NATURAL HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH
Coughing is one of the body’s ways to remove foreign material or mucus from the lungs and throat. The lungs and lower respiratory passages become sterile. It is a common symptom when the airways become tight. There are generally two classifications of cough one is productive cough which produces mucus from the lungs and the other is nonproductive cough, which is dry and doesn’t produce any mucus from the lungs. It can affect the person of all ages. It can be acute cough or chronic cough depending on its duration. In scientific terms coughing is a reflex action, started by stimulation of sensory nerves in the lining of the respiratory passages - the tubes we use to breathe.
Causes of Cough
The various causes of cough are:
- Inflammation of larynx or pharynx
- Smoking
- Allergies such as dust, smoke, pollen grains and chemical fumes
- Asthma
- Weather changes
Home Remedies for Cough
Fill one cut lemon with black pepper powder and salt and suck it to reduce the intensity of cough. This is a very good cough treatment.
Add a pinch of grounded white pepper in one tea spoon of pure honey. Regular use of this 2-3 times a day for regularly for 4-5 days will cure your cough. This remedy is considered as one of the effective home remedy for cough.
Simple cold and cough can be cured with the regular eating of grapes for number of days. They tone up the lungs and act as expectorant.
Take 1-2 gm powder of black pepper, long pepper, and dry ginger in equal proportions and make a mixture. Taking this mixture of powder with honey 2-3 times a day give relief from cough and is one of the useful cough remedies.
In winters eating garlic at night with meals twice a week will provide relief from cough and its also a simplest cough cure.
Mix pulp of Belleric Myrobalan fruit with long pepper and honey and take this mixture twice a day. This is one of the good home remedies for cough.
A combination of honey with grape juice is highly beneficial for cough.
Make a paste of 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper, 1/4 teaspoon of ground ginger, 1 table spoon of apple cider vinegar, 1 table spoon of honey, and 2 tablespoon of normal water. Mix them well and take 1 teaspoon of this mixture whenever you have cough problem. This is very useful home remedy for cough.
Gargling with warm spinach juice is very helpful in dealing with dry cough.
In case of dry cough mix half spoon of Cuscus grass (khas khas) in 3-4 teaspoons of coconut milk. Add one teaspoon of honey and drink at night before going to bed. This is another effective home remedy for cough.
Grind 100 grams of raisins with water and add about 100 grams of sugar and heat the mixture till it turns saucy. This sauce formed should be taken in a doze of 20 grams at bedtime daily. This is very useful diet for cough.
A tea made from aniseed (saunf) and holy basil (tulsi) should be taken regularly for immediate relief from cough and is also good natural remedy for cough.
Cough Treatment - Almonds are highly beneficial for patients suffering from dry cough. They should be soaked in water for sometime and a fine paste should be made after removing brown skin with 20 grams of butter and sugar. This paste should be taken twice a day in the morning and evening.
Chew 4 leaves of holy basil and 4 black peppers to prevent cough and other respiratory system ailments. Morpheme Holy Basil (Tulsi) supplements available at www.AyurvedicCure.com
Extract the juice from the onions, mix it with honey and take it 2-3 times a day. It’s an excellent cough syrup.
For immediate relief from cough crush one medium sized onion, add one lemon juice and one cup of boiling water. Honey should be added to it and drink this mixture 2-3 times a day. This is another useful and effective diet for cough.
Boil 10 grams of Sprague in 500 grams of water for 15 minutes. Allow it to cool and then add two pinches of salt and gargle twice a day. This will clear excessive mucous and soothes the throat giving relief from cough.
Pour 1 cup of boiling water on 1 teaspoon of Marjoram and leave it for 10-15 minutes and then drink. Repeat 3 times everyday. This is a good natural remedy for cough.
To prevent cough in winters drink water 2 hours before passing stools in the morning and one hour after taking food. This is good cough remedy.
Take some eucalyptus leaves and mint leaves and boil them together in water. Now inhale its vapors. It will help you in curing your cough and is also one of the good natural remedy for cough.
The root of turmeric should be roasted and grinded to form powder. This powder should be taken twice daily in a doze of 3 grams. This is good cough remedy.
Cough Soothing mixtures
- Carrot juice - Drink this when hot, as it will relieve the patient from cough and improve the general state of health.
- Essential oil of juniper- A fewdrops may be used in hot water as an inhalant.
