There are several types of cough
Moist cough
It is accompanied by a sputum discharge. Wet coughing occurs when the lower respiratory tract is affected. It is important to pay attention to sputum: the nature, inclusions, quantity.
Dry cough
He does not have sputum, is characterized by an exasperated dry cough. Most often this cough happens when the upper respiratory tract is affected, at the beginning of the disease.
How to treat a cough?
Regardless of the type of cough, you need to contact your therapist, who will prescribe the treatment, considering your condition, complaints. Medications prescribed by a doctor can be combined with respiratory gymnastics and folk remedies.
If the cough is obtrusive, dry, then there is a good way to warm up.
1. The simple way is to draw a reticulum on the chest of 5% iodine, and preferably at night.
2. Take 1/3 of a teaspoon of hot pepper and 2 tablespoons of vegetable fat. With this mixture, we rub the chest and back from the cough, including the feet.
3. Mix in a ratio of 1: 1 interior fat and turpentine. We rub into the chest until it completely dries, it should be done at night.
4 . Mix the interior fat with a few drops of pine oil. We rub this mixture to dryness for the night.
Help to cope with cough compresses
Compressing rules
- Compound parts of the compress are: vegetable fat, a little mustard, alcohol. And also potatoes, cooked in a "uniform" and honey. All mixed, put on your back, until the mixture is completely dry.
- Compress with vegetable fat, apply for 4 hours. When you cough, you need to drink a lot of warm drink. Better to consume vitaminized berry juice.
Compress should consist of three layers
- Inner layer. It is necessary to take 6 or 8 layers of gauze and soak with medicinal substance (ointment, alcohol).
- The middle layer is waxed paper or polyethylene film.
- The outer layer will be a piece of cotton wool 2 or 3 centimeters thick.
Several recipes for coughing:
1. Take 1 glass of milk, beaten egg yolk, ¼ teaspoon of soda, 1 tablespoon of oil and 1 tablespoon of honey. Good mix. This is a good remedy for bronchitis, laryngitis, tracheitis.
2. Soluble in a glass of hot milk ½ teaspoon of soda. Add to taste honey.
3. Infusion. We mix in the same proportions the root of elecampane and licorice, the flowers of the primrose, the leaf of the mother-and-stepmother. Take 1 glass of boiling water 1 tablespoon of the collection, insist half an hour. We take after eating 1/3 cup three times a day.
4. Mix honey with natural cranberry juice. We take a tablespoon four times a day.
5. Prepare the juice from 1 lemon. Mix with 2 tablespoons of honey and 2 tablespoons of glycerin. We take several times a day for 1 teaspoonful.
6. An excellent remedy for coughing is the infusion of the althaea root. For a glass of boiling water, take 1 teaspoon of althea root. We insist, and then we filter. We take in hot form 2 times a day.
7. Take a glass of water a glass of fruits of Kalina. Boil for 10 minutes, and strain. Add 2 or 3 tablespoons of honey. We take half a glass three times a day.
Cough Diet
In the diet should include:
- Vegetables and fruits containing vitamin C (rose hips, cranberries, persimmons, citrus fruits and so on).
- Fresh juices, they are very useful and rich in vitamins.
- Mashed potatoes with milk, helps to relieve spasm of the bronchi.
- Grated radish, which should be filled with sour cream.
- Herculean porridge, season with vegetable oil.
- Grape juice with honey, grapes. Has an expectorant effect, will help get rid of cough.
Folk remedies for cough
1. Take 1 lemon and fill it with water, boil for 10 minutes on a small fire, when the lemon cools down, cut it in half and squeeze out a lemon into a 200-gram glass of juice. Add there 2 tablespoons of glycerin (for internal use), pour honey to the edges of the glass and mix. We take before meals and at night 2 teaspoons of the mixture 3 times a day.
2. In the same parts we mix radish juice and carrots with milk, take 1 tablespoon 6 times a day.
3. Mix 1 teaspoon of wheat flour, 2 teaspoons of honey, 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 yolks. We take many times a day, a teaspoonful.
4. Strewed walnuts in a mortar mixed with honey in equal parts. Take 1 teaspoon of the resulting mass and dilute in 100 ml of warm water and drink in small sips.
5. A tablespoon of sage grass will be filled with a glass of boiling water, let's brew, filter. The resulting broth is diluted with milk in a ratio of 1: 1, take in a warm form half a cup of the mixture, if desired, add sugar or honey.
6. 200 ml of steep boiling water, we pour 50 grams of raisins, let's brew for half an hour. Cut the onion and squeeze the juice out of it, salt the water with raisins and add 3 tablespoons of squeezed juice to it. We drink best at night in small sips at a time.
7. Seven pieces of radish cut into thin slices, each slice sprinkled with sugar and insist 6 hours, take every hour for 1 tablespoon of juice. According to the medicine man, this remedy can cure a severe cough in a short period of time.
8. One hundred grammes of berries of Kalina will be filled with 200 grams of honey and cooked over a small fire for 5 minutes, then cooled at room temperature and take 2 tablespoons of the mixture 5 times a day.
9. A tablespoon of red clover will be filled with 200 ml of boiling water, we cover it, let's brew for 3 or 5 minutes, drink in small sips in a warm form, take it as an expectorant.
10. 400 grams of sugar, 50 grams of honey, 500 grams of chopped peeled onion, cook in 1 liter of water on small fire for 3 hours, then cool the liquid, add it to a bottle and seal it. We take a strong cough for 1 tablespoon 5 times a day.
