Miscellaneous Cough Remedy Submissions

Friday, October 3, 2008 5:46 AM
Name: Tabyta
Country_of_Remedy: Colombia/USA
Ingredients: 1 cup of Orange Juice
2 tablespoons of honey
2 tablespoons of butter

*Optional: a handful of eucalyptus leaves
Instructions: This is a guaranteed cough cure.
Combine ingredients and heat until boiling. (If using eucalyptus leaves, then strain.)
Drink this just before bed. DO NOT eat or drink anything else afterwards.

If you suffer from high cholesterol, reduce butter amount or take 1 or 2 aspirins with it.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:16 AM
Name: Pick
email: krai09@hotmail.com
Country_of_Remedy: Thailand
Ingredients: - lime juice
- salt
- honey
Instructions: First, take lime and honey mix together.
Next, fill salt just a little bit.
Then, mix it together again.
Finally, drink it for anytime you want.You will feel better.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:01:31 -0700
Name: rose
Country_of_Remedy: USA
Ingredients: Vicks vapor rub
Instructions: Put Vicks vapor rub on bottom of feet and then put socks on your feet. It will help your coughing at night. I did it with my 4 year old twins and it worked!

04-Feb-08 at 09:32 PM:
NAME: misty
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: usa
INGREDIENTS: vicks vapor rub
INSTRUCTIONS: Rub vicks on the bottom of feet and cover with socks. Works great on children and adults. Quites cough within minutes.

01-Nov-07 at 01:42PM:
NAME: Lori
EMAIL: homeschoolmom42@yahoo.com
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: USA
NAME_OF_REMEDY: Flu
INGREDIENTS: 3 Tablespoons ground ginger

INSTRUCTIONS: First sign of flu (aches, pains, lethargy, chills), run a tub of water as hot as you can stand it without scalding yourself. Place 3 Tablespoons of ground ginger in tub water. get in and cover under water all of your body parts up to chin. Try not to have any body prt out of water. Stay in tub until you begin to sweat (about 20 minutes), then GET OUT
of tub and dry off. GO TO BED, get under covers and go to sleep. If you stay any longer in tub you can become dizzy and lose your balance. The ginger helps to pull toxins out of your system and will help you to get over
the flu quicker. I found this in an herbal years ago and have used it with great results.

05-Aug-06 at 05:45 PM:
NAME: Marie
COUNTRY_OF_REMEDY: USA

INGREDIENTS: Enough sliced onions to fill a pot
Few cloves of garlic
Vegetable broth
Olive oil
Spoon of sugar
1 or 2 tomatoes, chopped
1\2 Cup white wine, optional
Salt, Pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS: This recipe came from a magazine in England.This is the meat free alternative to chicken soup and in
my opinion works much better. I have found it to knock out anything from the common cold to bronchitis, sinus infections, or any other infection.Try to eat this soup at the first sign of sickness for optimal effects but it still works great if you are alreadySick. Also a good preventive measure in the winter months.In a large pot, pour enough olive oil to cover the bottom of the pot. Over medium heat, saute the onions, stirring often so they don'tstick. After a few minutes add as many cloves of garlic as you like, the more the better (garlic has it's own germ fighting properties).Cook the onions and garlic until the onions are soft. Add the chopped tomatoes and sugar and stir it some more. Continue cooking for 5-10 minutes. Add broth or water and a powdered soup base, filling the pot half to 2\3 of the way. This depends on how strong you want the soup to be. Coninue to cook for 10 min. Add the wine,if you want. This adds flavor and somehow makes it more effective but is not necisary. Cover and reduce heat a bit. Let some of the water evaporate (add more hot water to the soup if too much liquid evaporates).Season with salt, pepper, or anything else you wish to add.Drink the broth straight or for maxumum results, eat a bowl of this soup, onions and all.It is delicious and really helps get rid of what ails you!Top off with some grated cheese or make croutons by brushing olive oil, herbs, and cheese on slices of crusty french bread. Bake them in the oven at a low temp of about 200 until they are crispy. Enjoy!

