HOME REMEDIES

• Eat a healthy diet and increase your consumption of foods containing vitamin C.
• For congestion, make a steam inhaler using essential oil of eucalyptus, lavender, or lemon.
• Mix 20 drops of garlic juice with pomegranate juice and drink it. It is beneficial in all types of cough. This will help in treating the cough.
• The body should be kept warm - especially the feet, chest, throat and head. Sweating is very helpful.
• This remedy is one of the good home remedy for cough using Coffee. If the cough is severe, take hot black coffee without milk. This is beneficial for the treatment of cough.
• Eating small cardamoms provides relief from cough. This is beneficial for the treatment of cough.
• Mix half a cup of warm water with one teaspoon of lemon juice and one teaspoon of honey. Take several times a day.
• Boil a garlic bulb in 62 ml. of mustard oil. Massage the chest and the throat with this oil
• Eat garlic with large raisins thrice a day. Do not take sour food.
• In cases of dry cough (especially during the night), peel a small piece of fresh ginger. Sprinkle some salt on it and chew. Or take half a teaspoon of ginger juice with half a teaspoon of honey, three times a day (morning, noon and night).
• Take equal amounts of cardamom, ginger powder, black pepper and cinnamon (1 teaspoon each). Add sugar equal to the total amount of mixture and grind to make a fine powder. Take half a tsp twice daily, with honey or warm water after meals.
• In cases of sore throat, a clove or two cardamoms or a few raisins can be chewed. Gargling with warm salty water two to three times a day is also beneficial.
• A pint whiskey, 2 boxes rock candy; 1 tsp glycerin. Put in bottle and shake, 1 tsp. at a time.
• Boil 20 gms. of wheat and 9 gms. of rock salt in a glass of water. When it is reduced to one-third, strain and drink it. The treatment should continue for seven days. This will help in curing cough.
• Drinking mint tea with a little salt is beneficial in cough. This will completely remove cough.
• Eating black sesame and jaggery in the form of laddoos in winter provides relief from cough, asthma and bronchitis.
• Drinking hot water before bedtime provides relief from cough. This will prevent cough.
• Onions when mixed with honey also provide relief. Extract onion juice and mix it with honey. Consume this mixture 2-3 times' day.
• Another method would be to crush onions and add one lemon juice to it in a cup of boiling water. Pour in some honey and drink this mixture 2-3 times a day. This is simple home remedy for cough using Sugar candy. In case there are frequent bouts of cough, suck on a piece of sugar candy. This will prevent cough.
• Natural remedy to get relief from cough using Turmeric. If you have cough, soar throat and a congested chest, take hot water with salt in it. Suck on a piece of turmeric. It will provide relief cough.
• Soak almonds overnight. In the morning, remove their brown cover and make a paste adding 20gm of butter and sugar to it. Have this twice a day in the morning as well as in the evening.
• Grapes tone up the lungs and act as an expectorant, relieving a simple cold and cough in a couple of days. A cup of grape juice mixed with a teaspoon of honey is advised for cough relief.
• Add ¼ teaspoon of red pepper, ¼ teaspoon of ground ginger, 1 table spoon of apple cider vinegar, 1 table spoon of honey in 2 tablespoon of normal water to make a paste. Make a paste of these ingredients and have it once a day for treating cough problem.
• If the patient is asthmatic and has a congested chest massage it with mustard oil mixed with rock salt. It will be beneficial. This will completely remove cough.
• Heat some jaggery with clarified butter and eat it when comfortably hot. Massage the chest with a mixture of clarified butter and rock salt. It cures chronic cough.
• Grind eight parts of pomegranate rind and mix one pact of rock salt, mix a little water and roll into pills. Suck on a pill thrice a day. It will provide relief from cough. This will help in reducing cough.
• Drinking hot water before bedtime provides relief from cough. This will prevent cough.
• Boil a cup of water and put a 1 tsp of Marjoram in it. Leave this mixture for 10-15 minutes and then drink. Have this three to four times a day to get cured of cough.
• Chew 4 basil leaves and black pepper. It would provide instant relief and treat the cough quickly.
• For people suffering from dry cough, mix half spoon of Cuscus grass (khas khas) in 3-4 teaspoons of coconut milk. To enhance the efficacy, add one teaspoon of honey. Drink this before going to bed.
• Take 100 grams of raisins and grind it with some water. Add 100 grams of sugar and heat the mixture till it turns saucy. Intake about 20 grams of this every day before sleeping at night.
• Gargle with warm spinach juice. This is helpful in curing dry cough.
• In case of frequent bouts of cough chew a roasted piece of turmeric with a betel leaf.  If the cough occurs at night, chew caraway seeds with a betel leaf and do not spit it out. This will provide relief from cough.
• One of the easiest methods would be to add a pinch of grounded white pepper in one tea spoon of pure honey. Intake this 2 to 3 times a day for about 4 to 5 days.
• Prepare a tea. Add aniseed and holy basil to it. Drink this tea at least twice a day to get relief from relief from cough.
• Take 500 grams of water and Boil 10 grams of Sprague in it for 15 minutes. After it has cooled, add two pinches of salt. Gargle with this mixture two times a day. Apart from clearing excessive mucous, it would also soothe the throat.
• Half a teaspoon of turmeric powder mixed in milk provides relief.