Cold – an unpleasant, though not dangerous disease and it is possible to treat it not only traditional drugs, but also folk remedies: the herbal teas and tinctures containing vitamins and useful substances.
Herbal teas are known for the health giving qualities from antiquity. Modern city dwellers can buy any herbal tea in phyto or usual pharmacies.
For prevention of cold it is the best of all to drink polyvitaminic teas from collecting leaves and berries of blackcurrant, raspberry, a sea-buckthorn. Tea from fruits and leaves of a dogrose is very rich with vitamin C. It is possible to combine these ingredients or to make them separately. It isn't recommended to add sugar to ready infusion, it is better to replace it with honey.
Antimicrobial teas are recommended to be drunk when the organism is already chilled or infected with a disease. Against viruses such teas don't help, but their use does immunity to steadier and well influences a condition of lungs and a respiratory system. Such it is possible to carry broths of a root of an acorus, a thyme, an eucalyptus to teas. Teas on the basis of mint, oreganos and camomiles reduce temperature and are sudorific.
Infusions of leaves of coltsfoot, calendula (it is possible to use both leaves, and flowers), oreganos help to struggle with cough. The broth of pine kidneys containing phytoncides struggles with short wind, cough, has expectorant and anti-inflammatory effect.
It is necessary to make all herbal teas not boiled water which kills useful properties of tea, but hot water from 70 to 80 degrees and to drink in a warm look. Tea leaves shouldn't stand longer than 12 hours as essential oils during this time disappear and useful qualities of drink become extremely disputable.