No matter where you live whether you have 4 seasons, winter, spring, autumn, summer or only 2 seasons, rainy and dry, mostly during the seasonal changing and specifically during the coldest temperature drops, we found many people often get flu, coughs and common colds.

Are there any simple tips on how to deal with this cold stuff?

No worries, here below 10 natural ways to guard yourself and your family:

1.  Sugar and processed foods impact the immune system

Our overall health is determined by the immune system whether it is working properly or not will have the huge impact on how you survive in every kind of conditions. Therefore any intake into your body, either can make you healthy in the long run, or deteriorate your physical strength.

Please be aware of these foods below:

sodas, candy, cookies, ice cream, and potato chips, yogurt, and yogurt drinks and “pops”, most cereals, juices, fruit roll ups and “leathers”, “healthy” cookies and treats, soy ice cream and frozen treats.

Last but not least, read carefully ingredient labels and watch out for:

corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup or “HFCS,” brown rice syrup, fructose, sucrose, barleymalt and the obvious, sugar.

2.  Fresh foods offer the highest quality vitamins

Please bear in mind that fresh foods still hold the resources for your body to absorb the highest quality of Vitamin C and other essential vitamins to keep up your immune system. They are fresh whole foods such as cherries, berries, and apples, and vegetables such as spinach, kale, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, carrots and sweet potatoes.

If you get bored to eat vegetables, please try creative ways to make it more appealing to your taste, such as sautee, roast or grill vegetables with olive oil or real butter, add some fresh sea salt or sprinkle with organic low fat cheese.

3.   Sleep will boost the immune system

Deep sleep allows a complex set of hormonal changes that recharge the body so that it’s resilient the next day. While we are resting at night, our body is working to overhaul our immune system.

4.   Fatigue is the first sign of a distressed immune system

Our body actually has certain signals for us to indicate whether we are in a good condition, or about to get sick. Fatigue, is one of that signal. The best way to fight any sick-candidate is to get some good additional rest, such as adding a mid-day nap.

The immune system desperately needs sleep to keep the body healthy. When the immune system is fighting to keep you healthy, it requests that the body get extra rest to help in the fight.

5.  Wash hands frequently, but avoid antibacterial products

It is imperative to wash hands frequently during flu season, remember that the hands are only one very small way that germs enter your immune system. Killing off the germs on hands with antibacterial products is futile and weakens yourself - and the world’s- future ability to confront germs.

6.   Vitamin C to Prevent Colds: oranges and orange juice

You can have the traditional way to prevent yourself from cold by increasing your daily intake with a daily dose of orange or grapefruit juice, peaches, red peppers or other Vitamin C-rich food — or with a vitamin supplement. Double up with Echinacea for an added boost. Other natural cold-preventatives include the herb andrographis, zinc and elderberry extract.

7.   Thyme for a Cough

You can try this natural remedies, add three tablespoons of dried thyme to one pint of boiling water. Let cool, then add one cup of honey. Take one teaspoon every hour as needed. You can store the mix in the fridge for up to three months.

8.   Garlic for a Runny Nose

Just add garlic to your meals for a both a short-term treatment and long-term fortification against the next cold or flu virus.

Natural Remedies to combat your runny nose is boil water with a drop or two of eucalyptus oil. Stand with your head about 18 inches above the pot to avoid scalding, cover your head and the pot of water with a towel, and breathe deeply.

9.    Leafy Greens for Nose bleeds

A daily cup of leafy greens can provide enough Vitamin K to fortify sensitive capillaries and help your blood clot quickly. Kale and collard greens have the highest Vitamin K content, followed by spinach.

10.  Tea for Sore Throats

The tea remedy probably is the oldest natural way to banish sore throats. Try jujube tea for an extra Vitamin C boost.

You can find more amazing home made natural remedies recipes to overcome your colds and flu below:

Grow A Remedy

No worries! Grow A Remedy will guide you step by step using plants from your garden or just buy the ingredients, easy and practical!

Sore threat is very irritating, especially when our work is related to public speaking. Usually, it could be accompanied with cough due to an infection of the lungs, causing a secretion of mucous. Most sore throat is cause by common cold.

Also if you are always feel tired, it could weaken your immune system and thus any bacteria or virus will happily hit you so easy. The most important thing is get your energy back to avoid tiredness.

Here is a program to completely eliminate your tiredness, not only will improve your health, also boost your immune system:

End Tiredness Program

Moreover, natural remedies for common cold must complement your healing methods. This will also treat the sore throat. Here are the Home Remedies that can be used:

DO’s

- Ginger is a very effective remedy that is used in various ways to treat sore throat. In fact, ginger can be used as a treatment for coughs and colds, which are the causes of sore throat. Ginger can be taken in the form of a tea, or it can be made into hot beverage with plain water and sugar. The juice of ginger is also taken with honey in order to treat sore throats.

