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What's your recipe to take the edge off a bad head cold
I haven't taken a sick day in over 3 years, but this head cold has really set in, and I'm looking at today and tomorrow off if nothing improves. My father in law swears by a hot tottie with an aspirin chaser.
Just wondering what others do to minimize the sinus/nasal/sore throat symptoms. Post your cure, and I promise I'll try it and report back 
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05-19-2015, 07:27 PM
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05-19-2015, 07:34 PM
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Sushi and lots of wasabi...clear those sinuses quick
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05-19-2015, 07:51 PM
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Eat lots of garlic, vitamin c, and echinacea these should help boost your immune system.
Hot water with honey will help with your sore throat. You can also gargle salt water before bed.
One of the weirder things I've tried is sleeping with an cut onion by the bed.(Make sure your closet doors are closed) It seemed to work but it just may have been a coincidence.
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Take the "cure"
Thoroughly clean out your bathroom sink and then fill it with hot but not scalding water.Pour in a table spoon of vinnegar and mix it in.Let that rest until it is ok heat wise...you dont want to burn yourself.When it is ready cup your hands and dip in...snort it up your snot locker and snort it out and repeat a few times.Does it hurt?HELL YEAH it hurts....this makes a Slurpee burn feel pleasant by comparison...but it sure cleans you out.
This home remedy is not for wussies.It sounds crazy but it works.
15 years for me and going strong and not 1 single workday lost to a cold/flu.
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05-19-2015, 08:01 PM
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Sit in front of the TV and sip on Jagermeister until bedtime.
Throw a glass of water into the mix once and a while to keep your fluids up.
I think I feel a cold coming on...
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05-19-2015, 08:14 PM
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Get a very small ( 1 mm?) syringe. Use warm salty water 1 tsp salt to 1 cup of water. Maybe more salt. Fill up syringe and spray up your nostril. Let drain and repeat as needed. It works great. To clear things out.
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Whiskey. Drink until you can't feel feelings anymore.
A hot toddy works well. Seriously
2 ounces whiskey
1 tablespoon honey
4 ounces hot water
1 teaspoon lemon juice (the stuff in the plastic lemon)
Drink and repeat until sleepy ...
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05-19-2015, 08:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter1602
Whiskey. Drink until you can't feel feelings anymore.
A hot toddy works well. Seriously
2 ounces whiskey
1 tablespoon honey
4 ounces hot water
1 teaspoon lemon juice (the stuff in the plastic lemon)
Drink and repeat until sleepy ...
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^ THIS
Hates it as a kid, now I look forward to them lol!
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Not for head cold-but worth a try
From Merry Olde England spring some mighty strange sore throat remedies. One–which was actually used widely until the 20th century–called for wrapping your own dirty socks around your throat. Our guess? Since sore throats are so contagious, and in the olden days a signal of potentially lethal diseases, the dirty socks were used to keep loved ones as far away as possible from the patient. But that’s just a guess. Another English treatment involved wrapping bacon around the throat before bedtime. Finally, we couldn’t resist passing along this Irish gem: To heal a sore throat, simply apply salt herring to the soles of the feet.
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Horse Radish by the spoon full.
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Ok, so far I'm liking the Hunter1602 remedy. I found some Marker's Mark I forgot we had. Mixed with honey and warm lemon water and a liquid Nyquil Chaser (my own addition), and I think I'll be able to sleep through the night. If not, I'll try adding Wasabi and death pepper sauce (and snort through the sinuses) to the mix tomorrow! Good night all....
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Garlic stuffed olives!
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05-19-2015, 09:05 PM
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Puree 1 clove Garlic, 1 Flintones Vitamin C, and 1Tsp of Cayenne with 1TBSP of Honey.
dissolve in warm water and drink it ... quickly.
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05-19-2015, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Spidey
Ok, so far I'm liking the Hunter1602 remedy. I found some Marker's Mark I forgot we had. Mixed with honey and warm lemon water and a liquid Nyquil Chaser (my own addition), and I think I'll be able to sleep through the night. If not, I'll try adding Wasabi and death pepper sauce (and snort through the sinuses) to the mix tomorrow! Good night all....
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Haha, nighty night.
It'll work.
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05-19-2015, 09:17 PM
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Quote:
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My father in law swears by a hot tottie with an aspirin chaser.
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I always used to say "3 beers and 2 aspirins".
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Cold Remedy
Mix Black pepper
A pinch of salt
Dried Rosemary
St Johns Wart
and mix in a glass of warm water
Pore it down the drain, its good for the plumbing, then take 2 Cold-FX and go to bed.
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As much sleep as you can get.
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Anti inflammatory (Ibeprofen), lots of liquid (Chicken soup with a good dash of cayenne helps clear the sinuses) and rest, lots of rest.
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The hottest chicken saté pho that I can find, accompanied by a large quantity of kleenex or napkins.
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Head to the Oriental Noodle House in Edmonton (thanh thanh, 101 st and 107 ave), order the beef noodle satay soup. Absolutely cures a cold.
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Capsicum seems to be a common cure. Go hard, ghost pepper, little bit of pain is better than days or weeks of suffering
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05-19-2015, 10:21 PM
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Just walk it off you whinny bastard.
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05-19-2015, 10:24 PM
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...but seriously:
2 cups of hot mik with 2 teaspoons of honey and one teaspoon of butter.
Drink it HOT, sleep all night.
Helps me.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter1602
Whiskey. Drink until you can't feel feelings anymore.
A hot toddy works well. Seriously
2 ounces whiskey
1 tablespoon honey
4 ounces hot water
1 teaspoon lemon juice (the stuff in the plastic lemon)
Drink and repeat until sleepy ...
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This without the honey, hot water and lemon juice and double up on the whiskey..
About 4 oz of Forty Creek on ice. Sip and let it trickle down your throat. So soothing. Repeat as necessary.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lornce
Cold Remedy
Mix Black pepper
A pinch of salt
Dried Rosemary
St Johns Wart
and mix in a glass of warm water
Pore it down the drain, its good for the plumbing, then take 2 Cold-FX and go to bed.
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This was a good laugh!
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A cup of lemon neo citron with 1 1/2 oz vodka.
Sleep like a rock and you will sweat like you are in a sauna.
It has worked for me.
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This is what I did 1hr ago. 5 drops of oregano oil, full clove of raw garlic. Ate right after each other. Then had a whole whack of homemade hot sauce( my buddy make) makes u steam. Super hot bath for 20 mins, now rubbing Vicks on feet chest and neck. I'll sweat like a pig do to bath. Now off to bed, hope it works and good luck.
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