31-May-06 at 06:07 AM:
NAME: Kathy
EMAIL: msgumby4@hotmail.com
COUNTRY OF REMEDY: CANADA

INGREDIENTS: 2 tablespoons flour 1 tsp. dry mustard 1/2 tsp.
baking soda 1 ounce hot water
INSTRUCTIONS: This remedy is older than computers. I used in on my children and myself. It does work. One catch, it doesn't smell too pleasant. Mix dry ingrediants into a bowl, add water in small amounts to make a thick paste. Fold a terricloth had towel in half. Spread the paste across the towel. Fold in half and apply to chest. Don't let the paste touch your skin, it will burn. Leave it on overnight or for just 30 minutes before bed. Do this for three consecutive nights and you'll notice a difference. It really does work!!

SUBMIT: SubmitApr-06 at 03:07
PM:
SUBJECT: Home Remedy
NAME: Curtis J Goldsborough
EMAIL: curtis@massachusetts.usa.com
COUNTRY OF REMEDY: USA
NAME OF REMEDY: Colds
INGREDIENTS: 1 1/4 inch slice of onion
2 cloves of garlic crushed
1 or 2 tablespoons of honey
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of crushed red pepper or
1/4 slice of one jalapino pepper.
INSTRUCTIONS: Take the 1/4 inch of the sliced onion and mince finely. Take the garlic which is crushed and also mince finley. Put in a small bowl. Add the one or two tablespoons of honey( Do not use refined sugar of any kind) and the crushed red or jaliapino and stir mixture together.Take one to two teaspoons before retiring. Cold will be gone in two or three days.
The onion opens up the sinus passage. The garlic is a blood cleanser. The honey helps with a sore throat and the hot pepper has capcian which has been shown to help kill viruses in the body.

Date/Time: 2006-04-05 21:14:58 PDT
carmen peralta
email address = moisesperalta@sbcglobal.net
Country of Remedy = usa/mexico

Ingredients = 1. epson salt and boiling water
2. sage, pinch salt, boiling water-tea
3. honey, v-8, juice from 1 lemon,few drops tabasco, tequila
4. vicks vapor rub
Instructions = If you have a cough, you can make a tea from a few leaves of fresh sage, you add a pinch of salt or baking soda to this-if you don't have a cough, skip this because it is awful, but it will loosen a chest cold.You can do this 2 times daily as needed. You can sip warm gingerale for nausea. Chicken broth with garlic will help alot too. Take at least 500mg of vitamin c. At first sign of a cold or flu, or to avoid one after coming in from cold weather, boil a pot of water, removefrom heat and dissolve about a cup of epson salt in it. Allow to cool down, then put vicks vapor rub on chest, back, and neck. Wrap a towel around your neck, a blanket around yourself, and soak your feet in the epson salt water until the water is cooled to body temperature. Then take a
shower immediately. If you had a fever before you did this and uncover yourself without taking a shower to close your pores, my mother says that you will have a fever worse than when you started. After showering, re-apply vicks on chest, back and throat. Put a towel or rag around your neck and pin it in place with a safety pin. Be sure to put on warm socks and keep them on. Sip a toddy made of v-8, lemon juice, a tablespoon of honey, dash of tabasco and a little tequila before bed. You will feel better in the morning-if you did'nt overdo it with the teqiula. If you did try drinking a SQUIRT brand softdrink in the morning.
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Date: Sunday, November 27, 2005
Time: 6:12 AM EST
berto bartos
Country of Remedy: usa

Ingredients: Vitamin C tablets - chewable 500mg.
Instructions: Brush teeth and rinse out mouth. Take two or three tablets,but do not chew or swallow. Let them dissolve enough to get
a big mouthful of saliva, don't swalow the saliva. Now you havea mouthful of liquid vitamin C. Now comes the tricky part.Lean forward with you head way down so the saliva runs out yournose. Then put a finger in your mouth to get some salivaand apply it to the corners of your eyes. Eyes and nose are where the germs live.This has always worked for me, but you need to do it before the cold gets too advanced. Do it when you get the feeling of "I know I'm starting to get a cold". When you travel, take a few tablets along in case a cold attacks you then. My wife thinks this is really gross. Make sure youuse the chewable Vitamin C tabs because theare easy to dissolve.

Date: Monday, May 23, 2005
Time: 9:32 PM EST
Antonia Raris
Country of Remedy: Greece

Ingredients: Chamomile tea leaves, honey, lemon, water
Instructions: two cups water and hand-full of chamomile leaves then boil. add 1 tablespoon honey and three teaspoons lemon

Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Time: 1:58 PM EST
JUN
Country of Remedy: Japan
Name of Remedy: a cold and a hangover
Ingredients: rice and water
Instructions: I have a home remedy for caught a cold.I think, it's popular in Japan.It's rice, but it needs more water when to boil.It's so healthy.

Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Time: 1:57 PM EST
tetsu
Country of Remedy: japan

Ingredients: sake,egg
Instructions: I have a good home remedy for a cold.I learned about it from japanese people.They mix egg with sake.
It's a good idea to recover. (Almost all of japanese people know it)

Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Time: 1:56 PM EST
Email address: kiyoyuki ishii
Country of Remedy: japan

Ingredients: ginger. sugar. hotwater.
Instructions: If you have a cold. Cut slices of ginger and sugar in hotwater. It,s helpful to drink it for cold

Date: Thursday, November 25, 2004
Time: 12:29 AM EST
Munira
Country of Remedy: Uzbekistan

Ingredients: Milk, honey and lamb fat (or butter)
Instructions: Melt the lamb fat in a preheated skillet and take out whatever didn't melt. Make sure you heat the fat and it starts to smoke just a little. Don't burn it. In other pan bring milk to boil and add melted fat and honey. One cup of milk + 1 tbl spoon of fat (or butter) and 1 tbl spoon of honey. 2 times a day, especially before going to bed. Doesn't taste or smell great with fat,but works better than with butter. You'll be like new the next morning.Melted lamb fat is also very good for rubbing the chest. Make sure to wrap the rubbed area.

Date: Friday, November 19, 2004
Time: 8:07 PM EST
Joan
Country of Remedy: United Stated Of america

Ingredients: 3 oz Mayonaise
1 oz Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 tsp Wine vinigar or Apple Cider Vinegar
Instructions: Eat it. Eat it all. Eat it and Don't Look Back. I know it is gross but.. Eat it 6 times a day and there is a 100 percent guarentee. That you will not have even the slightest ache for the entire day following. My mother Used to do this with all my brothers and sister back in the early 1930's. I am old and wise. So do it.And I guarentee it will work. If it doesnt there is something wrong with you because it has worked for every person I Have ever recommended it to. Good luck

Country of Remedy: Hungary / Europe

Ingredients: Butter&Sugar or Lard or Yarrow Extract

Since I was a kid I have suffered from unproductive, stubborn coughs, no pharmacy medicine would ever work. I have tired a herbal Yarrow cough mixture, that did settle my coughs, but since I moved to Australia, you can't get that stuff down under (very backdated country). If you can get herbal cough syrup made from Yarrow extract, GET IT!
I heard this on the Radio just recently, Take 1 tbls of Butter sprinkle with sugar and eat it. Well I've tried it and it works! Watch out, butter isn't the most pleasant thing to swallow,I guess that's why the sugar...??? Donno the science behind it, but it does the trick.
Also my grandma told me that Thyme Tea is good too, however it didn't work for my stubborn cough at all, it might for others.
Oh and this is a good one too, cake some lard onto your chest and back and wrap yourself up in plastic foil put a T-shirt on while you sleep, that works too. Could use Vick's rub too, that's petroleum jelly based, should do the trick.
Donno how this one works either, but it does. GO GREASE LIGHTNING !

Good Luck y'all!
Edit C.

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2004
Time: 8:49 PM EST
sheila
Country of Remedy: Canada

Ingredients: Elderberry Tea
Instructions: A cup of strong elderberry tea at the onset of upper and/or lower respitory virus seems to help thwart the virus.This is more effective for me than echinacea! Sheila

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004
Time: 12:48 AM EST
Todd
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: 1 Onion, honey and a refrigerator.
Instructions: Slice one onion in half and remove the inner 8 or 9 layers of the onion. Pour honey into the cored onion. Place into a refrigerator for 3 hours and remove. Take three teaspoons of the honey every 2 hours until cough subsides.

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Time: 1:51 PM EST
Shawn
Subject: Home RemedyCountry of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: Garlic
Instructions: GARLIC! GARLIC! GARLIC! Eat about 5 cloves a day when sick and one a day when healthy.......will clear up a chest cold fast, also good for sinuses....friends may not want to be around you for those days, but "hey!...you can get some peace a quiet too! Garlic is a natural antibiotic with none of the side effects....also fights cancer and tumors!

