Treatment of cough in the home

Every person in his life encountered such an unpleasant phenomenon as coughing. He appears with a lot of ailments: colds, bronchitis, tracheitis, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Due to the prevalence of various colds, which are almost always accompanied by a cough, there are many home remedies for coughing. These medicines are known for more than one century and can serve as a good help to traditional medicine, reduce the number of medications taken and improve the condition.

How to treat cough with home remedies?

Home treatment of cough and diseases that caused it, usually carried out with a series of measures, which include taking various drugs inside, gargling, compresses, rubbing and various inhalations.

To begin with, we consider the treatment of cough by domestic means, which are supposed to be drunk.

Radish juice :

1. Take a big black radish, cut off the top and cut out the middle.
2. The resulting container is filled with honey and left at room temperature.
3. The allocated juice is used for 1 teaspoonful 4 times a day.

Milk drink number 1:

1. A tablespoon of herbs of sage should be poured with 150 grams of milk and brought to a boil.
2. Then add a teaspoon of butter or interior fat and a teaspoon of honey.
3. Drink the mixture before going to bed.

This home remedy helps with night cough, softens it.

Milk drink number 2:

1. For one glass of warm milk, add a teaspoon of butter and honey.
2. After this, add the beaten egg yolk to the mixture.
3. Some sources recommend also adding a little soda (not more than a quarter of a teaspoonful).

Another medicine that is recommended to cook without milk, but take it with it:

1. Mix in equal proportions crushed lemon, honey and hazelnuts.
2. Take the mixture should be on a teaspoon 3-4 times a day, washed down with warm milk.

When coughing caused by bronchitis, funds from young conifers and shoots are effective:

1. For a decoction of 30 grams of cones pour a liter of milk and boil on low heat until about half of the liquid remains.
2. The broth is then filtered and drunk in three divided doses.

To make the tincture, the young cones are poured with alcohol or vodka in a 1: 1 ratio and the month is insisted. Use tincture on a tablespoon for half an hour before meals 3-4 times a day.

Cough treatment at home by rubbing and inhalation

The most popular means of such a plan from cough is boiled potatoes. He is brewed in a uniform, then kneaded, bent over the pan, covered his head with a towel, and breathes the steam.

Effective with cough inhalation with decoctions of herbs such as mother-and-stepmother, oregano and eucalyptus leaves, as well as with essential oils of peppermint and eucalyptus.

For grinding with coughing, goose and badger fat are most often used.

Treatment of dry cough home remedies

When dry cough does not occur expectoration of sputum, and therefore it is especially painful. For this reason, for the most part, home remedies for dry cough are aimed at softening it.

Infusion for gargling:

1. Mix a tablespoon of fennel seeds and three tablespoons of chamomile flowers, sage herbs and mint.
2. A tablespoon of the mixture pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and insist half an hour.
3. With this infusion, gargle at least 5 times a day.

Tea for cough softening:

1. In equal parts, mix the licorice root, the violet grass and the mother-and-stepmother.
2. A tablespoon of collection pour a glass of boiling water, insist in a thermos for 40 minutes and drink during the day. You can add some honey.

From dry cough, the following home remedy is often used:

1. Root water pepper (60 grams) pour 0.25 liters of white wine and bring to a boil.
2. Then strain and drink in a warmed state for 2-3 meals.

The effectiveness of the drug will increase if you rub your chest and back with a mixture of ground onion and goose fat .

And remember, if the treatment does not work, and the cough does not stop for a long time, you need to see a doctor.