Wierd or Crazy Home Remedies for a Cold..

[peachexploration]

Anyone have any crazy home remedy ideas for a cold given to them by their parents. My mom use to always use that Vicks vapor rub for congestion. She'd actually make me eat it. Ewww! I still have nightmares. *shudder* :lol:

[cocodrilo]

In Japan, an old folk remedy was to wear a string of onions around your neck. One of my students told me her grandmother told her to stick green onions up her nose when she had a cold! Over here, a common belief is that gargling prevents getting colds! :roll: When that doesn't work(as it usually doesn't), people flock to the hospitals, giving all the nurses and doctors their germs!

[peachexploration]

In Japan, an old folk remedy was to wear a string of onions around your neck. :shock: :lol:

I had asthma pretty bad when I was young so having a cold usually triggered it. In all the sickness chaos, my mom, bless her heart, use to make me eat vicks vapor rub. :? :lol: :nope:

[jimedoc]

lemon juice with beer (use natural lemon juice)
I have never tried it, but i have heard that it's really good...

[squirrel]

Boiled wine with sugar

Boiled tzuica (Romanian home-made liquor) with sugar and pepper (seeds)

Raw potatoes cut in pieces and placed on the forehead - for fever

Alcohol on a bandage put around the neck - for fever and coughing

[Jones, Nikka]

My husband's cold and flu cocktail:
1/3 Hot orange juice with
1/3 mango or peach nectar with
1/3 vodka

By the time you wake up your body has had time to fight off the cold so you feel like it actually worked.

[peachexploration]

Anything with peach in it has to be good! :lol: ;)