10 Best Drinks to Get You Back on Your Feet When You Have a Cold

1. Warm tea with honey and lemon.
If you have a cold, first of all, prepare weak black or green tea, to which add 1 teaspoon of honey and a couple of lemon slices. It is very important not to add honey and lemon to boiling water to preserve their useful substances.

2. Raspberry tea with linden flowers.
Brew tea from dried linden flowers, add dried raspberry berries and leaves. Leave to infuse for 30 minutes. If you don't have raspberries, raspberry jam will do.

3. Rosehip tea.
It is no secret that rose hips are an ideal source of vitamin C. Crush dry rose hips (3 tbsp.), pour 0.5 l of boiling water and leave in a thermos overnight. Strain in the morning and drink 1/2 cup 4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

4. Cranberry or lingonberry juice.
Cranberries and lingonberries are simply unique in their bactericidal properties. To prepare fruit drink, grind cranberries or lingonberries with granulated sugar (3:1). Pour 2 tbsp of the mixture with 0.5 liters of warm water.

5. Hot milk with mineral water.
If you have a cough, prepare hot milk with alkaline water (Borjomi). This drink will help to remove phlegm.

6. Milk with garlic.
This emergency remedy will help you get back on your feet overnight. Add 10 drops of garlic juice to warm milk and drink it at night.

7. Dried fruit compote.
A proven and well-known remedy since childhood. A decoction of dried fruits has a general strengthening and softening effect for colds. Sort out 100 g of dried fruits, cut up large fruits. Wash all dried fruits thoroughly in warm water. First, boil apples and pears until soft for 30 minutes, adding sugar (3 tablespoons per 1 liter of water), then dried apricots and prunes, and at the end, 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add raisins and dried apricots. You can add lemon or orange juice and honey to the finished compote.

8. Ginger tea with lemon.
It will help on cold autumn days, strengthen your immunity and increase your efficiency. Mix 1 glass of hot water with 1 tbsp. honey, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 0.5 tsp. crushed ginger root and a pinch of cinnamon. You can add some dry crushed mint leaves to the tea.

9. Mulled wine.
An excellent remedy for colds and simply a tasty, healthy, warming drink! Mix spices, add 100 ml of water, bring to a boil, remove from heat, leave for 10 minutes. Strain. Cut the orange into slices. Mix wine, decoction, sugar and orange slices. Bring everything to a boil, but do not boil! You can also add honey, apples, raisins to mulled wine. Serve hot. It is better to drink at night, so that you can drink it straight to bed, and put a warm heating pad at your feet.

10. Chamomile tea.
Chamomile is a mild anti-inflammatory. Combined with linden and honey, it is a good remedy against colds. Tea preparation: take 1 teaspoon of chamomile flowers and linden flowers, brew with 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, strain. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals. You can add honey.