2 simple cough remedies that really work

When we get sick, it is better to give the body a chance to fight with the disease when possible. Using natural products and vitamins can help your body to fight the infection, instead use something that bypasses this natural process.

Illnesses, which include a cough, can be tedious and inconvenient because they limit the ability to sleep. In these cases, you can use homemade cough syrup recipes to recover from illness.

What natural ingredients can help you relieve a cough?

◆ Honey naturally soothes a cough. Some doctors even recommend a spoonful of honey to babies who cough.

◆ Ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory agent that possesses expectorant action.

◆ Chamomile relaxes the muscles, helping to remove the feeling of “tickling” in the throat, and also promotes restful sleep.

◆ Elecampane root has the highest content of mucus of all the herbs and has a soothing effect on the throat.

◆ Cinnamon helps to boost the immune system and improves the taste.

Studies have shown that honey soothes a cough as well or even better than most pharmaceutical drugs. Honey has antioxidant and antimicrobial properties and can fight bacteria without any chemicals. If you combine it with the healthy substances of lemon and other citrus fruits and add the herbs, you will get the best natural remedy for colds. The taste of this syrup is much nicer that the purchased medicines. You can eat it right off the spoon or mix it into hot tea or water. The steam and heat of the hot tea sooth a sore throat.

The combination of herbs in the cough syrup helps to soothe the throat and promote restful sleep. This tool can be used for both adults and kids older than one year because it contains honey. If you want, you can substitute honey with maple syrup.

Chamomile syrup

So, here’s the first recipe of the homemade herbal cough syrup that soothes the throat, eases expectoration and helps you to sleep peacefully.

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking Time: 30 min

Total time: 35 min.

Ingredients:

◈ filtered water – about 1 liter

◈ chamomile flowers – ¼ of a cup

◈ ginger (freshly grated or dried) – ¼ of a cup

◈ cinnamon – 1 tbsp

◈ elecampane (root) – ¼ of a cup

◈ lemon juice – ¼ of a cup

◈ honey – 1 cup

Instructions:

Pour the water into a medium saucepan and sprinkle with ginger, spices and herbs. Boil the mixture, and then simmer.

You need to have one cup of liquid after you drain the liquid from the herbs.

Pour the liquid through a fine sieve or cheesecloth separating the liquid from the herbs. Mix the warm liquid with honey and lemon juice.

Dosage: one teaspoon for children and one tablespoon to adults as needed. Store tasty herbal cough syrup in a sealed jar in the refrigerator up to two months.

Citrus syrup

Here is another recipe.

Ingredients:

◈ unfiltered or buckwheat honey

◈ citrus fruits

◈ the lemon, lime, or orange

◈ fresh rosemary or mint

◈ ginger (fresh or dried) or cinnamon

Preparation:

Slice the citrus fruits. It’s better to cut the orange in the quarters, and the remaining fruit in halves.

You can use both fresh and ground ginger. To prepare it for the syrup, you need to cleanse it with the regular tablespoon and grate it. In the syrup, not only the flesh is necessary, but also the juice, because it is an excellent remedy when the throat is scratchy. Try not to lose the juice of ginger.

Take a jar of any capacity. Put half the lemon slices, a teaspoon of ground ginger, and half of the cup of honey. Stir everything with a chopstick, butter knife or other long thin object. Move the lemon slices until you are sure that the honey has passed between them. Repeat procedure with remaining ingredients. If the there’s still some free space – fill it with honey. In the end, the jar needs to be filled with lemon slices for the most part.

Within 3-4 hours the homemade cough syrup will be ready. The honey pulls the juice out of citrus fruits, so it’s best to mix everything one more time. As a result, the thick consistency of the honey is converted into a liquid syrup. If you prefer a more dense mass, you should increase the ratio of honey to citrus. Another way to thicken the mixture is to heat it on a slow fire for 15 minutes. After cooling, honey and citrus pectin thickens. However, the extra thermal processing destroys many of the nutrients, so don’t abuse this method.

Storage: the homemade cough syrups are stored in the refrigerator in a jar with the lid tightly closed. The medicinal properties are preserved for 3-4 months. Since honey is a natural preservative and citrus fruits have low PH, the syrup’s quality doesn’t deteriorate with time. If you add more perishable ingredients (such as mint), then a natural remedy will not be able to be preserved for so long.

We all want to help a friend when he feels bad. However, not always we know how to do it. A homemade jar of the cough syrup can be a perfect present. This excellent remedy will help to get rid of symptoms of flu and colds, and your friend will appreciate the attention and thoughtfulness.

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