Natural Remedies to Relieve Coughs
- Lemon juice, sweetened with loaf or crushed sugar, will relieve a cough. - The 1852 Old Farmers Almanac.
- The root of the sweet flag was often powdered or sliced and used as a ginger substitute or throat lozenge.
- Mullein, with its large soft leaves, makes a wonderful flower tea. (As an aside, its fluffy, absorbent leaves have also been used for toilet paper in a pinch.)
- Catnip tea helps reduce mucus
- To suppress a night cough, put 1 teaspoon of black pepper and 1 teaspoon of sugar into a mug. Add in boiling water and let steep. The pepper will settle to the bottom. Sip, as needed.
- Horehound drops, made with the extract of the leaves of bitter mind Marrubium vulgare, can be combined with honey for a soothing cough drop, or served as a tea with lemon.
- Hot and spicy foods ac as expectorants, loosening up the lungs secretions.
- Some believe that 1 teaspoon of mustard will relieve a cough for up to 4 hours.
