Best Natural Cough Remedies

There are many ways to deal with cough. Some of them include:

• Pills
• Syrups
• Injections
• Nebulizers
• Intake of steam and application of vaporizing balms
• Vaccination
• Food style changes
• Acupuncture
• Ayurvedic , naturopathic and homeopathic  medicines
• Chinese medicine

Natural remedies are considered to be the best for cough since they don’t have any side effects or ill effects. They are also simple and cheap and cost effective in nature.

There are two types of cough medicines. The first one being expectorant and the latter one being suppressant in nature. Most of the natural remedies are expectorants. Suppressants have lot of side effects attached to them since they do not remove the phlegm from the body but only suppress it for a limited period of time. These suppressants give rise to tumors and cancer in later stages of life after many years.

Some of the best natural cough remedies are:
Honey –ginger mixture

Ginger crushed and mixed with honey can be consumed directly for cough relief. As an alternative, honey can be mixed with the extract or juice of fresh crushed ginger and a couple of teaspoons can be administered to the patient of person suffering from cough.

Garlic-ginger-honey mixture

Fresh raw garlic cloves crushed, ginger crushed and honey added to it together make a very effective and natural cough expectorant. Even the juices of crushed ginger and garlic, mixed with honey can be taken as expectorant syrup around three to four times a day. This not only expels cough but also builds a very strong resistance power in the body.

Almond-butter-sugar mixture
Almond must be soaked in water for a night. Those soaked almonds must be peeled off in the morning. These peeled almonds must be crushed into a paste. Butter and sugar must be added to this paste. This is not only a sweet medicine for cough but also a nutritious mixture. This can be easily taken 3-4 times a day.

Holy basil –honey-ginger mixture
Fresh holy basil leaves must be finely chopped and grinded with fresh peeled off ginger piece. This mixture or paste must be mixed with honey and eaten twice or thrice a day. Even the mixture of the extract or juice of holy basil- ginger mixture and honey can be taken three to four times a day as an extremely effective cough expectorant and an anti biotic and anti pathogenic medicine that builds the resistance power of the body.

Black Pepper-small onion-salt mixture
Though very hot in taste, the black pepper –small onion and salt mixture is very useful in expelling cough from the body. Crush some black pepper, smash a couple of small onions and add salt (rock salt would be better) to the mixture of crushed black pepper and smashed small onions. This should be eaten raw and chewed properly. Water must not be drunk suddenly after the intake of this medicine.

Licorice or Abrus Precatorius or Jyesthamadh
A very good natural plant/ herb against cough; licorice or Jyeshtmadh can be consumed in any manner. Pills, tablets, syrups and even the raw dry barks or even a twig when chewed gives a great amount of relief from cough immediately.