How do you deal with a cold?

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I am not a big medicine taker, I prefer to try other methods first. Eating properly to keep my body healthy, exercise, but when I do get a cold I don't take any medicines until i have tried everything else first. I usually try rest, drinking more, hot cloth, heating bag, at night i heat up lemon lime juice. If it is pretty bad I will have half a package of Neo-citran at night before bed. I do not take headache medicines higher then 6-12 yr old tyenlol, one becuase i have trouble swallowing pills and the other that dose works for me. It is very rare that drinking more or a nap won't cure a headache for me. Other members of my family do take medicines and I find they do not get better any quicker then I do. My parents are both taking upwards of 8-10 pills a day, I do not want to live like this controlling my body with medicine. Is there anything that you swear by? I would love to hear other people's cold rememdies. Also ones for small children, as I would love to reduce the use of medicines for my youngest. She currently does all that I do addding in vicks at night except for the neo citran she get a medicine either tyenlol or cough and cold or decongestive if neccessary whichever is suited to her situation. Do you take herbal products like st john's wort, echinacea, ginseng, vitamin c or zinc? or anything else