Home remedies for common cold & flu, that I can think of, like and often prepare-cold or no cold, are- one is tomato rasam<\/a>, I blogged<\/a> already and the other is ‘sonti kashayam’<\/em>. This traditional remedy, an ayurvedic weapon against cold\/flu is prepared with dried ginger, black peppercorns and sweetened with jaggery or honey. The resulting concoction is one strong drink that reboots the downgraded systems, starting with GI. Body on fire, is the sensation it gives at first. Then once it settled down there, ginger<\/a> and peppercorn<\/a> work their magical powers and make the symptoms of cold\/flu disappear. <\/p>\n Recipe:<\/strong> 1 inch length dried ginger (Sonti) (available in Indian grocery shops)<\/small> Preparation:<\/p>\n First, make a powder of dried ginger and peppercorns using a mortar and pestle. Meanwhile take water in a pot, bring it to a rolling boil. Add the powdered ginger, pepper and jaggery to the water. Cover partially; boil it for at least 5 minutes. Turn off the heat, cover completely, and let it rest for 5 minutes. After 5 to 10 minutes of rest period, using a filter, pour the drink into a glass. Stir to cool and finish it off in two or three gulps. Variation – add tealeaves to make an extra strong tea or plain soda (carbonated water) to make ale. I like this meme (to spread) and I would love to learn other food bloggers remedies for common cold\/flu. So I’m going to tag<\/p>\n Barbara of Tigers and Strawberries<\/a> I’m sure they have some fabulous remedies up their sleeves and I hope they share them with us I was tagged by lovely Rosa of Yummy Yums to list my cold\/flu remedies. Like her, it’s been a while, 10 years to be exact, since I got sick. I go through mental up&downs like a normal human being, but physical ailments like common cold\/flu, fever etc., nothing, nada, zip. My immune system, like me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-ginger-sonti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sonti](\"\/mahanandi\/images\/sonti\/sontikashayam1.jpg\")
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\n(For two cups)<\/small><\/p>\n
\n4 peppercorns<\/a> (Miriyalu)
\n1 tsp of powdered jaggery<\/a> or honey
\n1 glass of water<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nSet the body on fire and say goodbye to cold\/flu symptoms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nBarrett of Too Many Chefs <\/a>
\nBrett of In Praise of Sardines<\/a>
\nDoc of Gluttony is no Sin<\/a>
\nHeidi of 101 Cookbooks<\/a> (Thank you Heidi, for ‘Daily Links’<\/a>)<\/small>
\nKay of Towards a Better Tomorrow<\/a>
\nStephanie of Dispensing Happiness<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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