How to cure a cough: cough remedies, cough treatment with folk remedies and homemade recipes
There are many ways to treat a cough with folk remedies, and many of them have proven to be very effective. How to treat a cough and how to cure a cough at home, you will learn from the material below.
Cough is the most common symptom of inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, bronchi and lungs (from the common cold, flu to various infectious diseases). Cough can be of different nature: dry, barking and wet.
If the cause is not clear, cough medicine should be prescribed by a specialist after a medical examination. But if the cough "caught" you where there are no doctors, then you should give yourself first aid on your own.
How to deal with a cough with medicines
Today, pharmacies offer the widest selection of antitussive drugs. To calm the cough, you can put under the tongue three times a day, 1 tablet of Bronchalis-Hel or drink Libexin or Mukaltin, 1-2 tablets 2-3 times a day. A good remedy is bronchicum (it must be taken orally, dissolving 1 teaspoon of powder in hot water). Before you fight a cough with medicines, consult a pharmacist, perhaps he will offer you the so-called breast fees, which can be brewed like tea and drunk with a cough that occurs without using chemical preparations.
Homemade folk recipes for cough
If the cough is dry, and you do not have any medicines, then carrot juice, carefully mixed in equal proportions with sugar syrup, can help to cope with it. This mixture should be drunk warm, 1 tablespoon 5-6 times a day.
Also, in the absence of pharmaceutical preparations, start rubbing a mixture of two parts of olive oil and one part of ammonia into the chest.
As a mild diaphoretic and expectorant, you can use the infusion of coltsfoot. To prepare it, brew 10-15 g of grass with 1 cup of boiling water, let it brew for half an hour or an hour and strain. Take this infusion should be a third of a glass 3 times a day.
A well-established folk recipe for cough is radish with honey. If the cough is dry and bothers you especially at night, take a black radish, cut a hole in it and fill it with honey (2 tablespoons). Place the radish in a deep cup or saucepan and cover the top with a lid for 3-4 hours. The liquid formed in the hole of the radish should be taken 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day before meals and before bedtime.
The composition prepared in this way helps to fight a dry night cough: you need to boil ordinary cocoa with milk, add 1-2 teaspoons of honey and a small piece of butter to it. Drink 1 glass at night.
Another homemade recipe for cough: cut the radish into very thin slices, sprinkle each slice generously with sugar and let it brew for 6 hours. The resulting juice should be taken 1 tablespoon every hour – this will thoroughly “slow down" the cough.
How else to treat a cough with folk remedies
Another folk remedy for treating cough is the following recipe: thoroughly mix 1 glass of turnip juice with 1 tablespoon of honey, hold this composition on fire until it boils, then remove from heat and cool. Drink the drink 3 sips 3-4 times a day 30-40 minutes before meals.
For those who like to be treated without fail with the help of alcoholic beverages (and not only for them), you can offer the following recipe: beat egg yolks with sugar and rum (3 yolks, 50 ml of rum and 2 teaspoons of sugar) and take 4-5 times a day, 1 tablespoon before meals.
When treating cough with folk remedies, as an expectorant, you can take lingonberry juice syrup with sugar or honey as often as possible, 1 tablespoon per dose. It is good to combine this remedy with a decoction of field strawberries (drink it instead of water or tea).
You can pour 2 tablespoons of coltsfoot herbs in a thermos with a glass of boiling water and insist for 1 hour. Strain the resulting solution and squeeze out. Take as an expectorant one third of a glass 3 times a day.
For the same purpose, take a horseradish root, pass it through a juicer. Mix the resulting juice with water in a ratio of 1: 2, take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.
12 If the cough has been bothering you for a long time and persistently (which is most often found in chronic bronchitis), you should simmer potatoes, onions and apples in 1 liter of water (half of the water should boil away). You need to take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
You can get rid of a smoker's cough by drinking several times a day, 50 ml of a decoction in the milk of mallow rhizomes (several rhizomes per 0.5 l of milk, boil for 10-15 minutes in a water bath), taking it 3 tablespoons 4-5 times a day.
With the so-called nervous cough (often occurring in a stressful situation, with nervous excitement), you need to take 0.5 kg of finely chopped onion, mix it with 2 cups of sugar and 3 tablespoons of honey. Pour the mixture into 1 liter of water and cook on a divider for 3 hours. Then, pouring the solution into sterile containers with tight lids, you need to put them in a dark place. Take 1 tablespoon 5 times a day.