Cough in a person - a child or an adult, however, like any animal - given by Nature the protective reaction of a living organism. After all, when coughing, the lungs remove foreign microparticles, microorganisms, mucus particles, sputum, various foreign bodies trapped in the lungs. Usually coughing in children and adults is one of the symptoms of any disease of the upper respiratory tract and lungs.
We know that cough can be severe, cold, dry and barking, wet( wet), in each case, you need a selective approach to the treatment of diseases of the lungs and upper respiratory tract. Everything depends on the cause of the disease, its stage.
Here we will consider what can be cured for a child and an adult at home using folk remedies, medications and cough medications. In any case, in order to establish the cause and nature of the disease that caused the cough, the appointment of treatment requires specialist advice.
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Folk remedies: what to treat cough at home
When you cough, you should first use distractions - cans, mustard, mustard foot baths, compresses on the chest area, hot drink, rubbing and ointments. If this does not help, then you should seek help from folk medicine.
Lemon pass through the meat grinder, mix with honey and drink 1 teaspoon 4-5 times a day.
Mix in equal parts rye, oats, barley , add a little bit of chicory and refined bitter almonds. Fill with hot melted milk and drink instead of coffee.
When coughing, is useful spring birch juice with milk 1: 1 .
Broth figs in milk is an excellent cough remedy( especially recommended for children).
Hot milk with mineral waters ( Borjomi, essentuki, etc.).
Hot milk with honey ( 1 tablespoon honey for 200 ml of milk) or with soda( half a teaspoon per glass of milk).
Juice turnips( or black radish) boil with honey for 3 minutes. Give 1 tablespoon every 3 hours.
Angelica Pancic .2 teaspoons of crushed root cook in a glass of water for 10 minutes, strain and drink several times a day for one-third of the glass.
Periwinkle small .Prepare the broth: 1 tablespoon of chopped leaves pour a glass of water and cook in a glass of boiling water for 20 minutes. Take one third of the glass 3 times a day.
Forest Prospector .Applied with inflammatory diseases of the digestive system, with diseases of the respiratory tract. The bastard dilutes sputum, acts as an expectorant and as an antispasmodic.
Blackberry, Coumar, Azhin .The main action is astringent, anti-inflammatory and fixative. The leaves and fruits of blackberries are used. Wine from the fruits of blackberries, as well as blackberries and tea from them in folk medicine are used to treat influenza, pharyngitis, angina, bronchitis.
2 tablespoons of leaves pour 500 ml of boiling water and insist for an hour. Drink 100-150 ml 4-5 times a day in hot form.
Common fig tree ( figs ).Has a weak laxative and anti-inflammatory effect. It is used as an antitussive.
Steamed fig fruits are used in folk medicine as an anti-cough remedy, for throat rinses with laryngitis, pharyngitis, angina.
Althaea officinalis. The main action is softening, expectorant and anti-inflammatory.
2 tablespoons of chopped althea root pour 500 ml of cold water( cold infusion) and soak for 1 day. Obtained infusion strain, add a little sugar. Take a tablespoon every two hours.
Boil the onion in milk and drink half a glass of the broth 3-4 times a day( drink hot).
Eucalyptus blue. The main action is anti-inflammatory, especially in inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract( bronchitis).
Tablespoon of eucalyptus leaves fill in half a liter of boiling water and cooked hot infusion, drink 100 ml before meals 3-4 times a day for chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma.
Broth from rye or wheat bran ( cook with honey) helps with an exhausting, strong cough.
Pickler ordinary .The main action is expectorant. In folk medicine, hot infusions from this plant are used as an expectorant for bronchitis.3 teaspoons of the plant, pour 2 cups of boiling water, insist 1 hour, strain. Infuse drink throughout the day.
Boil 60 g pepper roots with 0.25 l of white wine, strain. Drink hot 3-4 times a day.
Mother-and-Stepmother .The main action is expectorant, emollient, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic. Mother-and-stepmother acts as an antitussive agent and promotes sputum excretion in acute inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract.
A tablespoon of dried leaves, pour 400 ml of boiling water and leave to stand for 1 hour. Strain, drink 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day.
In Bulgarian traditional medicine, the following composition is popular against cough:
- coltsfoot - 50 g,
- linden flowers - 50 g,
- centaury - 50 g,
- scolopendrovite scanner - 50 g.
2 tablespoons of this mixture together with1 teaspoon of flax seed, pour 500 ml of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Insist 1 hour, strain. Drink one third or half a glass 3-4 times a day.
Prepare a mixture of herbs: plantain, mallow, horsetail field. Total take equal, chop. On a glass of boiling water - 1 teaspoon of the mixture, insist 1 hour, strain. Drink half the glass 3-4 times a day with a prolonged and persistent cough.
Hemp sowing .In Bulgarian folk medicine hemp is used to treat persistent cough, as well as inflammatory diseases of the urinary tract and prostate. The initial raw materials are cannabis seeds( 1 teaspoon per 300 g of boiling water).Boil 15 minutes, insist 2 hours, strain. Take one third of the glass 3 times a day.
