Folk cough recipes: milk with honey, butter and other ingredients
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- Milk with honey for cough treatment: recipes
- How best to use milk with honey for cough treatment
- Indications and contraindications for the use of milk with honey
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One of the most popular recipes, familiar to almost everyone from childhood, is milk with honey for coughing.
For the preparation of this remedy, you can use any natural honey, however, it is believed that lime is the most effective. The mixture can be prepared both in boiled whole and in pasteurized milk, which, if possible, should be fatty - the fatter the milk, the more it softens the mucous membrane of the oropharynx.
Milk with honey is one of the most popular anti-cold and antitussive folk remedies.
You cannot add honey to hot milk. The liquid must first be cooled to a temperature of 40-45 ° C, otherwise honey will lose some of its useful properties.
Whether milk with honey helps with coughing primarily depends on the cause of the symptom. With a cough, which is a consequence of a cold, it is quite effective, but with an allergic one, it is not only ineffective, but can cause significant harm. Therefore, before using it, you must consult with your doctor.
Milk with honey for cough treatment: recipes
The drug is prepared as simply as possible: 1-2 teaspoons of honey are dissolved in a glass of warm milk.
To increase the effectiveness of milk with honey, you can add ½ teaspoon of cocoa butter for 1 cup of drink. There is another recipe for milk with honey and cough butter, according to which good quality butter is used instead of cocoa butter. Hot milk with cough oil can be taken without honey, while its therapeutic effect decreases slightly. Children are given half a glass, adults can drink a whole glass.
When coughing, you can take 1 glass of milk with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1/3 teaspoon of cinnamon at night. The medicinal drink should be drunk in small sips.
To prepare another simple remedy with which you can treat coughs in adults and children, you need to chop 1 onion and / or several cloves of garlic, add 400 ml of milk, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for about 20 minutes. The broth must be cooled to 40 ° C and add a tablespoon of honey to it. The remedy is taken in a tablespoon several times a day. This mixture strengthens the immune system, reduces sore throat.
To prepare another folk remedy for coughing, you need to thoroughly wash 1 medium-sized black radish, make a depression in it and leave it for several hours to let the juice out. Then add 2 teaspoons of honey and 1 tablespoon of released radish juice to 1 glass of warm milk.
A drink helps well against cough, for the preparation of which 2 teaspoons of honey and ½ teaspoon of soda are added to 1 glass of warm milk.
You can make an antitussive with milk, honey, and oats. In a saucepan, bring 500 ml of milk to a boil, add 2 tablespoons of oatmeal, cook over low heat for 10 minutes, grind with a blender, add a tablespoon of honey and a teaspoon of butter. Oat milk is especially effective for dry coughs.
Cough treatment can be supplemented with the use of a folk remedy, for the preparation of which 400 ml of milk is poured into 1 tablespoon of sage. The mixture is brought to a boil, then removed from the heat, infused for 30 minutes, filtered and 2 teaspoons of honey is added.
You can also prepare a remedy at home that will help fight cough using this recipe. Several figs (2-3 pieces) are washed and cut into large cubes, pour 500 ml of milk, bring to a boil and cook for a few more minutes. After that, filter the product, add 2 teaspoons of honey to the milk. The patient needs to eat figs and drink milk.
According to patient reviews, a remedy for the preparation of which a raw quail egg is thoroughly mixed with two teaspoons of honey helps well against cough. In another container, mix 1 cup of hot milk and a small piece of butter. When the milk has cooled down a little, add a mixture of egg and honey to it. You cannot replace a quail egg with a chicken one.
To prepare an effective antitussive agent, you need to brew 10 g of anise seeds or the same amount of grated ginger root with a glass of hot milk. The infusion is filtered, sweetened with honey and taken with a dry cough, 30-40 ml several times a day.
You can take a mixture of milk and carrot juice (in a 1: 1 ratio) with the addition of honey. The mixture is consumed at 20 ml several times throughout the day.
To prepare another cough remedy, mix 100 g of honey, butter, lard (pork, goose, etc.) and 30 g of aloe juice. The mixture is taken by dissolving 1 teaspoon in 1 glass of warm milk. Adults are advised to drink a glass of the product, children are given ¼ portion.
If you add a little alkaline mineral water or butter to milk with honey, the agent will also have anti-inflammatory and emollient effects.
How best to use milk with honey for cough treatment
Milk with honey for the treatment of respiratory diseases is recommended to be consumed throughout the day in small portions, as well as taken before bedtime.
In order for the remedy to help fight not only cough, but also with pain and sore throat, it must be drunk in small sips. Milk should be warm, it is unacceptable to take it too hot or cold.
When coughing, the patient is usually advised to take a glass of milk with honey and butter per day, dividing it into 2 doses (that is, ½ glass per dose), if tolerated, it can be drunk as much as necessary when coughing attacks appear.
Milk with honey and oats is good for dry cough
Indications and contraindications for the use of milk with honey
The causes of coughing can vary. The cough can be acute or chronic, dry or moist. Milk with honey can be used in addition to the main treatment for colds and many other diseases of the respiratory system (laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis), both for dry and wet coughs. A healthy drink can also be taken to prevent colds in the cold season.
Milk with honey helps to reduce inflammation, liquefy phlegm and quickly remove it from the respiratory tract, reduce sore throat and sore throat, increase body resistance, and improve sleep.
During pregnancy, women can take milk with honey, provided it is well tolerated.
Milk with honey for coughing can be given to a child only after consultation with a pediatrician, especially for patients under three years old.
Milk with honey should not be used if the patient has an individual intolerance to any of the components, as well as diabetes, a number of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, kidney stones.
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Anna Aksenova Medical journalist About the author
Education: 2004-2007 "First Kiev Medical College" specialty "Laboratory Diagnostics".
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