Common Cold Diet
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- Introduction for common cold
- Nutritions and supplements for common cold control
- Common cold Herbal treatment
- Acupressure treatment for common cold
- Homeopathy treatment for common cold
If you don't feel like eating, it's best not to force yourself. Try juice, applesauce, broth, soups (especially vegetable or chicken soup), and herbal teas.
If you have a cold, especially if it is accompanied by fever, you can become dehydrated and constipated more easily than usual. Flush your body with as much fluid as you can tolerate, at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. If you become constipated, this condition will most likely correct itself once you begin to feel better and resume eating normally.
All fluids, including soups, help alleviate respiratory illness. Fluids help to thin secretions, making it easier for the body to clear them. If the secretions are thick and dry, they are more difficult to expel. Take diluted fruit juices, homemade sugarless lemonade (use a bit of honey for sweetening, and drink it either warm or cold), chamomile tea, and lots of nourishing broth and homemade soup. Chicken soup and soup made with astragalus and vegetables are particularly good.
Limit your intake of refined sugars. Sweets can make you feel first energized, then agitated and irritable. They also create acids in the body that can cause a cold to linger. If you crave sugar, take a little honey or a small bite of something sweet.
Avoid dairy foods, which have tendency to increase and thicken mucus.
Avoid saturated fats, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils, and all fatty or fried foods. These fats are difficult to digest under normal circumstances, and are even harder to digest when the digestive system is weakened by the low-grade infection of a cold. Undigested fats contribute to an increase in mucus and a toxic internal environment.
- Common cold: It provides medical information about common cold disease including causes, symptoms, etc.
- Common cold nutritions and supplements: This section provides comprehensive list of nutritional supplements for Common Cold.
- Herbal treatment for common cold: This section focuses on various traditional herbal treatments used to cure common cold.
- Common cold acupressure treatment: This section provides various acupressure points on the body to treat common cold.
- Common cold homeopathy treatment: It provides information about homeopathic medicines required for curing common cold.