| If you are one of those people who get rained | | | | mullein, ground coriander and marshmallow |
| on a little and get bogged down by the flu | | | | leaves.The older traditional cures were |
| the next day, you are probably sick of having | | | | stranger. One of the folk cures concerns |
| coughs and colds and sick of taking medicine | | | | boring a hole into a lemon and filling the |
| over and over again. Sometimes, it is good | | | | hole with honey. The lemon is then roasted |
| to know that there are a lot of herbal | | | | wherein the juices are collected and fed to |
| remedies that are available, effective, easy | | | | the patient. A stranger remedy involved |
| to use and can replace the mundane cough | | | | boring a hole into it and the hole was filled |
| syrup and escape its side effects.Bronchitis | | | | with brown sugar which is then left to sit |
| is a serious medical condition. If you | | | | overnight. The next day, the juices that |
| present the symptoms for this, please consult | | | | were collected are given to the patient.Some |
| with your physician as soon as possible. | | | | of the older cures are harder to come by. |
| These herbal treatments are here to help but | | | | One example of these cures is a mix of the |
| are not guaranteed cures for conditions as | | | | juices of leeks and fresh breast milk of a |
| serious as bronchitis.CoughsThere are a lot | | | | nursing mother. Another less palatable |
| of traditional and herbal treatments for | | | | remedy involved boiling two or three snails |
| coughs and some are indeed stranger than | | | | in barley water. You may not want to go |
| others. The more common ones that are still | | | | through all this trouble for a |
| widely used today involve using honey and | | | | cough.BronchitisBronchitis is the |
| lemon. Other herbs include garlic, onions, | | | | inflammation of the bronchioles of the lungs |
| lavender, thyme, linseed, nettle and dock. | | | | and is a lot more serious than cough. |
| Still others are cabbage, carrots, turnips, | | | | Actually, the cough is reduced to one of the |
| comfrey, rosemary, balm, glycerin and | | | | symptoms of bronchitis. Although most cases |
| peppermint. Among all the herbs, eucalyptus | | | | require the treatment of antibiotics, there |
| is still the most popular cure.There are many | | | | are still a lot of herbal remedies to help |
| recommended herbal drinks to treat a cough. | | | | heal and relieve the symptoms of |
| One remedy is boiling coltsfoot in water with | | | | bronchitis.The more common remedies for |
| garlic and brown sugar. An infusion made of | | | | bronchitis are eucalyptus, garlic, honey, |
| coltsfoot leaves sweetened with honey is also | | | | ginger, cinnamon and tea. Herbs like bugle, |
| said to do the trick. Another treatment is | | | | butterbur, caraway, angelica, borage, |
| syrup made by boiling coltsfoot leaves with | | | | coltsfoot and comfrey are known to help in |
| equal amounts of plantain leaves and honey. | | | | the relief of the symptoms. Other herbs such |
| An herbal drink for coughs was based on a mix | | | | as chickweed, chervil, fenugreek, fennel, |
| of dried sage, honey and vinegar. Another | | | | ground ivy, liquorices, myrrh, madder, |
| was based also on dried sage but with brown | | | | knotgrass and marjoram are also effective. |
| sugar and ginger in water. Another cure was | | | | Mullein, parsley, plantain, onion, sage and |
| formed by mixing and heating butter, vinegar | | | | primrose, thyme, white horehound, watercress, |
| and honey; also was mixing hart shorn, almond | | | | speedwell and savory are also utilized in the |
| oil, hyssop, sugar and water. Another cure | | | | treatment of bronchitis. |
| for coughs is an infusion made of hyssop, | | | | |