Home Remedies for Colds and Flu

1 - For taking care of your old parents or young children:

If they keep coughing during a long period even after taking the medicines against cough and cold, you can serve them a steamed orange. The way to prepare this steamed orange is as following:

Step 1: Use warm water to wash and clean the surface of an orange;

(Don't peel the orange. Keep its skin on.)

Step 2: Cut the orange into 4 pieces and put the whole orange into a bowl;

Step3: Add 50g peeled ginger slices and 100g lean pork into the bowl;

Step 4: Add 180ml water into the bottom of your cooker;

Step 5: Use a lid to cover the cooker and turn it on high.

Step 6: When the water starts boiling, turn the cooker to low and leave the orange steamed for another 60 minutes.

Step 7: Serve the steamed oranges to the patient while the orange is still quite warm.

Normally, after continuously using this remedy for 3 days (each orange per day per person), the coughing and cold symptoms can be relieved.

2 - Add some garlic into your cooking or salad.

Garlic is a common ingredient seen in our daily meal and salad. In fact, it's a strong alley in fight against bacteria and flu virus.

While you cook, you can add some garlic pieces into the hot pan 1 minute before you turn off the stove, because high temperature may reduce the inflammatory function of the garlic.

If you want the garlic's anti-infection function to work efficiently, you can add the raw garlic pieces into your cold salad plate.

If you make bread by yourself, you can add some garlic into your recipe to make garlic bread.

3 - Fried eggs with ginger.

The ginger can effectively warm up your body as to strengthen your immune system. When you feel you may catch a cold, you can fry 3 eggs with around 100g ginger slices and serve the egg to yourself as a normal meal.

4 -- Do some cardio sports, such as jogging, swimming or ski, etc. Let the sweat get out of your body.

Be careful that you should not drink cold water immediately after your exercises, since the cod water may irritate your respiratory system. Instead, you should drink 3 big glasses of warm water to help your body sweat.

5 - Add 50g peeled ginger slices into your Coca-Cola.

You can use the microwave to heat your custom drink. Serve the drink to yourself while it's still quite warm.

6 - Eat chicken soup.

You may follow the steps to prepare your chicken soup:

Step 1: Clean and put the whole chicken into a cooker;

Step 2: Add 500ml water into the cooker;

Step 3: Turn the cooker on high;

Step 4: Leave the soup boiling for 20 minutes, then turn the cooker to low;

Step 5: Leave the soup cooking on low for another 60 minutes;

Step 6: Add 100g green onion pieces into the soup and turn off the cooker in 3 minutes.