Find today someone who has never experienced what a cough is, probably impossible. Moreover, many people have to spend a huge amount of time and effort to get rid of this disease, not to mention money. But, before you run to the pharmacy for medicines, you should try to apply folk cough recipes for children and adults.
Types of cough
The beginning of treatment should be preceded by finding out the cause. After all, it is far from always a cough due to a cold or any infection, and, accordingly, not in all cases it can be eliminated at home. The use of folk remedies can eliminate the following types of cough:
- Wet. It is characterized by cyclicity and stops after the removal of sputum, due to which relief comes. Such a cough resumes with the accumulation of sputum. It should be treated with sputum-thinning agents, for the preparation of whichyou can use folk recipes for coughing for children.
- Dry. People call it a "barking" cough. It manifests itself at the beginning of the disease. In this case, it is necessary to induce expectoration of sputum.
Folk recipes for a strong cough should not be used for such types of it as spastic, whooping cough, nocturnal, protracted, appearing during physical exertion, and also psychogenic.
Wet cough. Folk medicine prescriptions
The main task in the fight against wet cough is to facilitate the discharge of sputum. This is most difficult to achieve with children's coughs, since sputum in babies is more viscous than in adults. At the same time, it is important that the mucus from the baby's bronchi is removed as quickly as possible, since it is the center for the development of bacteria.
There are the following folk recipes for cough for children:
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped figs is poured into 300 ml of boiling water, the mixture simmers on low heat for about 10-12 minutes, then it should be filtered, cooled and given to the child 100 ml after meals;
- mix black radish juice and chilled boiled milk in a ratio of one to two, add 1 teaspoon of honey and consume 1 tbsp. spoon after meals;
- put a medium-sized onion cut into pieces in a saucepan, add 500 ml of milk, boil and insist for four hours, take the remedy every four hours; similarly, you can make a garlic drink (5 cloves).
Each recipe for a bad cough above iscan be used to treat not only children, but also adults.
Dry cough - what is the best treatment?
In the fight against dry cough, there are some peculiarities. However, traditional medicine is not powerless here. A hot decoction of dates helps very well in this case. To prepare it, you need to take about 10 dates, pour 0.5 liters of water and cook for 30 minutes. In many cases, dry cough stops after this treatment.
Folk recipes also involve chocolate butter treatment, which can be prepared as follows: place 3 tbsp. spoons of pork fat, 100 g of butter and melt them, then add 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa and 100 g of chocolate. Cool the mixture and spread it on bread, eat 4-5 times a day. It is best to drink this kind of delicacy for a child with warm milk with a pinch of soda. Children especially like this treatment, because, unlike numerous potions, decoctions and infusions, this oil is very tasty.
Considering folk recipes for dry cough, it is also worth mentioning one more remedy. To prepare it, pour a medium-sized lemon with water and boil over low heat for 10-12 minutes. Then the lemon should be removed and, cut in half, squeeze out the juice, add 2 tbsp. spoons of glycerin and honey to a full glass. Take 2 teaspoons three times a day.
Cough treatment with coltsfoot
coltsfoot is also very popular in the treatment of cough. This plant, thanks to itsleaves substances (acids, glycosides, polysaccharides, carotenoids, mucus, tannins), has an excellent expectorant effect. In addition, it reduces pain when coughing, disinfects and has an anti-inflammatory effect. Folk medicine recipes for coughs containing coltsfoot offers the following:
- 1 tbsp pour a spoonful of leaves of the plant with water (200 ml) and, stirring, heat for 15 minutes on steam. Then cool, strain and dilute with boiling water to 200 ml. Take 100 ml. The daily dose should be 300-400 ml.
- Fresh flowers should be poured with alcohol in a ratio of one to one and infused for a week in a dark place. Take orally 30-35 drops before meals. It should be noted that this remedy can only be used in the treatment of cough in adults.
Folk recipes for treating cough in young children
Cough treatment at home in children under 3 years of age requires great attention. Not every recipe for a folk remedy for cough can be used in the treatment of a small child. The most popular among the people are freshly squeezed juices of vegetables such as carrots and cabbage. Carrot juice should be given to infants after mixing it with sugar syrup in a ratio of 1:2. And cabbage juice should be diluted with sugar syrup in a ratio of 1: 1.