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2003
Time: 8:52 PM EST
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: vicks and lemon
Instructions: take a spoonful of vicks and cut open a lemon and sqirt the juice down your throat. It works wonders. Very quickly your throat is being soothed

Date: Saturday, November 8, 2003
Time: 8:31 AM EST
Dave Stiff
email address: cbsdcs@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: USA

Ingredients: Cold-Ez (zinc losenges)
Instructions: When ever I feel the first symptoms of a cold or flu I start sucking on a Cold-EZ I get from any over the counter pharmacy. I usually take 2 to 4 one right after the other. *DON'T CHEW THEM, YOU HAVE TO SUCK ON THEM TILL GONE!* I have not had a cold or the flu in over 6 years now and niether has my 12 year old son. If you wait until the cold or flu has taken hold you can still take the Cold-Ez to dramatically reduce
the duration and symptoms of your illness.

Date: Friday, October 31, 2003
Time: 12:01 PM EST
Neena Hart
email address: neenaw@shaw.ca
Country of Remedy: Canada

Ingredients: 1/2 an onion, chopped
1 tbsp brown sugar
Instructions: This is a common home remedy used by the Haida on the Queen Charlotte Islands.Place chopped onion in a bowl and sprinkle the brown sugar over it. Let it sit until the onion juice is drawn out and the sugar ismostly dissoved. Take the juice by teaspoons as needed. 2-3 usually does the trick. I find this helps soothe sore throats and loosen chest congestion.

Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Time: 11:38 PM EST
Pearl
Country of Remedy: Japan

Ingredients: Dried chamomile flowers
Drinkable water
Honey
Instructions: First you boil the water.Then you steep the Chamomile flowers in the water.Steep until the tea is thoroughly yellow.Add the honey.Enjoy your tea.

Date: Monday, October 27, 2003
Time: 11:41 AM EST
Nicole
fudgeeooo@hotmail.com
Country of Remedy: Canada

Ingredients: vicks vaporub cream for babies
Instructions: this works especially well for babies. After a warm bath you place the cream on the babies feet and then put loose, warm socks on their feet. This works well, it makes their nose stop running and They will also stop coughing. It also works well for adults and older children only they have to use the regular vicks vaporub. My son's greatgrandmother uses this for a cold all the time. It works very well!

Date: Thursday, October 16, 2003
Time: 12:16 PM EST
Laura
Country of Remedy: America

Ingredients: all you need is a bowl (the size that you use for baking a cake)lemon juice or tea is fine and a hot water faucet and a towel
Instructions: You mix the bowl with very hot hot hot water like a sauna hot, put it on a hot plate or coaster so it doesnt burn the table, quickly add about a cup of lemon juice or tea and stoop over the bowl facing it dont touch it and put the towel over the bowl and you, the steam from the hot water will rise the tea or lemon (tea is better) or anything like ginger ale , when your nose gets the steam which is carying up the water and lemon, tea, or anything (you can even just leave it as water nothing else) else your nose will clear up. If that doesnt work drink lots of room temperture fluids wash hands with luke warm water and soap and rest, resting doesnt just mean sleep, play soft music or even if typing on the computer isn't so bad. Feel better!!

Date: Thursday, July 17, 2003
Time: 2:55 PM EST
Hamida Abdul-Karim
Pakistan

Ingredients: One single whole clove
Instructions: For an overnight cough suppressant, use a single clove, tucked into the side of your mouth between your cheek and your teeth.

Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Time: 2:39 PM EST
brynn leggett
brynn@leggett.us
Country of Remedy: my kitchen (usa)

Ingredients: (each ingredient was vigorously shaken into a pot of
boiling water a few shakes will do you)
whole cloves
chili powder
crushed red peppers
laurel bay leaves
tabasco sauce
minced onions
ground ginger

Instructions:
let boil for a while until the water is about the color of coca cola then make a 'hood' with a towel or blanket or whatever and drape it over your head and over the pot of boiling water which you should now turn to medium heat so as to prevent steam burn to your nasal passages or your face. Inhale through your mouth and nose as long as you need to, but whatever you do DO NOT DRINK THE STUFF. I made the mistake of even adding spicy tea bags to the concoction and some honey,
and my stomach has never felt weirder. DO NOT DRINK THIS STUFF. I wouldn't wish it on my
worst enemy. okay, well maybe... but still.

