a slice of fresh ginger, 1 teaspoon of whole cumin, 1-2 pinches of salt and 1 teaspoon of whole coriander. Let it boil for 3 minutes. Then strain and pour into a thermos and drink during the day.
• A mixture of half milk and half water boiled with ginger and turmeric is good.
• If you have a sore throat or cough, gargling 2-4 times a day with warm water, to which you add half a teaspoon of salt, a pinch of black pepper, and a pinch of turmeric can help.
• For a cough, it can also help to warm the upper back with a hot water bottle. But avoid heating the area around the heart.
• Mix a tablespoon of good-quality honey with a quarter teaspoon of liquorice root powder, ground ginger, cinnamon, turmeric or black pepper. Eat one or two teaspoons of the mixture a few times a day.
• Do not wash your hair as long as you are sick.
• Get plenty of rest so that you recover.
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