p. 12 | Taking Cold

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 19, 1903

Taking Cold

THE old adage, “Stuff a cold and starve a fever,” is simply nonsense; for a cold is a fever. If it is necessary to starve a fever, it is necessary to starve a cold. Most people who have taken cold keep right on eating beefsteak, mutton-chops, and roast pork. This is like adding fuel to the flame, or pouring gasoline, kerosene, or some other inflammable stuff on the fire. Such food stimulates the morbid processes at work in the body, thus making worse the very condition that must be remedied; for

colds are the result of an accumulation of poisons in the body.

Drinking cold water is one of the best remedies for a cold coming on. The cold water stimulates the system, and helps to wash out the poisons. Drink all the water you can. Another excellent remedy is to live on fruit for two or three days, fruit exclusively, drinking hot or cold water freely, and perhaps buttermilk for nourishment. This course will cure an ordinary cold, if taken in time.—Good Health.