NationStates Jolt Archive


Cure for the cold?

IL Ruffino
08-06-2006, 07:09
I woke up tonight with a head cold, and a fever.

So what do I do? I get high and start drinking any alcohol in the house I find..

I feel much much better!

How do you treat your cold?
Helioterra
08-06-2006, 07:12
Vitamin C
Lots of it.
Greater Alemannia
08-06-2006, 07:24
Speaking of a real common cold cure, they say it's uncurable because it constantly mutates... but isn't there anything that all strains have in common that we could strike?
Secret aj man
08-06-2006, 07:24
I woke up tonight with a head cold, and a fever.

So what do I do? I get high and start drinking any alcohol in the house I find..

I feel much much better!

How do you treat your cold?

dont laugh,but i pound down a bottle of nyquil,a couple of beers,maybe some captain morgan....hangover in the morning,but,voila..by the afternoon..no cold.

me thinks the alchohol burns it out of you,and the nyquil lets you sleep the sleep of a zombie while your body burns it up..
works for me.
Infinite Revolution
08-06-2006, 07:33
sleep and lemsip max strength (http://www.westonsinternet.co.uk/images/lem76x.jpg)or beechams powders (http://www.theonlinechemist.co.uk/Images/Beechams_Powder_323x202.jpg)
Peisandros
08-06-2006, 07:35
Lots of water and a day or two in bed.
Saige Dragon
08-06-2006, 07:46
I just out live the damn things, pretend I don't have one and go on.
Demented Hamsters
08-06-2006, 07:55
bottle of vodka usually knocks it on the head for me.
Straight from the freezer into the belly.
After 1/2 a bottle, you'll be thinking, "What cold? I feel fucking GREAT!!"
Helioterra
08-06-2006, 07:55
Speaking of a real common cold cure, they say it's uncurable because it constantly mutates... but isn't there anything that all strains have in common that we could strike?
True, you can't cure cold. But vitamin C makes you feel better. (+rest and drinking lot of fluids)
IL Ruffino
08-06-2006, 08:05
bottle of vodka usually knocks it on the head for me.
Straight from the freezer into the belly.
After 1/2 a bottle, you'll be thinking, "What cold? I feel fucking GREAT!!"
:D
The Beautiful Darkness
08-06-2006, 08:37
I just out live the damn things, pretend I don't have one and go on.

Same :)
Not bad
08-06-2006, 08:45
Vitamin C and Rock n Rye
Kyronea
08-06-2006, 09:45
Speaking of a real common cold cure, they say it's uncurable because it constantly mutates... but isn't there anything that all strains have in common that we could strike?
Nope. The "common cold" is actually a group of illnesses that all cause more or less the same symptoms. They are not one illness that has constantly mutated, and therefore cannot all be cured. You are correct about the mutation, but it is the sheer number of diseases that all end up causing the same symptoms that prevent it from being cured.
Damor
08-06-2006, 10:35
Speaking of a real common cold cure, they say it's uncurable because it constantly mutates... but isn't there anything that all strains have in common that we could strike?You can always try to exterminate the carriers. You know, like thery do when there's avian flu or hoof and mouth disease in animals.
Heron-Marked Warriors
08-06-2006, 10:37
Speaking of a real common cold cure, they say it's uncurable because it constantly mutates... but isn't there anything that all strains have in common that we could strike?

Humans? :p
Pure Metal
08-06-2006, 10:41
i used to smoke a bowl. worked a charm for anything - at a festival and spent the night sleeping on rocks, waking up in great pain? no problem! smoke a spliff! got a hangover? spliff! headache? spliff! stubbed your toe? spliff! got a cold? spliff (and lots of em, heh heh)


now i just take day nurse and lie in bed haming it up ;)