How to Ease Cold Symptoms
Ouch! Has all that winter-cold nose-blowing left your nostrils red and raw?
For a quick on the run fix, rub unscented lip balm on irritated spots. Its moisturizing ingredients will soothe the area fast.
Something easy to try at home is to hold a brewed, cooled green tea bag on the nostrils for one minute. The antioxidants in the tea heal chafed skin.
One tablespoon of raw honey twice daily, either straight from the spoon or stirred into a hot drink (preferably tea) can ease throat soreness, scratchiness, and other symptoms by 55%, trim two days off recovery time and tame even stubborn coughs as effectively as prescription medication, research reveals. Thanks goes to honey’s rich stores of plant enzymes and antioxidants, which coat and soothe irritated tissues and block germ spread in the throat. (Try to use locally produced honey.)
Drinking something warm may provide a double benefit—helping from both inside and out! Inhaling the steam from the cup can help thin mucus for easier removal, plus once ingested, fluids will help keep you hydrated to keep secretions thin as you fight the infection.
Wellness teas that will help get through Cold & Flu Season
Hibiscus
Lullaby
Speedy Recovery
Throat Relief
Turmeric Ginger
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