Common cold

Historical remedies

The following claims come from the historical source; they are not verified treatment recommendations.

• Taking tulsi leaf juice with honey cures fever due to common cold. [19]
• Adding a little salt and jaggery to the milk heated with turmeric cures the child's common cold, phlegm and cough. [31]
• If the child's chest is full of phlegm, taking the juice of tulsi leaves in honey two or three times with a pawpaw and heating the tulsi juice on the chest, nose and forehead relieves common cold and phlegm. [31]
• By rubbing nutmeg and dried ginger in the cow's stomach and rubbing it, the child gets rid of diarrhea caused by common cold. [33]
• Common cold is cured by hot sand or sand shake. [33]
• Drinking a decoction of dried ginger, black pepper and tulsi leaves cures common cold. [33]
• Chewing two to four betel leaves cures common cold. [33]
• Common cold is cured by taking lemon juice in warm water while sleeping at night. [33]
• Drinking one spoonful of ginger juice and honey in the morning and evening cures common cold. [33]
• Common cold is cured by consuming mustard seed mixed with honey. [33]
• Common cold is cured by drinking a decoction of mint and ginger. [33]
• Common cold is cured by inhaling Ajman's pods. [33]
• Common cold is cured by adding pepper flakes and sugar to hot milk. [33]
• Common cold is cured by drinking a decoction of pepper, cinnamon and ginger. [33]
• Eating ginger pickle and rock salt in lemon juice cures common cold. [33]
• Boiling dried ginger in water and drinking that water cures common cold. [33]
• Black pepper and roasted turmeric powder taken with warm milk cures common cold. [33]
• Inhaling the smoke of turmeric cures common cold instantly. [33]
• Eating an onion while sleeping at night (not drinking water on top) cures common cold. [34]
• Drops of onion juice in the nose cures common cold. [34]
• Common cold is cured by drinking fresh mint juice. [34]
• Common cold, cold is cured by sniffing clove oil in a handkerchief. [34]
• After adding jaggery and a little bit of dried ginger powder, make three-four small 7 tablets and eat it in the morning to cure monsoon common cold and gas. [34]
• Boiling dried ginger, sesame and khadi sugar and drinking it cures common cold. [34]
• The common cold is cured by sniffing fine powdered sugar like a sneeze. [34]
• Common cold is cured by taking lemon leaf juice and ginger juice with honey. [34]
• "Drinking tea with tulsi leaves cures common cold, colds and body aches. [34]
• A decoction of tulsi, dried ginger, black pepper and jaggery and drunk thrice a day cures any common cold. [34]
• Taking half of turmeric powder in sugar and taking one spoonful of it in honey three times a day cures tuberculosis (historical source heading) fever, cough and common cold of tuberculosis (historical source heading). [41]
• Eating a handful of freshly roasted chickpeas with turmeric and salt in the morning and at night before going to bed (without drinking water above) cures chronic common cold and cough. [50]
• Roasted ajwain with salt and turmeric as a mouthwash after meals cures cough and common cold. [50]
• Eating roasted chickpeas with salt cures common cold. [60]