Nothing will make a cold go away. It's a viral illness and just has to run it's course. You can take something to mask the symptoms but that's about it
I decided to take natural home remedies. I would make teas with lemon and honey. Also eating garlic is good, not really pleasant but it works. Google cold home remedies and they can properly tell you the steps. Be patient they work. I had a nasty cough with mucus and didn't want to take medicine to be safe.
seI have an awesome med/natural free way of beating a cold and shortening the length of it ! First I like to have multiple showers or baths with lots of steam and adding Eucalyptus and lavender oils to help ease congestion and sinus pain . The lavender helps you sleep. I also add the same oils to vasoline to make a natural homemade "vicks" rub. I rub this on feet and chest! Works nice hot sore muscles to.
Drink lots of fluids is a definite proven render! Add some lemon to the water to get some extra V-C.
An awesome tea recipe I swear by to help a lot for colds and flus is boil a pot of water add two bag of peppermint tea, a whole lemon chopped in to 1/4s and finally add pasteurized honey to taste! Drink it all while it's good and hot it tastes terrible cold !! Lol
Finally get some zinc losengers ! They help build your body's immune system naturally! You can get ones with added V-C and eucalyptus which is even more great immune system building! I use these as soon as I feel the slightest chance of a cold coming or if my kids have one to guard myself from catching there colds! They are nice and soothing on the throat and eases the dry itchy coughs!
Hope some of these remedies can help you ! They help me cut my cold times in half the time that medicine does ! It's the only way my family and I battle colds ! :)
Thank you all. Right now we mostly just have the runny nose and a slight cough. But I definitely be trying it today since I need to go get grocery anyway.