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♥Remi♥ asked in HealthOther - Health · 1 decade ago

Cough home remedy please?

My mother is having severe cough and cold for the past 3-4 days. She also has sinus problem. Can anybody suggest any home remedy to immediately ease cough. Its urgent.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH

    * Prepare a mixture by adding ½ teaspoon honey with ½ teaspoon lemon juice. Take this every 12 hours. Honey relieves the itchiness by moisturizing the throat passage

    * Take 0.5 pounds (250 gms) of sweet apples daily for a week to cure cough.

    * Soak almonds overnight and remove their skin. Make a paste of the soaked almonds with little butter and sugar. This is very useful for dry cough.

    * Mix 8 - 10 tablespoons of coconut milk with 1 tablespoon poppy seeds and 1 tablespoon of pure honey. Take this every night before going to bed.

    * Prepare a mixture by adding a teaspoonful of honey with a few drops of brandy. It helps to relieve cough.

    * Mix equal parts of limejuice and honey.

    * Combine a cup of grape juice and a teaspoon of honey. Mix well to prepare an effective remedy for coughing.

    * Mix 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey. Keep it aside for 3 to 4 hours before drinking.

    * Apply hot mustard pack on the chest. This brings down fever, eliminates toxins and speeds in recovery. If needed, repeat every other day for a week.

    * Deep breathe in front of an open window. This has multiple benefits. Exhaling vigorously rids the body of waste gases and deep inhalation saturates the lungs with oxygen.

    * Chop an onion finely, put it with a tablespoon of clear honey in a screw-top jar and leave overnight. In the morning, drinking a teaspoonful of the juice produced will give relief to cough.

    * Garlic-and-onion chicken soup is also an effective remedy for cough .

    * Drink hot tea with lemon and raspberry jam, drink as much as possible.

    * Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime for cough relief.

    * Slice 2 snow pears into small pieces. Add 3 bowls of water and boil until the water has reduced to 2 bowls. Strain and discard the pears, and add 30 grams of rice to the liquid. Boil again until rice is cooked. Drink the soup.

    * Peel 50 grams fresh ginger and cut into small slices. Boil the slices with 100 grams maltose in 2 glasses water for 30 minutes. Drink it hot, twice a day, in one day.

    * Boil 20 red dates with 60 grams maltose in enough water. Eat once a day.

    * Prepare a mixture of 5 fresh-pitted olives and rock sugar; steam them for half an hour. Eat the olives to help with chronic coughs.

    * Steam 2 unpeeled tangerines with 30 grams rock sugar to relieve coughs with a yellowish mucous discharge. Eat the tangerines at bedtime.

    * In one cup of warm milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder (Haldi) and drink twice a day.

    * In one cup of warm milk, add 2 – 3 strands of saffron (kesar) and drink twice a day.

    * Mix half a teaspoon of tulsi juice with half a teaspoon with ginger juice. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take the above mixture 2-3 times a day till symptoms subside.

    * Take 1 cup of water and add 4-5 leaves of tulsi; a small piece of ginger (adrak) and 1 teaspoon of jaggery. Boil this mixture over slow heat till the quantity becomes half a cup. Drink this at least 2 times in a day.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Make sure she's drinking lots of water during the day to thin out whatever mucous she's having an issue with. If it's a dry cough, meaning she diesn't have a respiratory problem bringing up phlegm from her lungs, she's probably coughing because she's having mucous issues in her nose and sinuses dripping to her throat, so give her some benadryl at bedtime, which will dry up anything dripping to her throat and also knock her out a little and help her sleep better. You can do the honey thing with ot without the benadryl too, but it won't last all night. It just coats the throat so whatever is dripping won't irritate the tissues and trigger a cough.

  • 1 decade ago

    Try this remedy

    It works 100% of the time although the scientists at the Canada Research council (who discovered it) aren't sure why.

    To stop nighttime coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks Vaporub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime, then cover with socks. Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many, many hours of relief.

    Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly.

    It was a surprising finding and found to be more effective than prescribed medicines for children at bedtime, in addition to have a soothing and calming effect on sick children who then went on to sleep soundly.

    An adult friend tried it on herself when she had a very deep constant and persistent cough a few weeks ago and it worked 100%! She said that it felt like a warm blanket had enveloped her, coughing stopped in a few minutes and believe me, this was a deep, ( incredibly annoying!) every few seconds uncontrollable cough, and she slept cough-free for hours every night that she used it.

    So, if you have kids/grandchildren, pass it on. If you end up sick, try yourself and you will be absolutely amazed

  • when my son had croup the Dr. told us to run a hot shower in the bathroom w/ the door shut ,

    then while the shower is still running & the room is steamy go & sit in the bathroom (NOT the shower) for about 20-30 mins. it clears the sinus

    passage & helps the cough go away. After that

    shut the shower off, wipe off the sweat & get rest.

    MAYBE this will help , hope she gets well soon .

    if she's up to eating have her eat some chicken --

    noodle soup too .

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    keep a clove under ur teeths without chewing it . but i don't know whether it affects the sinus patients.but avoid having it in large quantity as it generates heat in the body

    you can also try honey mixed with grated ginger's juice

    or chew some tulsi leaves .it helps me to get rid of cough .

  • Amit G
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    just chewing ginger wid salt

    3 times in a day

  • 1 decade ago

    Mix together 2 parts honey to 1 part vinegar. The vinegar kills bacteria and the honey will coat your throat. Sounds yucky, but it works.

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  • 1 decade ago

    boil milk put some turmeric and ginger in that ...ask her to drink that in luke warm temperature

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