A good effect in eliminating children's coughs can be achieved with the help of infusion of pine buds, for the preparation of which you need to put 1 tbsp. a spoonful of pine budssaucepan and, pouring them with 500 ml of milk, bring to a boil and insist. Give the child 50 ml of infusion every 1-2 hours.
Some folk cough recipes for children involve the use of funds that should not be taken inside, but rubbed with them on the chest and back of the baby. We are talking about badger fat. After rubbing, the child should be wrapped warmly so that he sweats, after which he must change into dry clothes.
Cough recipes with onions
Cough onion also helps a lot. Folk recipes could not do without this root crop, because it is indispensable in the treatment of coughs and colds, as well as the prevention of the latter. For treatment, it is necessary to mix the juice of two medium-sized onions with 100 g of sugar and cook the mixture for 10 minutes, cool it, add 2 tbsp. spoons of honey, take 1 teaspoon several times a day.
There is an easier way to make an onion cough suppressant. It is necessary to chop the onion and put it in a jar, sprinkle it with sugar. Let stand for several hours, then give the child a drink of the juice that has been released at a dosage of 1 teaspoon three times a day.
Effective is also a decoction of onions prepared as follows: put 1 liter of water in a saucepan, 2 onions in a peel, 200 g of sugar, mix and cook for an hour over low heat. Take 100 grams warm, 50 grams is enough for children. Children will surely enjoy these folk recipes for coughs, as such medicines are sweet, despite the slightly spicy taste of the onion itself.
Folkblack radish recipes
Black radish also has many useful properties. It is not at all difficult to find a prescription for a cough, and such remedies can be used in the treatment of both adults and children.
So, there are the following recipes:
- Rinse the radish thoroughly and use a sharp knife to make a recess in it, removing part of the pulp. The resulting recess should be filled with honey and allowed to stand for 24 hours. Take 1 teaspoon in the morning, afternoon and evening.
- Peel the radish and cut into small cubes, then put it in a pot and sprinkle with sugar. Place in the oven and bake for two hours, then strain and give to the patient 2 teaspoons before meals.
- Wash and peel 6-7 radishes. Cut the vegetable into thin slices and sprinkle with sugar. After 10-12 hours, juice will stand out. After that, the black radish itself is no longer needed. For a cough, the recipe recommends taking only the secreted juice 8-10 times a day.
Folk recipes for treating cough in adults
Adults can use both folk recipes shown in the treatment of cough for children, and many others. For example:
- Tincture prepared on the basis of wormwood. To do this, pour 20 g of wormwood 500 ml of vodka or alcohol and let it brew. The best remedy is the one that was infused as long as possible, but 24 hours is usually enough for this. It should be taken three times a day for 1 tbsp. spoon.
- A hot mixture of pepper roots and white wine. getting readyit is by boiling these two ingredients in the following proportion - 250 ml of wine and 60 g of pepper roots. Drink 4 times a day.
Cough Control Drinks
When treating both dry and wet coughs, children and adults need to drink as much as possible. These can be any drinks, as long as they are warm. Effective in the fight against cough is a drink made from ordinary hot milk and alkaline mineral water in a 1: 1 ratio. It is better for small children to drink milk with figs. Warm tea with viburnum or raspberry jam has an anti-inflammatory effect.
It is good to drink various herbal infusions and decoctions. For example, a decoction of birch leaves, wild rosemary grass, oregano, nettle and birch buds, a decoction of common viburnum, which, by the way, is also an excellent expectorant. A decoction of viburnum fruits, prepared with 200 g of berries and 1 liter of water, also has a positive effect.
Inhalations at home
Folk recipes for treating cough also provide for inhalation at home. This method does not require special knowledge or preparations, you just need to add chamomile, thyme, sage, baking soda and eucalyptus oil to boiling water and, covering yourself with a towel, breathe in the released steam. The advantage of inhalation is that useful substances, once in the body in the form of vapors, immediately begin to have a beneficial effect on inflamed areas.
Folk recipes for coughs for children and adults are presented quite widely, but what helps one person is powerless in the fight against an illness in another, and this should be borne in mind, and not despair after the first failure. In any case, most folk remedies cannot harm the human body, unlike numerous pharmaceutical preparations.
