There are many ways to relieve a cough, but in some cases, relieving symptoms can only hurt. After all, masking such an important sign as the impossibility of even breathing without a spasmodic attack (as in a dry cough) or discharge of mucus (as in a wet cough), speak of a process of unclear etiology started in the body.
Types of cough and methods of treatment at home
A dry cough is physiologically more painful for a person - it is also called unproductive, since it does not perform a target use - excretion of the microbial environment from the body along with mucus. Almost all diseases of the respiratory, allergic or infectious nature begin with dry cough.
In some situations, the purpose of drugs for such a cough does not lie in its treatment, but in translating the dry form into the wet, and only then - stopping the syndrome.
The outflow of fluid compartments along with a wet cough is considered a positive thing, if we are not talking about dangerous diseases like tuberculosis, where the discharge of sputum speaks of a prolonged process.
All types of cough must be assessed by origin and must be cured. The main and conservative ways of eliminating unpleasant manifestations are called:
- mustard plasters;
- pharmacy banks;
- inhalation;
- infusions and decoctions of herbs;
- medical or homeopathic remedies;
- essential oils;
- warming compresses and baths.
All these treatment measures at home help separately, but in order that the effect does not work out temporarily, it is better to combine 3-4 methods into a complex, adaptive concrete situation and taking into account the body's susceptibility to treatments.
In the absence of lactose allergy, you should not ignore hot drinks with milk and honey, and with good tolerance of dried healing herbs, it is best to choose 2-3 types of ready-made charges and brew them in turn.
General recommendations for treating any form of cold cough are:
- plentiful drink with the addition of raspberry, lemon, currant;
- various provocations of perspiration (in the absence of temperature) - a hot-steam bath on medicinal broth, warming underwear, steaming of feet in an aqueous solution of dry mustard, soda;
- grinding with vodka, goat fat with the addition of turpentine (birch tar);
- Compresses with hot boiled potatoes, honey and oil cakes on the chest and back.
From pharmaceutical means, syrups with licorice root, rubbing with eucalyptus extract, peppermints, liquids for inhalation are successfully used. All these drugs should be used according to the instructions and be sure to course continuous treatment.
Is it possible to get rid of cough in a short time
And what if there is an important meeting ahead, can a cough be cured quickly at home? In a short time, in one or two days, you can only get rid of allergic coughing, and then, by eliminating a possible allergen from the zone of impact.
An important aspect that cannot be ignored is the renovation of the room in which the patient is located. Viruses and infectious pathogens secreted by the patient during breathing 
and coughing, combined with dust elements and parasites living in them, serve as a definite return moment of the initial situation in which treatment may become irrelevant.
It is necessary to carry out daily wet cleaning with obligatory (in the absence of the patient) through-ventilation in the room. After refreshing the air in the room, you can add and leave the aroma lamp on for a few minutes.
The practical experiments carried out at the Sechenov Institute proved that the treatment terms for colds more than doubled were reduced if the effect on the body of aromatic oils from the following list is used to help the main therapy:
- eucalyptus;
- mint;
- juniper;
- tea tree;
- lemon;
- rosemary;
- fir.
While the lamp is in operation, it is better for the patient to relax and take rhythmic deep breaths. In these moments it is not recommended to take food, medications or organize other medical procedures.
It has been established that within several hours after inhalation of healing aromas, the nervous system responds better to symptomatic treatment, and the effect of antibiotics is revealed as fully as possible.
Remember that before using the remedies listed below, make sure that the disturbing cough does not apply to disorders of the cardiovascular system, the gastrointestinal tract or forms of pulmonary diseases in which self-treatment is unacceptable.
How to cure a dry cough at home
Before treating a dry cough, make sure that its origin is not in the dry air of the room - a slight sore throat can tell about this, as a result of which rare solitary coughs are pulled out. The same happens in a dusty environment, in the presence of domestic animals, strongly smelling room flowers or near opened packages with chemical detergents.
If such circumstances are absent, you need to measure the temperature and assess your condition, noting: the presence of weakness, chills or fever, loss of appetite, sore throat, headache or other pain. The fact is that a dry cough signals not only the onset of acute respiratory illness, in which all of these symptoms may be present in part or in full.
