Coughing is one of the most common health problems. When there is a blockage or irritant in your throat or upper air passages, your brain thinks a foreign element is present and tells your body to cough to remove that element.
Coughing can also be due to a viral infection, common cold, flu, and smoking or health problems such as asthma, tuberculosis, and lung cancer.
Some of the symptoms of a cough are itchy throat, chest pain, and congestion. Instead of using over-the-counter cough syrups, you can try some natural cough treatments using readily available ingredients in your kitchen.
Here are the top 10 home remedies for a cough.
(Out of the 10, we have covered 3 highly effective home remedies in this video as well.)
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1. Turmeric
The herb turmeric has a therapeutic effect on coughs, particularly a dry cough.
- Heat half a cup of water in a boiling pot. Add one teaspoon turmeric powder, and one teaspoon black pepper. You may also add cinnamon sticks. Boil this for about two to three minutes. Add one tablespoon of honey. Drink this daily until the condition improves.
- Alternatively, make an herbal tea by adding one teaspoon of turmeric powder and one teaspoon of carom seeds to a cup of water, and boil it until water reduces to one-half cup. Add some honey and drink this herbal solution two to three times a day.
- Another way to use turmeric is to roast turmeric root and grind it into a smooth powder. Mix it with water and honey, and drink it twice a day.
2. Ginger
Ginger is one of the most popular natural cures for a cough.
- Cut fresh ginger into small slices and crush them slightly. Put them in a cup of water and bring to a boil. Drink this herbal solution three to four times a day for relief from a sore throat, non-stop coughing and even congestion. You can also some lemon juice and honey to it.
- Another option is to chew fresh raw ginger on and off throughout the day to reduce your cough.
3. Lemon
Lemons can be used in a variety of ways for curing coughs. Lemons have properties that reduce inflammation and also provide a dose of infection-fighting vitamin C.
- A simple cough syrup can be made by combining two tablespoons of lemon juice and one tablespoon of honey. Drink this healthy syrup several times a day.
- Another way to use lemons is to blend lemon juice with a little honey and a pinch of cayenne pepper and then drink it.
4. Garlic
Garlic has both antibacterial and antimicrobial components that help treat coughs.
- Boil two to three cloves of garlic in a cup of water and add a teaspoon of oregano. Allow it to cool to room temperature, add some honey and drink it. This will help your breathing and alleviate other cough symptoms.
- Eat a clove of crushed garlic mixed with a few drops of clove oil and some honey for sore throat relief. You can also use garlic in your cooking.
5. Onion
One of the simplest home remedies for a cough is to cut onions. Breathing in the strong vapors can help stop coughing.
- You can also make a cough syrup from baked onion juice, comfrey tea, and honey. Drink it daily to get relief from a dry cough.
- Another option is to combine a one-half teaspoon of onion juice with one teaspoon of pure honey. Swallow this solution at least twice a day to alleviate a cough and soothe your throat.
6. Hot Milk with Honey
Hot milk with honey can relieve a dry cough and reduce chest pain you may be experiencing from continuous coughing. For best results, drink it before going to sleep. For added benefits from the analgesic properties of honey, swallow a teaspoon of plain honey on empty stomach. This will help clear the mucus and soothe your throat.
7. Cayenne
Cayenne helps reduce chest pain due to continuous coughing. It is also warming and stimulating.
- Make a healthy cough syrup by mixing one-fourth teaspoon cayenne pepper, one-fourth teaspoon ground ginger, one tablespoon honey, one tablespoon apple cider vinegar and two tablespoons of water.
- Drink the syrup two to three times a day.
8. Carrot Juice
Carrots have many vitamins and nutrients that can help relieve various symptoms of a cough.
- Make fresh juice from four to five carrots and add some water to dilute it. For taste and added benefits, add one teaspoon of honey.
- Drink the juice three to four times a day until your symptoms improve.
9. Grapes
Grapes have properties that act as an expectorant, releasing the mucus from the affected parts of your respiratory system. The faster you get rid of the mucus, the faster your coughing will end. You can simply eat grapes or make some fresh grape juice. Grape juice with a spoonful of honey will be soothing as well as effective.
10. Almonds
Almonds have nutritional properties that play a proactive role in healing cough symptoms.
- Soak five to six almonds in water for 8 to 10 hours.
- Make a smooth paste out of the soaked almonds and add one teaspoon of butter.
- Eat it three to four times a day until your symptoms go away.
These home remedies can give you relief from the various symptoms of a cough without the side effects that come with pills and cough syrups. But if you have continuous coughing for more than two weeks, consult your doctor.
cant wait to go to grocery store n try some of these home remedies they seem to make sense ! actually quiting smoking at same time of having caught a cold that helps too , but the coughing doesnt help with job since i work in the food industry ! wish me luck on quiting smoking and home remedies !
