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[YEA] 05/15/2006: Michael from Coatesville, PA writes: "I had terrible chest congestion; nagging dry cough, wheezing, ran short of breath just talking, laughing hurt! A friend at work suggested a tablespoon of honey sprinkled with black pepper. I was amazed! I could feel the improvement within minutes! Within a day and a half my problem, which I was living with for a week was completely gone!"
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HONEY, OLIVE OIL AND LEMON JUICE
[YEA] Anna from Australia writes: "I find this good for coughs: equal parts of honey, pure olive oil and lemon juice. Sip tiny amounts when cough threatens."
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[YEA] 11/02/2009: Heather from Colorado Springs, Co writes: "Inhaling H202 cured my kids coughs.
My family got the swine flu at the end of August. For 6 weeks we passed that thing around each of us getting it more than once. One son had it for 3 days each week for 4 weeks and one ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. We all got over the fever fine, but 4 were left with nasty coughs that just wouldn't quit. I tried AVC, but my kids hated it so much that they wouldn't drink it consistently, so I bought a nebulizer online and used half drugstore H202 (1-2 ml) and half water (1-2 ml) in the medicine cup. I had them each inhale for about 10 minutes 2 times per day.
Within 2 days they were 90% better, and the ones who still had a little cough were better in 3. And that was after coughing for 4-5 weeks. I think the little viruses were hiding in the lungs and then reappearing when they got their numbers back up. After I started the H202, no one had a reoccurence of the flu."
EC: More about Bill Munro's Hydrogen Peroxide Inhalation Method here: http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/hydrogen_peroxide_inhalation.html
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[YEA] 09/26/2009: Jaxs from Nashua, Montana writes: "I have been coughing up phlegm for several years, particularly right after eating something...Recently I was exposed to something that really made me cough without much of anything coming up. My doctor gave me three neubulizer treatments of 1 cc of 3% hydrogen peroxide (food grade) mixed with 3cc's of a saline solution . This cleaned up the problem in three days, one treatment per day...I am now trying to get rid of the original phylem problem by using the neubulizer on a daily basis.."
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[YEA] 05/30/2009: Brenda from Ottawa, ON Canada writes: "3% HP cured bad cough
May 29, 2009
My 14 year old son tried the inhale method below with much success. He woke up with a sore throat in the morning. He took the cayenne pepper in orange juice to get rid of the sore throat. It worked like a charm!! Then he asked me if there was a good remedy for a cough. I found your info on using a 3% food grade hydrogen peroxide and thought we would give it a try. I had 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide in the house so I mixed it up according to the direction: 2oz of 35% HP with 22 oz of distilled water = 3% HP. We put it into misting bottles and he proceeded to inhale this in the evening. He woke up early Saturday morning feeling much better! His sore throat is gone, and his cough is almost gone too. This stuff is awesome!! I feel this would be totally effective on any kind of Swine/Bird flu. We are grateful for this wonderful web site!
Cheers
Brenda"
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[YEA] 03/01/2009: Wanda from Jackson, MO writes: "I did some experimenting on my own after reading numerous articles on H2O2 inhalation methods. I contracted some kind of virus that affected my lungs..with coughing spasms. I filled my cool mist humidifier with 1 gallon of reverse osmosis water and 2 ozs 35% food grade H2O2 and slept with this on thru the night for several nights. First thing I noticed, was that I was able to breathe considerably better with less coughing. This is strictly my own concoction.. I was desparate, as conventional medicine was not doing anything for me. Thought I would pass this remedy on....."
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[YEA] 01/04/2008: chris a. from san antonio, texas writes: "Hi just writing to let you all know that that I was looking for a remedy for Hep c and stumbled across H202. And ACV for high cholestrol. well i have been taking H2o2 as directed with a dropper. And i have noticed that this product cleared an annoying cough. The ACV helped out with the bad heartburn that i had. When the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made this world he made it perfect. Praise the lord for the natural remedies that he has made. CGA, Sa,Tex"
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[YEA] 07/13/2007: Marlene from Philadelphia, PA writes: "I have severe chronic asthma with chronic infections/coughing. I take Biaxin for lungs, but if I'm still coughing, I will gargle with Hydrogen Peroxide for the chronic coughing from the throat. When I do this, all coughing will stop and I will feel much better. Hope this note can help others."
