Weird Ways to Cure a Cold (Because Normal Clearly Isn’t Enough) 🤧

The other day, I caught myself wondering about elderberry.
You know how it goes — you hear about it just enough times that you think,
“Okay… but does this actually work, or are we all just collectively pretending?”

That thought sent me down a mental rabbit hole.

Because let’s be honest — everyone has a weird cold remedy.
Not the polite, doctor-approved kind.
I’m talking about the ones that make you pause and think,
“Who came up with this… and why did I agree to try it?”

Some of us swear by the classics:

• sitting in a steamy bathroom like it’s a luxury spa (even though it’s just your shower doing all the heavy lifting)

• drowning ourselves in orange juice like vitamin C is a personality trait

• chicken soup that somehow tastes better when someone else makes it

But then there are the other remedies.
The ones that live slightly left of common sense.

Like:

• Sleeping with a cold spoon on your chest or forehead
  No one knows why.
  Someone’s grandma said so, and that was enough.

• Burnt orange with brown sugar
  Yes, people roast an orange, scoop it out, add sugar, and eat it.
  Is it medicine? Is it dessert? Is it a cry for help? Unclear.

• Drinking pickle juice
  Because at some point we decided brine was medicine.
  Extra points if it burns on the way down.

• Putting a sliced onion in your sock overnight
  Allegedly it “pulls the toxins out.”
  Realistically? You wake up smelling like soup stock.

And yet… sometimes these odd little rituals work.
Or at least they make us feel like we’re doing something, which honestly counts for a lot when you’re sniffly, achy, and dramatically convinced this cold will last forever.

So now I’m curious.

• What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever tried to cure a cold?
• Did it actually help — or did you just survive long enough to tell the story?
• Was it passed down from family, discovered online at 2 a.m., or born out of pure desperation?

No judgment here.
If it helped even a little, it deserves recognition.
And if it didn’t… well, those stories are usually the funniest.

Drop your weird cold remedies in the comments.
Let’s compare notes, swap stories, and maybe uncover the next oddly effective cure — or at least give each other a laugh while we wait it out.