Homemade cough syrup: For the little ones without, for the big ones with a shot
I know, I claim it every year, BUT: As bad as this winter, the cold was never really! All, really, all have to fight cold, cough and hoarseness. And with young children that's a never-ending story anyway: no sooner is the plague going on and you think you're protected by its latest antibodies? Zack, new, mutant viruses are ready to host our bodies. Time, those to fight with well-tried home remedies, You can make cough syrup yourself very easy.
Coughing homemade: recipe for children
You need this:
- a big onion
- honey
- a small, lockable jar (for example, an old, rinsed jam jar)
That's how it's done:
- Cut the onion into small cubes
- sliced onions alternately with the honey in a vessel layers
- Let stand for 2-3 hours until a juice has formed
- dosage: Give a spoonful of juice to the little patient several times a day
in the fridge keeps the onion juice for a few days.
Incidentally, most kids like onion juice really, stinking of the revenue but like a small doner kebab.
Homemade Cough Syrup: Recipe for adults
You need this:
- 1.5 onions
- 0.2 liters of water
- 100 g of honey
- 2-4cl strong alcohol eg. Rum (brown)
- 1 tbsp dried sage leaves
- 1 tablespoon dried ribwort plantain
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
That's how it's done:
- Cut the onions into small cubes and put them in a saucepan with water, honey, sage, ribwort and thyme
- Boil everything and simmer for about 5 minutes
- Then pass through a sieve
- Finally add 2-4 cl of rum (or other alcohol), which makes the onion juice in the fridge long lasting
- dosage: Take 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day
Of course, both variants also taken by the whole family to get rid of the cough. Then either divide the juice and one portion with and one without alcohol prepare, or the Just omit alcohol altogether.
Well then Cheers and get well soon!
