| Causes and Symptoms: | | | | patient must fast till the cold is gone-it will not take |
| Call it corya or catarrh of the nose; a common cold is | | | | more than two days-and take a warm water enema |
| a very irritating condition. It may be caused by a | | | | followed by a cup of warm water after every two |
| variety of factors, the most common being a sudden | | | | hours. |
| chilling because of a change of temperature, coming | | | | If he is unable to take the enema, let him try the |
| out of the cozy bed into a blast of cold air or walking | | | | following method: |
| form an air-cooled room into a blazing sun. According | | | | Take half a kilogramme of spinach, 250 grammes of |
| to allopathy, these are only pre disposing factors, the | | | | turnips (along with their leaves), 250 grammes of |
| real culprit being a virus, which incidentally has not yet | | | | tomatoes, 75 grammes of coriander leaves and boil |
| been separated or counteracted. Traditional remedies | | | | them in about one litre of water. If some of these |
| fail to cure the cold as a apparent form the old | | | | vegetables are not available, radishes or other greens |
| adage that if you take medicines, the cold is cured in | | | | may be used. Cover the lid of the vessel with a flat |
| a week, otherwise seven days." But in the case of | | | | dish full of water so that the water does not |
| weak constitutions a cold may lead to more serious | | | | evaporate and there is sufficient left. When the |
| diseases like tonsillitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia | | | | vegetables are done, strain them through muslin or |
| and tuberculosis. What is worse, a catarrh of the | | | | other fine cloth. Add a little salt, the juice of lime and |
| respiratory organs may degenerate into a catarrh of | | | | roasted and ground cumin seed and take it in |
| the alimentary system. | | | | tumblerfuls after every two to three hours. This will |
| A cold is an extremely irritating condition: You are not | | | | clear the bowels and also open the pores by |
| sick enough to get into bed, yet not well enough to | | | | producing sweat. |
| lead a normal life. A running nose, feverishness, | | | | Chronic Cold: |
| heaviness of the head, pains and aches in the body, | | | | A cold sometimes becomes chronic. Such patients |
| loss of appetite and of smell are the main features | | | | should also follow the regimen suggested above. It |
| of a cold which makes life miserable. | | | | will clear their bowels. Let them also take some |
| Treatment: | | | | exercise so that their pores open. Those who are |
| Like other diseases to which human beings are | | | | too weak should soak their feet in warm water for |
| subject, a cold is the result of inappropriate diet. It is | | | | fifteen to twenty minutes the last thing at night. Let |
| nature's way of expelling poisonous humours from | | | | the patient wear a blanket while he is doing it; it will |
| the body. We must attack the malady at its source | | | | help open his pores and the nose will stop running. |
| and that is the putrifying mater in the intestines. The | | | | |