Flu Home Remedies

[LionKing]

Dear all,
I want to ask what are home remedies followed in your culture to get rid of flue.

Thanks

[gwiz]

Alcohol.  Doesn't cure the flu, but makes you feel less bad about having it.

Personally, I get the vaccine each autumn.

[LionKing]

Alcohol.  Doesn't cure the flu, but makes you feel less bad about having it.

Personally, I get the vaccine each autumn.

thnx for sharing. i try a method that is predictable as gravity. it is sweating..wrap yourself and dress heavily..u might want to put your feet in a bucket of hot water..and sweat..sweat..sweat..iAlways felt a lot better afterwards..also drink tea with lemon or boil lemon after cutting it to four pieces with its peel..and boil with crystallized sugar..and drink..

[Tedward]

Personally I would sweat it out but with plenty of fluids taken in.

But now I have the flu jab and it is getting on ten years with one case where as before I was prone to the issue.

[Luckmeister]

i try a method that is predictable as gravity. it is sweating..wrap yourself and dress heavily..u might want to put your feet in a bucket of hot water..and sweat..sweat..sweat..iAlways felt a lot better afterwards..

Hmmm, maybe it's like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer -- it feels so good when you stop.

[Bryanpoprobson]

Personally I use a steam inhaler with a strong decongestant in the hot water (Karvol). At first symptoms, two such treatments and I'm normally ok.

[gillianren]

Vaccine here as well.  When I have a cold, I take NyQuil or similar and suffer.

[LionKing]

Steam inhaling was suggested to me as well..
Gillian what do you mean you take the medicine and suffer? does it cause u side effects?


Luckmeister
no its not like that..the phlegm reduces a lot

my mom insistes that I take panadol flu .. I take it but I don't feel good until I sweat

the idea is that I hate medicines..I prefer to try traditional methods and not enter medications to my body.

Is it common that you use lemon?

[Luckmeister]

Luckmeister
no its not like that..the phlegm reduces a lot

I know. I was kidding.

[Echnaton]

Flu vaccine.

If I do get the flu, it is milder and less difficult.  Then I treat the symptoms, usually with individual medicines, rather than things like Nyquil.  They mostly have pseudoephedrine in them which gives me bad dreams, even when awake.  When you have the flu, acetaminophen is your best friend.

[gillianren]

It doesn't cause me side effects, but it doesn't always take all the symptoms away, either.  However, I don't often get sick.

[LionKing]

so i might conclude that there is always medical interference rather than trying first "natural" products and methods.

[gillianren]

I'd prefer something that works a little rather than something that doesn't work at all. 

[Zakalwe]

so i might conclude that there is always medical interference rather than trying first "natural" products and methods.

What, like aspirin? 

[LionKing]

so i might conclude that there is always medical interference rather than trying first "natural" products and methods.

What, like aspirin?

I was comparing how different people react to flu. from the replies, there is use of medication rather than trying home remedies of natural products