Expectorant Tea
1/ 3 medium-sized onions (with the skin on), wash them, cut a slit/cross, cut into four equal parts, and boil in a liter of water until 1/3 of the water has evaporated. When done, discard the onion and drink the onion tea slowly in sips throughout the day. 2/ Clean and wash a large onion and cut it with a knife in the shape of a cross, to a depth of 5-6 mm. In em... Originally published on the page
Cough Syrup
Ingredients: 1kg of the best red flat-shaped onion, but any red or yellow onion can work, 1/2 kg of honey, bay leaves.
Instructions: Peel the skin off the onion, cut into quarters, place in a pot together with the bay leaves (preferably in one of those pots for waterless cooking) and add as little water as possible, I add about 1-2 dl. Cover and cook on the lowest possible heat for at least one hour. If the water evaporates, add more. Strain through a fine strainer or even better, cheesecloth, because the medicine will be better the less residue is left. When it cools down, mix with honey. Store in the refrigerator. It is drunk as a syrup, 3 times a day, two tablespoons each, and the effect is felt as early as the first day. From this amount, you usually get one 1kg jar, although a lot depends on the type of onion. The mass should be gelatinous, but sometimes it is runnier, again presumably depending on how well the onion was strained. Pour a little into a coffee cup, heat for a few seconds in the microwave to make it liquid, and then use.
Despite the fact that onion is the main ingredient, the taste of this remedy is not bad, because the bay leaf improves it, but you can certainly add, for example, cloves or cinnamon to improve it even more.
Serving: You can make an excellent cough tea from the onion skins. Wash them, boil for a minute or two in water, and strain immediately. From boiling too long, and if not strained immediately, it becomes very bitter.
Onion
If you have a stubborn cough, try this onion-based drink. Peel the onion and put the whole thing in a pot, pour over at least two liters of water. When it boils, cover and let the onion cook for another hour or two, or until the liquid turns dark. Put two tablespoons of honey, two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and finally the juice of half a lime into a cup, then pour over with the hot liquid in which the onion was cooked. Every morning as soon as you get up and in the evening right before going to bed, drink this syrup and the cough will disappear in a few days.
Herbal therapy is ideal in case of a heavy cough. Certain herbal teas, such as those from eucalyptus, anise, fennel, are especially effective. To make tea from these herbs, it is allowed to put a pinch or two into boiling water and wait for the herbal tea to steep for a certain time. For example, roots should steep for 15, seeds for 10-15, and leaves for 3-10 minutes. Three to four cups are drunk daily.
Old-Fashioned Remedy Against Severe Cough
In a cup of boiling milk, add half a teaspoon of gelatin. Let it boil for exactly 3 minutes, then add a teaspoon of fresh animal fat and half a teaspoon of baking soda. Stir all that together and drink in small sips. Up to three cups can be drunk during the day. The preparation portion is prepared immediately for consumption.
Recipe Against Persistent Dry Cough
Finely chop one orange together with its peel, add water and baking soda, sprinkle with sugar and cook for thirty minutes. Take 1-2 tablespoons of syrup as soon as a coughing fit starts.
Apples with Onions Against Cough
Chop apple and onion, add honey so that they are in equal amounts, e.g., 70 gr. Take one tablespoon of this mass several times a day.
Onion Juice with Sugar
If the cough is persistent, peel one medium-sized onion and sprinkle it with a tablespoon of sugar. Leave the juice that will appear and drink one teaspoon three times a day, twenty minutes before meals. You can also make onion juice with honey, which is made in a 1:2 ratio, and drink it by one teaspoon 3-4 times a day 30-40 minutes before meals.
Figs with Milk Against Dry Cough
A decoction of dried figs that you made from one hundred grams of fruits and two cups of hot water, keep on low heat for another 15 minutes, and often let it steep for three hours. Take half a cup 2-3 times a day if you have a dry cough. If it is not about bronchitis, the same strained decoction is poured over milk.
Old-Fashioned Syrup (Šerbet)
Pour 1 small cup of sugar into an enameled small pot and place on low heat. When the sugar melts and gets a nice golden color, pour in 1 cup of water and reduce the heat. Stir until the caramelized sugar dissolves completely. Add a pinch of ginger and a little lemon juice. Take two teaspoons 3 times a day.
Bay Leaf Against Cough
- Ingredients: 150g of sugar, 10 bay leaves, 1/2 liter of water.
- Instructions: In a pot of water add 150g of sugar, when it boils add 10 bay leaves and cook for another half hour. Remove the bay leaf, put the mixture into a jar or cup. Use as needed.
Carrot and Honey Syrup Against Cough
For the carrot-honey syrup, you need 3/2 kg of carrots, 3-4 tablespoons of honey, it is prepared simply and it is done the next night: cut the carrots into rings, pour water just enough to submerge the carrots - boil until softened. When the carrots are pureed in a blender. The water in which you cooked them (once cooled), add honey and mix with the produced carrot puree. Store in a cooler container in a cool place. Thus prepared carrot syrup relieves cough, and dosage is 3-4 tablespoons daily.
Dandelion Flower Honey Against Cough
Dandelion flower honey is also used for persistent coughs, and this natural remedy is prepared with: about 210 dandelion flowers, 2 lemons, 2 oranges, 1 kilogram of sugar and 1 liter of water.
- Preparation: Put lemon and oranges chopped into rings together with the dandelion flowers in 1 liter of water, and cook for about 2 hours. After that, strain, discard the solid part and boil the liquid for another half hour. Then add sugar and cook until it becomes honey-like (a bit runnier because the syrup will thicken further when it cools).
- Note: Dandelion for preparation does not need to be washed, it is very important that it is picked on a dry pasture, far from the road, cars and city garbage. Lemon and orange are cooked with the roots and well squeezed.
Onion Tea for Cough
Onion tea is perhaps one of the most effective proven remedies for cough, well known in our regions.
- Preparation: 3 medium-sized onions (together with the skin), wash, then cut each base into four equal parts and boil in a liter of water until 1/3 of the water has evaporated. When done, discard the solid and drink the onion tea throughout the day, slowly in sips.
- If someone doesn't like this taste, they can well dry and make tea prepared only from the skins of the onion, a few pinches.
Coltsfoot Tea for Cough
Coltsfoot tea is especially useful for a persistent cough, which usually occurs with a cold and flu, because it relieves cough and facilitates the expectoration of mucus.
- Preparation: Coltsfoot tea is prepared in the following way: one tablespoon of dried flowers and leaves of coltsfoot is poured with 250 ml of boiling water, after a few minutes strained and drunk, (2-3 times a day).
Orange Peel Syrup for Dry Cough
Finely chop one well-washed orange together with the peel into very small pieces. Then put it in a suitable pot, add 2 tablespoons of sugar and pour over with only 1 dl of water. Cook until it thickens for about half an hour. Orange peel syrup helps when a dry cough attack occurs, taking one spoonful.
Remedy for Expectorating (Goose Fat and Honey!)
Cut goose fat into cubes and put it in a small pot to fry. Render the fat like cracklings to get clear, pure fat. It is very important to heat it at a moderate temperature, so the fat doesn't burn, just melts. When melted, strain it through a strainer and let it cool. When the fat is cooled, and before it hardens completely, mix it well with honey and pour into jars. Close the jars and store in the refrigerator.
- Children: 2-3 small teaspoons daily. I gave it to my child mixed with milk and they drank it without a problem.
- Adults: 2 large tablespoons daily.
