How to make burnt cough sugar for children and adults
The content of the article:
- Burnt sugar against cough - pros and cons
- How to make burnt cough sugar candy
- Burnt cough sugar recipe as a thick paste
- Sugar cough syrups
- Video
Burnt cough sugar is used in folk medicine to treat diseases of the throat and respiratory tract. Due to its simplicity of preparation and softening effect, it is used to treat adults and children, it helps to alleviate the manifestations of the disease. There are many ways to prepare this folk remedy, which allows you to please even the most fastidious little patient and provide them with the necessary help in the fight against cough.
Burnt sugar home remedies can be quite effective
Burnt sugar against cough - pros and cons
Indications for the use of this folk medicine are inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract (pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis), as well as sore throat and other diseases accompanied by irritation of the pharyngeal mucosa. Burnt sugar is taken only with a dry cough - under the influence of saliva, it is broken down into monosaccharides, which give the body energy and also have a mild analgesic effect. Why does it have a therapeutic effect? The mechanism is simple - improving nutrition and blood circulation in the area of dissolving the candy provides an enveloping, astringent effect that removes pain and irritation. Even with a very severe sore throat, the absorption of burnt sugar allows you to swallow normally after a few doses.
The advantage of this remedy is also the fact that it has few contraindications, it can be used even by pregnant women. Burnt sugar lozenges should not be given to infants due to the high risk of mechanical asphyxia (suffocation). It is also obvious that a sugar-based product should not be given to people with diabetes of any type - both type I and II. Also, you should not eat sugar if the mucous membrane of the oral cavity is damaged - the sweet environment attracts microorganisms, which can lead to an infectious and inflammatory process. You can not abuse lollipops for the same reason - it contributes to the multiplication of pathogenic and opportunistic flora of the oral cavity, dental caries.
How to make burnt cough sugar candy
The recipes for making burnt sugar are extremely simple. The most popular is the simplest. You need to take a small frying pan, saucepan or bowl, add granulated sugar (weighing about 100 g) into it and put on a low heat. After a few minutes, the sugar will begin to melt, caramelize and turn brown. In order for all the sugar to turn into caramel, you need to stir it regularly and not let the bottom layer burn - burnt cough sugar does not have significant benefits, because monosaccharides have already decayed to simple carbons, with a lower energy capacity. Such a candy will taste bitter, it will only irritate the throat more. When all the sugar has turned into a light brown, elastic mass, it is poured into small cakes on pre-spread baking paper. You can also use silicone molds for candy or ice - these candies are also beautiful. Use them with a strong cough during the day.
Milk candy can be helpful in treating dry cough. To prepare it, you need to dissolve 2 tablespoons of sugar in half a glass of milk. Then the mixture is placed on a high heat, the milk quickly boils, after which the fire is reduced and the milk with sugar is left to thicken. It will soon begin to change its color to light brown. After that, you should pour the mass into molds, cool and use if necessary.
Express method of making lollipops with milk: sugar melted in a pan is poured into a glass of cold milk, where it solidifies. Milk gets into air voids, bubbles inside the caramel mass. These lozenges can be taken by everyone except patients with hereditary lactose intolerance.
Soft candy can be made by adding butter to the recipe. In a frying pan, melt sugar and butter in a 1 to 1 ratio and mix thoroughly. When the mass thickens, it is removed from the fire, poured into molds and cooled. These candies have a pleasant creamy taste.
To liquefy sputum and strengthen immunity, lollipops are prepared with tangerine zest. To do this, prepare 50 g of caramel from burnt sugar, grind 100 g of tangerine zest, add to the sugar mass along with 2-3 tablespoons of water, and cook, stirring occasionally, over low heat until thickened, and then pour into molds.
It is convenient to prepare cough drops in special silicone molds for sweets
Burnt cough sugar recipe as a thick paste
How to prepare burnt cough sugar for children? In this case, when it is undesirable for the baby to give hard candies, you can prepare a pasty remedy from caramel, it will retain all the properties of a cough candy, but it will be easier to use.
To prepare the pasta, add equal amounts of water, butter and cream to the caramel brought to a boil. It is the two fatty ingredients that prevent the mixture from hardening. After thorough mixing and short cooking over low heat, the paste is cooled, after which it becomes thicker, but also more convenient for use. It can be added to warm tea or served neat on a spoon. Reviews suggest that the paste is not inferior to candy in efficiency.
Sugar cough syrups
Cough relief syrups are easy to use, easy to prepare, and safe for children, but there are some "adult" options. Let's start with them:
- Vodka - based syrup - for preparation, you will need 7-8 tablespoons of sugar, which are heated until they acquire a caramel shade and a characteristic smell of burnt sugar. Then you need to add about 100 ml of water and 3 tablespoons of vodka, after which the product cools down and is ready for use. If the mixture does not have the consistency of a liquid syrup, add more water, you should get about 200 ml. Treatment is carried out according to the scheme: 1 spoon every 2 hours. Children cannot take such a remedy, alcohol can harm the child, despite the fact that a significant part of it boils away during the cooking process.
- Syrup with onion juice - its effect is due to the exceptional properties of onions - its bacteriostatic and bactericidal action. In combination with sugar, a complex preparation is obtained. To prepare the juice of one onion, pour it into a glass of hot water and add 1-2 tablespoons of burnt sugar there.
- Syrup with lemon juice - 2 tablespoons of sugar turns into a caramel mass, at this time lemon juice is added to hot water, the amount of which can be varied depending on the taste. Then the burnt sugar is poured into lemon water, after which the syrup is cooled. Take it in a tablespoon 6-8 times a day.
- Raspberry syrup. To prepare it, you need to brew raspberry tea from leaves or berries, or add a few tablespoons of raspberry jam to hot water. Then sugar is melted in a frying pan and added directly to the tea, where it cools. It turns out a syrup with a raspberry flavor and its beneficial properties.
- Aloe syrup. Aloe has a whole range of properties that can effectively help with coughs and strengthen the immune system. To prepare it, you need to take 2 tablespoons of aloe juice, 100 ml of water and 50 g of burnt sugar and mix in one container. By adding water, you can make the syrup more liquid, that is, choose the consistency that is optimal for yourself.
- Microwave syrup - quick and effective. 1 tablespoon of sugar is mixed with 1/3 cup of water. Then everything is mixed and put in the microwave for 3 minutes at maximum power. This is enough to caramelize the sugar, resulting in a cough syrup.
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Nikita Gaidukov About the author
Education: 4th year student of the Faculty of Medicine No. 1, specializing in General Medicine, Vinnitsa National Medical University. N. I. Pirogov.
Work experience: Nurse of the cardiology department of the Tyachiv Regional Hospital No. 1, geneticist / molecular biologist in the Polymerase Chain Reaction Laboratory at VNMU named after N. I. Pirogov.
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