• Drink hot water through the day and drink it lightly, not scalding hot naturally.
• Do yogasana, pranayama and meditation for at least 30 minutes daily.
• Be sure to use spices like turmeric, cumin, coriander and garlic in your cooking.
• Eat a teaspoon of 10 g of chyavanprash every morning. Diabetics may take sugar free chyavanprash. Drink herbal tea/decoction (kadha) once or twice day. Boil tulsi (basil), dalchini (cinnamon), kali miri (black pepper), shunthi (dry ginger) and one munnaka (black raisin). Add jaggery or lemon juice as desired for flavor. Drink 150ml milk to which half a teaspoon of turmeric has been added daily (some folk advice a pinch of black pepper added in too).
• Apply sesame oil or coconut oil or ghee every morning and evening in your nostrils. It’s called pratimarsh nasya.
• Oil pulling therapy: Take a tablespoon of sesame or coconut oil in the mouth, don’t drink it, swish it around for two or three minutes before draining it out. Rinse mouth with warm water. This can be done once or twice a day.
• If you have sore throat or a dry cough do steam inhalation with mint leaves or ajwain seeds in the water.
• Add long (clove) powder with jaggery/honey and lick it two or three times a day. Dry cough or sore throat for more days should be seen by a doctor, don’t neglect.
• It’s always a good idea to drink tulsi leaves juice/infusion/decoction, guduchi juice/decoction with honey, ginger juice with honey, in the south of India there is a tradition of boiling half teaspoon of jeera (cumin seeds) for cup or two of water and sipping it first thing in the morning after getting up.