Cold is a common disease that can affect people of any age and at any time of the year. Mostly people get affected with cold when there is a change in climate.

Easy Home Remedies for Cold

Medicinal herbs for cold

You can follow either of the below tips to get rid of cold.

• Chew five-ten Tulsi leaves with pepper. Do not take too much thulasi leaves.
• Chew a leaf of karpooravalli. Do not take more karpooravalli leaves as it will increase the body heat.
• Beetel leaves along with pepper can be chewed. When this is done, you can feel the heat coming out of your ears.

Kashayam for cold and cough

There are many types of kashayam which can be prepared with different variations of the herbs and spices.

• Inji Kashayam
• Milagu Kashayam
• Thulasi kashayam
• Sukku Malli kashayam
• Sukku kashayam
• Vetrilai kashayam
• Thoothuvalai kashayam
• Milagu Thulasi kashayam

Rasam as remedy for cold and cough

As there are kashayam which helps during cold, rasam also helps in relieving from cold. Some varieties of rasam which helps in the cure are listed below. Of the all, kollu rasam tops the list in giving better relief from cold. Whilepreparing rasam, milagu, jeeragam is necessary. So the herbs works along with Pepper and cumin(Milagu, jeeragam) in curing cold.

• Kollu Rasam
• Milagu Rasam
• Thakkali Rasam
• Poondu Raasam
• Kanda thippili rasam
• Thoothuvalai rasam

Other remedies to get rid of cold

• Drink two or three cups of medicinal coffee prepared from palm jaggery, Tulsi leaves, pepper, and tippili (piper longum).
• Take cardamom, dried ginger, pepper and cinnamon.
• Take the juice of ginger added with honey three to five times a day.
• Chew a piece of fresh ginger with salt. Good for dry cough and vomiting.