What is a go-to recipe that you cook when you feel a cold coming on?

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   MyWifesFoodposted 12 years ago

   What is a go-to recipe that you cook when you feel a cold coming on?
   
   My family eats a favorite chicken and rice soup at least once a month during the winter months when we are most likely to catch a cold.

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   vespawoolfposted 12 years ago

   Chicken soup is also the first dish I whip up when we feel a cold coming on. I add lots of onion, garlic and ginger and it's very soothing on a dry throat.

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   HendrikDBposted 12 years ago

   I recommend this easy recipe for chicken soup. It works for me!
   Research has found that chicken soup is a worthy remedy for a cold or flu as it speeds up the expulsion of germ-laden mucous from the nasal passages  – take a whole chicken and boil for about 5 minutes; add 3 chopped potatoes, 3 carrots, two onions and 3 garlic cloves; add salt, garlic salt, chicken seasoning to taste as well as a cup of barley; simmer for at least 3 hours; strip the meat from the bones and return meat to the liquid and drink as much of the soup as possible.

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   skgraoposted 12 years ago

   There are herbal remidies for cold why kill a animal?
   Termeric,Cloves with pepper boiled and cooled if taken will clear the cold.
   Ginger Powder with Honey if taken will clear the Cold.
   Doddapatre Leaf is another Leaf  which cures :- The leaves have also had many traditional medicinal uses, especially for the treatment of coughs, sore throats and nasal congestion, but also for a range of other problems such as infections, rheumatism and flatulence. The plant is cultivated in home-gardens throughout India for use in traditional medicine, being used to treat malarial fever, hepatopathy, renal and vesical calculi, cough, chronic asthma, hiccough, bronchitis, helminthiasis, colic, convulsions, and epilepsy,Shenoy and others[9] refer to further Indian traditional medicinal uses such as for skin ulcerations, scorpion bite, skin allergy, wounds, diarrhoea, with emphasis on the leaves being used as a hepatoprotective, to promote liver health.- Copy from - WIKIPEDIA.

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   adrienne2posted 12 years ago

   I do not know if you could call it a recipe, but I drink a cup of Hall's tea. It is simply tea made with a Hall's cough drop.  It works for me!

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   NMLadyposted 12 years ago

   Dr. Andrew Weil's chicken broth  (REAL chicken broth home made) and one WHOLE head of garlic peeled and chopped.  2 quarts chicken broth garlic, bring to boil, reduce and simmer for 20 minutes.  Sieve out garlic.  Drink a cup once an hour at the first sign of cold.  Helps.  Might even stop it!  We use it regularly as a meal starter during flu and cold season.

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   moonfairyposted 12 years ago

   always chicken soup!!!! I try to make homemade chicken soup at least once a month during the cold months...it's so good!

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