Although coughing is a protective action to expel fluids, phlegm secreted by the bronchi or lungs or foreign objects from the respiratory tract, when coughing, the body will feel very uncomfortable, lose sleep, and have a sore throat...
Besides commonly used antibiotics, you can learn some folk remedies that are not only effective in reducing coughs, but also safe, limiting side effects caused by antibiotics.
8 simple and effective ways to treat cough using folk remedies
Treat cough with warm water
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Basically, drinking plenty of warm water is necessary for people with dry coughs or coughs with phlegm. If you have a dry cough, water plays a role in moisturizing the throat, making it less irritated, limiting dry coughs. For patients with phlegmy coughs, warm water helps loosen phlegm, thereby helping to expel phlegm from the body more easily.
Treat cough with ginger, garlic and honey
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Garlic has effective antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory properties, helping to eliminate infections in the lungs and respiratory system. Meanwhile, honey has high antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, which can effectively reduce acute coughs in children and adults.
Treat cough with chives and perilla leaves
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For a long time, chives combined with honey and rock sugar have been considered an effective cough remedy. Chives are non-toxic and very easy to use. You can take a small handful of chives and rock sugar, steam them, then strain the liquid and drink it to reduce phlegm and soothe coughs.
If you don't have chives, you can use other ingredients such as: white rose petals, star fruit flowers, perilla leaves, onion flowers...
Treat cough with fresh lemon fruit and leaves
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With fresh lemons, you should soak them in diluted salt water for about 15 minutes, then microwave them thoroughly. When the lemons are baked, these ingredients will interact with each other to create a solution that has an antiseptic effect. For better effect, you can add a little honey, when using this solution will warm the lungs, reduce coughs, and reduce hoarseness.
In addition, lemon leaves are very suitable for people with long-term coughs that do not go away. You can prepare it by boiling lemon leaves with fresh ginger, using this decoction will quickly reduce persistent coughs.
Treat cough with fish mint
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This is an antibiotic that has a direct anti-inflammatory effect on the throat and tonsils. The fastest way to make it is to crush the fish mint leaves, simmer with rice water for about 20-30 minutes. Let it cool, then add a little sugar to make it easier to drink.
Treat cough with lemon basil leaves
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Lemon basil is listed by the Ministry of Health in the list of 70 essential medicinal plants of Vietnam. Lemon basil contains essential oils, the main ingredient is carvacrol, which has a strong inhibitory effect on bacteria that cause respiratory diseases. In Oriental medicine, lemon basil has the effect of dispersing wind-cold, reducing phlegm, disinfecting, used to treat coughs, sore throats, flu, asthma, fever...
Use lemon basil leaves to treat cough by: Wash and puree in a blender, add enough rock sugar, steam for about 20 minutes, store in the refrigerator for later use.
Treat cough with kumquat
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Kumquats contain many essential oils and active ingredients that help fight inflammation, bacteria, and viruses, and are effective in treating coughs and expectorating phlegm. Therefore, to reduce coughs, you can wash and cut a few kumquats in half, then steam them with rock sugar and drink them while they are still warm during the day.
Treat cough with monk fruit
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Monk fruit has the function of moistening the lungs, benefiting the throat, eliminating phlegm and quenching thirst, and laxative. Therefore, it is used to treat coughs caused by heat in the lungs and internal phlegm and fire, pharyngitis, constipation (treating phlegm and fire coughs, whooping cough, and blood heat)... Specifically, it is used in inflammation of the upper respiratory tract such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis...
In addition, the decoction of monk fruit has been found to have clear antitussive and expectorant effects and also has the ability to enhance the immune function of the body's cells.
Note , the above are very good folk remedies, the ingredients are easy to find and the preparation is also simple and easy to do. However, it is usually only effective when the disease has just started, the bacteria are still "resident" in the throat area. In cases of long-term cough and cold, the bacteria have "migrated" to the bronchi and lungs (hearing the cough has an echo, after the cough is painful, with or without fever) should go to the doctor to get the appropriate medicine.
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