Tried and tested home remedies for Cough
I and my family always use these home remedies when we have a cough any season.
They are very simple and Easy to use Home Remedies for Cough.
Home remedies and natural medicines made at home from natural ingredients such as fruits, vegetables, and herbs are catching a lot of attention due to its very nature of cure: simple, no side effects, and no chemicals, inexpensive. Winter is very common time for cough and cold problems. Here are some easy to use Remedies for Cough
Why we all get cough?
Coughing is the body's way of removing foreign material or mucus from the lungs and upper airway passages.
Or
Coughing is reaction to an irritated airway
Or
Coughing is a reflex action started by stimulation of sensory nerves in the lining of the respiratory passages - the tubes we use to breathe.
When a person coughs, there is a short intake of breath and the larynx (the voice box) closes momentarily. The abdominal and chest muscles used for breathing contract, which in turn increases the pressure needed to drive air out the lungs when the larynx re-opens.
Coughs have distinctive traits you can learn to recognize. A cough is only a symptom, not a disease, and often the importance of your cough can be determined only when other symptoms are evaluated.
What are causes of Cough?
Coughing usually means there is something in the respiratory passages that should not be there. This can be caused by breathing in dust particles in the air or when a piece of food goes down the wrong way.
It could also be a sign that an infection in the lungs is making the respiratory passages produce phlegm.
Coughing can be provoked by:
The common cold
This is a frequent cause of acute cough that usually settles in less than three weeks.
Bacterial or viral infections
These infections in the lungs, e.g. acute bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough, croup in children
Sucking material
When sucking material into the breathing tubes from your mouth.
Severe illnesses
This can be due to pneumonia, acute heart failure or pulmonary embolism (a clot in the blood vessels of the lung).
Smoking
This often causes chronic cough (smoker's lung).
Asthma
This can happened in children who may only cough and show no wheezing
Stomach acid
This can back up the gullet and spilling over into the windpipe (gastro-oesophageal reflux).
Medicines
Some of them used in heart disease called ACE inhibitors.
Psychological illness
Rarely coughing can be provoked by psychological illness
Nerve damage
This can happen to damage to the nerves that supply the vocal chords (known as vocal chordpalsy) and chronic cough can occur.
Here are try and tested simple home remedies for cough. Please try and let me know if they work.
1. Turmeric powder drink
I like this one and because this is very easy to use. To make this Mix 1-2 tsp. of pure home made turmeric powder in warm milk and drink it twice a day for coughs of a bacterial origin. Within 2 days your cough will be gone by using this method.
2. Honey and white pepper Tea
Take one tea spoon of pure honey and to it add a pinch of grounded white pepper. Regular usage of this 2-3 times a day for about 4-5 days will cure your cough. This is one of the important home remedies for cough. Honey when taken with white pepper will loosen the mucous and make you spit the mucus. This will be helpful in throwing the irritating substances of the trachea and help you in treating cough.
3. Red Raspberry drink
Drinking red raspberry, honeysuckle, or liquor ice tea with honey is helpful in treating cough in 2-3 days.
4. Honey plus orange juice
Take 2 tablespoons of honey and mix it in one cup of orange juice and drink it.
5. Homemade syrup
Prepare a cough syrup from baked onion juice, comfrey tea, and honey. Drink it daily and your cough will subside.
6. Vodka and honey
Before going to bed just take a spoonful of honey with few drops of vodka or brandy in it.
7. Ginger Tea
If you have cough due to cold then just drink tea made of ginger 3-4 times a day or just eat raw ginger, this will subside your cough.
8. Gargle with salted warm water
You may also gargle with warm water to which lot of salt is added as many times as possible during the day. This will help you to clear phlegm caught in the throat.
9. Onion Juice and Honey
Mix 5 ml of onion juice with 10 ml of pure honey. Take this mixture at least twice a day. This will relieve your cough and will also help in soothing throat.
Please share your home remedies which I will add tomy blog.....