The appearance of a cough almost always indicates a defeat of the airways. If the cough is accompanied by a sharp increase in body temperature( i.e., within a few hours / days), malaise, runny nose, pharyngitis, it is most likely that the underlying disease is one of the types of acute respiratory disease( ie, colds).
Cough, which is almost the only symptom of the disease, or a cough that has been present for a long time and is not amenable to treatment, should always be alarming. With this cough, you need to see a doctor.
And what should I do for a cold cough?
Recommendations, drugs and cures for cough
A mild cough against the cold is quite normal. In most cases, it does not require any treatment and passes on its own simultaneously with the disappearance of the disease.
In other cases, for example, bronchitis, cough can be strong and persistent, with the release of viscous sputum. In this situation, sputum liquefaction may be necessary and very effective. How to do it?
First: try to drink as much as possible fluid - copious drink restores the body's water balance, disturbed by the disease, and in many ways helps to dilute sputum.
When coughing, sore throat, pharyngitis is especially useful to drink alkaline mineral water( for example, Borjomi), the chemical composition of which also facilitates the recovery of sputum and acceleration of recovery. It is recommended to enrich the food with light, but high-calorie food, as well as vegetables and fruits.
Second: for colds and coughs it is useful to conduct a course of inhalations. Inhalations are indicated for older children and adults. Children of an early age( up to 3-4 years) should not be inhaled - this can cause them to suffocate.
For inhalation, take a tablespoon of leaves of mother-and-stepmother, chamomile, sage, thyme and pour them with boiling water in any voluminous vessel. In the infusion, add a teaspoon of baking soda and a few drops of menthol or eucalyptus oil. Such inhalation can be carried out several times a day.
Third: with persistent cough with viscous sputum( most likely it is tracheitis or bronchitis), it is recommended to take medications for sputum liquefaction: expectorants and mucolytic agents.
Many of them are also available in adult forms, or can be used in adults at a certain dosage. We recommend to pay attention to preparations of vegetable origin, as well as mucolytics.
Mucolytics are taken in case there is sputum, but it is viscous and therefore excreted with difficulty.
Expectorants should be taken when coughing leads to a small amount of sputum( scant sputum) - they stimulate the secretion of sputum by the glands of the bronchi, while making it more fluid, and strengthen the cough reflex - it helps to clear the airways for colds or bronchitis.
Antitussives are prescribed only by the attending physician - they can cause serious adverse reactions. The modern and safest drug from this group is Kodelak-fito, which has a complex effect: it cracks the cough, but makes it more productive and therefore less painful and more effective. Kodelak-phyto is used mainly with a strong dry cough, which sometimes occurs against the background of influenza or other ARI.This drug is suitable for treating both children and adults. Reception of this drug is stopped when sputum appears( usually on the 2nd-3rd day of the common cold).
Before you start any of these medications, we recommend that you read the contents of the instructions for using the medication carefully. If, in spite of the treatment undertaken, the cough does not go through after 1-2 weeks, you should consult a doctor for examination and treatment correction.
Expectorants and mucolytic agents should not be taken concomitantly with antitussives - this can lead to blockage of bronchi by phlegm.
All cough medicines can be divided into several groups:
Non-narcotic cough remedy
- Butamirate.
- Glaucine.
- Oxeladine.
Cough drugs
- Dimmarfan.
- Codeine.
- Ethylmorphine.
Mucolytics
- Ambroxol.
- Broth mexine.
- Carbocysteine.
- Mesna.
Expectorants for cough
- Broncholitin.
- Sodium bicarbonate.
- Potassium iodide.
- Kodelak-fito.
- Combined cough medicine.
- The root of the althea.
- Licorice root.
- Leaves of mother-and-stepmother.
- Leaves of plantain.
- Mukaltin.
- Pertussin.
- Solutan.
- Tussin.
- Thymus.
Other antitussive drugs are used that relate to different groups:
- Bronchilis-Hel. When coughing, 1 tablet under the tongue 3-4 times a day.
- Libexin.1 tablet 2-3 times a day.
- Bronchicum.1 teaspoon pour 100 ml of hot water and drink.
- Glaucium( poppy yellow).Glaucin serves as a starting material for the production of antitussive drugs( Glavent and Glauterpin).In medicine, infusion or a decoction from the whole plant is used( a tablespoon of ground raw material for 300 ml of boiling water).Take one third of the glass 3-4 times a day.
- Tablets of thermopsis. Take 1 tablet 3-4 times a day for prompt sputum discharge.
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There is a way out, just do for your beloved little man a pack of potatoes and it will become easier. In this video, we'll tell you and show you how to make a compress from a potato cough. After the first procedure, he eased the suffering of our daughter.
Cough in the baby became weaker, better breathed nose. Compress from potatoes is an easy and safe folk remedy for coughing. After all, a cold for a child, especially a child, is a very serious illness.
Try, as we treat the child without medicamental methods, so as not to cripple the health of your child. Family health depends on us.
Watch the video, we hope you will find this recipe useful for treating colds. Good luck and see you again.
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Source:H. Official and traditional medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- Moscow: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012.
