Home remedies · Colds, nose & fever
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Slowly spoon a bowl of hot, salted broth, as often as it feels good.
Warm, liquid, salty and easy to digest — that covers fluid, salt and a little energy at once when appetite is missing. The steam moistens the nose along the way.
Its reputation as anti-inflammatory rests on laboratory experiments, not on people.
With high blood pressure or heart failure, keep an eye on the salt.
Have it assessed: fever beyond three days without improvement or rising again, breathlessness, pain on breathing, confusion. In infants under three months any fever is a reason. Also a nosebleed that has not stopped after twenty minutes of correct pressure.