Home Remedies for Cough Relief
Take 10 ml of basil (tulsi) juice twice daily with honey.
Consume 10 ml of fresh ginger juice two times a day.
Mix 3 grams of black pepper powder with honey and take it twice daily.
Drink 10 ml of Malabar nut (vasa/adusi) juice twice a day to relieve cough.
Mix 2 grams of dried ginger (sonth) and 1 gram of long pepper (lindi pepper, piplamool, piplamul) with jaggery and take twice daily.
Boil dried pomegranate peel in water until reduced to one-fourth. Filter and drink 40 ml of this decoction twice daily.
Combine 10 ml of Malabar nut juice with 2-3 grams of turmeric powder and milk cream (malai), and consume this mixture.
Mix 10 grams of honey in 40 ml of lukewarm water and drink 2–3 times a day.
Chew ajwain and cardamom and swallow the resulting juice.
Take 3 grams of licorice (mulethi) powder with honey.
Apply warm salt or sand fomentation (wrap heated salt/sand in cloth and place it on the chest and back) to help clear the lungs and improve breathing.
Make a green gram soup with ajwain seeds, rock salt, black pepper, and ginger. This supports lung strength and soothes a cough.
Prepare a paste using jaggery and a small piece of ginger. Lick it throughout the day to help reduce coughing.
When to See a Doctor
If the cough is accompanied by high fever, chills, headache, or skin rashes.
If you experience shortness of breath, or rapid breathing, or notice blood, green, or bluish-coloured mucus in your phlegm.
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