11/25/2008: Marci from Star City, IN replies: "Is it ok to use hydrogen peroxide from the store for gargling or must I buy food grade?"
EC: Unless otherwise specified, people usually use 3% drug store for gargling.
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[YEA] 02/21/2009: John from Trumbull, CT writes: "Ivy Leaf Syrup cured my Cough/Bronchitis. I had been struggling with bronchitis/cough for about 2 months, so I turned to this website for solutions. I never heard of apple cider vinegar before and tried it (by making a tea with it as described by others), it definitely helped, but it did not cure me. However, after a visit to my local organic food and health store, I came across some stuff called Bronchial Soothe (its Ivy Leaf Syrup), this stuff is the best thing since sliced bread. After about 1 to 2 days my Bronchitis was cured. I could not believe how effective this stuff is! I now keep 1 to 2 bottles of it in the cabinet and reach for it every time I even think I may be developing a cough and Bang its gone! Just follow the directions on the box and hope this helps you as it helped me!"
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[YEA] 04/07/2009: Suzanne from London, UK writes: "Last year I had one of those bad coughs that get on your chest. It wasn't getting any better and I was about to go to the doctor to get some antibiotics when I bought a fruit tea drink. As soon as I started drinking it my cough stopped. Intrigued, I had a look at the ingredients and discovered it contained jasmine green tea. I bought some jasmine green tea bags and made up my own drink. It cured my cough completely within a a few hours. I had a cold over the weekend and developed a cough. This was starting to go to my chest so I made up a cup of jasmine green tea and thank god it's getting better already. Hope it helps other people."
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[YEA] 02/26/2006: John from Milwaukee, WI writes: "juice of two lemons and a half-inch piece of ginger root; water to fill a mug; several squirts of honey to taste cures a nagging cough."
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LEMON JUICE WITH FRESHLY GRATED GINGER
[YEA] 01/26/2008: Wyndy from Atlanta, GA writes: "I have my grandson visiting from Birmingham; he had been sick for two weeks with a terrible congestion and cough, and most recently worsened with a high fever (103oF) so I searched on line for a natural remedy to break fever. I came across this site and these suggestions. After reading all, I decided on the less messy potato remedy. I slice a white potato into pieces about the size of his little foot and ut them into his socks. It worked in 30 minutes! The fever is completely gone and he is back to a normal reading. Further, I am using apple cider vinegar with natural blue agave sweetener to loosen the congestion and a juice mixture of fresh lemon with grated ginger and sweetener to sooth his cough. Natural is always better! Thanks to all of you for sharing."
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LEMON JUICE, HONEY AND EUCALYPTUS OIL
[YEA] 01/24/2007: Andy from Sylmar, CA writes: "i tried this and it worked and it worked for my young nephew, for when the dr's rx meds just won't clear up a lingering cough, prepare your own cough syrup,,,in a jar, mix
3oz of freshly squeezed lemon juice and
3 oz of pure unprocessed honey and
add at least a teaspoon of pure eucalyptus oil.
take as needed ,i took a a tablespoon full every couple of hours and my cough was gone within half a day...beats rx cough syrup and definitely works better than any over the counter cough meds."
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[YEA] 12/17/2008: Vince from Columbus, NC writes: "YEA It works! Prepared the portion for my wife last night...just about every time I'm almost asleep...here it comes that COUGH! 5 minutes after her consuming this remedy...GONE....not a whimper! Ahhh sleep for me!"
EC: Please let us know which remedy you tried!
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Ted from Bangkok, Thailand writes: "The most effective cough medicine I have tried is N-Acetycysteine (a natural amino acid and modified to aid absorption). Vinegar and oregano or vinegar and garlic seems to solve sore throat the best and reduced the coughing faster. The key is to avoid sugar and cough drops as sugar accelerates viral growth causing a quick return to coughing.
