5 essential oils to cure a cold
I have a cold.
Obviously, it is not a serious illness. Obviously, it will pass. Colds are so common that I don’t change my lifestyle. I go to work, I walk the dog, I go out in the evening. My colleagues and friends don’t appreciate the fact that I distribute my germs with every sneeze, but I persist, because I am fine.
Unfortunately, my cold gets worse. I start to sneeze; my brain fogs up and my nose turns into a fountain. My boss tells me that I have to go home and rest. Resting is not so easy, lying down, I can’t breathe. So, I sit in an armchair, one hand holding the tissue, the other holding a cup of tea with honey, and watch boring films hoping to fall asleep. I, now, have only one objective: monitoring my stock of tissues, because they have become my most precious treasures.
Handkerchief, where are you?
I don’t like cloth handkerchiefs. In my opinion, it’s “carrying around” your cold in your pocket. I prefer paper. The problem with paper tissues is that you have to be very organized. The main question every morning becomes: how many tissues will I use today?
It’s easy for people with cars, they can put 5 kilos in their trunk. I travel by train so I have less storage capacity. The other day, with a bad calculation, my journey quickly became a nightmare. I didn’t have a single handkerchief left. The more I held back from sneezing, the harder it became, my eyes stinged and watered. I felt an imminent explosion coming and no acceptable way to avoid it. I rummaged in my bag, I asked around, I visited the train toilets: handkerchiefs had become a species as rare as the Sumatran rhino. I ended up hiding in the bathroom to sneeze in peace.
Essential oils
Not wanting to relive this ordeal again, I begged the pharmacist for a cure “It’s just a cold, it will pass.” But if you want to treat yourself, try this product, you have to squirt it in the nose. » I tried it, it was unpleasant and my nose blocked up. I no longer needed tissues but I could hardly breathe, and needed to have my mouth open all the time. The cold was still there, but I had a headache and a cough to boot.
I went back to the pharmacist and she suggested salt water baths. Too complicated for my foggy brain and I had lost the necessary energy anyway. Between coughs, I asked him for something simple, natural and that worked. She suggested essential oils to me. She told me about five possibilities:
Eucalyptus Radiata, perfect for colds, it disinfects and restores energy – swallow three times a day on a cube of sugar;
Ravintsara cures colds, sore throats and coughs. – mixed with oil, it is used as massage;
Peppermint – a few drops in a tissue and sniff the tissue from time to time;
Niaouli – inhale two drops on a tissue, three to four times a day and,
Thyme Tujanol, put two drops in a cup of tea.
Back at home, I tested. Two days later, I am alive again, the cold is almost over and I can resume the course of my life. I am serene, with everything I have left in the bottle, the next cold will be exterminated before the end of the first box of tissues.
Delwyn Dupuis
9, Rue du Carre
CH-1174 Montherod
Email : delwyn.dupuis@gmail.com
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