Treatment of dry cough, if it is not caused by these reasons, is reduced to a provocation of the expectorant effect of various stimuli. At the same time, for a short period, the cough can significantly increase up to the emetic urge, and only then take the desired form of sputum discharge.
Drug treatment of an unproductive cough reflex consists in taking mucolytic agents that encourage increased mucus production, as well as suppressing the reflex reaction at the blocking level of the corresponding nervous system. When self-prescribing funds, it is necessary to consider that the combined use of drugs of both types is unacceptable.
With good performance, the nature of cough is changed by popular methods:
- warming the chest (at the level of the bronchi) with a compress of unrefined sunflower oil. The fabric moistened in oil needs to be covered with cellophane on top, then fixed with a woolen scarf and leave a compress for the night;
- hot drink: in 120 g of boiled milk you need to add 5-7 drops of propolis tincture and put a piece (from the tip of a knife) butter. Drink in the morning and before bedtime;
- rubbing the bronchus zone with melted goat fat - 3 drops of birch tar interfere in 10 g of warm fat and this mass is intensively rubbed into the chest above the level of the heart;
- drawing iodine mesh on the chest.
Inhalation of steam over a hot medicinal composition, brewed in a saucepan, remains the most effective means for dry coughing. For therapeutic inhalations, you can use: chopped garlic (2-3 cloves per 250 g of water), soda (1 tablespoon per 0.5 l of water), eucalyptus leaves (4 leaves per 1 l of water), herbal preparations from mother and -lake, thyme.
How to cure a wet cough at home
Education in the organs of the bronchi and trachea of the liquid substance, due to the correct operation of the immune system, taking care of the removal of pathogens from the body.
The suppression of the reflex at the level of sputum excretion, means the blockage of harmful pathogens in a favorable environment for their reproduction. Therefore, the separation of sputum is the main task in the treatment of wet cough.
The liquefaction of a too viscous, hard-to-discharge substance is facilitated by infusions or syrups made on the basis of medicinal plants:
- liquorice;
- Althea;
- sage;
- thermopsis.
On the basis of these herbs, as well as combining them in a common complex, steam inhalations, rubbing, and infusions for drinking are made. But, if for the external or inhalation use the proportions of herbs can be varied, for oral administration it is necessary to observe strict dosages:
- Licorice root - brewed at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon raw materials - 250 ml of boiling water;
- Birch buds (0.5 cups) and lime color (1 cup) brew 300 ml of boiling water;
- Flaxseed (1 tbsp. Spoon) brew 250 ml of boiling water;
- Sage (10 g) is brewed with 300 ml of boiling water, then mixed with the same amount of milk.
In the presence of a home nebulizer, are required, at least 4 times a day, inhalation with 0.9% sodium chloride (salt solution).
Treatment of cough with intensive sputum discharge
An abundant mucus compartment indicates the end of treatment. Proved efficacy drugs can continue to apply, and you can switch to softer ones to bring the healing process to completion.
The main procedure, after a wet cough has taken the form of intense, becomes an antiseptic cleaning and removal of all the remaining microbes.
This result is achieved by frequent rinsing of the throat with disinfecting compounds, inhalations with saline solution and hot drinking of natural herbal preparations.
For rinsing solutions are used with the inclusion of the following components:
- pharmaceutical camomile;
- coltsfoot;
- soda with salt in a ratio of 2: 1;
- furatsilinovy solution.
As promoting expectoration, herbal decoctions are used;
- licorice root;
- wild rosemary of marsh;
- violets;
- oregano
Remember that for rinsing infusions allowed to increase the concentration of herbs up to one and a half times.
How to cure cough folk remedies at home
One of the most accessible basic elements on the basis of which many effective cough recipes are created is milk. The product should not be defatted or pasteurized, but it must be boiled before use to prevent contamination with salmonella or helminthic invasions. In the absence of intolerance to concomitant substances, homemade medications for milk may vary in composition:
- for 1 cup of warm milk, add 5-7 drops of propolis tincture, add 0.5 tsp of soda, 1 tsp of honey and drink in small sips before going to bed;
- 3 pieces of dried figs are pre-soaked, then boiled in 1 cup of milk for 1 minute. The resulting amount is divided into three doses and drink throughout the day.
