Rid a Cold With This Crazy Home Remedy

🤧 The Dreaded Cold

You’re pluggin’ along enjoying your day when you start to notice that little tickle in your throat. And then there's a little sniffle. Before you even realize what’s happening—you’re coughing, sneezing, feverish, and can’t breathe through your nose.

Ahhh, it’s the dreaded cold.

My naturopathic doctor, Dr. Paul Herscu, turned me onto a nifty little trick we call “The Wet Sock Treatment.” As crazy as it sounds—it really works!

🧦 Wet Sock Treatment

1️⃣ Soak a pair of thin cotton socks in cold water. Wring them out and put them in the fridge (2+ hours).

2️⃣ Take a hot bath (as hot as you can comfortably stand) for 20 minutes.

3️⃣ Add lavender/eucalyptus essential oils to the tub and sip a cup of hot tea as you soak.

4️⃣ Get out and immediately put on the cold socks.

5️⃣ Cover those cold cotton socks with a pair of dry wool socks.

6️⃣ Apply an essential oil chest rub (we call it "Luv Rub"). I use Tea Tree Therapy—it smells amazing!

7️⃣ Diffuse pure therapeutic-grade essential oils (I love eucalyptus, peppermint, lavender, breathe, etc.).

8️⃣ Drift off to sleep.

9️⃣ Wake up a “New You”! 🎉

🔁 Repeat for 3 nights.

❓ Why The Heck Does This Work?

In a nutshell, it revs up the immune system! As the body reacts to the cold socks, vessels in the feet constrict and then increase circulation, moving blood through your lymph nodes and stimulating the immune system.

✨ A little weird? Yes.✨ Super effective? Also yes!

Give it a try next time you feel a cold coming on! 🩷💨