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This is also quite a common controlling step. Put some Vicks or Amrutanjan in a bowl of boiling water, cover your head with a towel and inhale the steam through your nose. Your stuffy nose will become decongested and clear. Apply Vaseline to nose: Your running nose will finally lead to a rupture (crack) around your nostrils as you blow out again and again. Apply Petroleum jelly or Vaseline to the wound. The pain will be reduced.

Three times a day – morning, noon, and evening – gargle with salt water. You will get relief. When you are suffering from cold put a teaspoonful of salt in a glass of water and gargle. Brandy cure: Take 3 teaspoonful of brandy mixed with hot water or ½ glass of wine before you go to bed. That will give you some relief.

Smoking causes the throat to burn. Cold multiplies that burning sensation. The hair within the nose called cilia obstructs the bacteria passing through the nose from getting into the body and the smoke prevents the cilia from fighting with infection. Therefore reduce the number of cigarettes at least, if you cannot completely give it up.

Reduce the consumption of fatty substances like milk and meat. Increase the intake of fruit juice and vegetables. Chicken soup: There is a saying: “eat the chicken and drive out the cold.” It appears to be true. One cup of hot chicken soup can uncork your nose and let out the water from it. But, nobody can say whether it is because of the smell or taste of the soup. But, the water running out from the nose cleanses out body of the viruses.

It is not correct to think that Vitamin C, Penicillin and antibiotics cure the cold. Antibiotics can root out the symptom caused by bacteria. They are powerless when the symptom is due to virus, as in the case of cold. Vitamin C functions like a scavenger and throws out all the rubbish-including the virus rubbish. It cannot arrest the spread of cold, but, it reduces the period of cure from 7 days to 2 or 3 days, say the experts in the field. Vitamin C controls sneezing and coughing too. But, it is better to drink orange juice or grape juice than to consume Vitamin C tablets.

When the weather is dry, cold viruses spread easily, but not when the weather is wet. During winter, we keep all the doors and windows shut, with the result dry weather prevails inside. Therefore keep all the windows open in winter. So, also the bathroom doors. Keep the bathroom clean and its door always open. Wash your hands often: People suffering from cold often blow their noses. In this process, their hands come into contact with the cold viruses. If the touch others, there is the danger of others catching it. Hence, it is advisable that such with cold should wash their hands clean very often. Take rest: When people catch cold, generally they prefer to go home and take rest. This is good because, by keeping themselves away from such company, they will be protecting others from infection.