Nine Valuable Valuables for Coughing
1. From a chest long cough, wipe the breast with a cloth cloth, then dryly gelled butter or internal lard. Or add pine oil. During the treatment, it is good to drink a decoction of strawberries.
2. Take chicory, barley, oats, rye and 2 grains of purified bitter almonds, drink like ordinary infusion. Or we drink with melted hot milk.
3. Boiled turnip juice with honey is useful for chest pain, for cough and cold.
4. Finely cut one head of garlic and 10 onions and boil in milk until garlic and onions are soft. Add a little honey and mint juice. Drink throughout the day for 1 tablespoon per hour.
5. On an empty bowl of mogul - egg yolks, shot down with rum and sugar.
6. Mix the juice of carrots and radishes with milk and a honey drink - half the milk and half the juice or honey drink. We consume 1 tablespoon 6 times a day.
7 . Mix 2 tablespoons of fresh butter, 2 teaspoons of pure honey, 1 teaspoon of wheat flour, 2 yolks. We use many times a day for 1 teaspoonful.
8. It is useful to drink birch juice from a cough in the spring.
9. That the sputum could separate, it is necessary to drink a syrup of a cowberry juice with honey. We take several times a day for 1 tablespoon.
From cough
- Inhalations from eucalyptus. Shredded eucalyptus leaves are brewed with boiling water, we fold from a thick paper funnel, a wide end of the funnel is covered with a cup with infusion, through the narrow end of the funnel we will inhale steam 10 or 15 minutes. Instead of leaves we use eucalyptus oil.
- Carrot juice with milk. Mix fresh carrot juice with milk in the same proportions. Accepted when coughing 5 or 6 times a day.
- Garlic with milk. We will clean 5 cloves of garlic, finely rastolchem, dilute a glass of milk and boil. When coughing and diseases of the upper respiratory tract, take in a warm form 1 teaspoon several times a day.
" Radish with honey." Choose a black pot-bellied radish with a tail, cut off the tip and take out the inside by one-third. Put some honey into this indentation, so that there is room for juice, which will be allocated. Radish we lower into a glass with water a tail downwards. After 3 or 4 hours, when the juice appears, drink it and put honey again.
- Broth mother-and-stepmother. With pneumonia, bronchitis, cough, we use a decoction of mother-and-stepmother. Take 1 tablespoon of leaves and fill with a glass of steep boiling water, we insist for 30 minutes and filter. We take 1 tablespoon 5 or 6 times a day.
- Decoction of licorice root. Take 10 grams of licorice root and pour a glass of boiling water, heat on a water bath for 20 minutes, cool 45 minutes, strain, squeeze and bring the volume to 200 ml. We take a tablespoon 3 or 4 times a day.
- Tincture of eucalyptus. Spirituous tincture of eucalyptus we take 20 or 30 drops per quarter of a glass of boiled cold water 3 times a day.
- Tincture of wormwood. In Siberian villages with a strong cough applied a remedy: 20 grams of herb wormwood insist ½ liter of vodka, not less than 24 hours, but the longer, the better. We take in the afternoon and before going to bed 1 tablespoon 3 times a day. Children this tool is not recommended.
- Infusion of althea. We take a tablespoon of leaves of the althea medicinal and fill it with a glass of boiling water. We insist 1 hour, then we strain. We take 1 teaspoonful 3 or 4 times a day.
- Cream, milk. To soften the sore throat we drink warm milk, cream.
- Milk with barley or with oats. Barley or oats should be poured into 2/3 in a saucepan and we will fill it with milk, not fully filling it with 2 fingers. Close the lid and put in the oven with a little heat. Milk the milk as it boils, until the fat is boiled. We drink this liquid when coughing 3 times a day. 2 or 3 tablespoons.
- Butter with yolk. Take 2 yolks, 2 teaspoons of fresh butter, a dessert spoon of starch or flour, 2 dessert spoons of honey. All well mixed and taken before meals 4 or 5 times a day.
- Onions boiled in milk. We take 2 medium bulbs, finely cut them, boil in a glass of milk, we insist 4 hours, filter. We take every 3 hours for 1 tablespoon.
- Onions with sugar. In the evening, take a large onion and finely chop it, fill it with 2 tablespoons of sugar. By morning the medicine is ready. During the day, drink the resulting juice or eat a sweet onion. You are treated for a few days and cough will pass.
- Onions with honey. 500 grams of peeled onion peeled, add 400 grams of sugar and cook on low heat for 3 hours in one liter of water. Then let cool, add 50 grams of honey, pour into a bottle and stop. We take after eating 4 or 6 tablespoons.
- Bananas. We take ripe bananas and let them through a sieve, then we put the grated mass in a pan with hot water in the proportion of 2 bananas per one cup of water with sugar. Again, warm up and drink this mixture.
- Wine with pepper. There is such an ancient cough remedy, boil 60 grams of pepper roots with ¼ liter of white wine and strain. The hot mixture is drunk 3 times throughout the day, as well as at night.
Using these recipes for cough treatment folk remedies, you can get rid of a cough. These recipes are simple and affordable to anyone and everyone can choose the right folk remedy for themselves, and then the cough will not bother you. But in any case, taking these or other means of traditional medicine, you need to before the treatment, consult your doctor beforehand.