old wives tales?

[mazzystar]

right got a job interview on friday, but woke up today with stinking cold. anyone got any suggestions to help me get rid of it?

garlic

garlic on hot buttered toast after a hot shower; your passages will be open after the hot steam of the shower and the garlic will flush them out and provide antiseptic tingles for the rest of you.

Also put eucalyptus oil on your pillow and eat lots of oranges and nuts, Vit C and zinc

and hot toddies with whiskey at night

Make up a flask of boiling water, fresh grated ginger, honey and lemon. Drink it through the day. DP swears by it (personally, the smell of it makes me want to gag )

eat a raw onion

hot milk with honey and whiskey an a couple of paracetamol before bed.

at least you wont reek with mine!

goblin have YOU ever eaten a raw onion?

likin the garlic and the whiskies

er.. no

but my uncle used to swear by them and really didnt have a cold ever. its the same science behind it as the garlic on toast.

you only asked for old wives tales, not sensible suggestions!

dh drinks the juice of raw onions when he has a cough [bleurgh emoticon]

The homeopathic remedy for a cold is made from raw onion..My FIL swears by raw onion too !

what did you try and are you feeling better?

I swear by hot port before bedtime. I always end up sweating it out while sleeping. Works for me!!

Very hot curry, hto bath and a hot water bottle under a very heavy duvet with karvol and vicks on.

You need home made chicken soup wuth lots of garlic in it

ate garlic (yum)
drank hot toddys (yum yum)
went to bed early
feel worse
but have decided i don;t want the job anyways....
thanks y'all