Date: Sunday, July 6, 2003
Time: 1:09 AM EST
MARTY
MARTYTHEPARTYMAN@YAHOO.COM
Country of Remedy: MEXICO AND THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.I
Name of Remedy: COUGHS , SORE THROATS AND PHLEGM
Ingredients: MEXICAN OREGANO, NOT ORDINARY OREGANO. LEMON AND
HONEY TO TASTE. 2 TO 3 CUPS OF BOILING WATER.
Instructions: FOR 2 TO 3 CUPS OF TEA, USE ABOUT ONE AND ONE HALF TABLESPOONS OF 'MEXICAN OREGANO' IN 3 CUPS OF WATER. BRING TO A BOIL AND ADD HONEY AND LEMON, TO TASTE. DRINK ABOUT 3 CUPS IN ONE DAY AND YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS BY THE END OF THE DAY. MEXICAN OREGANO CAN BE BOUGHT IN SPECIALTY AND ETHNIC STORES, AS WELL AS IN MAJOR FOOD STORES.

1. Slice up an onion and put the slices in some honey. Cover and leave inthe fridge for a few hours/overnight until the juice from the onion seepsinto the honey. Strain and eat a spoon of the mixture a few times a day.You can put it in hot water and drink a few times a day as well, might makeit less gross!

2. A friend of mine says the best thing is an onion sandwich. Use
plenty ofonion. For an extra kick cut up a couple of garlic cloves and put them
inthere as well.

3. Hot water and lemon juice in the morning will clear your sinuses rightup.

Date: Sunday, June 1, 2003
Time: 5:14 AM EST
Abdulla Mohammed Al Tunaiji
abaadi2004@hotmail.com
Country of Remedy: United Arab Emirates

Ingredients: olive oil
sliced chili peppers with garlic and onions

Instructions: Three years ago, I went to Los Angeles, California, in the USA and the weather was very cold. When I came back to the UAE after two months, the weather was hot. I became sick because the weather
changed and my body couldn’t control itself. I couldn’t move from my bed. I had a severe fever, a bad cough, a stomachache, nausea and vomiting. This sickness lasted four days. When I told my grandmother, she said me I had a cold. She did two different things. First, she brought olive oil and rubbed it on my chest. I used this remedy three times a day. Second, she mixed sliced chili peppers with garlic and onions and cooked them for 20 minutes. I took two cups a day for two days. After two days, I felt better than before. The remedy was very good.

Date: Monday, November 11, 2002
Time: 3:30 PM EST
Linda Chung
Korea

Ingredients: ginger
lemon
honey
green tea

Instructions: Quickly drink all of the water, ginger and honey mixed
together.
My mother showed me how to do this when I was little. It always works.

Date: Friday, February 14, 2003
Time: 5:19 PM EST
Dr. Ryan Reph
rephy@yahoo.com
Country of Remedy: Ethiopia

Ingredients: Orange Juice & Honey
Instructions: Bring 1 cup of OJ to a light boil and then add 1 tsp of honey. Stir & Drink warm.

I've got a home remedy i like to use for sinus and chest related colds. You make a mock inhaler by breathing the steam of boiling water. There are a number of medicinal herbs you can put into the hot water too. Garlic is good for ANY cold because it is a natural antibiotic that does wonders for your immune system. Cayenne pepper stimulates blood flow and is good for clearing breathing passages. I also reccomend thyme, eucalyptus, mint, echinacea, or coltsfoot. Just boil some water and pour it into a mug with any variety of herbs above (garlic especially). Now cup both hands over the top and inhale the steam slowly through your nose or mouth. Careful, it may be a little too hot. Not only does the steam decongest your nasal and breathing passages, but the moisture loosens phlegm and mucus and soothes a dry, irritated throat or nose. If you have a head cold or that pressure right between your eyes this is SO incredibly soothing and relaxing. Not to mention all the medicinal benefits you get from the herbs you put in it. Use small amounts with the herbs (just a pinch or two) because some can be so overwhelming its unpleasant, like eucalyptus or red pepper. With garlic you can crush a couple pieces though.
Andy Dell
USA

Date: Friday, January 24, 2003
Time: 9:32 PM EST
Valerie Gray
valeriestar138@msn.com
France

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