Cough and its Sure Shot Treatment

Being afflicted with cough can both be embarrassing and incapacitating. You cannot concentrate on whatever you're doing and you find it quite embarrassing every time your cough gets out of control. Continuous coughing is very tiring and your body could easily get tired from all the stress. There are various over the counter medications available that have been proven effective in the treatment of recurring coughs. However natural remedies can be found right out of your kitchen and it only needs a little patience before you will be able to reap their long lasting effects.

Treatment:

1. Garlic is a remedy for whooping cough. Crush the cloves of garlic and extract the juice. Take 1 tsp of the juice twice a day.

2. Aloe vera Mix equal parts of aloe juice and honey. This is very good for a scratchy cough. Take some eucalyptus leaves and mint leaves and boil them together in water. Now inhale its vapors. It will help you in curing your cough and is also one of the good home remedies for cough.

3. Whenever there is a cold, the first precaution is to keep the nose and mouth clean. This will keep the infection from going down into the lungs and causing further trouble.

4. Grapes act as an expectorant. Grapes tone up the lungs and acts as an expectorant, giving relief from simple cold and cough in a couple of days. A cup of grape juice mixed with honey gives good relief from cough.

5. Some of the older cures are harder to come by. One example of these cures is a mix of the juices of leeks and fresh breast milk of a nursing mother. Another less palatable remedy involved boiling two or three snails in barley water. You may not want to go through all this trouble for a cough.

6. The best cure for the chronicle cough in bronchitis is avoiding environments with pollution or smoke as well as personally giving up smoking. The medication treatment for coughing might be administering agonists like the short-acting Ipratropium Bromide by inhalation or Teophylline by oral way, long-action agonists and inhaled corticosteroids.

7. SPONGIA TOSTA - For a dry, barking, croupy whistling cough, with irritating tickling, hoarseness, loss of voice. They are better after eating and drinking. Worse during inspiration and before midnight.

8. Other herbs suppress the cough reflex by encouraging saliva production, causing you to swallow less frequently. Commercial cough drops often contain the oils from these herbs. They include peppermint, eucalyptus, anise and fennel. Try taking them as teas. Slippery elm, found as a tea or lozenge, discourages the cough reflex in another manner--by forming a protective layer around the mucous membranes of the throat.

9. Cough medicines for productive coughs are not suppressants but expectorants, which help loosen the mucus trapped in the respiratory tract and prevent the lungs form getting infected. The medicine can either be in form of tablets for example the chewable throat lozenge drop or in inform of syrups like Guaifenesin and Ipecacuanha.

10. Drink much warm water. Cool water will cause you sneezing in the morning, but if you regularly drink warm water it will help you to remove those common health problems very smoothly. Warm water is very good as natural remedies with no cost.