- Add a teaspoon of cumin seeds to boiling water. Put some pieces of garlic in it. Allow this to simmer for a few seconds. When simmered enough, set it aside to get cooled. This preparation is to be drunk as a beverage while still slightly warm. It helps relieve sore throat.

- Boil water. Add a dash of cinnamon, a little piece of ginger, 1 tablespoon honey and drink.

- Take 1 tablespoon fresh ginger juice, 1 tablespoon honey and a pinch of turmeric. Swallow this mixture at least three times a day.

- Pour one cup of boiling water over a piece of ginger, ground cloves and cinnamon. Filter it, sweeten with honey and have it sip by sip. This helps when there is mucus in the cough.

- Add a raw onion, 2 cloves, 4-5 mint leaves, 2-3 black peppercorns and a small stick of cinnamon to a glass of water. Boil it thoroughly, strain and have while it is still warm. To reduce the spicy taste, you could add 1 tablespoon of honey.

- Heat water with 2 tablespoon of lemon juice and 2 tablespoon of honey and sip.

- Use of mango bark is very beneficial in sore throat. Make a gargle by mixing 10 ml of the fluidextract with 125 ml of water. This is one of the effective and simple home remedies for sore throat.

- The leaves of the holy basil have also been found beneficial in the treatment of sore throat. The water boiled with basil leaves should be taken as a drink or can also be used as a gargle. This is also effective natural remedy for sore throat.

- Take 4 cloves of garlic, 1 tbsp. Honey, 1/8 tablespoon cayenne and mix them together, take a spoonful when needed and chew it up well before swallowing as this provides relief and is good natural remedy for sore throat.

- Make a tea by adding 1 or 2 teaspoons of dried chamomile blossoms to a pint of boiling water and drink a cup after every few hours.

- Mix 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cayenne pepper extracted juice of 1/4 a lemon, and 1 teaspoon of honey. Add to this 1 cup of hot water and stir well. Drink this up to 4 cups a day for sore throat relief.

- The spice cinnamon is also regarded as an effective sore throat remedy. Powdered spice boiled in a glass on water with a pinch of pepper powder and honey is highly beneficial in the treatment. The oil of cinnamon mixed with honey also provides relief.

- Cut an onion, put in a cup with a top, soak with honey, cover the cup and leave for one hour, swallow 1 spoon of the honey after every few hours to get relief. This is also effective home remedy for sore throat.

- Daily dry friction bath is also beneficial for the sore throat.

- A hot Epsom salt bath will be highly beneficial.

GARGLES FOR SORE THROAT

- An infusion of the seeds mixed with common salt can be used as a gargle in acute condition.

- Make a tea with 25 grams fresh sage in 600 ml of water and add one-fourth teaspoon of cayenne. Allow it to cool and strain it before drinking.

- Infuse one teaspoon of dried red sage in one cup of boiling water. Cover and leave for 10 minutes, then strain and add vinegar. This can be used for gargling four times a day and can be drunk as a tea without adding vinegar.

- Add 2 sprigs of coarsely chopped parsley, 3 whole spice cloves, 1 teaspoon of powdered myrrh, and 1/4 teaspoon powdered goldenseal to 1 pint of boiling water to prepare the tea. Stir use as a gargle or mouthwash.

- Put four teaspoons of salt in a liter of water. Warm the water, but not too much. It should be just alright for gargling. Gargle with this water for twenty minutes. If you gargle in the night before going to bed, then if it is a simple sore throat, it will be gone by morning.

- Heat one glass of water, add a tablespoon of salt and gargle. Be careful not to swallow the water as it may make you feel like throwing up.

- A gargle prepared from fenugreek seeds is also beneficial in the sore throat treatment.

DIETARY GUIDELINES

- Ghee can be had in little amounts.

- Flavoring the food with spices such as ginger, black pepper, salt and garlic is beneficial.

DON’T’s

- Avoid milk and milk products if you have excess mucous secretion for one month.

- Do not expose yourself to cold water and cold climate for a few days.

- Curds and other sour foods must be avoided.

- Fried foods are extremely aggravating for this condition.

- Oil must be avoided in all forms. Even a trace of oil in the food can compound the problems

- It is very dangerous to consume anything that is cold or refrigerated when there is a throat infection. This will make the sore throat so severe that even swallowing food and breathing might become difficult. Even foods with a cold propensity such as cucumbers, bananas, watermelons, papayas, etc. must be avoided.

- It is not advisable to have a head bath until the sore throat condition lasts.