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1) You'll need a bagel, slice of brea or 2 (depending on your appetite), or some crackers
2) Cream cheese (any kind .. my fav is the Kraft Green Onion and onion flav)
3) Garlic (minced)
4)Honey
Mix the garlic with the cream cheese. Put in on the bagel, bread, or crackers. Then, pour the honey on top.
Garlic and honey is really good for you when you have a cold.
To drink - - tea w/ honey
or warm milk w/ honey
Do this for 2-3 days and you'll feel a lot better and your cough will go away!!
I also tried to warm honey but i ended up burning my tongue.. so i'm going to stick with the vicks.
What to do? The lemon thing really helps.
but juniper, peppermint, eucalyptus and camphor essential oils will remind you very much of vicks, if you need it to be in a paste add it to some coconut oil or natural lotion. that can help break up the mucus in your chest.
for the long term and I am about to brew this up: to help your bodies immune system which is making the cough not fighting it, brew some tulsi tea, with ginger, add lemon and honey and a bit of garlic, let that all brew but drink it hot. then a table spoon of pure honey, may sugar you up but it helps sooth your throat.
Good luck to the coughers, I couldnt even work last night!
over all get lots of rest try to stop smoking, take a long walk to get your blood circulating and meditate on your bodies natural ability to heal itself, you may find there is a reason for your current condition out in your illusionary world of work and relationships, are you over stressed? is their guilt in your mind, your heart? Do some yoga, let your body work it out but keep in mind its all in your head:)
its for our sudent investigatory project..
specifically, herbal medicines..
can some1 help me???
it's hard for me as a student to handle such problems like this...
tnxtnxtnx...
I recommend a simple mixture of green tea (natural antioxidents) and as much honey as you wish. Any kind of lemon tea will work, but the green tea is better for you. If it's a cough due to allergies, try to stay away from herbal teas as many of those herbs are in the ragweed family, or closely related and will just worsen your cough and allergy. Also, when using honey, try to use a local honey because it will contain the pollen from local allergens which will act the same (or near the same) as an allergy shot and it will help you build an immunity to such allergens.
When I had a Cough I boiled a pot of hot water for about 20 minutes, then after I put a spoon full of vicks into the teh HOT water and waited for it to melt, and ten after sat down with the pot right underneathe my noise and inhaled it. :]]]]]
it really works nad you can really feel your lungs open inside
You will sleep like a bear in hibernation!
Add half teaspoon(or less or more however you like it) of haldi to boiling water, add pinch of sale and a little ghee and drink it warm.
The Vic Vapor rub on the feet with socks on put me right on to sleep!!
Aaaahhh heck yeh!!:-D
Please help me out....please...:>-(
also try vinegar in boiling water-
steam, breathe it in, with towel over head and steam
Thanks
Cindy
at the very least CALL your doctor and describe what is happening--then if he or she doesn't call back soon, go somewhere & see someone. you shouldn't take the advice of people who are not doctors telling you to avoid one. You could have something serious going on, and as natural as we try to be, don't mess with serious stuff like the chest pains, differences in urination, etc. that you described. Really. Using this site should not be a substitute for getting professional medical advice. Even if you don't have insurance there are walk-in (ie less expensive then ER) places usually open late in many areas, & part of a doctor's job is to take phone calls so don't feel bad if you need to call. But if they don't call you back SOON, find a professional to talk to or see just to rule things out. and let us know what happened. hope you are okay.
Stiry well then drink 2-3 teaspoons. Just gave this to my son who was coughing for a half hour straight. He refuses to let me put the Vicks (camphor, eucalyptus, menthol) on the bottoms of
his feet (although I know for certain it usually works). The liquid mixture stopped his cough within 5 minutes and (it's 3am) he's asleep.
I've been experience severe cough and congested chest pain. Any herbal remedy will be welcomed.
Thanks.
or take one earthened small plate which is used in diwali 4 lighting heat the mud plate in fire or stoveand put a pinch of turmeric and take aglass of milk and place and empty glassand flow the milk over thehot mud plate and drink that milk this will work 4 cough and cold
0r take a pinch of saffron with warm milk in the morning and night
or chew fresh leaves of ajwain
or chew fresh leaves of ajwain with betel leaves
or if for kids try 1/2spoon juice ofajwainleaves and 1/2 spoon juice of betel leaveswith honey
:-)
i avoid yoghurt, cold drink, ice-cream or any cold items but i feel always cold & cough
Hot drinks work really well. Anything that doesn't contain caffeine (it'll keep you awake, unless you're braving the real world, then go for it), add some spices, I usually use a pinch of anything that happens to be at home. Pepper, mint, ginger, if you've got garlic, crush a clove and drop it in as well... and honey. Honey is a cure-all. If you can stand it, some heavy alcohol like rum or whiskey will put you right to sleep. I like to vary it because if this happens regularly like mine, you'll get tired of it.
