I'm trying to cure my cold

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I just ate some fresh basil and felt a bit better I think. Later today I might buy some fresh cilantro/coriander and parsley too and see if eating them has any effect.

The cough is really bothering me and I've never had success with cough medicine from a pharmacy.

Grated ginger, honey and lemon. And I always gargle with raw apple cider vinegar too to kill of any bacteria in the throat.

Brilliant tips, thank you!

I had a lemon so I squeezed out the juice and mixed it with some dried ginger slide I had in and drank it. I gargled some cider vinegar too. I'm going to get fresh ginger later. Maybe some raw honey as well.

My personal best: booze.
You need to prepare. Evening, nothing to do till the morning. Wear socks and warm pajamas. Gather warm blankets. Then make lots and lots of tea with lemon and honey and vodka, and ginger if you like. Drink hot and don't undress despite sweating. Bury yourself deep in the blankets and drink more until you fall asleep.
Sleep till the morning.

I've gone through a whole box of tissues and almost a whole kitchen roll. My nose is runnier than most people's anyway. Urgh, what a nightmare.

Elderberry syrup and fresh ginger tea.

I take a vitamin C supplement 3x a day & hardly ever get sick. My girlfriend gets sick a lot cuz of a stress illness & she started getting sick less after starting & then increasing the C. We take half a gram of extended release with each meal.

Sorry, that's probably cultural bias that I assume that an adult is prefectly familiar and expirienced with the state of intoxication

Anyway, are you better now?

My nose is running less but my cough is still there, it has become more not a chest cough now, and I still feel weak.

Doesn't sound good :/
Can you go to a GP to check out for bronchitis? I had it last autumn and got some complications because I refused to rest.

It takes 2 weeks to get an appointment with a GP. Unless i go for an emergency morning appointment but I only like 1-2 of my GPs and there are 7 in nthe place I go and you get randomly assigned in an emergency. I could go to the hospital emergency room but I can't bear the way staff are so unfriendly there (possibly due to stress but it's unbearable for me anyway). I'll be okay. Just got to weather it out.

I don't drink alcohol, but I would not recommend using it to "cure" a cold anyway because, among many other things, it can dehydrate you, contrary to all those beer commercials that make it look like it's the most thirst-quenching beverage in the entire world.

There is no real cure for a cold, but there are ways to make the symptoms temporarily more tolerable. But I find all these expensive alternative remedies and immunity boosters are a waste of money. If you do feel better it's usually the placebo effect or because your body is healing itself naturally. When I was a kid and you got a cold, you took some Tylonel, you ate soup, you rested until you were better. We didn't spend 50$ on a tiny bottle containing three pills and a pound of cotton stuffed into it.