Home Remedies For Influenza

Influenza is known as flu. It causes sudden fever and pain in the muscle of the body. Usually it occurs in winter or spring season. The cause of its spread is infection. There is often some or other change in its symptoms. It starts with a sudden feeling of cold and shivering and then fever develops which goes up to 102-102C.

• Onion is also an effective remedy for influenza. Equal amounts of onion juice and honey should be mixed, and three or four teaspoons of this mixture should be taken daily in the treatment of this disease.
• The juice of grapefruit has proved useful in this disease as it tones up the body and the digestive tract.
• Orange: it is believed in the some parts of the world that during the spread and epidemic of influenza eating oranges protects you from the disease. Even if you are suffering from flue, oranges are beneficial.
• Ginger: boil together 3 gms of ginger or dried ginger powder, 7 basil leaves, 7 corns of black pepper, a bit of cinnamon in ¼ liter of water. Add sugar and take it hot. It cures influenza, coryza, cough and headache. It also provides preventive treatment during the spread of influenza.
• Cinnamon: boil 5 gms of cinnamon, two cloves and ¼ tsp of dried ginger powder in 1 liter of water. When I is reduced to one-fourth strain it and make three doses. Take them thrice during the day.
• Long pepper: boil two long pepper or ¼ tsp of dried ginger powder in milk and drink.
• Honey: mix 2 tsp of honey and ½ tsp of baking powder in 250 ml of hot milk. Take it twice in the morning and evening. It will cause a lot of sweating. Do not expose yourself to wind while you are sweating. It will cure catarrh and influenza. Honey kills the germs of cough and reduces the severity of fever and headache.
• Basil: boil 12 gms of basil leaves in ¼ liter of water. When it is reduced to one-fourth, strain it, and add rock salt and drink it hot.