Strangely enough, but this summer to the number of colds, led to intense heat, which is accompanied by a runny nose and a cough. And the reason is banal, it's ice cream, ice drinks, air conditioners and so on. Usually folk remedies are treated with a common cold that is associated with acute respiratory viral infections, influenza, and colds. If you have an allergic rhinitis, then some traditional medicine can be used, but this choice should be approached carefully, as some products can aggravate the common cold, because it can be caused by spores, pollen and even the smell of individual plants.
In many cases, the runny nose can go away for 7 or 10 days, but still it is advisable to treat a cold with at least simple means, because if we do not treat it, it will become chronic (otitis, etmoiditis, frontal sinusitis, maxillary sinusitis).
Such a disease as a runny nose exists a very long time, and traditional medicine offers us a lot of means and ways of treatment. Runny nose should be treated at the first stage, when it starts only to scrape in the nose and sore in the throat. And then there is an opportunity to have time to cure a cold before it appears, or it will develop in an easy form.
When the first symptoms of the common cold appear, care should be taken about the body and avoid the possibility of hypothermia. There are many ways: mustard plaster on the heels, put on socks, in which you need to pour mustard, in cold weather to make foot baths. It is necessary to avoid drafts and a sharp temperature drop, take a bath with medications (tinctures, infusions, decoctions) from medicines or a bath with sea salt, steam in a bath.
As soon as a runny nose begins, warming up in the area of the maxillary sinuses and nose is good here. You can use potatoes in "uniforms", just boiled eggs, pouches with warm buckwheat, sand, salt.
To prevent the development of the common cold, you can do with inhalation with infusion of eucalyptus, calendula and other medicinal plants. Should be buried in the nose of sea-buckthorn, cedar, fir oil, so we strike, on fitontsidam inhaling chopped garlic or onions, and within reasonable limits they need to be used for food. It is necessary to take care of how to strengthen the body's immunity with the help of vitamin C - dog rose, currant, lemon and so on. Do not forget about tea with St. John's wort, lime-colored flowers, raspberries and honey.
But even if the runny nose could not be prevented, you can continue to use all of the listed facilities. As a rule, they are not enough, and then you need to apply the funds that offer us traditional medicine. Medicines are used to dig in and wash the nose, carrying out inhalations.
The simplest composition for rinsing out the nose is salted warm water with the addition of a few drops of iodine and baking soda. You can also use sea salt, but do not use flavored compounds that are designed to take baths. For the washing of the nose, decoctions and infusions of St. John's wort, a mendicant will suit. Also suitable are infusions of peppermint, lice, burdock, dandelion, eucalyptus, marigold, St. John's wort.
As instillation in the nose use broths, diluted with water and tinctures, oils, fresh juice of plants. You can use the juice of onions, calanchoe, aloe, plantain, carrots and beets, but you need to know that such pure juice causes a burning sensation. Therefore, first drip a small amount of juice, if there are no unpleasant sensations, then you can continue to apply. And if there is burning, then the juice should be diluted with infusion or decoction (calendula, eucalyptus, St. John's wort), or boiled water, and in some cases, refuse to use.
You can also approach the use of oils and infusions from medicinal plants, broths - to dig in a minimum amount, and if there are no unpleasant sensations, the treatment can be continued.
Instead of drops, you can use tampons that are moistened with a curative composition. Then the mucous membranes provide a long-term exposure to drugs.
With a cold, inhalation can help very well. The simplest option would be to breathe over the ferry. In any container pour about a liter of boiling water, add a quarter of a teaspoon of baking soda, a few drops of medicinal infusion or oil. Cover your head with a towel and breathe over the steam for 5 to 10 minutes. For sale there are different household inhalers. The effectiveness of such an inhaler is higher than just inhaling over a steam. It should be inhaled at bedtime, or after the inhalation to rest for about 20 minutes or 30 minutes, do not go out, do not make sudden movements, and the best option is to relax about one and a half to two hours.
With a cold, those infusions and decoctions of such plants that are used for inhalation, instillation and washing of the nose are taken. There are many options for how to prepare such drugs. For this, sage, St. John's wort, cedar buds, fir, pines, althea roots, licorice, nine-rose, hips are most often used. Just use the viburnum, aronia, black currant, raspberry, hawthorn, linden, marigold, willow, birch, blackcurrant, eucalyptus. Use for a runny nose, a primrose, a burdock, a mother-and-stepmother, a string, motherwort, mint.
Infusions and decoctions make complex, which can include from 2 to 5 medicinal plants, or infusion consists of a single medicinal plant.
In various directories and on the Internet, you can find many recipes for the treatment of the common cold. But before you prepare such drugs, find out about those plants that you do not know. After all, among these plants can be poisonous and take them in a limited time and in small quantities - celandine, Ledum fungus. They are used for washing the nose and for instillations. For inhalations, too, you should carefully choose plants, should not get such not very poisonous - St. John's wort, they can not be abused when ingested.
Now we know how to treat the common cold with folk remedies. In the treatment of the common cold, there are many means available, but do not forget that at first glance the common cold is not so harmless. And if at certain times with a runny nose can not cope, you need to see a doctor.