Home Remedies for Common Cold

1. Create high humidity by running hot water in a bathroom with closed doors and windows or boiling a kettle of water in a room. This is very effective in the case of deposited mucous layers and sinusitis. It liquefies the plugs of mucous and opens the pores, thus providing relief.
2. Steam with Vicks or Karvol is equally effective.
3. A warm drink soothes the entire respiratory tract.
4. Make a powder of Borax kheel (heat Borax in an iron vessel so that it spreads and store in a bottle. Take half a gram of this in warm water at least thrice a day.
5. Boil 7 black peppers and 7 sugar balls in 250 gms of water. When one-fourth wa is left, stop boiling. Drink hot and cover the entire body for ten minutes. Do! twice a day, morning and night. If fever accompanies cold, add seven leave~ holy basil in the boiling water.

Nasal blockage in common cold

Take 10 gms of Sprague in a clean cloth and tie all ends of the cloth (bind the portion of Sprague with a rubber band). Heat this cloth in a vessel. Now sniff this. Nasal: blockage is cleared by this method.

Here is an asana, Sarvangasana, for prevention of eye, ear, nose and throat ailments It makes the face glow and strengthens the nervous system.

Procedure

1. It takes time until one learns this posture. Be patient and first check out the for doing asanas in the Daily Healthy Way Hints chapter.
2. Lie down on your back with both hands at the sides and legs together.
3. Slowly raise your legs as you did for the raised-leg posture.
4. When your legs are at right angles to your body stay for a few seconds like this and then slowly bring your legs towards your head.
5. Your waist will be slightly raised in this process.
6. Now put your hands on your back to provide support.
7. Now straighten your legs and with the support of the hands straighten the entire body.
8. Your head, shoulders and arms from shoulder to elbows should touch the floor.
9. The rest of the body should point straight up in the air.
10. The posture should be such that your chin touches the chest.
11. Stay in this asana as long as you can comfortably.
12. To come back to your normal position bend your legs forward towards the head.
13. Remove your hands from the back and gradually descend towards the ground.