Cold
For dry and stuffy nose, try normal saline or salt water nasal drops made
by adding 1/4 teaspoon of table salt to about 4 ml lukewarm water.
Garlic juice made by adding few drops of garlic oil to a teaspoonful of
onion juice and diluting it in a cup of water is helpful for common cold.
Rub the chest with vicks vapour rub.
The Indian style - Take a face cloth and soak it in very cold water and
squeeze out the water and fold into three layers and put this on the
forhead.
Finely grate an apple and spread it 1/2 inch thick on a piece of
double-layered cheesecloth about 6 inches in length. Apply this over the
forehead. Make a similar poultice for the throat area or chest if
necessary. Leave on for one hour.
Take half a teaspoon of ginger juice with half a teaspoon of honey, three
times a day. In winter, warm the mixture by mixing a teaspoon of warm
water in it.
Mix half a cup of warm water with one teaspoon of lemon juice and one
teaspoon of honey.