My brother called me this morning to ask if I knew of any natural remedies for a summer cold. I hadn’t talked to him in a while, so when he called I was surprised when I didn’t recognize his voice. He sounded horrible and when he told me that he had a cold, I could definitely hear it. He said that he remembered mom always having natural remedies for things like colds and wondered if I’d kept up with any of them over the years.
I would have asked him to call mom, but since she and dad are on a trip through Europe, they aren’t exactly easy to reach. In fact, the only way we can reach them is in a case of emergency through the tour group they went with, but this was no emergency. I asked my brother if he’d been taking any vitamin b12 or any other supplements and he said that he had not. He’d been really busy at work and things had been a little stressful. He said he’d been losing a little sleep and the next thing he knew he had a cold. I felt bad for him and told him that obviously this was his bodies way of telling him to slow down, but that one of mom’s cure all natural remedies was chicken soup, so I promised to make him some and bring it over later this afternoon.