You are right
Hi Jackie hope you have quit smoking by now. It feels great to have successfully quit myself. I also use many of the suggestions given above to control my coughing.
Hey Jackie, the honey actually works for me & you can also put Vicks vapor rub on bottom of your feet and cover with socks at night….hope you haven’t started back smoking…
Hi..my dad is a chain smoker. Every night have prob of seviour cough which leads to breathing prob too. Can anybody suggest home remedy for created cough through smoking and please suggest any idea to quit smoking
garlic is a very gud concotion 4 the chest pain av tried that n it reacted with me
Thanks
It is a best natural painkiller dude
Hi also try to add tea and 1/3 tablet of vitamin C into your tea cup and keep warm without exposing body to cold.you can even drink 1spoon of pure olive oil before that
wow quite a lot of info pouring here thanx
Always nice, personal experiences are quite helpfull xp ex: most delicious way to eat that ginger is to just make indian tea (masala chai) with it, type the bracketed name into youtube and you’ll immediately find it ^_^
Great Home remedies! I am doing many home remedies for me and my family, with excellent results! Thank you so very much!
Elsa ,Alan and Family
oh wow its really very intersting…
very possitive effect of home remedies
Hi can somebody help me? My son is coughing for about 3weeks.he’s finished with salbutmol + guaifenesin and antibiotic.but until now he’s still coughing…thank you..
@erin.. if ua son is coughing widout mucus den give him a cough supressant..like syrup containing codiene salt..it ll dfnty work…steam inhaling will olso cure it
hi Erin, I have read of a splendid cure. I tryed it out & was very surprised at how fast it worked on me. All I did was mix an eigth of a teaspoon of Cayenne pepper in a quarter glass of hot water and drink as hot as you can; then go to bed with a scarf wrapped around the neck. Two hours later you will be really surprised of the result – I was! Good luck.
How old is he
My father experienced that also. I search to google and find out only vitamin c can cure. So I gave him an ascorbic acid twice a day. And it works. He stop coughing and he become energetic again
Really good home remedies. it helps me a lot
Thanks a lot.
It’s really helpful for all,Thanks a ton.
Take half a cup of fresh lemon juice and half a cup of olive oil. Have 1 spn of olive oil and 1 spn of lemon juice alternately. This way Within 15 -20 mins you gotta finish the whole half cup of lemon juice and olive oil.
Next day u go to the doctor abd take scan. You ll find the result astonishing. This has been tested and has been successful to all people
The above remedy which I adviced , is to remove gall bladder stone
Very very awesome priscriptions … using natural medicines is excellent…..I am worried becuz i am anchoring on my schools annual function#?:!thanks
will try this soon
Will try this tomorrow morning. Thanks!
raw honey can really really help in curing colds and cough as my experienced, and I used also ginger for sore throat.
Very nice home remedies .and everyone whi is suffering with cough should follow this
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Onion’s Juice three to four spoons a day will cut down throwing up, vomitting during air travel, bus trips, or even useful for weight loss.
Salt, either a packet directly in your mouth or gargle warm salt water
Gargle with warm water and salt crystals I heard for sore throat , but never a packet salt straight in mouth. Impossible.
Thanks for all the information on health .I will put them in good use.
I will try this. Thanks!
Will try this at home. Thanks
Helpful home remedies; thank you.
I reaaly found the home remedie
Ies web site. very usefull in offering helpful unknown home remedies which were unknown to me. Thank you so very much for these great tips. Ronnie Marie Rocha. ( A California Resident )
I really suffering from cough even i have finished a lots of cough syrup.but still not getting relief.
Now ur natural remedy,i am going to use..ma last hope:(
i am only 12yrs old and have a severe chest pain when i breathe,i would tell my mom to use some of the remedies.:D thank you 10homeremedi!i would recommend this all remedi’s to my friends,family,kallies,etc
My wife got a bad cough and ran out of cough syrup today and we live in a small town in the mountains in Ca. and all the stores are closed by 10p.m a little after 2 a.m. she started to cough real bad,I read this page,so I took 3/4 cup of water in a small pot and boiled it,sliced some ginger real thin,then chopped it up and put it into the water,I then added a 1/4 cup of honey to the water,as it started to boil I pressed the ginger down on the bottom of the pot and the ginger started to boil until I removed the spoon,I kept pressing down on each piece until the water came to a boil,then I add a 1/4 cup of lemon juice then cooled it down more,gave it to her in a cup,with in 3 or 4 minutes she stopped coughing,she did drink the whole cup and has went to bed,as of this very minute she is sleeping peacefully,thank you for your help
you missed reporting one more ingredient called l-o-v-e. i think that was the part of the recipe that made this work. Good husband!!