There is an amino supplement form hidden in your local drug store as a mucus clearing medicine to help clear breathing passages, which goes (at least in Thailand) under the label brand of Flumucil, Mysolven, NAC-Long etc. This is the only bioavailable form of the amino acid cysteine. (N-Acetyl amino acid holds great promise in alternative medicine, but I think many doctors don't know about this.) An example is N-Acetyl Carnitine for cataracts. If you know your biochemistry, N-Acetycysteine is an antioxidant and very helpful when used alongside with selenium. Holds promise for SARS, bird flu, AIDS and cancer due to its antioxidant properties. The amount is either 100 mg., 200 mg., 800 mg. My mom and my sister are o.k. with 100 mg, but I use up to 800 mg.
For emergencies in stopping coughs, I eat very small crystals of menthol. The cough medicine I mentioned here is better than any cough medicine in the market. No kidding. I used to have persistent coughs which lasted 6 months, and at that time I was only 22 years old and supposedly the prime of my life!
Vinegar and food grade hydrogen peroxide is another story which reduces sore throat in minutes, but seems to be helpful in coughs by reducing the irritation."
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[YEA] 03/30/2008: Sara from Louisville, Kentucky writes: "Tried the remedy from Michelle from Lamora, Mexico. The NATURAL COUGH SYRUP Posted on 3/6/2008. I did just as she said except added a couple of tablets of turmeric also. My son coughed of few times and then finally slept thru the night, no coughing. My husband had the same cough. He took it and he stopped coughing. There must be something to it. Thanks so much Michelle for your post. Thanks to everyone who makes this site run."
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[YEA] 03/06/2008: Michelle from Lamora, Mexico writes: "My mother always had us make cough syrup when coughs were going around. here's the recipe
1/2 cup lemon juice
12 garlic cloves
1/4 onion
1/2 cup of honey
teaspoon powder vitamin c
pinch of cayenne pepper
we don't always measure exactly just dump and make according to taste. it actually tastes really good."
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[YEA] 12/03/2006: Jennifer from Albuquerque, NM writes: "I tried ACV, the spicy tomato tea, the onion halves with brown sugar, and the garlic soup. Especially the tomato tea and ACV brought some temporary relief from a month-long cough and sinus congestion that I'd had almost as long. As far as I'm concerned, though, the #1 choice and remedy should be Oil of Oregano. I bought a jar last Tues. and began taking three per day with meals. I am so encouraged and feel at least 95% well again. After doing some research on it I now know that this is an amazing product! Perhaps it doesn't work the same for everyone but it has done so much for me in six days. I've also been using a good quality colloidal silver in a nasal spray bottle. This has probably worked alongside the Oil of Oregano for the sinus congestion. It cured a month-long cough/bronchitis and sinus congestion. I'm wondering now if I could have increased the dosage of Oil of Oregano to say four a day. I've stayed at 3/day since I couldn't find any info. to let me know if more would be too much of a good thing. Any thoughts on that?"
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OLIVE OIL, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR AND LEMON
[YEA] 03/20/2007: Tash from London, UK writes: "I had a very bad and nagging cough since i had a flu. Everything like millions of cough syrups and ginger and lemon and honey and all other things and cures were suggested me but nothing worked. I thought I would choke and die with the enormity of the cough; then I read this on google and after reading all the confident e-mails, I decided to try apple Cider Vinegar with Olive Oil. Initially it did not work but I think that was because mine was really bad cough, but then slowly and steadily it brought me back to normality and now I am good as new. Thanks to the person who put it here first. This works, maybe not instantly but it does with regular morning and evening doses. It is better than any cough syrup, I promise you that. THANKS!!!:"
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[YEA] Sonia from Orlando, FL writes: "GREETINGS TO ALL AND GOD BLESS. A FEW WEEKS AGO I WAS STARTING TO GET LARANGITIS. MY THROAT WAS STARTING TO HURT AND I WAS LOSING MY VOICE. I WAS DRINKING APPLE CIDER SO I ADDED LEMON TO DISTILLED WATER AND IT SEEMED TO STOP THE PROGRESS, I KEPT DRINKING WATER WITH A SQUEEZED LEMON AND 2 TABLESPOONS OF APPLE CIDER VINEGAR. THE PAIN STOPPED BUT THEN I STARTED COUGHING PERSISTENTLY A DRY COUGH. I HAD NO COUGH MEDICINE NOR HONEY. SO I REMEMBERED READING THAT OLIVE OIL WAS A GOOD COUGH STOPPER. SO I WENT TO MY KITCHEN AND I DRANK 2 TABLESPOONS AND WENT TO SLEEP. AND I SLEPT PEACEFULLY THRU THE NIGHT W/O COUGHING ONCE. NOW IN THE MORNING WHEN I WOKE UP. IT STARTED AGAIN. SO AGAIN I DRANK 2 TABLESPOONS AGAIN. I THEN STARTED EXPERIENCING AGAIN A COPIOUS COUGH BUT FOR MY SURPRISE THIS TIME I WAS COUGHING WITH FLEGM. THE COUGHING LASTED ABOUT 30 MINS. IT WAS SERVING ME AS AN EXPECTORANT ALSO. IT CLEARED ME UP AND NO MORE COUGHING."
