Samir Gardner shares what worked for his cold: ginger tea and a hot vegetable soup loaded with onions, garlic, peppers, chili powder, cayenne, turmeric, and ginger. The spices clear nasal passages and soothe the throat while eating less overall but more vegetables speeds recovery.
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Samir Gardner back again. So how to get rid of a stuffy nose or a cold, because right now it's pretty much a season for colds and everything. So I got a cold like 2 days ago, and what I did is simply I drank ginger tea. Ginger tea helps. And what really, really helped me was I made a soup, okay? I made a soup, uh, with onions, garlic, peppers, chili powder, or crushed peppers basically, you know, all the things that are like, that have a strong, strong taste. And all those things just help me get rid of everything in my nose, get— I mean, get rid of what's, what was in my, my throat and everything. So if y'all really want to get rid of those things, try to go for the things like cayenne, turmeric, ginger, um, what else, you know, everything that's strong, like chili, um, you know, pepper, like anything that pretty much is, uh, very hot basically. And you know, also try to eat less if it's bad, bro, try to eat less and eat more vegetables. Make a vegetable soup, that will greatly, greatly So if you make a vegetable soup like I did with some cayenne pepper or some ginger, some garlic, onions, it's really, really gonna help you. So yeah.