Milk with cough onions: recipes for children and adults
The content of the article:
- Useful properties of onions and milk
- Milk and Onion Recipes for Cough Treatment
- Indications for the use of milk with onions
- Contraindications
- Video
Milk with onions for coughing is widely used for respiratory diseases. This simple and affordable folk remedy is very popular, but it is advisable to use it only in addition to the main therapy.
Milk with onions is used to treat cough in children and adults
The article discusses the positive properties of folk remedies based on these components, some recipes and tips for use.
Useful properties of onions and milk
Onions in fairly large quantities contain phytoncides, enzymes, vitamin K, B vitamins, potassium, phosphorus, iron. This composition determines its beneficial properties. Onion helps to relieve puffiness, spasms, has a pronounced antiseptic, antimicrobial effect, which makes it one of the most effective herbal remedies for colds.
Milk contains calcium, sodium, phosphorus, iodine, magnesium, potassium, vitamins A, D, group B, etc. It, like onion, has a bactericidal effect.
Warmed milk with onions has a tonic effect and warms.
Milk with onions can be used for oral administration in a complex of treatment of patients of different age groups. For a number of diseases of the respiratory system, a mixture of milk, onions and garlic can also be inhaled, which promotes the discharge of sputum.
Before starting treatment for cough with folk remedies, you should consult with your doctor and make sure that the patient is not allergic to any ingredient in the milk drink. When milk with onions supplements drug therapy, it is recommended to use it 2 hours before taking the drugs or after the same period of time after.
To prepare the medicine, you can use pasteurized or boiled cow, mare or goat milk. It is more useful to prepare the product in fat milk, which contains more iodine and vitamin D.
Milk and Onion Recipes for Cough Treatment
The classic cough-onion milk recipe for children and adults is as follows. Peel a large onion and cut into large rings. Place the onion in a saucepan, pour 500 ml of milk, bring the mixture to a boil and cook over low heat until the onion softens (10-15 minutes). After that, the product is allowed to cool and filtered. The finished mixture is stored in the refrigerator, taken warm, 1 tablespoon every hour during the day for the treatment of adults and 1 teaspoon for children under 12 years old. Honey or sugar can be added to onion milk to improve taste (honey cannot be added to too hot milk).
If you cough at home, you can prepare another medicine. Chop 5-8 medium onions, previously peeled from the husk, and 1 large head of garlic. Add 1 liter of milk to the mixture, boil, mix until smooth with a blender. After cooling, the drink can be sweetened with honey. Take 1 tablespoon for the treatment of adults or 1 teaspoon for children 3-4 times a day.
To prepare the medicine according to another recipe, 2-3 onions are chopped, 1 glass of milk is added, the mixture is brought to a boil over low heat and cooked until the onion softens. After that, the container with the broth is wrapped and left for 1-2 hours. Take 1 spoon every 1-2 hours.
To make a simple cough medicine, mix 1 teaspoon of onion juice and 1 cup of warm milk. An adult is recommended to drink such a remedy in the morning and before going to bed for 3-4 days. Children are given 1 teaspoon or 1 tablespoon, depending on age. A little honey can be added to improve the taste. According to reviews, milk with cough onions will be even more effective if you add a little ghee to it.
You can prepare the remedy according to this recipe. The onion is finely chopped and covered with 2 tablespoons of sugar. The mixture is left overnight. In the morning, add 500 ml of hot milk to the onion, allow it to cool and take 1 spoonful several times a day.
Indications for the use of milk with onions
Milk with onions is used for various types of cough. So, it is effective for dry (barking) cough, helps to dilute difficult sputum and remove it from the respiratory tract. With the help of products based on milk and onions (in the complex of treatment), you can get rid of a lingering, chronic cough. They can be used already at the first symptoms of a cold or other disease of the respiratory system, with hypothermia, during seasonal epidemics, and in contact with a sick person.
Milk with onions, after consultation with a pediatrician, can be prescribed to children from 3 years of age (in whose diet onions have already been introduced), as well as to women during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Contraindications
Folk remedies, which include fresh onion juice, can not be used by patients with gastritis in the form of an exacerbation, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
Milk with onions is not recommended for patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
Milk should not be consumed by patients with lactase deficiency.
Milk with onions is not used to treat coughs that accompany airway inflammation of allergic etiology, especially when the allergen is unknown.
The remedy is contraindicated in diseases of the thyroid gland, diabetes mellitus.
Long-term use of milk with onions can cause digestive disorders. The risk is especially high when the patient consumes such milk after fish or meat dishes.
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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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