Home Remedies for Influenza (flu)

Some of the Common Home Remedies are given below:

Get Vaporized - Plugging in a vaporizer and resting in bed for atleast two days can make you feel better. It can also help relieve a painful sore throat and loosen dried mucus.

Drink Lot of Water - Drink lots and lots of water everyday. Especially, when you are suffering from flu then your body gets dehydrated more easily, so drinking more liquid is very much essential - liquids in the form of water, fruit juice, decaffeinated soft drinks can be taken.

Long Pepper - Long Pepper is one of the best known home remedies for the treatment of influenza. Suffering patient may be given half a teaspoon of powder of long pepper, mixed with two teaspoons of honey and half a teaspoon of juice of ginger - This mixture should be taken thrice daily, till you see some improvement.

Gargle with Salt Water. To relieve a sore throat, a main symptoms of influenza - the person may gargle with salt water, prepared by mixing one teaspoon of salt in one glass of luke warm water.

Onion and Honey - Suffering patient may be given mixture of equal amounts of onion juice and honey. One teaspoon of this mixture can be given to the person, three to four times daily.

Vitamins and Minerals - Vitamins and Minerals - especially Vitamin C and Zinc are very good for treating influenza, they also boost your immune system and also increase number of while blood cells in your body, to help you fight with germs more effectively.