My Natural Cold Remedy

It is that time of year when cold and flu season makes its ugly appearance. And I am not sure about you but I would rather try of course the natural solution vs. the over-the-counter solution any day of the week.

Here is my go to recipe:

• 4 lemons
• 2 oranges
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 2 large chunks ginger root
• 4 dashes of Cayenne pepper
• 3/4 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 cup filters water (or so see what you need)
• 2 Tablespoon of Raw honey
• 1 Tablespoon of Turmeric ( I do use the spice kind because I have trouble finding actual Turmeric in store - but the real thing is always better! I would use about half of what I used for the ginger)

Instructions:

Peel the lemons and oranges and cut into big chunks. Peel the garlic and ginger root (bet you can on this one).  Then toss everything in a blender and blend.  It becomes chunky but liquid.  Pour into a container and store in the fridge for a few hours so all the flavors can blend.  Then take it out and strain through a cheesecloth, squeezing out all the liquid.  And if you are like me you don't have a cheesecloth - so I just use a thing old dish towels.  And since it is now stained yellow, I just use it for this. Then dispose of the solid stuff!  If anyone has a great solution on what to do with this I am all ears.  

Once you have the liquid you can store it in the fridge for up to a week.  Or you can put it into an ice cube tray and freeze it.  Then you have frozen cubes to store in a tight container in the freezer and pull them out whenever you need some extra goodness.  You can melt into warm water or just thaw and drink.  We usually take 1 cube a day if you are feeling like you need something or if you are around others that are sick.  If we are sick we take it up to 3 times a day.

Will you try it? or do you have something you use? If you do shoot me an email with natural cold remedy as the subject line - email info@someessentials.com.

Have a blessed day! 

If you want more info on other things you can do to help prevent and fight colds here is a great post - read it here. 

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