Everyone faced a cough. In addition to giving unpleasant sensations, a disease accompanied by a cough can cause complications. Therefore, you need to get rid of cough in parallel with stopping its root cause. It should be noted that there are two types of cough - wet and dry. Dry cough is more dangerous, it can be a manifestation of bronchitis and other severe infectious and inflammatory diseases. Burnt sugar can translate the cough from dry to wet, that is, to produce an expectorant effect when the lungs get sputum. This is a good sign that the patient's condition is improving.
Why does burnt sugar help cough?
A simple folk cough remedy is an effective medicine. Let's see what benefits burned sugar brings and how it coughs.
First of all, the burnt sugar removes the irritation of the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract, therefore the folk remedy is often recommended for acute and chronic pharyngitis.
Secondly, burnt sugar dilutes sputum, which is why it is an indispensable tool in the presence of difficult-to-treat viscous secretions.
The effect of coughing with burnt sugar is achieved after two or three days, such a quick action can not boast of all the drugs from the pharmacy.
Burnt sugar from coughing will not do any harm to the body, even to the baby. But still, before using it, you should consult a doctor, as it will be useless in case of pneumonia and tuberculosis. Because of the fact that among the symptoms of these diseases there is a dry cough, a patient can mistakenly begin treatment with a folk remedy and lose time, giving the chance to develop the disease in severe complications.
Recipes of burnt sugar from cough
Probably, the recipe for burnt sugar from cough is familiar to many from childhood:
- Melt lollipops can be made by melting a few spoons of sugar in a saucepan. The main thing is that the fire during cooking was small.
- Also, do not forget to stir the sugar constantly so that it does not burn.
- After the product has turned into a viscous liquid of brown color with small bubbles, it is necessary to quickly pour it into molds.
- For convenience, stick in the still hot liquid sticks - so, the candy will be more convenient to suck.
- It is also advisable to lubricate the molds with a small amount of oil so that the burnt sugar can be easily removed from them.
In addition to the classic, there are several recipes, thanks to which you can make lollipops from burnt sugar with different tastes, without sacrificing the medicinal properties of the folk remedy.
In order to make a milk candy from burnt sugar, it is necessary:
- Melt the sugar.
- Using a spoon, slowly pour the sugar into a glass of cold milk, stirring at the same time.
- Spread the resulting liquid into molds.
If you do everything right, then the therapeutic candy will have a homogeneous mass, and there will be no fragments of burnt sugar in them.
Also in the folk remedy you can add decoctions
- Take one glass of anti-inflammatory decoction based on mother-and-stepmother or expectorant broth based on thyme .
- Add in it two glasses of sugar and two tablespoons of honey.
- After this, mix everything thoroughly.
- Pour the resulting mixture into a saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring constantly.
- After the liquid becomes viscous and acquires a brownish color, it is necessary to pour it over the molds.
Such a simple folk remedy possesses a mass of useful properties, which also depend on those herbs whose broths will be added to the candy. In this case, a positive result will be visible after three days.