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 for Caugh
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.
- 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.
User Recommended Home Remedies for Cough:
Add 1 packet of coffee into 1/2 cup of rum warm to an extent then take time and sip while hot. - Kedisha Ricketts
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!!
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 have been coughing badly for last 4 days. Every time I cough I get uncontrollable urine release. I went to doctor yesterday and she gave me Tussionex..OH MY GOD. I think I will die from this.It makes me so dizzy I can hardly get up.Please, anyone who has any natural remedy let me know.
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.
http://www.tibetangoji.ca
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.