Traditional medicine is replete with a variety of recipes for self-treatment of cough. Oil-based drugs are widely used. Moreover, both edible species (vegetable and creamy) and aromatic ones, intended only for external procedures, are used. If you properly prepare such a medicine and follow all the recommendations for taking it, you will get a positive result.
Among the external methods of treating cough, the following are most often resorted to: inhalations, compresses, rubbing, warm baths. For example, eucalyptus and castor oils, as well as whole "bouquets" of different essential oils, help to get rid of cough very well. An oil compress works well with dry coughs. It is completely safe. Both children and women in position can be treated with such a compress.
For indoor use
Butter
ButterThe following drinks effectively eliminate the cough that appears due to sore throat irritation:
- Place a 50 gram piece of fresh butter in a glass of preheated milk. Take before bed.
- Add a teaspoon of quality butter and a little propolis to the milk. Before starting to use the drug, make sure that you are not allergic to propolis. This drink works very well for a cold cough.
- Heat a large glass (300 ml) of milk and add a small slice of good butter and a quarter teaspoon of baking soda to it. Should be taken 3-4 times a day.
Any of the above drinks can be flavored with honey or raspberries. The benefits will only increase.
- Linseed
Eliminates prolonged cough resulting from chronic bronchitis. It should be consumed 3-4 times a day just before meals, a full tablespoon. The first results will be visible after 6-7 days.
- Olive
This oil for coughing is simply an irreplaceable helper. It is excellent for soothing sore throat. At the same time, this useful product has the ability to strengthen the body's defense system. Two drugs are most often used against cough:
- When a cough begins, you need to immediately take a sip of olive oil (one tablespoon is enough). Be prepared for the fact that after the first time, relief does not come, moreover, the cough may worsen. But each subsequent technique will gradually reduce its strength and frequency.
- Olive oil can be taken in a special medicinal composition. To make it, you need a heated olive product, lemon juice, and liquid natural honey. The ratio is 1: 1: 2. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Admission rules: a tablespoon of the medicine every 2 hours.
For outdoor use
- Sea buckthorn oil
If you are annoyed by a cough, and even complete with a sore throat, make a compress for your throat. Put sea buckthorn oil in a glass of warm water - just a couple of teaspoons. It should be applied for 3-4 hours under a plastic bag. Wrap up the throat with a winter scarf, preferably woolen.
If the doctor diagnosed bronchitis or pneumonia, such a compress can (and even should) be put three times a day. To enhance the effectiveness of this cough treatment, sea buckthorn oil does not need to be diluted with water. It should be used 100% pure. They are smeared with the chest and back in the area of the lungs and bronchi, after which they are wrapped in a warm blanket for at least an hour. Do not forget that sea buckthorn has a bright orange color. Accordingly, it will be extremely difficult to wash off such a high-quality natural dye. But there is a way out. The oil compress must be applied under a strong bag and additionally covered with some kind of linen napkin or rag. And only then wrap yourself up in a blanket.
- Castor
An excellent effect is provided by castor oil if it is used to treat acute respiratory infections and bronchitis. It is advisable to do this immediately after the onset of the first symptoms and a slight cough.
To recover, you need to grind the chest with a kind of cocktail of castor oil and turpentine. The ratio of ingredients is 2: 1 (we are talking about tablespoons). Heat the castor oil a little and add turpentine to it. The resulting mixture must be thoroughly rubbed into the chest and wrapped in a woolen blanket. This procedure must be repeated twice a day. If the cold is mild, you can limit yourself to a single rubbing - before bedtime.
- Eucalyptus
This product copes well with coughs, activates coughing, and is also a powerful antiseptic and immunocorrector. The most popular are the following recipes:
- Take a liter of water and bring it to a boil. Add tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil to it - 3 drops each. Do inhalation, inhaling the vapor of this drug, every couple of hours.
- Fill the bath with water and dissolve in it 2 tablespoons of milk and honey and 4 drops of oil extracts of rosemary, pine, eucalyptus and mint. Immerse yourself in a healing bath for 15 minutes. Then rub your body well and wrap yourself in a warm blanket or rug.
- Make an effective medicine from a regular baby cream by adding 3-4 drops of tea tree, mint, eucalyptus and fir oil extracts to it. Stir well. Rub the finished cream on the chest and collar area.
What oils can you treat a child
Tea tree, chamomile, anise, lavender and pine are good for coughing in children. For the treatment of very crumbs, it is better to use lavender or chamomile. You can use these oils for inhalation for coughing and for massage.
For inhalation, you only need to add one drop of the oil extract to a liter of heated water (do not make it too hot, otherwise the child may burn itself). Before embarking on such treatment, be sure to consult with your pediatrician. If a child is allergic to anything, self-medication is strictly prohibited without the doctor's permission.
For children who have reached the age of 6, so-called oil cocktails for inhalation will help to cure a dry cough. To make such an inhaler cocktail, add one drop of eucalyptus and chamomile to a liter of heated water. Have your child breathe over the container for 10 minutes. It is advisable that he takes deep breaths with his mouth.
In addition to inhalation, massage can be done for children. To do this, prepare a massage mixture. Take a tablespoon of any slightly warmed vegetable oil and add lavender, eucalyptus and tea tree drop by drop to it. You need to massage the chest and back.
And finally
Before starting treatment with any folk remedy, including oil-based ones, you must visit a doctor. Despite their safety, naturalness and undeniable benefits in the fight against cough, you first need to consult with an experienced specialist. If you ignore the doctors and only self-medicate, in some cases you may not get the expected result and start the disease. And this is fraught with complications.
In addition, without a medical education, it is difficult to make yourself a 100% correct diagnosis. There are many reasons for a cough, so it would be unreasonable to talk only about acute respiratory infections or acute respiratory viral infections when it appears. Check with your doctor if it is possible in your case to apply certain folk methods based on oils. And if he gives the go-ahead, heal your health.
