Why do we cough for various diseases and colds? Cough is a protective reaction of the body to sputum, mucus, microbes, from all this you need to get rid of. Cough is most often a symptom of upper respiratory tract and lung disease.
With such cough, such treatment methods as: mustard, foot baths, compresses, ointments, rubbing, hot drink will help. Drugs against cough help well, but you do not need to dull the cough, but treat it.
Of course, you need to see a doctor, but there are also folk medicine, and many know about their effectiveness. It happens that medications prescribed by a doctor do not help, and folk remedies cope with various complex ailments perfectly.
Folk remedies for cough are easy to prepare at home
- Garlic and onions help from many diseases. Finely chop the onion, add 2 tablespoons of honey, 200 grams of sugar, fill them with one liter of water. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 3 hours. The resulting mixture is filtered, cooled and take a warm mixture 4 or 6 times a day for one tablespoon.
- The garlic head and 10 onions shall be finely chopped and boiled in milk. When garlic and onion are soft, add 1 tablespoon of honey and mix. The resulting mixture is taken every hour for one tablespoon. Already throughout the day, inflammation and cough in the throat will decrease significantly.
Folk remedies for cough and honey
Cough helps to reduce the mixture of honey and hazelnuts. Take a glass of nuts and dare, add half a cup of honey and mix. Throughout the day we eat one teaspoon of this mixture, and drink it with warm milk.
If you have high fever, you do not need to perform different thermal procedures. But at normal temperature we try to warm up the chest, for example, boiled potatoes. Weld potatoes, and quickly chop the hot potatoes, put in a tight plastic bag, wrap in a thin towel and put it on the chest. We go to bed, hide and lie down for one hour. When the packet with the potatoes has cooled down, remove it and lie down for about an hour.
If you eat hot mashed potatoes with milk, lie down under the blanket, this will help ease the cough. From the cough helps to get rid of cabbage juice with honey. Simply add honey to cabbage juice, and drink this remedy throughout the day. This is not quite a delicious juice, but if it is used to cough is reduced.
Folk remedies of herbs
You can use broths of herbs. Take mother-and-stepmother, oregano, raspberries, on a handful of each herb, mix and make in a glass of boiling water one tablespoon, drink like tea. We drink during the day 3 or 4 times.
With a chronic cough, we boil in the sugar syrup nettle dioecious. Take the roots or leaves, grind well and boil it in sugar syrup. We take one tablespoon 2 or 3 times a day.
It is useful when you cough to drink infusion of bran . Take 500 grams of bran brewed a liter of boiling water and filtered. When the infusion has cooled, start drinking it in small sips. We drink it during the day, the next day we repeat the procedure.
Goose fat stops and softens the cough. Prepare a mixture of sliced or grated onions and 2 tablespoons goose fat. Before going to bed, rub the mixture into the chest and neck.
Naturally, this method of treatment will suit those who are treated for coughing at home, and do not go to work with a cough, because the smell of onions is very stable, and it will not be able to get rid of it for the duration of treatment. If you can eat a teaspoon of the mixture for the night, it will be good, but not all can survive its taste.
Another mixture is slightly better to taste: 2 tablespoons of butter, 1 teaspoon of starch and 2 fresh yolks, mix. This mixture is eaten 1 teaspoon, as often as possible.
In any pharmacy you can buy alcoholic tincture of eucalyptus. In a glass pour ¼ of warm boiled water, add 20 or 30 drops of tincture, and take 3 times a day.
You will like a delicious Brazilian cough remedy. Now we are not uncommon in bananas and we can prepare this remedy: take 2 ripe bananas, rub them through a sieve, put bananas in a pot of hot water, put a teaspoon of sugar on a glass of water and heat it. When the mixture warms up, let's drink it throughout the day in small portions.
Usual carrots will quickly help get rid of cough. We take the average carrot, we will squeeze it on a small grater, we will fill with a glass of hot milk and we insist 20 minutes. Let's drink before going to bed. After 3 days, this method will reduce the cough, and even this infusion can completely eliminate the cough.
Folk remedies for a very strong cough
These recipes are effective for a strong, chronic cough.
From a strong cough will help decoction of onion husk. Take the husks from 10 pieces of onions, fill with a liter of boiling water, cook on medium heat. When half of the water is boiled, the broth is taken off, cooled and filtered. Drink honey 2/3 cup 2 or 3 times a day until the cough passes.
With bronchitis, a cough will quickly pass, if we drink a sweet syrup, cooked from onions together with the husks. We will wash two unpeeled bulbs, we lower the onions into boiling sweet water, per liter of water - a glass of sugar. Cook on low heat for 50 minutes, then pull the onions, and the resulting syrup is drunk in a warm form. For adults, you need to drink half a cup of syrup 3 or 4 hours a day, and for children - 50 ml. And after a while, taking such a syrup, the cough will pass.
If cough is strong, we will weld in half a liter of milk 2 or 3 finely chopped bulbs and one head of garlic. Cook for 10 minutes, then razomnem, add 2 tablespoons of honey. We take in a warm form 1 tablespoon five times a day.
One amazing cough remedy, we prepare it on the basis of the egg yolk. In a boiling glass of milk, add a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of honey, raw egg yolk, whipped into a foam and soda at the end of the knife. To yolk is better to beat, add in it 2 drops of hot water. While the product is on fire, add all the ingredients to the milk, then mix and remove. This mixture is very quickly prepared and helps with a strong cereal - bronchitis, laryngitis. To prepare a medicine it is necessary some times in day and to drink still in a warm kind.
The broth of mallow is treated with a chronic cough. We take a few rhizomes of mallow, we weld them in milk, for this we take half a liter of milk, and we will boil the mallow root for 15 minutes. The broth is drunk on the coffee cup, several times a day.
With a strong cough drink a decoction of elderberry or walnuts. Take 4 nuts in the shell and 1 tablespoon elder, cook in half a liter of water, with the addition of a tablespoon of honey. Decoction filter and drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
With an old cough, the mixture will help, we take everything on a tablespoon: honey, dried mustard, vegetable oil, a mixture of flour and 1.5 tablespoons of vodka. Ingredients are mixed and heated in a water bath. From this mixture we make compresses for several days.
We get the mixture as a sticky dough, put it on a gauze napkin, put it to your chest, put polyethylene or parchment paper on top and wrap it around with a warm kerchief. It is best to do compresses at night.
There is a simple remedy that everyone has forgotten, it is safe and simple. This is burnt sugar. We use strong medicines, and forgot how sugar candies sucked. Take a frying pan, fill a little sugar, melt until it gets dark. Solid pieces are soluble in warm water and drink, or we will dissolve under the tongue. This sugar does not cause side effects and helps with dry cough.
Now we know about traditional medicine and recipes for cough. Some recipes are delicious, some are not very tasty, but they need to be eaten regularly and patiently. But this does not mean that you need to self-medicate, at the first signs of the disease you need to see a doctor. And only the doctor can determine what needs to be treated.