Natural Cough Remedies

Natural cough remedies can provide relief from a hacking cough that keeps you up all night to that ugly tickle in your throat that doesn't seem to want to go away. Be aware, however, when you use cough remedies, you're preventing nature's way of removing mucus that builds and is a breeding ground for germs.

If you have a wet cough, one that produces mucus, use natural remedies infrequently to allow your body to cleanse itself.

You can choose one of the best natural remedies for cough that treat the cough or cold or ones that simply help you to stop coughing at the moment. Eating grapes several times a day is one way to relieve many causes of a cough.

Another one is adding a tiny pinch of ground white pepper to a teaspoon of honey. Use this several times through the day and you'll notice the amount of times you cough lessen every day.

Honey is a natural disinfectant, so many of the natural healing remedies contain it, whether they're natural cough remedies or other homemade healing remedies. Mixing three tablespoons of lemon juice and ¼ cup of warm water into honey is a yummy natural cough remedy. Use a teaspoon of it each day or as necessary.

Chocolate lovers all over the world will begin to cough when they read this natural cough remedy. Theobromine, one of the elements in chocolate shows benefits in relieving a cough, according to limited scientific research. Simply pop some dark chocolate into your mouth and allow it to melt. Remember, the key to this working is to use dark, not milk chocolate. Milk chocolate sometimes makes the problem worse.

You don't always have to consume something for natural cough remedies. Sometimes simply taking a steamy warm shower or using a vaporizer can help break up congestion and allow you to expectorate the mucus and build-up that caused the cough in the first place.

If you don't have a shower or a vaporizer, simply heat a pan of water to boiling then shut off the heat so it steams. Bend over the pan with your head far enough away from the water to prevent scalding but close enough to receive steam. Cover the back of your head with a towel so the edge hangs over your head and the top of the pan so it traps the steam inside like a tent. Stay over the steaming water for as long as you can tolerate. This brings almost instant relief.

While Vick's VapoRub isn't a natural remedy, it is one proves very effective but in a most unusual way. Instead of rubbing the Vick's onto the chest of the child or adult with the cough, many people find it effective when rubbed onto the soles of the feet of the people coughing and then covering the feet with socks.

Folk medicine and early medical cures for whooping cough and other coughs often suggested putting mustard plaster on the soles of the feet or legs to stop coughing. The VapoRub contains camphor, eucalyptus oil and menthol and it may simply be the vapors in the air that help the cough.

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