Community Pick
Cold and Flu Clean Air Brew
"We frequently boil this during the cold and flu season. We use it more as a prevention than a cure, but it can help to keep germs down and lessens the possibility of making other family members sick. It also smells great so it isn't a problem to keep it brewing. I put zero cook time because it isn't a set time and is up to the person how long they want it to brew."
photo by The Left Handed Chef
- Ready In:
- 3mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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1 pot
ingredients
- 1 teaspoon clove
- 1 cinnamon sticks or 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 orange, zest of
- 1 teaspoon salt
- water
directions
- Put all ingredients to a large pot.
- Fill with water.
- Bring water to a boil and reduce to slow simmer.
- Refill pot as necessary with water and fresh ingredients.
- (I usually refill with water as needed and fresh ingredients once a day.) Notes: This can also be made and put into a tin can on heaters like your grandparents used to do or in a large tin can on a wood burning stove.
- All of these ingredients have healing properties that ("may"<—legal disclaimer) clean the air of viral and bacterial critters.
- It also"may" help to relieve some cough and sinus symptoms.
- Boiling plain water will help warm a room but adding the above ingredients can help clean the air.
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Reviews
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I've only made this the one time, so I can't attest as to its air-cleaning or sniffle/cough-relieving properties. But I will say it was incredibly easy to throw all the ingredients into a pot, and it made the house smell WONDERFUL!!! I think I'll be using this recipe a lot! -
This is just wonderful, pretty much used it like a aromatherapy for my room...there is a horrid flu bug going around at the moment. Love the smell, will be using any excuse to do this again. thank you so much -
This is amazing how it smells great. Thanks Swor :) Made for Alphabet chef tag game -
This is a great way to freshen the air. I use it all winter long. I do use sliced fresh ginger as I think it really has healing power. I also use cut up oranges and lemons instead of the zest. The salt is also good for the sinuses. Sometimes I just hold my face over the pot (very carefully) and breathe in the steam. Thanks! -
I'm not sure if this will keep us from getting the fall flu, but my house smells divine!!!! I didn't have any cloves on hand so I used a teaspoon of all spice instead. I'll be make this often. Thank you for posting this wonderful recipe.
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Tweaks
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Love this brew. Accidently used pumpkin pie spice instead of ginger so I added the ginger too and boy it smelled good. Kids were disappointed when they came home . They thought i was baking pie!!
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~SwoR~
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