Preparations of this plant are well known to both children and adults. Especially effective is its use in broncho-pulmonary diseases, and licorice syrup is taken from dry or wet cough.
Licorice - a special plant
The beneficial properties of this plant were already known in ancient times, as evidenced by the treatises of the doctors of ancient Egypt, India, the healers of Tibet. It is mentioned in the medical collections of Hippocrates and Avicenna. A distinctive feature of licorice is its sweet taste, because of what the ancients called it Scythian glycae, that is, sweet root, yellow root and liquorice. The sweetness in it is present due to the increased content of sucrose, and the healing properties are enhanced by the unique complex of essential oils, pectins, flavonoids and mineral salts contained in the plant, as well as vitamin C acting as an antioxidant and a multivitamin component. However, despite the proven benefit for centuries, licorice has its contraindications. Its reception is categorically not recommended for people suffering from diabetes and with individual intolerance.
Various preparations prepared with the use of the yellow root are widely used for the treatment of various diseases, but the syrup of licorice root from cough is especially prominent.
What is useful licorice syrup?
This drug is intended for therapeutic procedures associated with the treatment of acute respiratory diseases accompanied by cough, among them:
- tracheobronchitis;
- pneumonia;
- bronchitis;
- tracheitis.
- and a number of other diseases of this type.
It is known that it is dry and moist, so you need to find out from which cough to take the syrup of licorice root. It is established that the drug works equally well for dry and with a damp cough. As a rule, at the initial stage of the disease there is a dry cough. In this case, if it is not treated or improperly treated, then it will only increase, In this case, the reception of a drug that actively influences the course of the disease is shown. Syrup of licorice with dry cough, due to the element of glycyrrhizin entering into the root of the plant, strengthens the secretory function of the upper respiratory tract, which, in turn, promotes the dilution of sputum . Further administration of the drug provides an enhanced effect, which leads to expectoration of the sputum. In this case, the syrup also performs a wound-healing function, stopping the microorganisms, often formed with a severe dry cough.
How to take licorice root syrup when coughing?
There is a certain order of taking the drug, which ensures its effective effect on the body and the excretion of phlegm.
It is recommended to take licorice syrup three to four times a day. In this case, it is necessary to use it after eating, washing down with a lot of water.
Dosage reception for children and adults is different.
- In the first case, a sweet medicine is given to children at the age of one to six years, half a teaspoon.
- Children from six to twelve years of age can be increased to a teaspoonful.
- How to take licorice syrup when coughing an adult is determined by numerous tests: this dose can be one tablespoon per reception. In this dosage, the drug is allowed not only for adults, but also for children from the age of twelve.
In addition, there may be specificities of admission and timing of course treatment, determined by age, general health, the presence of chronic diseases and the course of the disease.