Any tips on how to fight off a cold quickly?

Elderberry and Pomegranete juice mixed are now supposed to be the latest quick fix. It can’t hurt.

Sleep as much as possible.

Zycam, Cold Ease, Emergen-C, Chicken soup

12 whole garlic cloves.
1 chunk of Ginger.
Echineca Tea, loose leaf.
1 whole lemon.
You may add Honey if you’d like.

Peel all garlic, cut off the skin on the Ginger and cut it in to small chunks. Peel the lemon and keep the Rhine.
Boil 2 cups of echinacea tea. Place all garlic, lemon peel and Ginger in to the tea. Bring to a boil again and the simmer for about 20 minutes. Squeeze or juice lemon into the tea and enjoy.

More lemon or garlic or whatever may be added. Even add more water if it is too strong for you. This tea rocks and will help you feel better, I promise.

@everyone- Thanks, I’m gonna try these things. Anything to get better.

Rest and fluids, most importantly. My mom, who worked in the herb supplement field for many years, says that echinacea is only effective when taken before you’re full-blown sick and that it’s not effective once you are. According to her, echinacea is meant to boost the immune system, but if you’re sick, your immune system is down and trying to boost it doesn’t work. At that point, she swears by goldenseal.

Personally, my regimen is a couple of bottles of C-rich juices, rest, and Dayquil/cold medicine if I have to work or be productive. Seems to work pretty well for me.

I definitely have experienced shorter and less severs colds by taking EmergenC (available at drugstores and even grocery stores now) whicha provide Vitamin C, electrolytes and zinc, along with echinaccea (which has the adding benefit of stopping muscus drainage, sneezing, and congestion).

@Marina @Judi I couldn’t find emergenC in the store. I know I’ve used it before and it makes me feel sooo much better but it wasn’t with the other cold medicines. Now that I’m not at the store I was thinking I should have checked the Tea section….?

Vitiman section.

@sevenfourteen – It might be with the vitamins.

Edit: having big brain function problems today, not sure what the deal is. Judi, I looked right at your answer, too, but it didn’t register. :P

It may have been my awful spelling.

(judi: I thought vitiman was a superhero is charge of colds and flu.)

@gailcalled I wish, then I wouldn’t have to fight this cold because vitiman would do it for me

Alright, who gave me lurve for my awful spelling????? Now I have to look at it on my home page until I get 5 more Lurves!!! Way to late to correct it.—-Humm…. maybe I could gt it moderated….—