Coughing is one of some natural activities of our body, which occurs to clear out toxic eliminate mucus and matter from our lungs and upper breathing passages. But over occurrence of cough may also cause soreness, dryness and distress in our throat. This is caused due to viral infection, common cold, flu, and smoking and also due to other health related problems like lung cancer, asthma and tuberculosis. But before you are thinking about trying allopathic medications, you must try several natural and home remedies available for dry cough.
Best natural and home remedies for a dry cough:
- Carrot: Make a fresh juice with 4 to 5 carrots by adding water to it. Drink this juice at least 4-5 times a day to comfort a dry cough. You can also add a table-spoon of honey in this juice for best results. Carrot is able to relief many symptoms of dry cough, because it contains all kind of vitamins and nutrients to do so.
- Oregano: Boil oregano in a cup of water, filter it and drink. It will reduce the intensity strength of dry cough
- Fennel Tea: If dry cough has plagued your throat, then you should take a cup of aniseed/fennel tea. Fennel seeds are the Ayurvedic herbal seeds commonly found at the exit of Eastern Indian restaurants. They are healthy “after dinner mints”. They are consumed for their digestion-enhancing and breath-freshening properties.
- Salt Gargle: Mix slightly warm water with a teaspoon of salt. Now gargle with it and treat your dry cough.
- Raisins: Grind 100 grams of raisins in water and create a “soften/healing” paste. Now merge 100 grams of sugar in this mixture and heat this mixture until it achieves a sauce like effect. You have to take a dosage of 20 grams daily this sauce before you go to. This will cure and relieve you from dry cough.
- Humidifier: You may need to insert a humidifier in your bedroom to prevent from dry cough, because dry cough usually disturbs at night.
- Drink Green Tea and Honey: Take a cup of green tea and add honey in it. This will not only comfort your throat as well as curing your dry cough.
- Cider Vinegar: Take equal amount of both honey and cider vinegar and mix them together completely. Store this mixture in a fruit jar. This mixture will give you best results if have it before going to bed, therefore take two tablespoon of this mixture and swallow it slowly. While doing this process breathe properly through your nose.
- Hot Milk: Drink hot milk with honey before you go to sleep. This will not only treat your dry cough and it would also be helpful if you want to get a good and deep sleep in night.
- Cinnamon: You must try cinnamon in a cup of tea to comfort your dry cough.
- Almonds: Dip 7-8 almonds for whole night and peel its brown skin the next morning. Make a paste of these almonds by grinding them. Now, add 20 grams of sugar and 20 grams of butter in this paste. You should take this paste in morning and evening, or we can say twice a day.
- Raw Onion Juice: Take an onion, chop it and squeeze it to get juice of it. Now blend a table-spoon of raw onion juice with a table-spoon of honey and leave this mixture for five hours. This process would create a powerful cough syrup for your problem. You may take this juice few times a day. On the other hand, if you are fighting with cold and want to remove phlegm then you must add lemon and boiling water to this juice and blend it.
- Grapes: Take a cup of grape juice and add a table-spoon of honey in it. You should take this juice daily and you’ll notice a big change in your throat and cough. Grapes act as an expectorant and these also powers your lungs.
- Ginger Tea: Ginger tea would be helpful if your throat is getting itchy. To prepare it add ginger and efficient quantity of tea leaves in boiling water. Now you can also add a pinch of pepper and three or four holy basil leaves this mixture, you may also want to put in a touch of pepper and 3 to 4 basil leaves. Now drink it hot to comfort your throat.
- Turmeric: Turmeric has a natural healing result on dry cough. This is a most common product used in the kitchen. To get relief from dry cough, simply add a table-spoon of carom seeds and turmeric powder both in a cup of water. Boil this mixture until the amount of it remains half. Now after this, add honey to it and drink this mixture twice or thrice a day. On other hand, you can also roast the roots of turmeric. Then grind these and make its powder. Now, mix this powder with both honey and water.
If you have a problem of dry cough, then above mentioned 15 home remedies are best for you. These remedies would get you in a normal condition and cure this disease. These will comfort your itchy throat, too.