What's your best frugal homemade cold remedy?   

Tea with honey & lemon for a sore throat & cough, gaggle with lemon juice for a sore throat, & yes plently of chicken soup. It's an old remedy, but it really has been proven to help colds go away faster. Unless you have a virus. When you have a virus I find that there really isn't anything that you can take to make that go away untill it is good & ready to LOL.

Honey with garlic. I know it sounds strange but it knocked my girlfriends cold out in a couple of days. Take a regular cereal spoon and fill it with honey. Take some garlic, we used jarred garlic but several pieces onto the spoon and swallow the whole thing. Skip chewing or anything, just swallow. Tastes odd but it works.

Hi beautyqueen26,

A tablespoon of fresh Ceyenne Pepper, stirred into a glass of warm water, is an excellent remedy for a heart attack. It's so good, it will bring the dead back to life if they've only recently croaked from massive coronary failure.

Another good one is sucking an ice block to alleviate allergy symptoms. Works very quickly, but only mitigates an allergy as long as you suck the ice - if the irritant is still around, it will keep on irritating you once the ice runs out.

I do, but I would have to silence you... Just kidding. Seriously though, I cannot tell you here. It is somewhat illegal and involves moonshine and molasses... Believe me, one tsp and it knocks the cold right out of you.

Mine is just plane old calamansi with its juices squeezed and mix with hot water. One could inhale the vapors from the mixture to clean the sinuses before drinking it.

My favorite is Ginger Brandy. Takes away the congestion. Be careful not to feel good for too long or you will feel worse in the morning!

Ill try hot sauce when I get cold or flu. I usually have this ointment vicks vaporub rub on my nose and head and my lungs or put a bit in hot water and inhale the smoke from it. Goes all whats in my nose.