Traditional folk remedies for coughs

Besides Western medicine, many safe, effective, and low-side-effect folk remedies for coughs are widely used, especially during seasonal changes.

Besides Western medicine, many safe, effective, and low-side-effect folk remedies for coughs are widely used, especially during seasonal changes.

Many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners combine kumquat, honey with lemon seeds or male papaya flowers, and crushed Fritillaria bulbs to help patients reduce coughs and sore throats.

Families with young children often keep a jar of pickled pink lemons in honey and rock sugar on hand to treat coughs, relieve pain, and reduce swelling and inflammation. Or, more simply: cut a pink lemon, pickle it in salt, and suck on it, or mix it with honey or rock sugar and steam it.

Lemon seeds or kumquat seeds, calamus leaves, black chicken bile, and sugar steamed in a double boiler and divided into 2-3 doses to be taken throughout the day are also good remedies for coughs. Lemon seeds, chives, and male papaya flowers combined with honey or rock sugar, with a little water added, are mashed, strained, and the resulting liquid is drunk several times a day to treat coughs very effectively.

Soak the Buddha's hand fruit in salt water, rinse the outer peel thoroughly, slice it thinly, then mix it with malt syrup and steam it for 30 minutes. Store it in the refrigerator, and every night before bedtime, take out a small amount, warm it in hot water, and give it to the baby to drink; it is very effective.

Crushed raisins, mixed with a little water and sugar, heated until slightly thickened, then cooled and drunk before bed, can help reduce severe cough symptoms caused by sore throat.

Finely chopped or crushed ginger can be stir-fried with honey or sliced ​​lemon, or sliced ​​ginger and turmeric can be steamed with honey or rock sugar and eaten as a cough remedy.

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