Cough is a protective reaction of the body in adults and children, which allows to remove unnecessary microorganisms, mucus particles, sputum and foreign foreign bodies when coughing from the lungs and bronchi.
As a rule, cough is one of the symptoms of diseases of the upper respiratory tract and lungs.
Cough occurs in bronchitis( inflammation of the bronchi), pneumonia( inflammation of the lobes of the lungs), tracheitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, but can accompany other diseases. In this article, we will talk about how and what, treat and cure cough at home with folk remedies in an adult and a child.
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Causes of coughing in an adult and a child
Cough occurs in inflammatory, mechanical, chemical and thermal stimulation of cough receptors. In inflammation, edema and hyperemia, as well as exudative processes irritate the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. Such irritants can come from both the respiratory tract itself, as, for example, with laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis and bronchiolitis, and alveoli, for example, pneumonia or lung abscess. Mechanical irritants are air particles inhaled with air, for example dust, or a violation of the patency of the airways due to their squeezing or toning.
Thus, usually the causes of coughing in adults and children can be catarrhal inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, tobacco smoking, inhalation of air with an admixture of dust from the environment, stresses that turn into neurosis( cough of neurogenic origin), foreign bodies entering the trachea during breathingor careless eating.
Because the causes of cough are different, depending on what provokes it, it will be the basis for the strategy of the chosen cough treatment - methods, recipes, tips, remedies and methods.
Cough dry and wet
Cough by nature can be dry and moist , ie with phlegm and without it. With phlegm cough productive, moist, with the passage of the mucous discharge from the bronchi, bringing relief to the patient. A strong dry cough is not productive, it is usually: a strong, barking, painful and paroxysmal cough without sputum and not bringing relief. For the patient to be able to clear his throat becomes a problem number one, a fit of coughing, and even more so the night cough is torturous, does not give an adult or a child the opportunity to sleep, relax and restore strength.
Here we consider the principles of cough treatment for colds and inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system. Therefore, the cough can also be with an increased temperature of the body and without the temperature , i.e. with its normal figures - 36.7.It depends on the nature of the course of the disease and the severity of the inflammatory process in the body, as well as on one's own protective features of the human immune system.
Principles of cough treatment
Due to the fact that a patient has a dry or wet cough, two main approaches can be distinguished in his treatment:
with a dry cough need to alleviate the patient's condition by removing paroxysmal cough with suppressive antitussives and tablets, while stimulating the accumulation and discharge of sputum from the lungs, i.e. to translate the cough from dry to wet;
with a damp cough need to help the body dilute sputum for more easy removal from the body.
In addition, has to be taken into account for the temperature of the body, because in this case the procedures related to heating, heating baths, compressions, grindings have to be deferred until the temperature figures are normalized.
Treatment of cough: home remedies
When coughing, first of all, you should use distractions - cans, mustard, mustard foot baths, compresses on the chest, hot drink, rubbing and ointments. If this does not help, then you should seek help from folk remedies of alternative medicine.
How and what to cure and cure cough
Methods and tips for coughing:
- Lemon pass through the meat grinder, mix with honey and drink on 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 a cough is useful, spring birch juice with milk 1: 1.
- Broth figs in milk is an excellent way to get rid quickly of cough( especially recommended to give it to children).
- Hot milk with mineral waters ( Borjomi, essentuki, etc.).
- Hot milk with honey ( 1 tablespoon honey per 200 ml of milk) or with soda( 1/2 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 1/3 cup.
- Periwinkle is 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 1/3 cup 3 times a day.
- Forest Prosvirnik. Used for inflammatory diseases of the digestive system, for diseases of the respiratory tract. The bastard dilutes the phlegm, acts as an expectorant and as an antispasmodic.
- Broth from rye or wheat bran ( cook with honey) helps to remove the exhausting and violent cough.
- Boil the onion in the milk and drink the broth 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day( drink hot).
- Boil 60 g of the roots of pepper with 0.25 l of white wine, strain. Drink hot 3-4 times a day.
Recipes against cough:
Blackberry, coumarica, azhina
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( fig)
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, and angina. The main action is emollient, 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.
Eucalyptus blue
The main action is anti-inflammatory, especially in inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract( bronchitis).
Tablespoon of eucalyptus leaves fill 1/2 liter of boiling water and cooked hot infusion drink 100 ml before meals 3-4 times a day for chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma.
Pikulnik ordinary
Main action - 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.
Mother-and-Stepmother
Main action - 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.
Hemp seed
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 1/3 cup 3 times a day.
Compositions, Dues and Mixtures of Herbs
I. In the Bulgarian folk medicine popular against coughing is the following herbal composition :
- mother-and-stepmother - 50 g
- linden flowers - 50 grams
- 50,000 grams
- scolopendrovy leaflet -50 g
2 tablespoons of this collection of herbs together with 1 teaspoon of flaxseed seed pour 500 ml of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Insist 1 hour, strain. Drink 1/2 - 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day.
II. Prepare the grass mixture : plantain, mallow, horsetail field. Total take equal, chop. On a glass of boiling water - 1 teaspoon of the mixture, insist 1 hour, strain. Drink 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day with prolonged and persistent cough.
Recommendations
The appearance of a cough almost always indicates a defeat of the airways. When a cough is accompanied by a sharp increase in body temperature for several hours or days, a general malaise, a runny nose, a laryngitis, a pharyngitis, it is most likely that the underlying illness is one of the types of acute respiratory viral infections, ORZ is easier - colds.
If the cough is the only symptom of the disease, or the cough is present for a long time and does not respond to treatment, this should alert. At such cough it is necessary to address to the doctor.
What should I do for a cold cough?
Tips for official medicine
A coughing cough against the cold is normal. In most cases, it does not require treatment and passes 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 such a situation, sputum liquefaction may be a necessary and very effective way to alleviate the condition of the patient
First: try to drink as much fluid as possible - a generous drink restores the body's water balance, disturbed by the disease, and largely contributes to the dilution of phlegm. 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.
The second: for colds and coughs it is useful to conduct a course of inhalations. Inhalations are shown to 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: expectorant 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 produces 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 also 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 starting 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 congestion of the bronchi with phlegm.
Tablets, syrup and cough medicine
Instructions for use of medications, where the dose and frequency of medication is prescribed, indications and contraindications to its use, is attached to each package, read carefully! Especially if it concerns the health of the child!
All medicines for cough can be divided into several groups:
Non-narcotic cough remedies
- butamirata
- glaucine
- oxeladin
Narcotic antitussives
- Dimemorfan
- Codeine
- Ethylmorphine
Mucolytics
- Ambroksol
- Bromhexine
- Karbotsistein
- Mesna
expectorant cough
- Broncholitin
- Sodium bicarbonate
- Potassium iodide
- Kodelak-fito
- Combined cough medicine
- Althese root
- Licorice root
- Leaves of coltsfoot
- Leaves of plantain
- Mukaltin
- Pertussin
- Solutan
- Tussin
- Thymus
Other antitussives
Other antitussive drugs are used that are related to different groups:
- 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 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day.
- Libexin .1 tablet 2-3 times a day.
- Bronchilis-hel .When coughing, 1 tablet under the tongue 3-4 times a day. Tablets of thermopsis .Take 1 tablet 3-4 times a day for prompt sputum discharge.
Source
The article is written on the basis of verified information sources and recommendations from the following reference books:
- G.Nasgov. Official and folk medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- M.: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012
- Harrison, T. R. Internal Diseases.- Moscow: "Medicine", 1997. - 3443 p.
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