Have a Cold? Eat Garlic, Ginger and Lemon

Let me start with the symptoms I don’t have. I don’t have a fever, a stuffy head, a sore chest or a cough. I do have machine-gun style sneezing, a runny nose and a sore throat. 

Meghan suggests garlic and I’m heeding her advice (hint: look on the right-hand side of the blog and click the ‘Garlic Cure All’ tab for her video).

I’ve been cooking with garlic, putting it raw into some salad dressing with lemon and olive oil, drinking ginger and lemon tea and swallowing garlic oil capsules like they’re candy.

Pre-rehab, I would reach for an over-the-counter cold remedy, drink lots of black tea (with a bit of 1% milk) and embrace a life characterized by pyjamas and day-time TV. Oh, and probably some soup-either from a can, or made from homemade chicken or turkey stock.  

Things are different now and I’m looking for healing foods. Knowing that any meat or dairy based soup is out, do you have any culinary suggestions for combatting the common cold?

If so, please pass them on.  Sniff.