• Eating foods rich in vitamin C, like grapefruit, oranges, and tangerines help to clear congestion
• Add chili peppers, ginger, garlic to daily recipes as these foods contain agents that break mucus and relieve congestion.
• Eat pineapple as it contains bromelain, which helps in reducing the inflammation in the nasal passages
• Boil a mixture of Bishop's weed (Ajwain), tea leaves and water and inhale it to decongest the nose block due to cold.
• Immunity can be increased by drinking boiled mixture of "cup water, little ginger, 2-3 leaves of sweet basil (tulsi) and mint leaves".