In Soviet Russia you don't do a cold approach but cold approaches you. In a nutshell: I'm sick and sick of being sick.

So, any useful tipps how to get rid quickly of a cold? I used to sit it out like most people do but now I am missing too much of exercise time, sarging time and general life time.

Drink a shit ton of lemon water.... Then drink more lemon water... And get some sleep.

Vitamin c supplements. Well, a multivitamin in general to be honest.

Eat some raw garlic cloves. It's nasty but it will cure a cold real quick. Although you might have to take a long hot shower to sweat some of it out because not only will your breath smell for a day but your sweat will too. It'll probably take a day but still the quickest way to get over a cold.

No kidding raw garlic is the best I've found against the cold...

To prevent it and to cure it...

In my case if a normal cold last 7 days... with garlic lasts 3 days...

And now that I take it more or less regularly I only catch colds when the person sitting next to me in my office has one and is there the whole day just spreading the disease.

So yeah 1 claw of garlic before going to sleep.

OK, thank you all, I'll give garlic, vitamins and lemon water a try

Nice tips shared for common cold.

common cold?! i dont even know what is that anymore! i have no clue how to catch it either even if i wanted to...i forget how to be ill...health is my habit...suggestion is an efficient cure for everything from common cold to cancer...set your life to be so fun, funy , interesting,hot, exciting and mysterios and no illnes wiil be able to find you...hell you throw out of that stupid words from your dictionary the less you mention it the healthier you are...

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This only works for very minor ailments, such as having a headache. If you think about having a headache, you may give yourself a headache. Or if you think your back's aching a bit, your back might start to ache a bit, at least in your head.

Cancer - and even relatively minor ailments such as colds - are not mental. They have got nothing to do with mindset. You can be the fittest and happiest person on earth and get struck down by cancer in the prime of your life. You can get a bad cold at any point, if bacteria gets into your system and your immune system isn't able to fight it off (which is why vit c and the things like garlic mentioned above which have various nutrients to help your immune system work well).

you have no clue what are you talking about...you dont know the first thing about medicine particularly immune system... to say that mindset has nothing to do with immune system and health and cant prevent or cure even minor illness...is outrageous and high sky ignorant.......go get some books and study... after you did your homework, get back to discuss...
everything is mental... mind and body are one system...they are mindbody...the best thing would be if you could have some real life experience in medicine...however reading and studying (without prejudice)can help...

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I'm intrigued by your assumption I don't know anything about medicine. Do you care for my CV and then you can decide which of us knows more?

I didn't say mindset has nothing to do with health. I acknowledged that it did, although mostly for minor ailments. You won't give yourself cancer just by thinking that you've got cancer. Nor will you protect yourself from cancer just by thinking that you won't ever get it. I've seen enough healthy people in the prime of their life who didn't think they would get cancer at all, or at least not for another 20 or 30 years, be struck down and die from it to affirm that's the fact of the matter. If you have serious mental problems such as heavy depression then you may cause yourself some problems, but these are usually as a consequence of other actions related to your depression (perhaps alcoholism causing liver cirrhosis as one of the more common examples associated with depression).

The common cold is viral; mentality won't stop it. Vitamin c and garlic and everything else above won't stop it. If it gets into your system, you're going to have a cold. The only thing that can stop you getting a cold is limiting your exposure to the virus; which unless you're in a safe environment or wearing a mask and gloves all day every day, you're unlikely to be able to do completely. Washing hands, covering your mouth when sneezing to stop or reduce the transmission of the virus helps but doesn't guarantee it will not affect you.

The supplements above limit the impact of the virus and help your immune system fight it off quicker. The OP asked how you fight off a cold quicker, the answers above are far more useful than "think you're better".

In the city where I grew up I had a common cold once a year and everybody in my classroom and house got it the same a week before or after it caught me.
Then I moved to Sweden and for 2 and a half years I forgot what a common cold was, the weather and the fact that everybody stays at home on the first sight of sickness prevents any virus for spreading.
Then I moved to Belgium where it rains the whole year, the temperature seems to be ideal for the cold viruses, and people go to work with fever and cough at you all the time. There I catch a cold like 5 times a year...
Thanks to the garlic, a lot of water, running slow in sweat pants while having a cold, sleeping a lot, and vitamin C, it takes me 4 to 5 days to get rid of them and I never get fever, while my other colleagues spend more than a week and have fever most of the times.

Yes there is a link between a healthy mind and a healthy body, placebos do work to certain extend.
But stating that suggestions can cure everything, is something we worth to test and to proof, why don't you inject yourself with Ebola, be exposed a continuously couple of weeks to X-rays, eat some rotten fish and get ran over by a train and after it use only your suggestions to get healed. If you succeed I promise to start taking this suggestion thing really serious.

what does 'mostly' mean here...the word wasnt there in the original post?!... does it mean mindset can cure major diseases...perhaps sometimes?

perhaps if the mind or mindset is strong and healthy enough? (perhaps just like in case with extremely healthy , strong and TRAINED bodies that can endure more than average or oridinary bodies?)

so we basically agree?

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Nope, by 'mostly' I mean that mindset can help in one of two ways. Firstly, it can help with minor or subjective pains and symptoms (discussed in the previous post and again below). Secondly it can help in terms of getting through SPAM. For instance, you are receiving chemotherapy for cancer, having a strong will and desire to continue living is going to benefit more than if you just 'give up on' life. That's why you see some old married couples who have been together for 50 or 60 years die within a few days of each other - as soon as one goes, the other is sometimes just sort of happy to let themselves go as well. But in these circumstances, mindset is merely an additional benefit for the actual SPAM. Mindset alone is not enough to cure you of any actual disease, illness or anything else.

Noticeably most doctors and medical people worth their salt will say that the "placebo effect" mentioned by worldrunner only really seems to work for what we call subjective symptoms. Things like pains (or some forms of headache as I discussed above) are subjective - what's painful to you might be merely a little irritating to me if I've got a higher pain threshold. That is, to a large extent, subjective because it is how it affects you personally. The placebo effect has virtually no effect for actual 'objective symptoms' if you like (such as actual illnesses caused by viruses or bacteria or physical issues with body cells/organs whatever).

Mindset alone can not cure any 'proper' illness. It can help you get through tough times whilst under proper SPAM, but it's not going to cure you unless you've got proper medicine. And as for it keeping 'proper' illness away - as was your original claim - absolute bull. As I've discussed, the "common cold" is a virus, so you can think positive thoughts as much as you want, but they aren't going to stop the virus from entering your system. Nor are they going to help you get over it quicker. The advice given by others and myself above will quicken the fighting off of the virus though.

The orange vitamin C tablets which dissolve in water are good (called Berocca in the UK) especially the combo ones containing zinc,, but only take them when you know there is a cold going round or when you can feel one starting to develop in your throat. If you take vit C too often, your body becomes accustomed to it and the "boost" effect you're looking for will be minimised (in the same way that steroids shrinks your balls because the body is tricked into thinking it is already producing enough testosterone). Vicks First Defence nasal spray is also legit or you can gargle with TCP (not sure if these are available in America).

Ignore NamelessHero, the dude claims he is a medical doctor but has the maturity of a 12 year old and 90% of his replies contain an irrelevant photo which is completely unrelated to the topic.