Health

No home remedy is going to kill the virus causing your cold. There are over 200 possible rhinovirus variants, which is why there’s no vaccine and why you keep getting colds despite having survived the last one. What home remedies can do is support your immune system while it handles the actual work, and reduce…

If you’re figuring out how to get rid of a unibrow, the short version is: it’s hair growing where you don’t want it, driven by the PAX3 gene, and no lifestyle change will stop it. Frida Kahlo wore hers proudly. You want yours gone. Here are seven ways to do it, ordered from quick home…

A cough that outstays its welcome is its own special misery. The tickle that flares the second a room goes quiet, the fit that wrecks your sleep, the coworkers who suddenly remember they had somewhere else to be. Most coughs are just your airway clearing out irritants or leftover mucus after a cold, and most…

Seasonal allergies turn you into a walking tissue commercial: sneezing fits, a runny or stuffy nose, itchy watery eyes, and the worn-out, foggy feeling that comes with them. It happens because your immune system mistakes harmless pollen for an invader and floods you with histamine. You cannot switch the reaction off, but you can lower…

Premenstrual syndrome is not in your head, and it is not a life sentence. The bloating, cramps, sore breasts, cravings, low mood and short fuse of PMS show up in the week or two before your period because of the normal hormone swings of your cycle, and they ease off once your period starts. More…

Rainbow hair looks great until it doesn’t. Maybe you’re job hunting, maybe you’re bored, maybe your magenta bled into your cyan and now you’ve got a muddy mess. Whatever. Here’s how to strip it out. 1. Vitamin C Treatment Crush 10-15 vitamin C tablets (the cheap ascorbic acid kind, not gummy bears) and mix them…

Split ends can’t be repaired. Once the hair shaft frays, no serum, mask, or overnight miracle fuses it back together. Hair is dead once it leaves your scalp, so there’s nothing alive in it to heal. That leaves two honest options: cut the split off, or glue it shut with a bonding product until your…

Tonsil stones (those white, calcified lumps in the back of your throat) smell worse than they look, and they look pretty bad. They’re debris that got trapped in your tonsil crannies and hardened into little calcium deposits. The smell comes from bacteria feasting on dead cells and mucus. Lovely. You’ve got a few options depending…

That queasy limbo where you can’t tell if you’re about to throw up or just doomed to feel wretched for the next hour? Nausea comes at you from a dozen directions: a winding car ride, last night’s drinks, early pregnancy, a lunch that seemed fine at the time, a new medication your stomach hasn’t forgiven…