Natural Remedies
Lemon juice, sweetened with loaf or crushed sugar, will relieve a cough. --The Old Farmer's Almanac, 1852
The root of sweet flag was often powdered or sliced and used as a ginger substitute or throat lozenge.
Drink mullein flower tea.
Catnip tea helps reduce mucus.
To suppress a night cough, put 1 teaspoon black pepper and 1 teaspoon sugar into a mug. Pour in boiling water and let steep. The pepper will settle to the bottom. Sip, as needed.
Horehound drops, made with the extract of the leaves of the bitter mint Marrubium vulgare, can be combined with honey for a soothing cough drop, or served as a tea with lemon.
Hot and spicey foods act as expectorants, loosening up the lung's secretions.
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