A variety of diseases can be accompanied by a cough. This misfortune worries with a cold, it is necessarily observed with the flu. Cough is a faithful companion of bronchitis, laryngitis. To cope with it, people came up with a lot of medicines and no less healer recipes. The benefits of herbal products have been known for a long time. Often, both healers and doctors advise doing inhalation for coughing. The herbs used for such procedures are varied. Let's consider them in more detail, and also analyze the general rules for inhalation.
Features of the event
Previously, doctors allowed the use of herbs for inhalation for coughing only if the patient's temperature was not higher than 37.5 degrees. At present, this limitation is a thing of the past. Modern devices allow treatment with atomized vapors and at higher temperatures. If a person suffers from a dry cough, while there is no fever, then inhalations become almostthe most classic and recommended way to fight the disease. First, prepare a decoction of medicinal herbs, pour it into a container, bend over it, covered with a towel, and breathe for several minutes - up to a quarter of an hour.
Such events are allowed for the treatment of children from one year of age and older. There is no upper age limit for this procedure. The classic version of the herbal mixture is parsley, which occupies a third of the total volume of the mixture, three times smaller amounts of mint leaves, chamomile and calendula inflorescences, linden "wings". Twice more than daisies, coltsfoot flowers are added. If desired, you can add additional pine pollen in the same amount as mint greens. You can add pine needles. All ingredients are mixed, poured with boiling water and boiled for several minutes. The liquid is ready for inhalation.
About the pros of the procedure
When planning to use a decoction of the described herbs for cough inhalation, it is worthwhile to understand that the procedure has a complex effect, while being associated with minimal risks. According to many who have done it at least once, it perfectly relieves not only cough, but also nasal congestion, runny nose, including chronic. This is due to the characteristics of the herbs used to prepare the decoction. All ingredients contain anti-inflammatory substances, and in total the effect is strong, pronounced. The composition contains essential oils that soften the mucous membranes, alleviate their condition, and are especially effective if the cough is dry.
Experts in such proceduresIt is advised to avoid using sage to treat dry cough. Some believe that eucalyptus, which is widely used for inhalation for various diseases of the respiratory system, is also not suitable. Such ingredients can dry out mucous membranes, which makes a dry cough worse. If the condition progresses and the cough becomes productive, it makes sense to introduce sage, eucalyptus greens into the described collection, excluding chamomile inflorescences and linden blossom.
Inhalations: how to do?
There are two options for using herbs for cough inhalation. You can use a nebulizer, you can use a simple steam rising from a hot liquid. The first option is safer, well suited if the mucous membranes are hypersensitive. Nebulizers can be used to treat infants and young children. During operation, the product distributes water vapor with a temperature corresponding to the heating of the air in the room. Spraying is caused by the influence of ultrasound or air under pressure. There will be no burn or irritation. Since nothing boils, the beneficial ingredients contained in the herbs are not broken down. But the steam option is more affordable, since you do not need to buy anything.
Extracts, decoctions made using natural products have a pronounced healing effect. True, it is necessary to select a set of plants so that it is effective with the existing cause of coughing. An unsuccessful choice will cause treatment failure or deterioration in organ performance.
What to try?
If you ask a doctor what herbs for cough inhalation to try to use, the doctor can advise a proven composition of chamomile inflorescences, eucalyptus foliage, marigold flowers and coltsfoot, yarrow. Licorice rhizomes, dried sage, mint, St. John's wort, lime blossom, anise are also added here. You can enter into the tool marshmallow rhizomes and elder flowers, sorrel and verbena. The effectiveness of plantain, thyme, thyme in the fight against various types of coughs has long been known. You can use gentian and thermopsis, anise. All these ingredients are mixed in any combination. To prepare a decoction, a couple of large spoons of a plant product are combined with a glass of boiling water and insisted for a third of an hour. Then the liquid is filtered and used for the procedure using a nebulizer.
Vegetable oils are no less useful. They are combined with a heated liquid, saturating the respiratory system with a warm healing steam. Some oils can provoke an allergic reaction, swelling of the larynx, so choose the means for the procedure as carefully as possible. The ability of a number of essential oils to activate the course of inflammation and irritate the tissues of the mucous membranes, making them drier than the norm, is known. To exclude such consequences, it is recommended to consult a doctor before starting treatment.
Most often, essential oils are used to combat coughs: chamomile, eucalyptus, lavender, cedar, fir, mint, pepper, rosemary, anise, cypress. Thuja, cardamom, frankincense oils are useful. Often used essential products of tea tree, pine. For cookingliquids add two or three drops of oil to a liter of water.
Available to everyone
Not everyone has a set of dry herbs suitable for preparing a decoction for inhalation. Not every home has a sufficient selection of essential oils to find something useful for coughing among them. Moreover, it is not always possible to visit a store to purchase such goods. In this case, you can do with improvised means. The easiest way to do inhalation with potatoes. The tubers are boiled in uniform, the water is drained. The product is cut into two parts and leaned over the container, covering the head with a thick towel. It is necessary to breathe the rising steam until the potatoes have cooled.
It is not more difficult to use mineral, s alt water. Three tablespoons of s alt are added to a liter of boiled water, getting an alkaline liquid. Within 10 minutes, spray water with a nebulizer, inhaling the vapors. This procedure allows you to moisturize the mucous membranes, soften the tissues. Improves the quality of excretion. If you repeat the procedure regularly, you can get rid of thick sputum, make it a little thinner.
Rules
First you need to choose a set of herbs for inhalation, agreeing the composition with your doctor. If you plan to use a nebulizer, you need to carefully check the concentration of the ingredients. If there is a desire to inhale with steam, you need to make sure that it is safe - the air saturated with moisture rising from the liquid should not be too hot, otherwise a burn cannot be avoided. It is recommended to eat in an hour or twoone and a half before the event. During this period, it is advisable not to drink. If you plan to use soda, the duration of the event should vary within a quarter of an hour. For a simple inhalation with herbs, the optimal duration is five minutes.
After finishing the healing procedure, you need to spend some time in silence. All this period you can not eat, drink, smoke. It is advisable to refrain from singing, laughing. You shouldn't go outside. In the early days of the disease, inhalations are done up to five times a day. With a painful cough, you can repeat the event up to nine times daily. As soon as the condition of a seriously ill person improves, the frequency is reduced. The nebulizer is recommended to be used up to three times daily. The duration of the event is usually up to 10 minutes. For the procedure to be safe, you must strictly follow the recommendations on the doses of decoctions and drugs.
Rhinitis and cough
If you plan to inhale herbal decoctions due to a combination of a runny nose and cough, you should take a closer look at the healer's advice about the benefits of coniferous products. Pine oils and various plant components are perfectly combined with each other. Eucalyptus and fir are added to pine oil. To prepare a decoction, dried chamomile and thyme inflorescences are also used. The preparation is quite simple. Dried vegetable raw materials in the amount of three large spoons are poured into 0.8 liters of boiling water. The mixture is insisted in a thermos for a day. You can prepare a decoction in a water bath, first boiling for 10 minutes, then insisting for another half hour. Asreadiness, the liquid is filtered and oils are added to it. The ratio of volumes: per glass of liquid - up to five drops of oil. One treatment requires four glasses or more.
Such herbs for inhalation for children and adults are strictly contraindicated if a person is allergic to any component. The duration of the treatment course is no more than five days. If during this time the patient does not feel better, you need to contact the clinic. You should not do inhalation with steam of a liquid prepared with these additives if blood flows from the nose or there is a tendency to this, if there is a fever or a person is sick with purulent sore throat. A contraindication is a violation of the work of the heart, blood vessels. If the patient's age is under ten years old, you should consult a pediatrician before conducting a course of inhalations.
Useful around us
Sometimes, when asking a doctor what herbs to inhale when coughing, they are sincerely surprised to learn how many different useful plants grow in our climate zone. There are many dozens of varieties of herbal products that are more or less effective in the fight against cough. A special place in this list of unique products is given to conifers. Traditionally, healers recommend using pine needles, but the pronounced healing effects inherent in spruce and fir have long been known. Pine buds are no less effective. Pine needles and buds are used to make a decoction. A few tablespoons are combined with a liter of water and boiled for a quarter of an hour, then infused for another couple of hours and the liquid is filtered. Readydecoction is poured into a nebulizer. If it is not possible to obtain a plant product, you can use essential oil. For one procedure using a nebulizer designed for a liter of water, you need to take no more than five drops of oil.
Choosing which herbs for inhalation will be the most useful of those widely available, you should take a closer look at chamomile inflorescences. This component is one of the ingredients of almost any herbal healing collection. If it is not possible to get other useful herbs (for example, oregano, calendula), then only chamomile inflorescences can be used. They are sold dried in most pharmacies and even in simple stores where there is a large selection of herbal teas. You can make your own chamomile. The rules for preparing a decoction are similar to those described above: the raw materials are combined with boiling water, infused in a thermos, filtered and poured into a nebulizer.
Nuances of the combination
Effective and useful, successful for preparing a decoction for inhalation for coughs, runny noses, herbs are not only chamomile, but also oregano, as well as linden and lavender. Cedar needles, mint greens - all this can be introduced into a dry mixture of plant products. When choosing what to use for a cough, you need to take wound-healing products that have anti-inflammatory qualities. The ingredients are mixed in equal proportions. You can buy ready-made pharmacy fees - they are available in almost any pharmaceutical outlet. You can take any variety of vegetation you like in dried form in the amount of a couple of spoons. The ingredient is combined with a liter of water, brought to a boil, covered with a lid andlet it brew, then decant the water. Before using the liquid for inhalation, a small spoonful of baking soda is introduced into it, stirring the product thoroughly.
Some people think that the best herbs for cough inhalation for children are a combination of coltsfoot, eucalyptus oil, chamomile flowers and pine needles, to which a little soda is added. Persons who often used such a prescription note that improvement is observed after several procedures. The ingredients are well tolerated by almost everyone, and the use of a nebulizer avoids the risk of burns, so this procedure is applicable to the treatment of young children.
Honey and more
When choosing which herbs to use for inhalation when coughing, you should take a closer look at sage, which goes well with honey. To get a pronounced positive effect, combine a couple of tablespoons of dried vegetable raw materials and half a liter of clean water in a refractory container. They put the container on fire, wait until the water boils, turn off the heating and leave for about seven minutes, waiting for the water to cool down. Then a couple of large spoons of natural honey are introduced into the medicinal composition, thoroughly stirred. The finished liquid is an excellent product for inhalation. The duration of the procedure is one third of an hour. Up to five repetitions of the event are recommended daily.
Combinations of different herbs give not the worst result. For inhalation with bronchitis, for example, you can combine in equal volumes coltsfoot, mint greens, St. John's wort, eucalyptus castings, chamomile inflorescences, sage. All ingredients must be crushed. The components are thoroughly mixed. One large spoonful of this collection is combined with a couple of glasses of water in a refractory container and brought to a boil. Then you need to cool the liquid a little and inhale the vapors rising from it, covering yourself with a thick blanket. When inhaling, air is taken in through the mouth and released through the nose. The duration of the event is about a third of an hour. Up to three repetitions are recommended daily.
Water and oil
If only herbs for inhalation with bronchitis do not give the desired effect, you can use mineral water. A glass of liquid is heated in a saucepan covered with a lid. As soon as the water boils, it is poured into a wide bowl and for a third of an hour they breathe in vapors, bending over the container and covering themselves with a towel. To maximize the effect of the procedure, it is repeated three times daily.
Benefits for human he alth oils extracted from herbs. For inhalation, you can use a combination of four types at once. Half a liter of water is brought to a boil, removed from heat and five drops of lavender, cedar, mint and eucalyptus oils are added to the container, then the vapors that rise above the container are inhaled. During the procedure, you need to cover yourself with a thick towel. The duration of the event is one third of an hour. If the head starts to hurt, if the patient feels sick, the procedure is stopped. You can repeat the event up to three times daily.
Studying the reference books for familiarization with the herbs recommended for making decoctions for inhalation, probably a personpay attention to recipes dedicated to the use of ginger for medicinal purposes. 20 g of fresh rhizome is crushed into gruel, mixed with an equal volume of onion gruel. To prepare the medicine, ordinary onions are suitable. The plant mass is combined with a couple of glasses of only boiled liquid, four drops of fir essential oil and the same amount obtained from tea tree are added. The finished product is a decoction, the vapors of which you need to breathe twice daily. The duration of one session is a quarter of an hour. The procedure is not always indicated for children, as it can cause burning in the eyes, irritation of the nasal mucosa. First you need to make sure that it is well tolerated.
Aloe and more
Among other herbs suitable for infusion for inhalation with a dry cough, Kalanchoe is not the last in terms of benefits. 1 ml of juice is combined with 5 ml of saline, mixed with a glass of liquid and poured into a nebulizer. You can combine with the same volume of liquid and saline three drops of fresh garlic or onion juice. No less effective is the combination of a couple of teaspoons of honey with 100 ml of liquid.
Useful for inhalation with dry cough herbs are thyme, oregano, sage. These three ingredients are combined in equal amounts. To prepare the infusion, the volumes are calculated as a large spoonful of the mixture per glass of liquid. The finished infusion should correspond to the volume of the nebulizer used. Herbs are poured with boiling water and infused in a thermos, then the water is drained and used for treatment.
A good variant of the procedure is the use of a decoction of wild rosemary through a nebulizer. You can prepare elecampane medicine or insist on mineral water calendula inflorescences mixed with chamomile and St. John's wort, as well as eucalyptus and sage greens. For one glass of mineral water, you need to take a large spoonful of herbal mixture.
