Natural Home Remedies for Dry Cough

                           

Have you ever experienced the problem of cough? We have heard this word cough many times and we all understand what cough means. The process of bursting out air with or without mucus from your mouth is termed as cough, when you burst out only air with a negligible amount of mucus or without mucus then it referred as dry cough. In dry cough we feel some irritation in our throat, which further result in a pressurized burst of air without mucus. While in wet cough, mucus comes out from our lungs with air burst. The reasons behind causing dry cough may involve pollution, smoking, infections, bronchitis, asthma cold, flu and allergies. Moreover, medicinal reactions and disease may also trigger dry cough, it gives you feeling of a choked throat or something similar, sometimes you may feel pain in chest and heavy heads too. It not only discomforts you physically but also make you feel like neglected as no one likes to sit beside a coughing person.

Although a variety of medication for the treatment of dry cough is available in drug stores however, home remedies are also very useful in such case. Following are some natural home remedies that you may try to get rid of dry cough.

Water

Water is the most common readily available resource, which you can use in treating plenty of minor health disorders. As we all know that it’s the nearest thing that we can use therefore why not try using water in the first place if it help you out from minor health problems?  Doctors often advise to drink as much water as possible for the health sake moreover; water softens the mucus that may easily discharge from the nostrils. So try water in case of dry cough it will give you relief from dry cough.

Hot milk with Sonth (dry ginger)

Milk is another daily use and readily available item in households. Milk itself considered as a health friendly drink however, when added with different types of home based items such as ginger, black salt, turmeric, pepper and honey then it becomes a strong remedy for various health problems as well. Drinking hot milk with added ginger and honey is very effective for getting rid of dry cough. You can also take some dry ginger often referred as Sonth in India to boil it with milk. Take this hot drink 2-3 times and it will surely give you relief from dry cough.

Lemon with black salt

Most of you must be familiar with rock salt or black salt a useful household item. Rock salt has specialty of absorbing moisture whereas lemon contains anti microbial properties along with vitamin C in good amount. Using black salt and lemon could do wonder in treating your dry coughs. Dip a lemon slice into the rock salt to and start chewing it, use it in every 2-3 hours to get rid of dry cough moreover it will minimize throat irritation and prevent sour throat as well.

Gargling with salt water

This is a common remedy, which you can use in getting relief from dry cough and other similar worries. Using it is very easy you just need to take a glass of water and boil it, moreover, add a little amount of salt while boiling it. Use it for gargling after the mixture reaches to normal temperature i.e. neither cold nor hot. For getting better result, repeat gargling in every 3-4 hours.  Gargling is also useful in swelling of gums or other similar tooth problems as well.

Turmeric

Turmeric is another wonderful home item that can be used in varieties of skin and mouth related health disorders. A variety of amazing medicinal capabilities found in turmeric makes it a very useful household medicinal item. You can use turmeric in many ways for treatment of dry cough, like add some turmeric in hot milk, add some honey with turmeric; you can make powder of turmeric and use it with milk or water for relief.

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