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Although staying in home is quite boring, it is very important to stay warm and rested to help your body fighting the flu.
For a lot of people who have a busy carrier life, staying in home for a couple of days because of cold usually is a punishment. To improve your home staying/cold experience there are some fun healthy remedies you could enjoy with a book or with a favorite show:
Hot Ginger cinnamon tea:
1 teaspoon of ginger
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of honey (or as you like)
1 glass of hot milk
Ginger: Have antiviral properties, little sedative properties encouraging the rest needed and anti inflammatory properties which decrease the mucosal congestion of the throat. Ginger also has pain relieving, antiseptic and anti-oxidant properties.
Cinnamon: cinnamon has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.
Honey: honey contains multivitamins and antioxidants, along with antibacterial and antiseptic properties. It’s very helpful in flu especially to people suffering from asthma. There is a say my doctor always says it to me “you will never catch a cold if you take 1 big tablespoon of honey with half lemon juice every morning”
Hot chicken soup:
1 chicken
¾ liter of water
1 teaspoon of minced garlic
½ ounce of chopped bell pepper and chili pepper
1 moderate sized onion.
½ ounce of leeks
Chicken: contains proteins which are important in building immunoglobulins.
Bell pepper: contains vitamin C which boosts your immune system.
Chili pepper: help with the sinusitis and reduce mucosal congestion.
Garlic: contains antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal agents. Garlic also known as a very good immune stimulant.
Onion: is similar to garlic, also have antibacterial and anti septic properties.
Leeks: contains a lot of vitamins especially vitamin C, B6 and folic acid.
Garlic, Onion and leek can improve your immune system.
Hot chicken soup has proved to be very helpful with throat mucosal congestion, reduces the cough and improving breathing because It is proved to thin the mucus.
Fenugreek tea:
1 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds boiled in ½ cup of water
5 teaspoons of sugarcane juice or sugarcane based molasses
½ glass of warm milk
1 gm of vanilla powder (for taste and smell enhancement)
Fenugreek: is very rich herpes which contains antioxidants anti bacterial and anti inflammatory agents. Fenugreek also has expectorant properties and improves the sore throat.
Sugarcane: it’s very popular juice here in Egypt. It has a lot of health benefits among them it improves the flu symptoms.
Warm milk: has a soothing and little sedative effect which prompts the body rest.
Fruit salad:
Throw Couple of oranges, bananas, grape fruit, guava, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries and you will have a very rich plate, loaded with vitamins, antioxidants and other healthy elements and vitamins. You could also use honey as syrup and increase the overall health benefits.
Hot lemon and honey drink:
Don’t forget your mother traditional cure for influenza; it is ancient and still effective.
Yarrow tea:
Improve influenza symptoms due to its analgesic and anti inflammatory effects, also it is proven to be helpful with allergic diseases like asthma.
Bon Appetit !