| You are more likely to get a common cold when you | | | | 3 times a day. |
| are dehydrated, do not have sufficient sleep or have | | | | 2. Goldenseal Herbal Health Supplements. Goldenseal is |
| inadvertently caught a chill. Your immune system gets | | | | believed to strengthen the immune system, and can be |
| down and you experience symptoms that will keep | | | | used together with Echinacea whenever you first |
| you in bed. These include body aches, fevers, | | | | suspect that you may be coming down with a cold. |
| headaches coughing, a runny nose, and a general | | | | Herbalists recommend taking 175 to 350 milligrams of |
| feeling of not well. To fight the common cold virus, you | | | | goldenseal 3 or 4 times a day for 10 days after the |
| can pop some over the counter cold medications and | | | | first sign of a cold. Besides boosting the immune |
| wait for your system to recover. However, if you | | | | system, this is one of the herbal remedies that can |
| want to be out of bed twice as fast, then you may | | | | also help to combat localized viruses. |
| wish to consider consuming herbal health supplements. | | | | 3. Garlic Herbal Health Supplements. Traditional |
| Herbalists say that there are many herbal health | | | | herbalists believe that garlic is one of the most potent |
| remedies that can help increase your immune system; | | | | cold-fighters. They recommend that you eat a clove |
| thereby speeding up your recovery. They can be | | | | of fresh garlic at the first indications of a cold and to |
| taken in the form of supplements in the required | | | | boost up your garlic intake when a cold is already |
| dosages to help you fight your cold. Here are some | | | | underway. If you cannot stand the pungent smell from |
| examples: | | | | garlic, then there are garlic capsules that are easily |
| 1. Echinacea Herbal Health Supplements. Echinacea | | | | available in your local health store. These should |
| have been used over the centuries. They are used to | | | | contain between 300 to 500 milligrams of garlic and be |
| cure the common cold and also other upper | | | | taken daily for the first week of your cold. Consuming |
| respiratory problems. Echinacea works by boosting the | | | | garlic can help keep the worst symptoms of the |
| production of immune cells that help fight disease. For | | | | common cold at bay. |
| common colds, it is recommended that echinacea be | | | | While the above are recommended dosages in |
| taken in the form of a tincture or as a capsule or | | | | general, you would need to check with your own |
| tablet. This is not an herb that you should take | | | | herbalist or your doctor before you consume the said |
| constantly though. Instead, take it at the first signs of | | | | supplements. This is because you need to know if the |
| illness. Continue this for 1 or 2 weeks afterwards | | | | herbs in these supplements will interact negatively with |
| before you stop taking it for a while. Not following this | | | | whatever medications that you are currently on. If they |
| set of guidelines can be counteractive as this may | | | | do, there are always other safe herbal health |
| cause your immune system to become depressed | | | | supplements to turn to with which can help you |
| instead. When you do take this you should take | | | | recover twice as fast! |
| approximately 175 to 225 milligrams of Echinacea 2 or | | | | |