I usually increase my orange juice intake. That's what my mother always had us do. I'm not sure it really works though. Not all our colds seemed to end sooner.

What are your home remedies for a cold?

hot tea and lemom lots of water and rest

Gargle every couple of hours with warm salt water.

My friend uses Zicam immediately to prevent it becoming a bad cold.

Lots of water, rest and use of niti pot work for us sometimes.

Echinacea and Vitamin C. Of course, you really should take echinacea before you are sick. If a cold takes hold, Tylenol Cold seems to help symptoms, but I'd rather ward off the sickness in the first place!

Echinacea and Vitamin C. Of course, you really should take echinacea before you are sick. If a cold takes hold, Tylenol Cold seems to help symptoms, but I'd rather ward off the sickness in the first place!

Echinacea and Vitamin C both are good for a cold.

My goal is to never catch one. I use saline nasal drops everyday and haven't had a cold in four years. Try the drops maybe they will clear the cold up before it gets set in. Then use them daily from now on.

I rarely get colds now. Like everyone else, I used to get them all the time. Lucky me, I now get sinus infections instead.

Crazy as it sounds, I use a menthal-liptus type losenge when I feel a sinus infection coming on. For some reason it usually stops the infection. They taste awful, but I'm glad to suffer through the taste for a day or two - beats the heck out of a sinus headache/infection that won't clear without antibiotics.

Vitamin C/orange juice doesn't help me at all. It just gives me nasty cankor sores and fever blisters. Guess I'm extremely sensitive to it.

Feel better!

Hot Choclate with peppermint shnapps, a good book, and a well loved warm Quilt. It may not cure the cold, but it sure makes me feel better.

I love buying Chinese Hot and Sour Soup, it will cure what ails you.

Sleep, sleep and more sleep

When I was a kid, my mom gave me lots of pineapple-grapefruit juice. Can't find it in the store anymore though.

Chicken noodle soup is always good! There have even been studies to support this one.

There also seems to be some correlation between craving sweets and the onset of a cold. Hard to avoid indulging in that one! (for me anyway).

I'm reading this due to the fact that I have a horrible cold right now...I'm going to move the dog off the sofa and lay down to watch Dancing with the Stars...anyone that really knows me, knows that I never do this.
Hubby picked up some soup for my dinner...

My personal favorite is tea with honey and a splash of peppermint schnapps. Works wonders.

Hot tea with lemon and honey. Vit C, zinc. if it's a sore throat kind of cold gargle with warm salt water. Congested or sinus? Netti pot, and Musinex DM(sp).

Curl up with a warm quilt, a good book and lots of rest too!

Hope you catch it before really catches you!

Phyllis
QuiltingGrannie
Quilter's Pantry

Hot cocoa with shnapps! Now that's a remedy I'd like!
:D

Echinacea, and I say hello to the Captain, just for medicinal purposes of course..... :^)

At the first sign of a cold I take Airborne.It will stop my cold if I take it quick.

A couple shots of Hiram Walker's Ginger Brandy. If you can't handle a straight shot, mix it with some ginger ale in a rocks glass filled with ice and a twist of lemon.

If you don't want to drink it, pour it in a spoon and take it like cough medicine. It will warm you to your toes.

Its been years since I've had a cold (I'm a fanatical hand washer), but if I'm feeling a bit under the weather, I take a hot bath and climb into a warm bed w/ a strong cup of tea that has a shot of whiskey, lemon, and honey in it. When I wake up, the feeling has passed.

Hot apple juice or cider with Hot Damn schnapps.Good for warming me even when I don't have cold.

Nyquil & lots of sleep. Then follow-up with pho soup or chicken noodle soup & sleep some more. Repeat as needed until one feels better.

zinc

Kold Kare available at iherb.com. Take at first sign of cold and it will stop it in it's tracks.

Sinupret is a little pricey, but it work wonders. It is very popular in Europe. You can buy it in the US at health food type stores. I also find that taking Silver (also from the health food store) works wonders, too. It is also pricey.

Sinus rinsing when I can feel it coming on also seems to help me get better sooner. But don't try it if you can't breathe through both sides of your nose.

Lots of rest and plenty of fluids helps, too.

I live on vit C and zinc for days. Recent allergy/cold attack ended in 7 days with no followup coughing. I think the addition of zinc did the trick.
Get well soon.

Zinc. If I take it as soon as I feel it coming on, I can knock it out most of the time. I also spray my throat with the throat spray.

Lots of zinc, vitamin c and vicks vapor rub. My grandmother also put vicks on the bottom of our feet and made us put socks on and some vicks on the chest and then into bed with a cup of warm water, brandy, lemon and honey. Always seemed to work. Maybe the brandy just knocked us out.

A hot toddy....shot of whiskey, squirt of lemon and drizzle of honey. I use a short glass and put in the microwave for 30 or 40 seconds. Curl up on the couch under a quilt and sip. After 2 you won't care if you have a cold or not. lol
Really, the fumes do help clear your head etc.
Don't drink or eat dairy products....it produces phlegm.

I do the SinuCleanse. It gets the bacteria out and eliminates the drainage that causes the sore throat...

Many great remedies ! like meemersmom I do most of what she does. There are also homeopathic productds out there that work great

Vicks and my husband's white tube sock around my neck! Edie

Hey, it works - three days, sore throat gone and while you have the sore throat it warms your neck and just feels better.

Sounds good to me.

According to my dad, who would be 99 if he was still w/us, you should do the following:

Make a bunch of "cough" medicine (hot water, honey and as much Jim Beam as you can stand), climb into bed with one boot outside the covers. When you see 3 boots, you can stop drinking. When you wake up the cold and cough should be gone. Yep, he kidded a lot!

Whiskey, lemon, and honey. LOL We used to do this in college. Hmmmmm! Wonder if we really had a cold. LOL

I use zinc throat lozenges at the first sign of a sore throat or cold. They really work for me, so it does not develop into a cold.

Just a precaution: Years ago my great-grandmother told my Mom to quadruple her vitamin C intake for a bad cold. As a result Mom became allergic to vitamin C to the point that she couldn't even have a citrus twist on the side of a glass or she'd break out in boils on her neck. It took years for the sensitivity to abate, and even today she has to be careful to not have much citrus in one day. So I do hope you'll be careful.
My best cold remedy:
A) Wash your hands often! This alone will greatly help to prevent infection
B) Gargle with warm salt water
C) Take Echinacea and zinc lozenges
D) At the first sign, PUT IT TO BED. Hard to do when one feels one can still function, but the cold will pass faster, your friends and co-workers won't be exposed so will surely thank you, and you'll get lots of sympathy!
E) Keep hydrated.
F) Chicken noodle soup

Ginger tea made from fresh ginger root. I take a hand of ginger and slice it thinly (about 2 big handfulls). Add it to a quart of water and simmer until the water is half.

The more concentrated it is the better for cutting through the nasty post nasal drip I get with allergies also.