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Shot of Blackberry Brandy, hot water and honey.Put hot water bottle on chest, cover up good. Always helps me to over chest cold fast.

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Originally Posted by sash

thanks everyone. well, he's already gone to bed so will wait til tomorrow. i thought i remembered the one re: vicks so i had already bought some, but had forgotten about it. will make him try it tomorrow; all are good ideas. he's pretty hard headed too (lol), so might be hard to get him to do any of this. went to the grocery store today. wish i had bought some honey. oh well.

Offer him a foot rub, and use the Vick's as you finish. Got one of those too!

This is really an old new england cure for most anything...
Cook a bunch of cut up or tiny carrots just in water, when they are done, serve a cupful of warm carrot broth. You can add what you please to make it taste better if you like, but it is pleasant just plain....
Nobody knows why, but there is something magic in the carrot broth....JP

1000 mg of vitamin C. Every hour, on the hour. Start next time you feel a cold coming on and it'll never have a chance to take hold. And, no, you can't overdose on C. I've been doing this for years! I get a cold maybe 3 times a DECADE!

Gargle with liquid benadryl[children's].This coats and deadens your throat.

hot water or tea with honey, lemon and crushed star anise!
learned that from some amish folks up in MI

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Originally Posted by sash

I need a good remedy for a sore throat and cold. Got any ideas. It's not for me; I can usually cope, but you know, it's the dh (hate for him to get sick and run down). Thanks.

Go to the drug store or Wal Mart and purchase some zinc lozanges and take them , don't taste really good, but let it dissolve in your mouth. Take a couple upon the first sign of a sore throat. - usually stops it. Also hot tea, honey and lemon juice help out a lot. An old remedy is a good ole hot toddy made with whiskey, honey and lemon juice. Take it before bedtime, not when going to drive or to work. This will really make one sweat and I guess it works because a lot of old timers used it when I was growing up. I'm very very lucky I have only had a few colds in my life time maybe 3 or 4. I never had a cold until DH and I married, he had one and then I got it. I still don't get them, and seldom ever a sore throat. I'm 66 and I know hard for folks to believe this, but I am hardly sick, had the flu once after taking shot, never again, flu or shot. I do suffer with allergies and migraines so I don't know what's worse.

When my husband was sick recently he asked me to make my 'special' tea. It seems to help the sore throat. I'm attaching the recipe.

Hot Spiced Tea

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another thing to take is zinc..and up to 1,000mg of vitamin C day for the first 3 days...

however, if you have a sore throat, and no sinus drainage, no cough, no fever...you might have acid reflux instead!

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Originally Posted by jpthequilter

Interesting! Will have to jot that one down so I remember it.
Beta carotine (? sp) maybe... will have to try to research it.
(ie = ask a "know it all" classmate...so far he seems to have an answer for everything... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: