Home Remedies For Wet And Dry Cough
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What is Cough?

Cough is your body’s natural response to clear the throat and breathing passage. It involves a voluntary or involuntary act that causes rapid expulsion of air from the lungs.

 

Causes:

Some common causes include flu, allergies, common cold, viral infection, pneumonia, postnasal drip, GRED, Asthma, mediational side effects, COPD, etc...

 

Types of Cough:

There are two types of Cough namely Dry Cough and Productive (Wet or Chesty) Cough.

 

Dry Cough:

Cough with no mucus extraction is known as dry cough.

 

Home Remedies:

  • Sucking on cloves
  • Long pepper and salt powder
    • Take powder of long pepper and salt separately.
    • Mix 1 part long pepper and 2 parts of salt.
    • Consume every morning and evening, half teaspoon of the mixture with hot water
  • Consume a mixture of 1 teaspoon of honey and long pepper powder every morning and evening
  • Sesame water and rock candy(sugar candy or rock sugar)
    • Boil 250 grams of Sesame with 1 liter of water. Keep the mixture boiling until 1/4th of the mixture remains.
    • Mix rock candy in the mixture according to taste
    • Consume 2-4 teaspoon at once, three to four times per day
  • Lick the mixture of half a teaspoon of holy basil, ginger, and onion each.
  • Mustard oil, cow’s milk, and salt
    • Mix mustard oil or cow’s milk with salt
    • Warm the mixture
    • Massage your chest with the warm mixture 2-3 times a day
  • Holy Basil Leaves, Cardamom, Black Pepper, and Honey
    • Mix Holy Basil leaves, cardamom, black pepper in equal proportion.
    • Add the mixture to hot boiled water and honey
    • Drink as tea
  • Suck the mixture of cardamom and black pepper in equal proportion
  • Consume half teaspoon of Cardamom powder with warm water for a few days.

 

Productive Cough (Wet or Chesty):

Cough that produces mucus or phlegm or sputum is termed as Productive Cough

 

Home Remedies:

  • Betel Leaf and Honey
    • Make Betel Leaf Syrup
    • Mix the syrup with honey in the proportion of 1 gram to 3 grams
    • Suck the mixture 3 times a day for few days
  • Burn the Banana bark and make ashes. Consume the ash with honey every morning and evening
  • Consume a mixture of 1 teaspoon of ginger syrup and 1 teaspoon of honey. Drink warm water.
  • Drink Pear juice every morning and evening
  • Drink Spinach Soup
  • Consume Bitter Grout for vegetable
  • Boil Turnip in Water. Consume such water.
  • Mix Holy Basil Leaves, Camphor, and Honey. Consume the mixture.
  • Onion, Honey, and Lemon
    • Cut the onion into small slices
    • Soak the slices into honey
    • Wring the onion and add lemon in the syrup thus obtained
    • Consume 1 teaspoon of mixture 4-5 time per day 
  • Dry Guava seeds in the sun. Make powder. Mix in honey and consume