Cough

Historical remedies

The following claims come from the historical source; they are not verified treatment recommendations.

• Taking ginger juice, lemon juice and Singhav before meals relieves phlegm, breathing complaints and cough. [8]
• One or two cloves of garlic soaked in milk, drinking strained milk cures children's cough. [31]
• Cough and breathing complaints of children can be cured by mixing coriander and sugar in a bowl. [31]
• Garlic buds are mashed, made into a bag and tied around the child's throat to cure the child's black cough (whooping phlegm-Hadkhi cough). [31]
• Taking half of turmeric powder in sugar and taking one spoonful of it in honey three times a day cures tuberculosis (historical source heading) fever, cough and common cold of tuberculosis (historical source heading). [41]
• Take dates, grapes, sugar, ghee, magh and pippali equally and make a lick of it and lick two-three tola (original units) of it every day is beneficial in cough and breathing complaints of tuberculosis (historical source heading), tuberculosis (historical source heading). [41]
• Getting honey in onion juice and drinking it cures any cough. [49]
• Drinking a decoction of onion removes phlegm and cures cough. [49]
• Cough is cured by licking lemon juice containing four times more honey. [49]
• Drinking pepper powder boiled in milk cures cough. [50]
• Pepper powder mixed with sugar-ghee and licked cures cough. [50]
• A spoonful of honey and two spoonfuls of ginger juice can cure cough. [50]
• Roast some asafoetida and drink it in hot water to cure cough. [50]
• Cough is cured by sucking grapes and sugar in the mouth. [50]
• A black cough (whooping phlegm) is cured by making a garbage bag of garlic buds and inhaling its smell. [50]
• Taking 20 to 10 drops of garlic juice in syrup every four hours a day cures black cough (whooping phlegm). [50]
• Sipping a piece of pomegranate peel in mouth relieves cough. [50]
• After roasting Amli chichoda and removing its pods, making fine powder of chichoda and drinking honey, it cures if there is blood in cough, phlegm. [50]
• Drinking turmeric and ghee in heated milk cures cough and phlegm. [50]
• Eating a handful of freshly roasted chickpeas with turmeric and salt in the morning and at night before going to bed (without drinking water above) cures chronic common cold and cough. [50]
• Roasted ajwain with salt and turmeric as a mouthwash after meals cures cough and common cold. [50]
• Cough is cured by licking turmeric and dried ginger in honey morning and evening. [50]
• By roasting turmeric in a pan and keeping the paste in the mouth, the cough of phlegm is cured. [50]
• Eating ajwain with freshly boiled water relieves phlegm, drinking tulsi juice with sugar relieves cough and chest pain, eating some roasted chickpeas at night and going to bed without drinking water relieves cough. [51]
• Taking honey with Ardusi leaf juice cures cough. [51]