Anyone have tips on qickest way to shake a cold. With an operation coming up in the household this is the last thing we need.

I have heard that echinacea (sounds/said like ekinay sha) is very good. It has "immune enhancing abilities" apperently! Worth a go, i use it!

I'd say a bullet, but it's probably not too productive.

Do a lot of gargling with Listerine, lot's of Echinacea, ton's of Vitamin C, and make sure your air is a little humid. Bed rest is also good. That should do the trick!

Codral day and night are quite good for the symptoms, just don't mix them up. I lay awake an entire night, totally wired because of a mix-up. Didn't feel real good the next day.

vitamin C and ginger for you!!! Find it is good to have a bit when i wake up and then again just before i go to bed. And stay warm. 2c

there are these awesome chinses herbal tablets you can egt "yin chiao".. if you feel the slightest bit of a cold coming, you take5..3-4 times a day, and it keeps it all off

try a chinese grocer.. a bottle of 120 tablets is like $6.. always worked for me.

i have heard some stories about echinacea that turned me away from it!!!! just tackle it cold turkey non of them chinese crap works :P:P:P and if ya want to get rid of it take some ec's and smoke marijuana always worked for mekiss
cheers
rhys

cenovis make some vitamins for colds and flu that have echinacea, garlic, vit c and zinc and they work a treat, when i have a cold i take 2 about 4 times a day for a few days and a cold that would normally last me 2 weeks is gone in about 4 days.
and they can be taken everyday to ward of colds and flu as well, mind you i dont and only use them when iv got the cold.
works best if you catch it as soon as it comes on but even if ya dont will still help

Danielle

Hey Ill let you in on a few remedies!
2 cloves of fresh garlic a day (in a banana sandwich)
3 table spoons of apple cider vinegar (dosent taste the best but kills all the germs in your throat)
1 teaspoon, 3 times a day, of organic honey (natural antibiotic) the honey must "NOT" have been heated in the extraction process, heating it kills all the benificial bacteria.
It works for my family. I rarely get a cold because I take the garlic everyday, you soon get used to it.
Rob...

There doesn't seem to be a quick way to get rid of it once you have it :jesus But you can relieve it and let it run it's course

I'm drinking plenty of ginger tea with lemon in it right now...(I have a cold )

Hot lemon drink with honey is an old but good one...take with
Aspirin helps break the fever...sweats it out!!!

Propolis is an excellent natural antibiotic...it comes in capsules

Echinea doesn't seem to work for me...I think you have to be taking before you get the cold...or to prevent getting it bad

Good luck....

Is the cold on the chest yet?

Not on the chest, trace has done the echinacia and spirilina and vit c in prep for op so that has helped it seems as though she is shaking it off. I just don't want the op to be put off......

echinacea is good but not once you have a cold.
it is suposedly used when you feel the very early onset of something.
once it has taken hold it is to late for echinacea.
though i may be wrong if anyone else knows better.



i say drink it out, 750ml bundy and a shot glass that'll fix it.

dont forget the drugs

yeh echinasia is good but ur sposed to have it before u get the cold coz it builds up ur immuine system, so really just eat lots of oranges and stay in bed

heh..well i'm stuck with the old system of drinking a lot of water and fluids. oh, you also have to contine to eat..keep ur appetite up (never a problem for me )
but yes..lots of fluid and food and it should be gone..never lasts 2-4days with me.

zac

u know what works for me a long session of sex - sweat the flu out its the best way to get rid of it then buy some Tom Yum soup from the local Thai shop its hot stuff but that kills every germ in ya body next day i guarrentee u will be right as rain:party

Go live somewhere else so you don't infect people

drink it to death. one bottle of vodka, one nasty hangover, no cold.

I suggest 4 litres of orange juice per day.
sure it makes you sick and bloated but it works, then cut back to to litres per day afterwards

Starbuggy <------ chronic fruit bat

What Costa said but try the sex bit with one other person involved rather than just yourself!!!hehehehe...(cheap shot Coz)
Spicy|chilli food is THE best method to get rid of colds|flu.Raises your metabolism and sweats all the evil out.
Stay away from pharmaceuticals except @ dance parties! :P

W

Once you have the symptoms of a cold, it is too late the cold already has it's hold !!!!!!! Best to let your body fight it off ...... Fever is also good a sign that your body is responding to the infection !!!!!!!!!

Just make sure you drink lots of fluids so that you don't dehydrate