The document discusses the author's natural remedy for colds - eating a hot bowl of bakso, an Indonesian meatball soup. The author believes over-the-counter medicines only relieve symptoms and do not cure the underlying virus. Instead, sweating from the hot soup combined with drinking water and resting helps the author feel better when sick with a cold or flu.

1. ‘Bakso’: My best remedy
for cold
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2. Cold and flu or influenza are common diseases that are
experienced by many people. When our body immune
system is weak, we can easily get cold or flu.

3. There are medicine that people can buy over the counter in
order to feel better.
Those medicine, in fact, cannot cure cold and flu. They just
can help us feel better (by reducing the pain). Since cold
and flu are caused by virus, which will disappear by itself in
a few days, I don’t like consuming over-the-counter
medicine.

4.  When I feel that my throat tickle or starting to ache, I
often buy a bowl of hot ‘bakso’ and I eat it with a
spoonful of chilly paste.
Bakso is an Indonesia meat ball soup. It also contains
noodles and some vegetables like bean sprout, leek, and
pak choy.

5. Picture of bakso

6.  When a hot bakso with some chilly paste is consumed,
our body will be sweating. The hot taste from the chilly
will make us drink a lot of water. I always feel better
after I have a bowl of bakso.
 So, when I get cold or flu, I prefer eating bakso,
together with consuming fruits and vegetables, drinking
more water, as well as having enough rest, rather than
taking over-the-counter medicine.