Phlegm

Historical remedies

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

• Drinking onion decoction cures phlegm. [8]
• Maz: Half a tola (original units) of honey taken four times a day cures phlegm. [8]
• One and a half to two tola (original units) of ginger juice mixed with honey and drunk will cure phlegm. [8]
• Taking 3 grams of tulsi juice, 3 grams of ginger juice and a spoonful of honey cures phlegm. [8]
• Licking a mixture of cardamom, rock salt, ghee and honey cures phlegm. [8]
• Drinking five glasses of hot water over a handful of dates every day thins the phlegm and clears the lungs. [8]
• Taking ginger juice, lemon juice and Singhav before meals relieves phlegm, breathing complaints and cough. [8]
• Phlegm is cured by drinking turmeric, salt and jaggery after heating. [9]
• Eating three-four tolas (original units) of roasted chickpeas while sleeping at night and drinking pasteurized milk removes the phlegm accumulated in the trachea. [9]
• M: Zam: Eat 2 dates daily and drink warm water to thin the phlegm and get rid of asthma. [21]
• Eating two-three dried figs warmed in milk in the morning and at night reduces the amount of phlegm and cures asthma. [21]
• Taking mustard seed powder with a little sugar and drinking water over it relieves stomach pain caused by gas and phlegm. [26]
• Adding a little salt and jaggery to the milk heated with turmeric cures the child's common cold, phlegm and cough. [31]
• A betel leaf with castor oil is slightly heated and placed on the chest of a small child and gently shaken with a warm cloth, the child's phlegm is released. [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]
• If the child's chest is full of phlegm, taking the juice of tulsi leaves in honey two or three times with a pawpaw and heating the tulsi juice on the chest, nose and forehead relieves common cold and phlegm. [31]
• In complaints of vomiting, nausea, indigestion, aphroa, diseases of phlegm, colic etc., taking half a spoonful of Ajama powder with lukewarm water every morning and night cures vomiting of women. [36]
• If there is gas, phlegm dope, back pain or stiffness of the dock, boil chilies in some water, dip a cloth in it and put a warm cloth on the painful part to relax. [48]
• Drinking a decoction of onion removes phlegm and cures cough. [49]
• 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]
• 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]
• Licking honey four times a day loosens phlegm and relieves cough. [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]
• Chewing the drops produces an infectious phlegm in the mouth, which contains a digestive substance called tylin. [59]