Alcohol will not help cure a cold, though moderate consumption may reduce susceptibility.
THE BOTTOM LINE Alcohol will not help cure a cold, though moderate consumption may reduce susceptibility.
He said elder flower and peppermint will cure a cold overnight.
She told me the way to cure a cold was to drink it under.
Addictively spicy, this soup might cure a cold and mend a broken heart (if you are in love with shrimp, anyway).
This, however, doesn't stop Britons from spending over £500m annually on cold, cough and sore throat "remedies", none of which will actually cure a cold, but exist to make us feel a little bit better.
Shredded Beef and Clear Noodles In Spicy Broth If there is a beef soup that could cure a cold, it is this one, with its peppery, garlicky broth and glass noodles plus an abundance of shredded beef and sprouts.
Anneloni with creamy, spicy lamb sausage and mustard greens, though, might leave you lusting after it the next day, and a recent special of nodi marini, or "sailor's knots," jewelled with seared chicken livers and heady with rosemary and thyme, tastes like it could cure a cold.
In the main-dish category, two stood out: meltingly sweet eggplant sautéed with fresh basil leaves, red and green bell peppers, and onions; and a green curry that could cure a cold, or at least ward off the cold of winter, with its unctuous base of coconut milk and curry paste that smoothed the way for bamboo shoots, bell pepper, eggplant, fresh basil leaves and tender bites of chicken.
