Kill your common cold virus by these two ingredient recipe!!

The most common disease that has been with humanity since our early history is the virus bourne common cold and affects people all over the globe, though the cause of this illness was identified in the 1950s. Interestingly its symptoms and treatment are described in the Egyptian Ebers papyrus, the oldest existing medical text, written before the 16th century BCE. The name "cold" came into the use in the 16th century, due to the similarity between its symptoms and those of exposure to the cold weather.

The typical symptoms include cough, runny nose, sneezing, nasal congestion, and a sore throat, at times it is also accompanied by muscle ache, fatigue, headache, and loss of appetite. A cold usually begins with fatigue, a feeling of being chilled, sneezing, and a headache, followed in a couple of days by runny nose and cough. Symptoms may begin within sixteen to eighteen hours of exposure and typically peak two to four days after onset. The symptoms lasts usually seven to ten days, but sometimes it may last up to three weeks. The average duration for cold is eighteen days and in some cases, people develop post-viral cough which can linger after the infection is gone.

The common cold is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. The most implicated virus is a rhinovirus, a type of picornavirus with 99 known serotypes. The common cold virus is transmitted via airborne droplets (aerosols), direct contact with infected nasal secretions, or fomites (contaminated objects). The virus may survive for prolonged periods in the environment (over 18 hours for rhinoviruses) and can be picked up by people's hands and subsequently carried to their eyes or nose where the infection occurs.

The economic impact of the common cold is not very well understood in much of the world. In the United States, the common cold leads to 75-100 million physician visits annually at a conservative cost estimate of $7.7B per year. Americans spend $2.9B on the drugs and another $400M on prescription medicines for symptoms relief. An estimated 22-189 million school days are missed annually due to a cold. As a result, parents missed 126 million workdays to stay home to care for their children. When added to 150 million workdays missed by employees suffering from cold, the total economic impact of cold-related work loss exceeds $20B per year.

This recipe will cure cough and sore throat.  

• Ingredients:-
• Milk (250 ml)
• Jaggery (गुड़) (2 to 3 teaspoons)

• Preparation:- 
• In a pan, add 2/3 teaspoons of jaggery.
• Heat the jaggery and keep stirring it on low flame until it becomes liquid.
• Add the milk and heat it on low flame, keep stirring until jaggery is mixed with milk. 
• The milk turns light brown when jaggery is completely mixed with milk. 

*CAUTION:- This recipe is prepared on low flame, otherwise, it will result in milk curdles.

• Dosage:-
1. Take one dosage of this jaggery milk per day, preferably before going to bed. It is important that you do not eat or drink anything after having the milk and jaggery solution.
2. In case if you are not able to have this medicine at night, you can have it in the day time, and make sure you do not eat or drink anything for a minimum of 60 minutes.
3. This has to be followed for 3 to 5 nights according to the chronic symptoms of a cold. 

*CAUTION:- Do not overdo this. Do not take more than one dosage of this medicine per day. Jaggery produces heat in the body, this warming effect is used to treat cold and flu. If taken in access it may have side effects.

Note:-  If you are allergic to any of the ingredients mentioned in this article, please seek medical advice from your doctor before using this recipe. The recipe and preparation provided in this article are for information purposes only.