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.
With fever and aching limbs, clear the day; only take up exertion again a day after the fever has gone.
The immune system works with energy that otherwise goes into movement. Rest is not weakness but allocation.
Rest does not measurably shorten the infection, but it stops you harming yourself further.
Sport with a fever is the one rule without exception — the heart muscle can be damaged. Not even “just gently”.
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.