Garlic is a great herb and a natural healer. Not only can garlic help cure a toothache and cure ringworm but it also works when mixed with a cough syrup. You can easily and effectively cure a cough with just a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your house
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Things You'll Need:
- First, chop an onion into small diced pieces. Usually a half of a large onion or a whole small onion is plenty. Be sure to chop these in small enough pieces
- Next, place a cup of honey into a pan along with the diced onions and simmer them on a low setting for a half hour. Be sure to stir often so the honey doesn't stick to the pan and burn.
- Remove the honey and onions from heat and set aside to cool down. The cool down process usually takes about 10-15 minutes.
- Crush four cloves of garlic and add this into your honey and onion mixture. Make sure the garlic is thoroughly crushed so you aren't drinking large chunks of garlic in your cough syrup mixture. This garlic cough syrup, just like any other, should be smooth when going down your throat.
- Mix well and wait until the cough syrup is room temperature.
- Take this cough syrup, two teaspoons at a time as often as needed. For some, this may not be such a pleasant taste however; it definitely will help their cough.
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One of the most commonly found communicable diseases are cough and cold. This is characterized by running nose, sneezing, headache, malaise (general weakness), low fever, sore throat, insomnia (sleeplessness), lethargy, and so on.
This disease mostly affects children or aged people whose immune system is weak. It does not mean that youngsters or middle-aged do not get this disease.
Consumption of cold items, fried foods, sweets, pastries, cool drink and so on in the chill weather, or during the nights can cause cold & cough. Sometimes, cold or cough is a result of air or water pollution.
- Prevention is better than cure. It is always better to keep away from the food that is not recommended for our health. If you know that you are allergic to any food you love, it is wisdom not to take it and then suffer. You may be infected with cough and catch cold when there is a change in the season.
- Even when you are affected by these, there is no need for you to panic and rush to a doctor or take an antibiotic. There are few recommended and positive age-old remedies to treat the cold & cough. The ingredients needed for the treatment are not costly and are available right inside your kitchen.
- Few remedies are listed down for treating cold & cough:
- One teaspoon of Ginger Juice mixed with honey, when taken thrice a day cures cold & cough
- Mixture of warm water half a cup and some honey and lemon juice each, when taken would relieve you of cold & cough.
- Mix the powder of the equal amounts of cinnamon, cardomom, ginger powder and black pepper with powdered sugar of total amount, and take a teaspoon with honey till the cold & cough are relieved.
- A small piece of fresh ginger should be chewed with half a pinch of salt.