Treatment of cough with folk remedies

Coughing - involuntary forced exhalation caused by irritation of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract (larynx, respiratory throat, bronchi) and pulmonary tissue - pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchial asthma.

Causes of cough: cold, allergy, sometimes emotional stress, excitement.

Manifestations of coughing. Cough can be wet and dry, depending on the presence of sputum, paroxysmal (with pertussis), recurrent (with bronchitis), continuous and short (with pleurisy), barking (with larynx and hysteria), hoarse (with inflammation of the vocal cords).

Folk remedies for cough

• 500 g of peeled onions, chopped, add 400 g of sugar and cook over low heat in 1 liter of water for 3 hours. Then cool, add 50 g of honey, pour into a bottle and cork. Take 4-6 tablespoons a day after meals.
• Brazilians skip ripe bananas through a sieve, then put the grated mass in a pan with hot water in the proportion: 2 bananas per 1 cup of water with sugar. Again warm up and drink this mixture.
• In the evening, finely chop a large onion, fill it with 2 tablespoons of sugar. By morning the medicine will be ready. During the day, eat a sweet onion or drink a formed juice. Treated several days in a row, and cough will pass.
• Choose a pot-bellied black radish with a tail, cut off the tip and take out the inside by a third. Put a little honey in the indentation so that there is room for the juice that stands out. Cut the radish into the glass with water down the tail. When in 3-4 hours juice is typed, drink it and put honey again.
• Recipe for children: cut the black radish into small cubes, put in a saucepan and sprinkle with sugar. Bake in oven for 2 hours. Strain, discard pieces of baked vegetable, and drain the liquid into a bottle. Give 2 teaspoons 3-4 times a day before meals and at night before going to bed (see also Vanga recipes for children coughing ).
• Spirituous tincture of eucalyptus should be taken 20-30 drops per 1/4 cup of cooled boiled water 3 times a day.
• Prepare a mixture of the following ingredients in the quantities indicated: altey (root) - 40 g, licorice naked (root) - 25 g, coltsfoot (leaves) - 20 g, fennel (fruit) - 15 g. Tablespoons of the mixture, pour a glass of steep boiling water, insist 10-12 hours, filter. Drink 1 / 4-1 / 3 cup 3-5 times a day.
• Prepare a mixture of the following ingredients in the quantities indicated: mother-and-stepmother (leaves) - 40 g, plantain (leaves) - 30 g, licorice naked (root) - 30 g. A tablespoon of the mixture is poured with 2 glasses of steep boiling water, 40 minutes and filter Drink in a warm form for 1/2 cup 3 times daily before meals with cough and bronchitis .
• Prepare a mixture of the following ingredients in specified amounts: mother-and-stepmother - 2 parts, oregano grass - 1 part, chamomile flowers - 2 parts. Two tablespoons of the ground mixture pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist in a thermos for 5-6 hours, strain. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times daily before meals in a warm form.
• Take the flowers of the primrose, the leaves of the mother-and-stepmother, the root of elecampane and licorice naked in equal proportions. A tablespoon of the mixture is poured into a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes, filter. Drink 1 / 4-1 / 3 cup 3-4 times a day after meals.
• Brew in a thermos glass of boiling water 2 teaspoons of roots elecampane high. Drink the broth 1/3 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating. This broth is used as a strong expectorant for bronchitis. Or: pour 1 tablespoon of the roots of elecampane with 2 glasses of water and boil for 15 minutes over a small fire. Take 2 tablespoons every hour during the day.
• 10 g of licorice root is poured into a glass of boiling water, heated in a water bath for 20 minutes, cooled for 45 minutes, filtered, squeezed and brought to a volume of up to 200 ml. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.
• A strong cough is well treated with ordinary milk. Drink hot milk with alkaline mineral water (1/2 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of Borjomi) or honey (1 teaspoon of honey for a glass of hot milk). And kids are best to add figs to warm milk. See also the recipes for a strong cough .
