subject: Cough Causes and Symptoms and Natural Home Remedies to treat Whooping Cough [print this page] Coughing is an action the body takes to get rid of substances that are irritating the air passages. Coughs can be either acute or chronic. Acute coughs begin suddenly and usually last no more than 2 to 3 weeks. Acute coughs are the kind you most often get with a cold or flu. Chronic coughs last longer than 2 to 3 weeks. Coughing may also be used for psychological or social reasons, such as the coughing before giving a speech. Causes of chronic cough include smoking asthma and allergies.
Coughing is a reflex that keeps your throat and airways clear. The common causes of chronic dry coughing include post-nasal drip, gastroesophageal reflux disease, asthma, post viral cough and certain drugs such as beta blockers, ACE inhibitors and aspirin.
What Causes a Cough?
The cause of a cough is dependent upon how long the symptom has been present. For example, the causes of an acute cough may be quite different from the causes of a chronic cough. In at least 25% of cases of a chronic cough, there are at least 2 medical conditions causing the cough in the person.
Home Remedies for Cough Tips
1. Add a gram of turmeric powder to a teaspoon of honey for curing dry cough.
2. Add a little ginger juice to a teaspoon of honey and take for relief.
3. Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime.
4. Make cough syrup from baked onion juice, comfrey tea, and honey.
5. Apple cider vinegar Sprinkle apple cider vinegar on your pillowcase before bedtime.
6. Grapes help a great deal in treating cold in a few days.
7. Essential oil of juniper- A few drops may be used in hot water for cough relief.
8. A cup of grape juice mixed with a teaspoon of honey is recommended for cough relief.
9. Apple cider vinegar Sprinkle apple cider vinegar on your pillowcase before bedtime.
10. Drink herbal tea with cinnamon to stop the coughing.
Diet for Cough
Breakfast
All fresh fruit, nothing else but fruit. Apples best. (Not stewed fruit).
Lunch
Boiled or steamed rice, done without salt; about 2 oz. cottage cheese or a poached egg; a little raw carrot, turnip or artichoke, finely grated, with dressing of fruit-oil beaten up with a raw egg. The grated roots must be well chewed; as a change they may be cut up and cooked in a casserole with very little water.
Dinner
Potato baked in skin, with fresh butter, a little cheese, or flaked nuts, and a few plain rusks, or a saucer of P.R. Breakfast Food, dry, with cream. The honey and lemon juice should be disgarded in favour of liquorice (little bits being sucked at intervals) or of linseed tea. I have often found an obstinate cough yield to a diet which contains lactic acid buttermilk, combined with the use of the new oxygen baths. The lactic acid buttermilk can be obtained from any good dairy and should be taken in the morning fasting and at bedtime.
Cough Causes and Symptoms and Natural Home Remedies to treat Whooping Cough
