Ginger, honey, onion The most effective home remedies for coughing

Onion, ginger and Co: home remedies for cough
By switching between cold air outside and heated rooms, you can easily catch cold symptoms like coughing. With simple home remedies, the complaints can usually be alleviated.

Relieve cough with natural home remedies
The cold season not only ensures cool temperatures, but also often for coughs. This is annoying and not easy to handle. It often takes more than two weeks to disappear completely. Not even antibiotics help to shorten the duration. However, cough and other colds can be relieved with natural home remedies.

In the cold season, it sometimes happens that you catch a cough. Simple home remedies such as ginger or onion can usually relieve the symptoms well. (Image: Dagmar Breu / fotolia.com)

Thyme and ivy look good
Those who literally do not simply wait and drink tea can try vegetable juices, said Prof. Andreas Michalsen, chief physician of the Department of Natural Medicine at the Immanuel Hospital Berlin in a message from the dpa news agency.

"Well documented is the effect of thyme and ivy," says the doctor. "Of course, the cough does not heal overnight." However, they could shorten the duration a bit and relieve symptoms, explained Michalsen.

This is also confirmed by the guideline of the German Society for General Medicine and Family Medicine (DEGAM), a guideline for doctors.

The effectiveness of ivy in coughing has only recently been confirmed in a study, reported DEGAM.

Ginger and hot spices help
In addition, sufferers have various home remedies for cough available.

"Acute remedies such as horseradish, cress, onion or ginger help against coughing," explained Michalsen. It does not matter how you prepare the miracle tuber, for example, as a juice mixed with honey or ground into powder.

You can also make a mixture from the herbs and roots to rub on the chest. "Ginger and spicy spices should not be allowed too concentrated and too long," warned Michalsen. "Otherwise there could be burn-like skin irritation."

Beeswax pads and honey
Even the cough of children should be alleviated by natural means. According to Michalsen, beeswax requirements have been proven here, among other things. These can be warmed up with a hair dryer on the chest.

In addition, honey, stirred in tea or a glass of milk half an hour before bedtime, can relieve the cough at night.

In both children and adults, the general rule is that people should go to the doctor if the cough persists for more than three weeks or if there is a fever. (Ad)