• Two medium sized onions finely chop, boil in 1 glass of milk, insist for 4 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon every 3 hours.
• 10 onions and garlic head cut into small pieces and boil in milk until soft, then add honey and mint juice. Take 1 tablespoon an hour after a prolonged dry cough.
• To soften the sore throat it is useful to drink warm milk, cream or tea with butter several times a day.
• To separate sputum it is very useful to drink a mixture of cranberry juice with a small amount of sugar syrup or honey. Take the mixture several times a day for 1 tablespoon. During treatment with this remedy it is very good to drink instead of boiled water or tea a decoction of strawberry field berries.
• Take rye, oats and barley, add chicory and 2 g of peeled bitter almonds and drink it like ordinary coffee. You can add hot melted milk.
• Before going to bed, to relieve coughing attacks, it is recommended to drink slowly a glass of warm poppy milk. Take 2-3 teaspoons (top) of poppies, grind in a ceramic cup, moistened with hot water, and then pour a glass of boiling water, let it brew, drain and drink.
• To 1 teaspoon of honey add 2 tablespoons of anise seeds and a pinch of salt. All this pour 250 ml of water and bring to a boil, and then strain. Take an adult 2 tablespoons every 2 hours. To the child to reduce a dose twice.
• Take 1 time a day on a dessert spoonful of the mixture: 2 teaspoons of fresh butter, 2 raw yolks, dessert spoon of flour or starch and 2 dessert spoons of honey; Mix well and take 4-5 times a day before meals.
• Take an incomplete tablespoon of sugar and hold it on fire until it turns dark brown. Then pour it into a saucer with milk. Obtained "candy" to keep in the mouth until it is completely resorbed with a dry cough.
• There is such an ancient cough remedy: boil 60 g of pepper roots with 0.25 l of white wine and strain. A hot mixture to drink 3 times during the day and at night.
• Boil the crushed eucalyptus leaves with boiling water, roll the funnel from the thick paper, cover the pan (cup) with infusion with a wide end, and inhale steam (10-15 minutes) through a narrow gap.
• Prepare the composition in the following proportions: the leaves of the birch and the Labrador tea - 4 parts, the oregano grass - 2 parts, the leaves of the nettle and the birch buds - 1 part each. Pour 0.5 liters of boiling water 2 tablespoons of the crushed mixture and cook in a sealed container on low heat for 10 minutes, insist 30 minutes, wrapped, then gently strain. Take a decoction of 1/3 cup 3 times a day an hour after eating.
• Apply a mixture of 1 kg of lime honey, 200 g finely chopped aloe leaves, 200 g of olive oil, 150 g of birch buds, 50 g of lime-colored. Birch buds and linden color brew separately in 0.5 liters of water, boil 1-2 minutes, strain. This broth pour into a mixture of honey with aloe, then add the olive oil. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day with prolonged cough, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Shake before use.
• As an expectorant 2 times a day, drink 1/2 cup of warm water (in the morning on an empty stomach and before dinner), stirring in it 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and a pinch of salt.
• 1 lemon boil over low heat for 10 minutes to make it soft and you can squeeze more juice out of it. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice (preferably a juicer). Pour the juice into a glass, add 2 tablespoons of glycerin, carefully stir and add the glass to the top with honey. With a rare cough, take the resulting syrup 1 teaspoon several times a day. Shake before use. If coughing is disturbing at night, take 1 teaspoon of syrup overnight and one more night. With a strong cough to drink syrup 1 teaspoon 6 times a day - in the morning (on an empty stomach), before dinner and after it, at night, after dinner and at night. As the cough decreases, the number of receptions is reduced. It is recommended for adults and children. It is effective in cases where other medicines do not help. Instead of lemon, you can use apple cider vinegar.