Avoid dairy 'cause it promotes phlegm. Drink lots of water, it'll loosen the phlegm and flushes your system.
Also, prevention is better than cure - if you do something about your cough regularly you won't have to find yourself in public coughing up your lungs and resorting to some pharmacy-toxin.
And another thing VICKS IS NOT NATURAL. If it works for you, good, but this site claims to be natural and yet every third post proclaims Vick's is best. REMOVE IT PLEASE
Second, mix 4 tsp honey, with 1 tsp ginger power, 1/2 tsp black pepper powder, and 2 tsp water. Eat slowly, 2-3 tsp when u have cough. Will work instantly, better do it so ur cough stops and then sleep right away before u start feeling like coughing again.
I have sever cough that make me uneasy while sleep so i just get up and log in to the world of treatment. I will try best home remedy and will tell you what happen with me.
Till then Khoo khoo khooo.......
You can also try eating 2 oz. of dark chocolate. There is an ingredient in chocolate that helps stop coughs. Effects should last about four hours.
1) Take in lots of fluids, preferably warm as possible with lemon, ginger, honey, cayenne or black pepper (all or even 1 of these will help). Need to keep hydrated when fighting a cough. This means drinking 3 to 4 times as much as usual. You should begin to pee very often - do this for 2 to 3 days until cough is half as bad and then reduce liquids to 2 times more than usual for another 3 to 5 days, then go back to normal drinking.
2) Can also use steam treatments with menthol, eucalyptus, camphor or similar things to help further keep hydration up.
3) Take a tablet of zinc gluoconate 3 to 4 times a day for first 3 days, then daily until all well. Also can take lozenges or zinc oral spray. Body needs the zinc to fight the infection - proven to reduce coughs and colds.
4) Take a magnesium citrate tablet or magnesium chelate tablet (chelated is best) 3 x per day for 5 days. Add this to your daily diet by taking 1 tablet daily for maxium protection and wellness.
5) Also a good idea to take a multi MINERAL tablet a few times a week to keep up minerals in the body which are always depleted nowadays. Chelated forms are best.
6) Lots of sleep and rest.
7) Try the teas and other herbal solutions mentioned here in place of #2, but need to do all 6 things for quick and total cure.
God Bless and all the best!
I feel for everyone; and not knowing what remedies to take. I'm too have chronic coughing. It's every single day/ night. It interfere with my life, at work, in the movies, at home, subway, everywhere I go and do.
It can be from Asthma or Post nasal drip. You should do the following suggestion:
1. Asthma, Allergy and Immunology Doctor, to rule out the possibilities'
2. Holistic Med's
3. Acid Flux- Read on it; it mention Chronic Coughing.
Well, God bless you all. I hope someone can give us all an educated guess what "WE" really have; and can do for us.
:-)
if it is a productive cough, encourage it, spitting out the phlegm (or your tummy will be upset).
for a dry, unproductive cough, honey seems to be the magic bullet :)
'One more suggestion,MOST allergens enter the body thru our sinuses,read information on the NETTI POT,clean sinuses = a smoother cold and flu season for us.An ounce of prevention,is worth a pound of cure>>
I also tried eating a thick slice of raw onion, chopped and dipped in a couple of tspns of honey. This gave me some instant relief. Red onion is easier to eat than white or brown.
FYI...
Camphor is considered as essential oil and came from Camphor tree (cinnamomum camphora) that is native of China, Japan and eastern Asia. It can also be made synthetically.
Menthol is an organic compound made from peppermint oil or other mint oils. It is also made synthetically.
Vick's VapoRub can be considered a natural remedy and it has its place in this page.
1. Take 2 tbsp of Carom seed (ajwain)
2. Boil that in water on low heat...until you see about 2 to 3 tbsp of water left.
3. Drain it in a small cup
4. Mix 2 pinchs of salt and tumeric powder
5. Drink this mixture everyday before going to bed, until your cough is gone...and do not take water after this.
1. Take half a cup of warm milk
2. Add 2 pinchs of salt and tumeric powder
3. Drink this mixture every night, before going to bed.. and not intake of water after this.
Repeat until cough is gone.
