How to cure cough with Herbal Remedies
Are you suffering from common cough? In a simple words, cough is a reflex mechanism to expel any irritant from the trachea or wind pipe. A cough can be harmless, but sometimes it can also be a symptom to a more serious illness. The reasons while we cough is simply to expel some unwanted materials which may includes irritating fumes, dust or food particles that finds their way into our wind pipe. This conditions results to a brief cough but if they migrated into a persistent cough, then chances are that, it might be a signal to a more serious illness like tuberculosis, flu or pneumonia. In this case, if herbal remedies can not cure the cough, then go see a doctor immediately.
Causes of Cough:
Coughing can be due to a number of conditions like colds and flu to more serious conditions like chronic bronchitis, asthma and whooping cough.
Signs and Symptoms:
Generally cough are worse in the morning and one may find that, he or she is bringing up some thick yellow or green phlegm. Sometimes a minor irritation may start the cough reflex even though there is not sufficient materials to clear from the lungs. This is known as a dry cough. While coughing, if blood comes out or severe pain in the chest occurs, one should consult a doctor at once instead of using this herbal treatments here.
Herbal Remedies and Dosage:
1. Since most coughs are good for the lungs it is desirable to allow the cough to run its normal course. Do not suppress a productive (wet) cough. Let the phlegm be expelled out.
2. Two gm of pure home made turmeric powder well mixed in a cup of warm milk, should be taken twice a day and it will effectively check the cough of bacterial origin. This should be continued for few days.
3. 5ml of fresh tulsi juice well mixed in 10ml of pure honey if chewed twice a day, will calms down cough in children and adults.
4. In chronic coughs, crush 1 or 2 garlic cloves, add to a glass of milk, boil the milk till 1/2 glass of milk remains, then filter it, add little bit of sugar if desire and make it into two parts. Take one part in the morning and the other in the evening. Do it for a week and you will see a remarkable improvement. However acidity patients should not use it, since it may aggravate the acidity.
5. Similarly, onion juice can be used too. 5ml of fresh onion juice well mixed with 10ml of pure honey should be taken twice a day for 10 days.
6. Steam inhalation of tumeric in water also is very good for controlling cough.
Diets:
One should avoid sour things like curd, lemon etc and very cold water, soft drinks, and ice-creams. Meat should also be restricted. Eat enough raw garlic as much as you can, it helps for aiding the cure of cough. if you can't eat it, then you can swallow it.
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