I have heard that it is beneficial to take vitamin C when you are experiencing cold symptoms.
one of the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system.
Uses Scurvy.
The disease scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency and can be prevented and treated with vitamin C-containing foods or dietary supplements. It takes at least a month of little to no vitamin C before symptoms occur. Early symptoms are malaise and lethargy, progressing to shortness of breath, bone pain, bleeding gums, susceptibility to bruising, poor wound healing, and finally fever, convulsions and eventual death. Until quite late in the
, there have been very few studies that have investigated intravenous ascorbic acid therapy usefulness to alleviate the "common cold". Following the result of a 2014 medical review, approximately 16 studies reported that vitamin C supplements had little to no preventative or therapeutic effect on decreasing the incidence or duration of the "common cold". Nonetheless, in spite of the lack of sufficient evidence, vitamin C (a.k.a. ascorbic acid) oral vitamin supplement are often sold in pharmacies and supermarkets to treat the symptoms of the "common cold"