Self-treatment for cough

What helps with cough?

Self-treatment for cough

The therapy should usually be done after the cause of the discomfort. If they persist for more than three days or if they are of acute violence, professional advice should be sought. As a supportive and symptomatic relief, the following measures are available for coughing in the context of a cold:

General & physical measures, nutrition
-In your apartment (for example, above the heater) hang damp cloths to moisten the breathing air.
-Avoid contact with dust and solvents (such as in adhesives, pens) and cigarette smoke.
-Drink plenty of water and avoid dairy products to prevent further mucus.
- In the first three days it is helpful to concentrate on liquid food (soup and tea fasting).
-Inhale 2-3 times with an addition of salt (Himalayan salt, Emser salt) or herbs (thyme, coltsfoot).

Plant drugs & herbs:
-Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis) has a calming effect on the inflamed mucous membranes in bronchitis. Due to its cool and moist quality, it has to be used for dry cough at the beginning of a flu infection. Add 1 tablespoon of finely chopped marshmallow root with 150 ml of cold water, strain off after one hour and warm slightly (do not cook!)..

-If there is already more expectoration, let 15g mullein, coltsfoot, thyme and anise mix together in the pharmacy to make a cough mixture (3 times daily 1Tl pour 1 cup of boiling water over it, let it rest for 10 min.). Tea blends with licorice and ginger also have an expectorant effect.

-Children like to take home-made cough syrup: put a grated radish or a chopped onion in plenty of honey, let the mixture over night, remove the liquid and give 3 times daily 1 Tl of it.
-Externally, oils and ointments made from eucalyptus, menthol, spruce needle or camphor are to be used by adults. If there is no fever, these oils are also suitable as a bath additive.

Biochemistry (Schüßler salts):
At the first signs of imminent coughing every hour is 1 tbl. Ferrum phos. D12 (No.3) to take, in advanced inflammation takes potassium chloride. D6 (No.4) in addition; Dry, spasmodic cough is with magnesium phos. (No. 7), e.g. before sleeping, dissolve 10 tablets in hot water („hot 7th“); if the cough has become chronic, you try 3xtgl. 1 tablet of potassium sulf. D6 (No.6).

Bach flower remedies:
Bach flowers help by balancing mental states that underlie physical disorders. As in the self-assessment „blind spots“ can not be avoided, it is helpful to have the appropriate Bach flowers by professional practitioners with an objective view and good knowledge of flower descriptions, to determine. The following flowers are often used because of the symptoms:

Olive: strengthens with physical as well as mental-emotional exhaustion, which usually precedes an infection with cough.
Holly: acuteCough as an overreaction to anger, anger
Willow: when coughing, when conflicts are internally smoldering but not pronounced.
centaury, with physical defense weakness; emotional relation: demarcation problem
Crab Apple promotes purification processes (for example, from pathogens in the blood)
Impatiens is indicated in all inflammatory processes, even in fever.

Coughing is considered as an indirect means of communication, which is attributed to an aggressive tendency. In the vernacular this becomes clear when we „to cough somebody something“ or him neat „bark“. Eugen Roth has written a poem about this:

The cough
The cough chooses wisely, the sphere of activity the silent night,
so he does not bother you alone, who owns the cough itself; -
With breath-creative break awakens all the people he in the house,
who are awake now lying in wait: When will you get your fit?
The neighbor's compassion is modest to the other, silent mute suffering - But here they must be comfortable and take part in the cough. Out of selfishness, Alt and Jung sincerely wish you: "get well soon"
Eugen Roth (Author, Dipl.Päd. Jeanette Viñals Stein, Naturopath, 13.11.2009)