cold

Vitamin C, one of those wonder vitamins, and it can really help reduce the amount of time you have a cold. The second you feel a cold coming on you should start taking more Vitamin C. It can shorten the length of the cold and make the symptoms less severe.

Zinc Lozenges can have the same effect, reduce the symptoms, and quicken recovery. Now this has been in the news of late and it can help.

Get plenty of rest, when you rest up your immune system is boosted up and it quickens the process of getting better.

Chicken soup, odd but true, it does help cure the common cold. Some chemicals in the soup help to heal. So drink up the soup.

Hot shower or bath can relieve congestion and breaks up the mucus.

Garlic, if you put garlic in your mouth and chew on it, the juices will help cure the cold. Garlic has a powerful antiviral agent and can knock out a cold in a few days.

A bath with a few drops of cinnamon in the bath water, it is said that this can relieve congestion, and generally make you feel better.