A cough medicine that actually works???
One of my favourite discoveries about 25 years ago was how to get rid of a persistent cough. If you are anything like me, you will have tried a variety of cough medicines, only to find out that they don’t work! Sure, they help soothe your throat for ten minutes or so, but they never really help much for getting mucus off your chest or stopping your dry cough.
I used to go to Kung Fu classes and was talking to my teacher about coughs. I did a lot of flying and colds and coughs seem to get spread easily on planes. After groaning that nothing seems to help much and you just had to let them run their course, he mentioned to me an old traditional Chinese cough medicine.
He had an allotment and grew quite a few vegetables for his family. The secret ingredient for his cough medicine grows like a weed in the UK and is often mistaken for a doc leaf.
This ingredient is Horse Radish. Think of the hot extra seasoning that you add to your beef!
To be fair, if this was sold as a commercial cough medicine, it would probably be sold with a health warning as it works, but is a very intense experience.
I remember the first time that I used Horse Radish. When I drank it, it felt like whiskey going down. You get the burning sensation which normally fades after 5 or 10 seconds. Except that with horseradish, it still feels like this ten minutes later. The heat or the vapour from this seems to open your chest up. About an hour later, I started coughing and the muck from my lungs came straight up. It’s fair to say that my cough pretty much disappeared on the spot!
I took it a couple of times over the next day or so and my cough just disappeared, way, way quicker than usual.
How do you prepare horseradish for your cough?
Get hold of fresh, smallish horseradish. Then grate this into a small saucepan. You don’t need a lot. A word of warning. When you grate this, you will discover just how potent horseradish is! We have all had our eyes water from peeling onions. Well horseradish is about ten times the strength. You should also put your extractor fan on or open the windows, as the aroma is very strong.
Heat the saucepan gently. You want this warm rather than hot. Overheating can kill the active ingredients of horseradish. Add a small amount of water to make this easier to heat.
Another tip is to squeeze half of a fresh lemon into this and then heat the mixture gently for 5 minutes or so. Let it cool and then it is ready to drink. You only need to take a tablespoonful at a time and can refrigerate the mixture to keep it for a few days.
It is very potent cough medicine.
If you find it too much, you can use radish instead. It works, if not as strongly. It should only be used a few times and that should be all you need.
Another tip is to add a small amount of honey. Generally natural honey is best as it has not been boiled like most commercial honey and still has its natural healing properties.
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