And it's not advisable to depend upon allopathic every time as side-effects cannot be ruled out. Try some home remedies to cure it and there aren't any side effects to those remedies! Here are few handy tips coming back straight from kitchen:
1. Add little salt with hot water, it helps in curing sore throat.
2. Keep drinking hot drinks like coffee and tea or just hot water.
3. Add turmeric powder, ginger powder and a teaspoon of honey to hot milk. This not only helps in curing cough but also relieves body ache, cold and headache.
4. For cold, steam inhalation with little eucalyptus oil is the best home remedy.
5. Add few tulsi leaves and crushed ginger together with black pepper to your tea; it's a good relief for cough and cold.
6. One can take Chavanprash (it is that the best ayurvedic tonic for winter) or amla murrabba because it includes high content of Vitamin C that helps one to develop a robust immunity against cough and cold.