This is the most common disease of the respiratory organs. Cold is such a common disease that you don’t consider yourself to be sick, when you are suffering from cold, unless the problem is the acute one. Irritating, if is acute and it affects you for many days at a stretch. Change in the temperature is the main cause of cold. For example, after being in the blazing sun, if you enter your house and drink a glass of chilled water, you often see that you catch cold immediately. But the scientists do believe that there exists a virus responsible for your cold. But no success so far for the scientists to separate the virus has been seen till date! Cold is hopefully cured whether you take the medicine or not, barring exceptions. Persisting cold may invite serious types of diseases like bronchitis, tonsillitis and pneumonia, to mention a few. Catarrh of the respiratory organs, if not cured well in time, may turn into catarrh of the alimentary canal.

The condition of cold allows you to work, but makes your life miserable. The real cause of the cold is, less resistance power of your body mechanism. When the poisonous elements are not expelled from the body, they create favorable conditions for many diseases to attack you, and cold finds your body the easiest one to enter. The remedy for the cold is the removal of the accumulated waste matter from the intestines and allow them to do the activities related to digestion, in a proper manner.

You can tackle cold but you have no remedy by way of tablets or tonics for this condition. When you have cold, drink warm water, every two hours. Sometimes, the best remedies are the simple ones.

To keep the bowels clean assumes priority in the matter of treatment of cold. The pores of the skin should do their functions properly. One of the methods to tackle cold is to soak your feet in warm water for 15-20 minutes before you go to bed. Wear a blanket, when you do this process. Your skin pores will open as you perspire.

During the entire period of your suffering from acute cold, take the decoction done as per the following procedure:

250 gms. turnip

75 grams coriander

25 gms. ginger

250 gms. tomato

Cut them into small pieces and boil them in a vessel covered with a lid. When this vegetable mixture is sufficiently boiled, put salt and the juice of a lime. Sieve it and take a glassful, after every two or three hours. Take this for some days, until you feel that your bowels are clean and you feel comfortable internally.

Cold can not permanently cured, its attack can be perfectly tackled.