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[YEA] 05/02/2009: Willowone from Athens, GA writes: "Onions for cough and congestion: My first child was colicky and had several colds with congestion. The doctors gave him antibiotics that did not seem to help. I felt like the cold went away on its own. My grandmother told me about the onions. My second and third children never had to take antibiotics. I would take a onion or part of onion about the size of a golf ball and grate up in a bowl.Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of sugar. Cover and put in the fridge for 45 minutes. The sugar draws the syrup out of the onion. I would then take a dropper full and give to the child. It does not taste bad (try it yourself). It clears their chests and helps them sleep. I never had a problem with using it. Now when I feel like I am getting a cold I always eat more raw onions."
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[YEA] 03/01/2009: Marcela from Mexico writes: "Hi, my toddler had been coughing a little at night and after waking up, for several weeks now, but the last two days it was getting worse, so I decided to try two remedies at once: I cut an onion in half and put one half in a dish on his night table. And I spritzed a little ACV on both sides of his pillow. He coughed once, and then nothing. Slept through the whole night without a single cough. Upon waking up he coughed a little bit but nothing like the days before.
My husband is also recovering from some bad sinusitis and he began coughing last night as well, so once we saw that it worked for our little boy, we tried the same with him, only both halves of a (freshly cut) onion. And it was like pressing the "mute" button! No more coughing till like 5 a.m. I think the vapors wear off and it wasn't enough for the entire night for my husband, so tonight I'll try slicing another chunk off the onion when the cough restarts.
I had previously tried just the onion or just the ACV but I hadn't noticed much improvement. With both it was a really dramatic change, a mute button!"
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[YEA] 12/03/2008: Faith from Louisville, KY writes: "When I was younger, around 10 or 11 years old, I went with my grandma to visit her relatives. I think I caught cold during that time because I played outside a lot in the snow with my cousins.
When the night came, I was coughing non-stop. No body could sleep because of me. Needless to say that we were at some village far from civilization, lol, and they could not take me to the doctor. Well, in the middle of the night, the lady of the house got up and came to me asking me to get up and eat some onion. Nooo!!! I hated onions. But, she talked me into eating some. I wrapped it in a piece of bread and swallowed quickly without chewing. Amazingly, I did not cough at all for the rest of the night.
I think it really worked, and I tried it few times later in my life. It is not pleasant to eat raw onions, but it will help you, that is for sure.
Now, when I get sick and cough, I cut up a whole onion and mix it with cottage cheese and some sour cream add some salt and eat it like a salad. It tastes so much better and helps me get rid of the cold much faster."
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[YEA] 11/11/2008: Amy from Palmer, Ak writes: "Onions: can be made into couph syup. By taking a sliced onion and then putting some sugar on top and then let set for a few min. then drain off juices. you can even eat the onion after words if you would like."
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[YEA] 12/29/2007: Wendy from Sylmar, Ca writes: "Slice up a brown or yellow onion and place it in a breathable bag such as a linen bag. Put it is bed near the face of the sufferer and it will stop the coughing within minutes. If the sufferer is awake, tie the bag around the neck and lie down on the couch with eyes closed. I thank God for the wonderful herbs He gives us to help our sicknesses!"
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