7 effective cough remedies using radish and grapefruit peel

Weather changes can easily cause many types of coughs: coughs due to weather allergies, wind coughs, colds, colds, sore throats, chronic bronchitis, etc.

1. Treat cough with honey

- Steamed kumquat with honey and green skin

How to make: Wash the kumquats (3 - 4 fruits), drain, cut in half, remove seeds, slice thinly, put in a bowl. Pour honey over the kumquats, mix well so that the kumquats are evenly coated with honey. Then steam or put in a pot to boil in a double boiler for 10 - 15 minutes, until the kumquats are soft, mixed well with honey to form a syrup-like liquid.

Let it cool, drink 2-3 times a day, 1-2 teaspoons each time. When drinking, you can add a few grains of salt. Do not swallow immediately, hold it in your mouth for 5 seconds, let it slowly flow down your throat, helps reduce sore throat, itching, hoarseness...

Honey is often used to treat coughs in folk medicine.

- Steamed honey with chives

3 - 5 chives, wash, drain, chop, put in a bowl. Pour honey over the leaves, mix well, steam or boil until soft. Use similar to honey steamed kumquat.

- Steamed garlic with honey

4-5 cloves of garlic, crushed, mixed with honey, steamed until you smell the pungent garlic smell (Do not let the garlic get too soft). Let cool, drink 2-3 times/day, 1-2 teaspoons each time. Honey when steamed with garlic increases natural antibiotic properties, reduces sore throat, and increases resistance.

You can do the same with other ingredients such as rose petals, lemon roots, lemon basil leaves, Buddha's hand fruit, star fruit flowers, male papaya flowers, perilla leaves, green onions, etc. Depending on the ingredients available in each family, you can use them for processing.

2. Treat cough with grapefruit peel

10g grapefruit peel, add sugar, steam and drink gradually.

Grapefruit peel has the effect of curing coughs.

3. River cactus

Treat cough with phlegm: Take 2-3 young leaves of the Chinese skullcap plant and 5 teaspoons of honey. Wash the leaves, chop them, put them in a bowl and steam with honey (boil for about 10 minutes). Let it cool and then strain the water for the child to drink.

4. Mulberry tree

The mulberry tree, scientifically named Morus alba albeae, provides us with many valuable medicinal herbs such as tang bach bi (mulberry root bark with the outer layer removed, taking the white fiber), tang diep (young mulberry leaves), tang chi (mulberry branches), tang tham (ripe black mulberry fruit), mulberry worms, mulberry mushrooms, tang ki sinh (mistletoe on mulberry trees), tang phieu tieu (nest of sap beetle eggs on mulberry trees).

Cure chronic cough: 10g tangerine peel, 10g dried lemon root bark, boil and drink 1 dose per day until cured.

Cure coughing up blood: take 600g of tangerine peel, soak it in rice water for 3 nights. Peel it, add it to 250g of brown sticky rice, grind it, and mix well. Use 16g per day, divided into 2 parts.

- Cure cough with phlegm in children: Take 4g of tangerine peel, boil with water and give to children to drink.

5. Lemon basil

Lemon basil is often called hairy basil or dwarf basil. Lemon basil has a valuable amount of natural essential oils and a pleasant aroma like the smell of lemon. This essential oil is an antibiotic for many types of bacteria, the healing effect of lemon basil leaves is thanks to this amount of essential oils. Therefore, lemon basil leaves are present in many folk remedies to treat colds, coughs, sore throats and hoarseness.

Lemon basil leaves are present in many folk remedies to treat colds, coughs, etc.

You can take 7-9 fresh lemon basil leaves, wash them and soak them in diluted salt water to sterilize. Remove the lemon basil leaves, shake off the water or drain, chew thoroughly, hold in your mouth and swallow the juice gradually.

6. Chrysanthemum greens

To cure cough, you can take about 6g of chopped chrysanthemum leaves, put them in a bowl, steam them with a little sugar in a rice cooker to release the water. The steamed chrysanthemum water is divided into several times and given to children to drink during the day. People with chronic coughs should eat a lot of chrysanthemum soup to reduce coughing.

Cold relief porridge: Take 200g fresh chrysanthemum greens, wash, drain, chop; Wash 100g rice, put in a pot, add 1 liter of water and cook porridge until soft, add greens, add spices, eat hot.

Cold cough in children: use about 6g of chrysanthemum greens, wash, chop, add a little honey, steam to get the water to drink during the day, drink continuously for 3-5 days.

7. Radish

Radish or also known as Rau Lu Bu, with the scientific name Raphanus sativus, is an annual herb, grown everywhere in our country. It has a white root, has a spicy taste, about 40 cm long, round cylindrical shape, round mace or round ball. Radish has a sweet, slightly spicy, bitter taste, neutral properties, non-toxic, has the effect of expectorant, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, blood stasis, wind-dispersing, dysentery, dried root also loosens phlegm. Radish seeds have a spicy, sweet taste, aromatic smell, neutral properties; have the effect of expectorant, anti-asthma, ventilation, diuretic, laxative.

To treat cough with phlegm, asthma, chest tightness, and difficulty breathing: take about 10g of radish, 10g of perilla seeds, 3g of mustard seeds, stir-fry until fragrant and grind the above ingredients, put them in a cloth bag, add about 300ml of water, boil down to 100ml, divide into 3 doses to drink during the day.

According to GDVN - NT