BS: Your best Cold Remedy

Subject: RE: BS: Your best Cold Remedy
From: olddude
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 08:42 PM

I am not against taking a nip ... I just don't do that on any type of regular basis .. Occasional scotch or Jack Daniels ( usually in 2-3 year increments in between however) I know I know .. I am boring but if it helps this dang cold .. gimme the bottle LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Your best Cold Remedy
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 08:19 PM

Dissolve a full package of Hall's original flavor cough drops into a quart of the cheapest, nastiest, whiskey you can find.

Tell yourself that if you don't get better fast you'll drink it.

Alternately, what gnu said. You can get saline nasal solution at the drugstore and, if you can take it, dextromethropan to suppress the cough. I find Mucinex or its generic works quite well, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Your best Cold Remedy
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 08:14 PM

Salt water. Flush yer sinuses and rinse and gargle. Lots of fruit... LOTS of fruit. Wrap yourself in towels and blankets and sweat. Pinch your nose with a clothes pin or stuff it with tissue for as long as you can(this is the key for a cold as the rise in temp kills the beasties). Drink as much fruit juice and water as you can.

As you do not take alcohol I shant talk about the rest of the magic cure. Alcohol is not just a killer of "germs", it helps you endure the rest of the cure.

It does work.... within 72 hours, as long as it's a cold.

Subject: BS: Your best Cold Remedy
From: olddude
Date: 10 Oct 10 - 08:00 PM

Dang nose is running, sore throat .. cough ... hey what is your best remedy? My old man use to make coffee as strong as a brick and dump whiskey in it. Somehow i think it did nothing to fix the cold but I bet it made him feel better ... I have taken every dang cold crap over the counter ya can get ... does nothing ... HELP