Hit me with your totally unscientific cold remedies

[HangingOver]

I feel rubbish.

I've had:
Paracetamol
Spicy chilli and ginger noodle soup
Chocolate ice cream

...and have cat on lap.

Anything else?

A box set of a 90s sitcom

Cut up potatoes on the soles of your feet and socks put on over them.
Ditto cut up onions.
Halved large onion next to you.
Hot lemon, honey, and a good dollop of ginger wine (highly recommend this, it’s delicious! If you take a couple of paracetamol with it it’s more effective than lemsip).

Cut up potatoes on the soles of your feet and socks put on over them

Only have baby new potatoes. Perhaps one on each toe?

Spicy curry for dinner.
Lots of citrus fruit (oranges and lemons).

Get pissed.Youll wake up the next day with no cold.Tried and tested.

mulled port or red wine - cinnamon stick, pinch of nutmeg, warm not hot enough to lose the alcohol

I used to do a double lemsip with extra lemon and honey. Real knockout stuff, would sleep like a log and wake up cured.

When I had COVID I drunk my way through it!! 🤣

Keep stuff moving. Chew gum, ginger, hot drinks, hot baths, cold drinks, Vicks to clear your nose. Spicy food, lots of liquids. Fresh air warm body- so windows open but hot water bottles.

Two shots of vodka. It'll knock the cold straight out.

Heinz tomato soup with really cheap, white bread.

Supermarket brand Echinacea cold and flu tablets.

Heat up some orange juice, melt some honey into it, add lemon juice and a good splash of whisky. It knocks you out and picks you up all at once.

Honey, lemon, cloves, hot water. Steep, add whisky.

It actually IS science. Anti-bacterial, vitamin C, painkillers, all delicious and scientific.

Water

Lots of water

I’m with all the other posters recommending alcohol in various guises. My usual remedy is a hot toddy - hot water, lemon juice, honey and a shot of whiskey or brandy. Think I might try some of the other suggestions next time I have a cold or even if I don’t 😉

Glass of whiskey and lemon, hot bath, Vicks on the soles of your feet and an early night

Go out and get drunk and dance..I swear it sweats out of you or something.

Raw garlic clove, cut small and swallowed with water! Also, hot drinks, good book, and a nap if time allows

Hot lemon, hot whiskey, hot man.
Vicks on your feet , pop on some socks and go to bed.
Chicken soup
Tomato soup.

Slug of Night Nurse with a large red wine. Then go to bed and sleep for as long as you can.

A friends parents would leave 1/2 a cut onion in their bedroom when sick. No idea what it was supposed to do though?

Very hot shower for as long as you can or until your hot water runs out. Put tiger balm on your feet and then thick socks. Then wrap up warm and get into bed with multiple hot water bottles under the covers but windows open. Then drink as much herbal tea as you can but add a shot of rum to each mug. Make sure you have water on the nightstand for nighttime.

Hot soup with cheese toastie

Hot bath

Clean PJs

Hot toddy and Night Nurse (liquid version). Vicks on chest.

Sleep the sleep of the righteous.

A teaspoon of turmeric, pour over about 2 inches of hot water and a drizzle of honey. It’s also good for trapped wind 🤣