- milk and soda can also gargle.
Boiled potatoes - almost all familiar means. Above the freshly boiled, crumbly potato you can breathe up to 6 times a day, and warm compresses of mashed ready potatoes are placed on both the chest and back in the area of the shoulder blades.
Well affect the discharge of sputum inhalation with an aqueous solution of soda and 1-2 drops of iodine. Also, with a dry cough, it is helpful to breathe steam from boiling acidic mineral water (Borjomi).
Chamomile inhalations help with the dilution of mucus, with a fake color and a coltsfoot, and to facilitate the discharge of sputum: with plantain, wild rosemary, thyme.
Black radish is the most "popular" cough medicine. To make it, the root crop is washed well, then the top is cut and the middle of the fruit is hollowed out, so that a “cup” is formed inside.
The dimple is filled with natural honey for ¾ and wait for 3-4 hours until the juice is released. The resulting liquid can be drunk 3 times a day and 1 tbsp. spoon, do not forget to supplement the "cup" of honey.
We treat cough in a child at home
If a child has a cough, but there is no temperature, you first need to warm up the body with a hot (moderately) foot bath with the addition of 1 tsp of soda or mustard. Then the patient is dressed socks and placed in bed.
The compress is covered with cellophane and kept on the child's chest until it cools.
A well-known cough remedy is black radish, children are encouraged to bake. Before you put the root vegetable in the oven, the core is cut out and filled with honey. When the radish has cooled, it can be cut and give the child pieces.
It is difficult to make children breathe over steam, so buying a nebulizer is usually inevitable. Instead of purchased inhalation solutions, they use decoctions of chamomile, sage, and oregano to dilute and withdraw sputum. The inhalation time should not exceed 10 minutes.
What can cure cough pregnant
During pregnancy, the reaction of the body is exacerbated, so you should exclude from the use of multicomponent herbal and inhalation of steam. Safe for future mothers are:
- milk with honey;
- black radish juice;
- gargling soda;
- nonintensive rubbing of the bronchus region with goat fat.
If a dry cough during pregnancy lasts more than three days, you need to consult a doctor.
How to stop a strong paroxysmal cough
A hot fit cough is painful and painful, therefore it requires an intensive approach. An effective home remedy for this symptom is considered to be a milk-propolis mixture: 2 tsp of propolis tincture is added to a third cup of hot milk.
Means drink three times a day. Increasing the amount of milk to 0.5 cups, and tincture - up to 2 tbsp. spoons, we obtain a means for gargling.
It is necessary to purchase at the pharmacy ready-made collections, where the composition includes: a coltsfoot, marshmallow, an elephant, and use decoctions with a course of at least 5 days.
Not many people can tolerate the smell of goat oil with turpentine, but with a protracted paroxysmal cough, rubbing with such a composition is necessary. After massaging the skin of such a means, the chest must be warmed.
Soda inhalations should alternate with those liquids for a nebulizer that the doctor prescribes ...
What to do when allergic coughing
If periodic coughing without temperature manifestations is eliminated by itself, without taking any measures, it makes sense to talk about an allergic reaction to an irritant.
Treatment of allergic cough is useless, since this symptom is only a consequence of the impact of the source of irritation. In the strength of the patient, only to relieve oneself of the condition by taking sorbents and antihistamines.
Allergies can be made to appear half-hearted if you regularly drink bay leaf decoctions (10 pieces per 0.5 l of water). Lemon decoction, in the absence of a reaction to citrus, well softens the cough. To make it, a whole lemon with the peel is cut into cubes and brought to a boil in 250 ml of water. Then compote is cooled to 40.0, add 1 tbsp. spoon of honey and drink in small portions during the day.
A similar recipe that deserves attention is prepared on the same principle, but instead of water, chamomile decoction is used. Honey is desirable to take lime.
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