Any one out there that has got a home made remedy/recipe for a dry cough...?

Question

I had flu and every thing else is fine now...but this dry irritating cough stays with me.

Answer 1

When I had bronchitis several years ago, [cough that lasts 3 weeks or more] -- I got "Respi-Clear" and "Bronch-Ease" herbal formulas from a health food store and I recovered twice as fast as a friend who spent 3x as much [or more] going to a doctor.

A good home remedy is to take 1 Tablespoon {Tblsp] honey + 1 Tblsp. apple cider vinegar [the cloudy kind is best], to a cup of hot water and add 1 Tblsp. molasses, 1 Tblsp. of wheat germ oil, and from 1/4 tsp to 1 tsp. [depending on how much you can stand] of cayenne pepper. This makes a very healing broth which is both nourishing and strengthening as well as healing. Drink this up to 3x/day.

Stay away from processed sugar - it depresses your immune system.

Gargling with cayenne pepper is much better than using salt water when your throat is sore.

Horehound lozenges are good to suck on to ease dry throat. In a pinch, when I have been traveling and start to get a sore throat [or those irritating tickles], I found that cinnamon discs are soothing and spicy V8 hits the spot [in the back of the throat].

Answer 2

You may need an expectorant to break up whatever may be lingering around making you cough. You can get them over the counter...take regularly with lots of fluids.

When I get an irritating cough I take a spoonful of honey followed by hot tea.

Also, gargling with warm salt water helps me sometimes...like it would for a sore throat.

Hope you feel better, I hate those kinds of coughs!

Answer 3

Okay you can make some tea like Chamomile ,or what ever. then you put a hole lemon and some honey in with it , i think it's called a hot totty or something like that (it's grosses but it works).My hot tottys usually taste really bad because my mom likes to ad a lot of stuff like garlic ,but that's another kind of hot totty i can't remember how to make that one.You can all so hold your head over a boiling pot this also helps looses Flem and moisten the throat .

Answer 4

Go to the Health Food store and get some Slippery Elm.
It is a mucilage and will coat your throat and make you feel fine again.
Just be sure to drink plenty of water when you are taking it.
Good Luck.

Answer 5

Warm milk with butter. This helps a lot.

Answer 6

two choices:

1) Chuan bei pi pa gao
2) ginger Tea (best is hm made.. one thumb sized amt ginger with some black sugar)

pick either. ;)