Home remedies for Cough Problems
All kinds of cough can be cured by eating the juice or powder of the roots of ash-gourd mixed with a little hot water.
To cure all kinds of cough: Mix 25 gms. each of the skin of pomegranate fruit, jyestamadhu, cloves, and pepper. Grind them in a little water; strain, dry in shade and form into small tablets. Put 1-2 of these tablets into the mouth and chew them.
For all kinds of cough: Make a decoction of 25 gms. Of the leaves of tamarind by boiling them in water, add half a gram of fried and powdered asafoetida and 2 gms. of powdered rock-salt and drink it a few times.
For phlegm congestion in the respiratory tract and coughs:
Mix together five leaves of tulasi, one betel leaf, one clove, and a little alum and eat them together 2 - 3 times a day. A glass of hot milk, or a little brandy in which a teaspoon of turmeric powder and a good pinch of coarsely crushed pepper have been mixed or boiled and taken before going to bed, cures cold, cough, phlegm and sore-throat.
Whooping-cough: When there is whooping cough in a locality, healthy children can be prevented from getting the contagion by gradually sipping a spoonful of honey to which 4-5 drops of garlic juice have been added. OR, mix a little garlic juice in a little gingely oil and let the child sip it a little at a time. A child is immunized by administering triple antigen prophylactic (and polio drops) at the tender age of about 3 months or more to make it immune for life against whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and polio.
Dry cough can be cured by gradually sipping a mixture of ghee and powdered cumin-seed ( jeera ).
For curing long-standing cough: Powder the root of “Hippali”, mix it with the juice of wild brinjal leaf and a little honey and eat it once daily for a few days.