Cure For The Common Cold.

There is a cure for the common cold. You can significantly shorten a cold, and ease the symptoms while it lasts.

Your body is constantly cleaning itself – removing dead cells, wastes and toxins, bacteria. Sometimes your body reaches overload – it just can’t work properly anymore. That’s when you get a cold. It’s your body’s way of having a spring clean.So, you are not so much trying to find a cure for the common cold as easing and speeding up the process.

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Paul Maguire Winter is the Time to Find a Cure For The Common Cold
Why do you get colds in winter rather than summer? Because in summer you are likely to eat more fresh fruit and salads, rich in vitamin C. You are warm so your blood moves more, cleaning out the toxins. In winter your circulation can be more sluggish, so that the clean up process slows down. You probably eat heavier food in winter – it helps to keep you warm, but it’s harder to digest.

The runny nose, watery eyes and coughing are all part of your body’s mechanism for cleaning out the rubbish. You feel cold and shivery because your body is trying to raise the temperature to burn out the build up of bacteria and viruses.

If you suppress these symptoms, you are stopping the clear out – it will have to be done again later. If you constantly suppress colds, the wastes build up. You’ll get more and more frequent colds, and eventually ’flu. This is a more serious ‘spring clean’. If you suppress this as well, you’re heading for really serious illness.

So a natural cure for the common cold must involve helping your body with it’s clean up, not stopping it. How do you do this? Mostly, by letting it get on with it. The most important thing to do is not clog your system up with heavy food.

Eat lightly – the less you eat, the less energy is wasted on digestion and the more energy your body has for cleaning and healing itself. Fresh fruit is the easiest to digest. Cooked fruit (such as stewed apple) is good because you need warmth. Warm food and keeping warm generally will help to clear your cold quicker. Warmth improves your circulation and generally speeds things up.

The sorts of foods that will tend to make your cold worse are foods high in protein or fat, and refined carbohydrates. These foods take a lot more effort to digest than fruits and vegetables.

Have plenty of fluids. Hot lemon and honey, herb teas or plain warm water are all good. Don’t have cold drinks. Thin soups are great, especially with lots of onion and garlic to boost your immune system, and ginger and pepper for warmth. Avoid soups with milk or cream in them - nothing clogs you up more than cow’s milk.

Get a sensible amount of rest. You don’t need to spend all day in bed (unless it’s a really bad cold), but take things easy in the day and go to bed early. Be sure to keep warm all the time.

Extra vitamin C will help your immune system to rid your body of unfriendly bacteria. Take 2 grams or more a day. Echinacea (tea or tincture) will give your immune system a further boost.

Natural cold remedies will help you be more comfortable in the day and get a good night’s sleep. They will ease the cold symptoms without stopping the natural process of cleaning up. Remember, a cure for the common cold should speed up the cold, not stop it short.

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