• Decoction of the flowers of the viburnum vulgaris is a good expectorant. You can also use a decoction of the fruits of the viburnum: pour a glass of berries 1 liter of hot water, boil for 10 minutes, strain, add 3 tablespoons of honey. Drink 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day.
• A tablespoon of crushed leaves of althea medicinal pour 1 cup of boiling water, insist 1 hour, then strain. Take 1 teaspoonful 3-4 times a day.
• Wipe the breast with a dry cloth cloth, then rub a piece of internal lard or melted butter (if necessary, add pine oil).
• Cut into very thin slices 6 or 8 pieces of radish. Sprinkle copiously with each slice of sugar. After about half a day, juice, mixed with sugar, will separate. Take 1 tablespoon every hour. The healers say that the described remedy cures the most severe cough in a relatively short period of time.
• Fresh juice of cabbage with sugar is used as an expectorant for coughing and hoarseness. Drink a teaspoon several times a day. Broth of cabbage with honey to take inside with diseases of the respiratory tract.
• Oats or barley, fill it in a saucepan for 2/3 and add milk to it without filling it with two fingers. Close the lid and put in the oven with a little heat. Fill the milk with the boil until the oats are boiled. Drink this liquid 2-3 tablespoons 3 times a day with cough.
• 30 grams of herb wild rosewood pour 1 cup boiling water, insist and strain. Take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day. Or: a teaspoon of Grasshopper's herb grass, pour 400 ml of cooled boiled water, insist 8 hours in a sealed container and strain. Drink 100 ml 4 times a day as an expectorant.
• In Siberian villages with "severe cold" and strong cough used such a tool: 20 g herb wormwood insist in 0.5 liters of vodka - the longer, the better, but not less than 24 hours. Take a tablespoon 3 times a day and at bedtime. It is not recommended for the treatment of children.
• To chop the egg yolks with sugar is white. The mixture will increase in volume by 2-3 times. This tool is called "gogol-mogol" and helps with coughing if taken on an empty stomach.
• Fig (or fig), cooked in milk (2-3 fetuses per glass of milk), was used for the first time for cough, whooping cough, colds, especially in children. The broth should be taken warm at night. Infusion of leaves of figs was recommended for bronchial asthma .
• Take a large onion, peel, wash and grate. Mix with goose fat. Rub this mixture into the thorax and neck area. Tie a warm handkerchief. In the morning on an empty stomach take a tablespoon of this mixture with a cough.
• When coughing, bronchitis , pneumonia, a decoction of mother-and- stepmother was used. A tablespoon of leaves pour a glass of steep boiling water, insist for half an hour and filter. Take a tablespoon 5-6 times a day.
• Mix freshly squeezed carrot juice and milk in equal proportions. Take cough 5-6 times a day.
• Fruits of raspberry, leaves of mother-and-stepmother, herb of common ore common. A tablespoon of the mixture to brew in a glass of boiling water, insist 20 minutes and drink, like tea, hot as an expectorant.
• When coughing in children, juice of carrots with honey is recommended. Carrot juice should be freshly prepared. Take a tablespoon of mixture 4-5 times a day.
• 5 cloves garlic clean, finely pound, dilute a glass of milk and boil. In diseases of the upper respiratory tract and cough take in warm form on a teaspoon several times a day.

Recommended diet for the treatment of cough

Patients suffering from cough, it is very useful to include in the diet liquid milk porridge from the oatmeal, mashed potatoes cooked with a lot of milk (promotes the removal of bronchospasm), grated radish, seasoned with vegetable oil and sour cream. An effective remedy to help get rid of cough is the grapes, which promotes healing of the lungs and acts as an expectorant, quickly curing an ordinary cold and cough. A glass of grape juice with a teaspoon of honey soothes a cough. Coffee is recommended to replace with barley drink with the addition of chicory and milk. It is good to take a lemon, passed through a meat grinder along with a peel and mixed to taste with honey. Avoid spicy food, sweet drinks, sweets.