Home Remedies for Cold & Cough
- Add honey and a pinch of salt to orange juice and drink it to get relief from cold, cough and throat pain.
- Include cabbage regularly in food to control cold and cough.
- Add pepper to guava to get relief from phlegm.
- Having cow’s milk with honey cures cold.
- Fresh cow’s milk with turmeric powder, drink early morning to get relief from dry cough.
- For children add tulsi leaves juice to mother’s milk for cold.
- Burn onion directly in the flame and eat to remove cough and chest congestion.
- Betel leaves juice with honey helps in getting relief from cough.
- Having a glass of milk with turmeric in the night gives relief from cold and cough.
- Karpuravalli leaf is excellent in cures for coughs and cold. Boil 3-4 leaves in water and drink the water. Repeat this for 2 – 3 days to get a good relief from cold. You can also add these leaves to rasam and eat the leaves along with the rasam.
- Thoodhuvalai Keerai - very good to remove cough and cold, especially ‘nenju sali’.
- A very good kashayam which you can make at home for cough & cold. Take equal amounts of pepper, jeera, dhaniya, omum (ajwain), kandathippili, sathakuppai, dry neem flowers, dry ginger.Fry each till golden & crush everything together.To 2 tsp powder add 2 cups of water & boil. Reduce to 1 cup, strain, add honey & drink. Drink twice a day to get good relief from cold and cough.
- In bulk the following powder can be made and stored in fridge. Chitharathai – ¼ kg, Adhi madhuram – ¼ kg, turmeric – 50 gms, omam – 25 gms. Crush it and keep it in hot sun for 2 hours. Grind it in mixie, sieve it and take out the powder. This powder can be added to hot water or to hot milk before going to bed.
Throat hoarseness
- Soak 8 to 10 almonds overnight in 1 cup water. After discarding the outer skin, grind the kernels with 8 to 10 black pepper (saboot kali mirch) in 1 cup water. Sift it and drink once a day, after adding sugar candy (mishri) to taste.
- Crush a few neem leaves with water. Remove pulp. Warm it up. Add a little honey and gargle.
- Mix 1 teaspoon lime juice and 1 tablespoon honey. Swallow tiny amounts slowly 2-3 times a day.
- 10 dried grapes, 5 valmilagu, 2 cardomom, boil in water and drink to get relief from throat pain.
- For throat irritation chew tulsi leaves.
- Chew mint leaves with ginger and drink hotwater to get relief from throat pain and irritation.
- Apply liquorice (mulathi) paste like a paint around the throat for relief.
- Eat a plain betel with liquorice (mulathi) 2-3 times a day.
- Drink tea boiled with ginger (adrak) and a few tulsi leaves 2-3 times a day.
- Gargle with warm salt water at least twice a day. However do not make gargling sounds as this may aggravate the soreness.
- Pound 2-3 cloves (laung), garlic (lasan) and add to a cupful of honey. Keep for 1-2 days. Have one teaspoon thrice a day.
- Drink lots of water (10-12 glasses) a day since most throat problems are intensified by dehydration.
- Have the mixture of ½ teaspoon honey and ½ teaspoon lemon juice every 1-2 hours.
- Add two tablespoon of fenugreek (methi) seeds to 6 cups of water. Heat on low flame/simmer for 15-20 minutes. Cool to bearable temperature. Strain and gargle 2-3 times a day with this.
- Heat a cup of milk (warm). Add 1-2 pinch of turmeric powder (haldi) mix well and drink at might.
- Pour 1 cup boiling water over ½ teaspoon each of ginger (adrak) powder, clove (laung) powder and cinnamon (dalchini) powder. Filter. Sweeten with 1 teaspoon honey and drink.
- Crush a fistful of carom seeds (ajwain) and tie up in a cotton napkin and place it near the pillow.
- Put 1 teaspoon cardamom (chhoti illaichi) seeds on burning coal and inhale the smoke.
- Make into a very fine powder equal quantities of the following: cardamom (chhoti illaichi) seeds, cinnamon (dalchini), black pepper (kali mirch) and cumin (jeera). Sniff this powder frequently to induce sneezing.
- To get relief from nose block due to cold, take omam in a small piece of cloth and breath it.
Putting 2 drops of coconut oil in the nose also gives relief from nose block due to cold.