God bless
#131 Jean 11/14/2009 21:30
bfred111@yahoo.ca
hopefully you have a quick remedy:-o
PLEASE HELP!!!! PLEASE :(((
My mom has had a serious cough for about three days now. It started sunday and by monday, she had a fever and had body aches. she coughs very loud and it's raspy at times. She has a fever of about, 99 degrees- 101 degrees. Pleaseeee, pleease, please have a solution for this problem!
I guess it's the turmeric maybe but whatever it worked instantly and back to sleep I went
1:05 am drank the tea w hon, lemon, cinnamon. Cough is more productive. Now on second cup. Hate being sick. I pray I will b better for job interview.
You are in serious trouble!
Please see a doctor immediately!!
Your symptoms are extremely dangerous blood in the urine, coughing blood and chest pains are signs of a heart attack.
Because your post was a year ago I hope you are ok.Let us know?
i have asthama problem which is all most occurs at night any remedy which can permanently cure the asthama :-)
Thanks
From what I have been told from other parents its safe for kids. You can also try the baby vicks vapor rub. Hope it helps for your little one.
turmeric powder makes the chest mucus loosen. I hope you feel better
i took half a lemon and squeezed all the juice out of it and poured into a mug, mashed up like 15 grapes and poured the juice into the same mug (while eating the grape skin) grinded some black pepper (just a lil) little bit of honey mixed in, pinch of cinnomon and added some boiled water. i should be selling this in bottles out of the store. :):):)
this site actually [@] now that i realized i cannot copy what i just wrote... take that copyright protected bull crap off "natural-homeremedies" i should erase everything i just wrote becasue of this. but since im such a nice guy ill leave it for other people suffering from a cough
i hv just tried the lemon+b.peper power+salt = suck it ...........hmm its remarkable.......my cough stopped immeadiately......n i feel easy to breath in . ;-):-D
Good Luck :)
thinly slice an onion into rings and place in a bowl or saucer. cover liberaly with white sugar and leave on top of fridge or on the kitchen sideboard.. within 20 mins the sugar will have encouraged the onion to release juice and the sugar naturally melts into the onion juice making a syrup.
Take 1-2 teaspoons of syrup every few hours.. the onion will continue to make juice until all the sugar has dissolved.. so add more sugar when this stops happening.. eventually you will have to slice a new onion and start again. It works brilliantly and if your kids have the cough get them to help make this magic juice so they will be more inclined to take it
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Thank you for your time.
P.s
The best cure for a bad cough is a spoonful of sugar with medicine. Make sure you get your medicine from a knowledgeable doctor. Or eating a cut of a flinestone vitamin with salt and pepper on it works the best. Take my word.
Just got a stupid strep throat infection. My caught isn't letting me sleep! I've tried the tea and I will go try the vick's; as for the lemon with salt and pepper, how bad tasting is it?
Thanks every1, hope we all get better asap
Try 1 TBS Honey mixed with 1/2 TSP of Cinnamon.
I thought it was going to be dry, but it wasn't. I put some honey on first then the cinnamon followed by some more honey. Worked like a charm! Thanks!:-D
If you have a respiratory infection going, try this remedy also:
Get a cool mist vaporizer, fill it 2/3 full (preferably with filtered water, or boil tap water on stove and cool iit before you put in humidifier). Then add one bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide 3% (regular kind from drugstore or grocery store) into humidifer with water. Hydrogen peroxide is water with an extra oxygen molecule. It's safe and clears up respiratory distress. Bacteria cannot survive in a high oxygen environment..really this is great. I run it in my house every couple days just to clean the air too.
I also read that if you have a tooth problem, it can cause sinus problem, which causes cough. In that case, until you can see a dentist, rinse your mouth with peroxide several times a day. (do NOT swallow!) This is good to relieve toothache also.
Thx all for suggestions!
one shot of tequilla with a squirt of honey
and a squirt of lime juice two before bed
will fix you right up but be carefull not to over do it
lol ive had great success with this .....good luck!!!!
remember to stir it up while in shot glass and shoot it!!!!get well soon !!!!
cause smoking eats up vit c in your body take care get well soon hope this helps !!!
1 teaspoon honey and a pinch of clove powder(Lightly baked) take in the empty stomach and before bedtime at night. Do not drink water or anything minimum half an hour after above the medicine.
anyway thanks..
