Anyone know a good cold remedy?

[Joat-Mon]

Got a stinker at the moment, been taking echinacea but doesn't seem to have any effect.

I'm supposed to be taking a young lady out tomorrow night & i feel like crap:mad:

[SawaPawa]

garlic supplements seem to work for me (and no they don't make u stink), vit c, dunno what else tbh.

[DetoxGuru.com]

i take huge amounts of vitamin c at the first sign of a cold , 4-6grams a time, but once its well in your system its gonna stay there for a day or two.

[DanCrase]

I never seem to get colds or viruses or any of that crap; only really get ill when I have the flu (REAL flu, not "man" flu) or injury myself (which happens semi-frequently)

[Joat-Mon]

Cheers guys, Garlic & Vit c in the morning then.

[Smiler]

Hi,

No science behind the vit C...lots of new published reports on it this year...

One of the things with colds is that they clear up after a few days on their own...so you get a cold...it gets worse over a couple of days...so you dump loads of vit c/x/y/z...and it clears up in a couple of days, so must be the vit c/x/y/z? Nope, it was going anyway...

Best thing to do is just eat healthily and keep your immune system in good shape...rather than put chemicals in...

Just some thoughts...

Smiler

[Reeferjon]

Sleep, water and eat clean, those are about the only things that will effect a cold, sorry.:D

[SDR]

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/03/18/4-anti-cold-cocktails-that-work-from-ancient-china-to-german-alcoholics-and-modern-labs/

[Malcontent]

What about training when you have a cold?

Is it really so bad?

[KidKimura]

What about training when you have a cold?

Is it really so bad?

All the people you give it to would prob think so!

[Jamie Taylor]

i completely disagree about vit c having no effect. I suffer with colds CONSTANTLY and get a lot of chest infections afterwards usually. Sometimes if i had a really hard training session i would wake up with a snotty nose and a full on cold the day later. About 2 month ago i decided to start taking 10g vit c a day and i havent had one cold. Co-incidence ? Maybe but i seriously feel its helped and will continue to take them.

[DetoxGuru.com]

yeah vit c is def good if you have a cold dontg beleive the latest "science reports" they are at best , a crock of shite , in ten years time the scientists will be telling you this causes cancer and that causes cancer, whatever suits them at the time , vitamin c is tried and tested over many years.

Also vitamin C is needed in the body for many many things, and to say that the W.H.O recommended intake of 60mg a day is satisfactory is laughable ( waltzes to cupboard and takes ridiculous amounts of supplements )

[pugboy]

All I generally do when I have a cold is put a few layers on and sweat it out in bed.
making sure you drink loads of fluids.

Oh First post by the way so please be nice to me :)

[Sports-Select.co.uk]

Really hot curry.

[Wiegieboard]

I agree with Detoxgurus method on this.
He once posted that when he feels it coming on, he'd take a gram every waking hour.
Usually when I feel a cold coming on I know it's gonna be a good few days of feeling shite, but I've taken a gram every waking hour for two days the last 3 times i've felt it coming on and by the end of the next day my symptoms have been gone. This is a BIG bonus to me because I have bad asthma and colds can fuck me up royally.

I'd DEFINATELY go with the high vitamin c intake method. It works for me definetely!

[IceKid]

eat 500,000 oranges...


























by the time you've finished eating them the cold should be gone anyway xD