I think I have swollen glands.

[LaraMN]

Quick! What's the best way to head off a cold? It's not skipping breakfast and lunch and eating dairy queen cake for dinner, is it?:-(

[tjdee]

1. Echinacea, quick!

I drink echinacea tea, sometimes echinacea with vit. c and zinc.

Seems to work, or maybe I just tell myself it works. :silly:

[LaraMN]

2. I'll take a heart dose of placebo effect

if it means I don't have to feel like crap.

[LaraMN]

13. I don't have any!

I have an echinacea PLANT in my yard. Can I eat that? Or smoke it?:D

[tjdee]

14. I wonder if you can put the leaves in a cup and make a tea...

I wonder that every time I pass my post office, LOL....lots grow there.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Go to bed and get lots of sleep. The affects won't be as bad in the

morning. Feel better. :hi: :(

[Wapsie B]

4. Vitamin C, aspirin

and plenty of sleep.

[LaraMN]

11. I've done both of those.

So I've got that covered.:)

[nytemare]

5. Zicam!!!!

This stuff works for me all the time. I may get one cold every year and 3 months. It is zinc in a gel form, and you squirt it in the front pockets of your nose. Kinda gross but it wipes it out usually pretty quick. It costs like 7 bucks at a drug store.

[Dave Reynolds]

6. Beer, popcorn,

followed by ice cream.

Works like a charm.

[Redstone]

7. Here's Doctor Redstone's prescription:

Take one water glass. Fill it halfway up with anything over 80 proof: vodka, tequila, Maker's Mark, whatever.

Fill to the top with orange juice and stir gently. Drink.

(The orange juice gives you good jolt of vitamin C and folate and all that good stuff, and the booze knocks you out for seven or eight hours, and as we all know, sleep is the best medicine.)

Redstone

[KyndCulture]

9. I don't have a cold but I'm trying your recipe! lol

[Redstone]

18. It wards off all kind of bad stuff, like scurvy, beriberi, and rickets.

Trust me, take the prescription once a day and you'll never get one of the diseases mentioned above.

Or pellagra or schistosomiasis, either.

Redstone

[LaraMN]

10. Yeah, but I do that like every other night.

Screwdrivers and fuzzy navels. mmmm. So, theoretically, I shouldn't even be getting sick IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! :mad:

[spacelady]

8. Double shot of medicinal whiskey, then go to bed.

My 78-yr-old Mom Swears by this, along with Coriciden for early cold symptoms. She is not ordinarily a medicine-taker, either.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Possibly "My Defense". Use your google key.

[Dave Reynolds]

15. I just thought something,

the title of this thread could be copycatted in such a way as to be instantly locked.

:7

[LaraMN]

16. I'm sure it could.

Endless possibilities.

[BikeWriter]

17. Uh, quick! Drink a bottle of booze! You'll still be sick, but...

you won't care!