Comments on: Homemade Cough Syrup & Other Meds

By: Kari

Kari — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:46:44 +0000

Slippery Elm is awesome for acid reflux- you can get it in chewable tablets and powdered form- take after meals and you will get no more reflux- worked for me and I had it very bad.

By: Cori@Alternative Health Product

Cori@Alternative Health Product — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:25:29 +0000

To get rid of a cough, I usually drink a cup of turmeric milk 3 times daily. It’s easy to make: just boil in a cup of milk a teaspoon of turmeric powder. Sip it when it’s still warm. And you can use the same home remedy to cure heartburn too.. :)
That’s killing two birds with one stone.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:05:58 +0000

My husband’s family taught me a ‘cough’ recipe add almost 1tbsp (depends on how sweet the honey is- we use organic as BIL has hives) and mix with warm orange juice (fanta even works if you don’t have any..) and there is also one that you make a tea out of lemon and honey.

Oh and bee hives not hives hives LOL

By: Steve Orris

Steve Orris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:54:07 +0000

I know medicine is mostly bad for our health. I’ll save this recipe and see how it works. Thanks.
.-= Steve Orris´s last blog ..Postal News =-.

By: Ariane

Ariane — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:39:55 +0000

For coughs I find a strong tea brewed from fresh! ginger is great, with lots and lots and lots of honey added to it, also helps great against a sore throat. I also like things infused with thyme for coughs (a thick sugar syrup with like thyme steeped in it for quite long time is really nice on the throat)

as for stomach acid, my mom, my grandma, and my dad all suffer from stomach acid, both my grandma, my dad and I have had stomach ulcers.

Stomach acid, if its not caused by food, can also be caused by stress, or in case of my mom and grandma, even if they leave out a lot of food from their diet, their stomachs just overproduce on acid.

I would be somewhat weary of home remedies, of course if it works for you, all the better, but chronic stomach acid can lead to stomach ulcers, and you have to get some really, really nasty drugs to get rid of that.

You could try eating just plain chalk. this is calcium carbonate, which is essentially the active ingredient in rollaids. there is also magnesium carbonate which is the other active ingredient in rollaids, if the stomach acid bothers you alot you could look into ordering this online somewhere, im pretty sure stores for making your own cosmetics from scratch would sell it, considering both can also be used in facial masks.

By: TurboBunny

TurboBunny — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:01:49 +0000

I never use cough syrup anymore, I just grab my fifth of Jack Daniels and start sipping, in an hour the cough is gone, and for some reason it doesent return the next day when I sober up either.
another plus is that if you have a cold you will forget about it and be able to sleep!

By: Kim from Milwaukee

Kim from Milwaukee — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:48:28 +0000

Dry coughing – honey and coconut oil, to coat the throat so I can sleep
Coughs w/phlegm – stop dairy products and sugars, drink honey and lemon tea throughout the day (or honey/ACV), vaporizer at night
Heartburn – tells me I’m dehydrated, drink lots of water with ACV
Support for immune system – olive leaf extract and no overeating (overeating taxes the liver, which taxes the immune system)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:22:47 +0000

Not sure about the cough remedies, but my hubby uses dried papaya for heartburn–he east maybe a quarter cup with some water and it takes care of it almost instantly for him. The only problem we have right now is that Whole foods does not have it in the bulk bins, so we are buying it in plastic containers, though the overall waste is likely less then with traditional medicines, it would be nice to find a plastic free-solution. Maybe I could dry it myself, but I have yet to see a dryer that does not involve plastic–do you know of one?

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:19:16 +0000

Sure fire remedy for coughing when you’re trying to sleep. Rub your feet with Vicks vapor rub and put a pair of socks on. No clue why it works but it does.

By: Foy Update - Cook. Garden. Write. Repeat.

Foy Update - Cook. Garden. Write. Repeat. — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:30:48 +0000

I just came across your website and I’ve been cutting back on my plastic consumption too. Perhaps with not quite so much documentation. Kudos to you!

As for heart burn I used to get it a lot. Then I did Peace Corps and lived with out electricity and pizza delivery and I had no heart burn the entire time. Now back in the states I have had a couple evenings of indigestion. I started making all our food from scratch again and I haven’t had heart burn in a while. For me, at least, I can control the problem by eating well.