Yes love must be the main ingredient of this reciepe
lol, that is a good point.
Thanks its really help me
I tried de troat one wit lemon n honey ,it works well for ma kid but wit de cough one will also try de ginger wit honey. tanx
I’ll try dis..thnx….
U must try it
My husband is really having this bad cough and as a result he got a headache! I’ve given him this mixture ginger,honey and lemon and walla it works!!!
wow nice..thanks a lot!!
Wow it the best page for treating sickness at the page has helped me a lot .
Thank you very much.
My cough is gone!!!
Thanks for this home remedy. I’m going to try it right away. I just started coughing with sore throat and earache. Feeling sick.
Thank you. It helped me a lot for my husband
Thank you
your help ful
It very nice
I’m gonna try ur remedies, they sound really good
Very informative & interesting.
The Ginger really helps i made ginger with honey and i ate the chunks of cut ginger
Hi am currently full of cold and have the cough to go with it iv had a few sleepless nights due to the cough I going to try some of these remedies
its work really very good I like it ….
All the above tips are true for the cough. I used to have another variant, which can be easily given to the kids too. Take half bottle of honey, add ginger pieces and garlic to make up to 80% of the bottle. Keep it room temperature. This mixture is ready to use in a week. When someone getting the symptoms of sour throat or cough, have one spoon of honey from the mixture. Repeat two three times if required. This mixture has a long shelf life, so this could be very handy when required. I stopped giving antibiotics to my children after trying this.
I just had row ginger with some sugar.. it is great relief from Continues coughing
The ginger remedy was very useful. It worked like magic, all i did was chew it n swallowed de juice little at a time before bed. Tnx
If u have a cold got a tickle in ur throat sick juice out of a lemon wedge. It works. And if u have a cold and ears hurt put proxide in ur ears let it fizz 5 mins eat pain will go away.
I tried Ginger. It shown really very good effect.
I was suffering from cough for so many days but can’t get rid then I tried lemon juice & honey ….home remedy…in one day I got relief
Thanx fr putting these home remedies on this site
Coughing at the moment,going to try this thax
Comment:ive been coughing more than 3weeks now using different kind of coughin syrup kind of tablet but still i have a bad cough afternoon its worse i cant sleep,my cousin use to say maybe i have ammonia but coz ive seen this im gonna try it.
Hi Lydia you’ll never have AMONIA because it’s what you clean floors with but people tent to confuse it, as you did with NEUMONÍA. I also have a cough and bought at WALMART a ginger tea made in Australia which seems to be stronger than others when you don’t have ginger root handy. So I added honey. Always part of our staples and added lemon juice, always also part of our staple and drank tea hot after I let it steep in covered cup and I’m getting better. It beats taking meds that have horrible side effects.
I’m gonna try the ginger with honey and lemon juice – sounds promising. I’m currently having a bad cough (very dry) for about 2 wks now. I know for sure it’s not pneumonia or other serious infections because I’m physically active and fit with no breathing difficulty except this coughing which is so annoying. Have been trying various forms of cough medicine from clinics but no help at all. Thanks for sharing these remedies.
Nice I’ll try tomorrow…I’m suffering from non stopable cough…Lets see how it works…Thanks…..
thanks a lot
it really helps me a lot..
I thank top 10 home remedies for helping me
given remedies was very effective
thanks Google . ginger remedy helped me too much
thaaaaank u so much
Thanks, I just tried the raw ginger, it really works
Thanks, it really helps.
I just tried the raw ginger now, it works very fine
Nice remidi
I m coughing from 3 week it’s not getting cure…
I was coughing until my throat hurts. I started searching and came across this page with all these wonderful natural remedies. I am chewwing the ginger now. It seems to be getting rid of my constant coughing. Thanks a million
another very good remedy is to eat about 3 slices of fresh pineapple – works for me everytime.
Tried the turmeric, black pepper, cinnamon and honey and it worked! My husband has had a terrible cough for 2 days along with a bad cold. His chest is very sore from coughing so much. Before bed last night gave him the turmeric concoction to drink and NO COUGHING all night! So thankful for this website.
Heat half a cup of water in a boiling pot. Add one teaspoon turmeric powder, and one teaspoon black pepper. You may also add cinnamon sticks. Boil this for about two to three minutes. Add one tablespoon of honey. Drink this daily until the condition improves.
PL MENTION HOW MANY TIMES A DAY.
ginger,honey and lemon …it really works
this is what I’m looking 4 so long but now i see thank you so much