Easy Homemade Folk Cough Remedies?

Dry cough, cough with phlegm, cough due to sore throat, bronchitis are very common conditions when the weather changes, children often have coughs and colds, making parents worry about their health. Therefore, experts advise us not to use antibiotics for children with coughs and colds at this stage of development because it can easily cause unwanted side effects if used too often. In addition to using antibiotics, mothers can use folk remedies to treat coughs, which are both safe for health and quickly cure the disease. According to Oriental medicine, some foods have the effect of reducing phlegm, curing coughs, soothing the throat, and clearing the blood vessels very well that you can do at home with easy-to-find ingredients. Let’s learn about those folk remedies through the article below:

1. Cough remedy from oranges: Oranges with green or yellow peels are very effective in treating coughs, orange peels contain a lot of essential oils, so they can quickly reduce coughs and sore throats. In addition, oranges also contain many vitamins that are very beneficial for health. There are many effective folk remedies for coughs with oranges.
There are many ways to treat coughs with oranges, green or yellow peeled oranges are fine. The essential oils in the orange peel will help reduce coughs and immediately reduce the feeling of sore throat. In addition, oranges also contain many vitamins that are good for health.
Wash the oranges, then soak them in diluted salt water. Then put the oranges in the microwave for about 10 to 15 minutes. Finally, just take out the oranges and peel each segment, dip them in salt and eat, but we recommend that you eat the peel. In case you don’t have a microwave, you can cut off the top of the orange and add a little salt and cover the top. Steam the oranges until cooked, then eat. This is a very good method to treat coughs for children.
2. Treat coughs with tangerines and kumquats: Tangerines appear in many folk remedies for coughs, expectorants, and anti-inflammatories. Because this fruit contains a lot of essential oils, pectin, sugar and beneficial vitamins.
Tips for effective cough treatment with tangerines: Soak tangerines in salt or steam tangerines with rock sugar to sip or mix with water to drink. This method is very simple but very effective when used.
3. Cough remedy from fresh ginger : Ginger is a folk medicine that is effective for many different diseases. To treat dry coughs, coughs with phlegm, coughs due to weather … mothers should wash the ginger, roast the ginger skin until it is charred. Then peel off the skin, crush and squeeze out the juice, add a little honey, ginger water to drink, and use the ginger pulp to suck to relieve the cough. To make the cough remedy from ginger more effective, each time you drink, you should reheat the ginger water. You can make a large quantity at once and store it in the refrigerator for later use.
4. Effective folk remedies for coughs with garlic: Garlic is known as a familiar spice for Vietnamese people’s daily dishes. Not only that, garlic is also used as a folk remedy that is widely used to treat coughs very effectively.
Garlic combined with honey will increase natural antibiotic properties, reduce sore throat, and increase resistance. How to treat coughs for children with garlic: When having a cough, mothers can take 4-5 cloves of garlic, crush them, mix them with honey, steam them until they smell the pungent smell of garlic (do not let the garlic get too soft). Let it cool and give it to children to drink 2-3 times a day, 1-2 teaspoons each time.
5. Honey-soaked kumquats to treat coughs: Lemons and honey are very close and familiar foods to us, but not everyone knows all of their uses. There are many ways to treat coughs with honey and lemon, but 𝗩𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮-𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 will share with mothers the following 3 quick and effective ways:
Many families often have a jar of pickled kumquats to prevent coughs or colds for their members. There are many ways to apply in treating coughs with kumquats such as: sliced ​​lemon soaked in salt to suck, kumquats mixed with honey or rock sugar steamed (or steamed in a rice cooker that has just run out of water).
Recipe 1: Use 1/2 teaspoon of honey mixed with 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice, and use twice a day until the cough is gone.
Lesson 2: Follow the following recipe: 1 teaspoon of honey + 1 teaspoon of lemon juice + a little chopped fresh ginger, mix well and mix with a little hot water and you can use it. Drink it every time you have a cough and you will see the effect of reducing cough quickly. These are simple ways but have a very effective cough treatment effect, moreover, they are highly safe and can be used to treat coughs for children and pregnant women. Lemon has many essential oils when combined with honey, it will bring antibacterial and cool throat effects to help you no longer feel itchy throat and cough.