In fact i like to use Unkers which is similar to Vicks but just better. You can get it thru Amazon.
U will sweat like hell
All the best
Taking in a lot of honey with lemon and grape juice which coated my throat (also those germs as they stick to it)
Then in small coughs, I coughed it out, the honey takes off that nasty layer of irritating cough. and grape helps it soothe down
Then drink warm water.
:-)
- My personal favourite for all colds (not just coughs) is to get into your warmest clothes, (skiwear if you have it, hat, gloves, scarf, the works) and get all available bedding. Snuggle up so you're literally boiling hot and watch the TV, read a novel or try and catch some sleep (works well with Vic on the feet too!). This is most effective when you first notice the cold coming on, if you catch it quick, a day of this should sweat it all out. Be sure to drink lots of water too!
- Whichever way you want to look at it, lemon, salt and pepper works well. I tend to do it like a tequila shot because you don't lose salt and pepper everywhere. But lick your hand, pour both salt and pepper on it and then suck a lemon before swallowing.
- Any combination of ginger, honey, lime, lemon works well whether boiled, drunk, gargelled or inhaled.
- For blocked noses there is no better cure (in my opinion of course) than Olbas Oil, boil a kettle and pour it into a sink or bowl, put 2-3 drops of the oil into the water and then cover your head with a towel to isolate the fumes you are inhaling, 2-3 minutes should be enough for relief. However, this will need to be repeated daily, if not every 4-5 hours.
and even saltwater gargaling three times and it really work.:-D
Every time i try to put a lozenge in my mouth or a clove i end of coughing it out. So far, the main things that are helping me is lying flat on my back and/or applying vicks on my feet honestly though, how long do you think I can lie down staring at the stars with wet soppy feet. Please if anybody knows any remedies that have not been listed above, possibly a little different because the ones above keep repeating the same things over and over and it is not that i don't appreciate them because i do but it is just that they do not work for me as well as it may for someone else because everybody has a different system and my system will not respond to these remedies, so if you could kindly post some advice on a home remedy that is easy to set up and easy to perform that would be extremely helpful to me.
Thank you for your time everybody
- Amaan
I have a cold - cough thing going on right now and after sprinkling some sea salt and black pepper on some lemon slices and sucking on them, I haven't coughed for about 20 minutes now.
Really works fast.
I've had this constant cough for over 4 months. It started out as a cold like symptoms, with runny nose and sore throat and after 2 weeks and a few cold medicine capsules and or liquid (before bedtime), it became what I have now, which is a cough, induced by a constant small amounts of mucus (too small to cough out to see the color) that keeps reproducing in my throat. I noticed it temporarily stops as soon as I start to eat anything. I suspect that after drinking the cold medicine liquid (before bedtime) some months ago, acid reflux reached my throat and perhaps caused some damage/infection at the esophagus. (?)
I rarely take any medicines, so, the thought of going to the doctor, only to get a prescription for antibiotics, is the reason why I'm still suffering. If anyone out there has or had similar symptoms, please, any input will be greatly appreciated. I'm debating going to the ER, rather than a walk in clinic. I'm searching for Natural Remedies.Thank you all in advance for your replies. Take care. T.
suck on a lemon with salt and pepper on it.
warn water with garlic and sugar.
really hope it helps
:-P:-P:-P:-o:-o;-)
>-(:oops:
thanks again,
shylee
it really works! thanks!
plz tell a easy and simple way
2Tbsp unsalted butter (warm it up so it slightly melts)
2Tbsp honey, local honey works best for people with allergies (heat it up and mix well with butter)
2Tbsp Vodka (no don't be generous)
2Tbsp Aloe Vera raw juice (the actual plant, peal and use the inside jelly part) you can find the plant at Lowes I'm sure, it's a great plant to keep if you like home remedies.
Mix it all together, I like to refrigerate it before using. Take little tsp. size portion and lick it so it dissolves slowly in your mouth and you will feel your throat warming up. Very soothing.
We were given this as little kids in small portions, worked like magic.
You can refrigerate it up to a week.
has really releaved my cough:
Have just done the vick on feet:
will let you know in a couple of days as to how
I get thank
Many thanks every1
That's because of this fantastic help from this website. Slices of lemons with black pepper and salt and a cup of hot water with honey. It worked!
Thanx
thanks
Doing alot of talking also increase the cough, it is better to try and relax your lungs during the day, do as little laughing and raising your voice as possible. Try it, it realy works. Hope you guys get well soon
God bless