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"As a cough syrup, one soup-spoonful is taken three times daily to help quiet coughs (and it is amazingly effective!). In current herbal medicine systems in Brazil, guaco is well known and well regarded as an effective natural bronchodilator, expectorant, and cough suppressant employed for all types of upper respiratory problems including bronchitis, pleurisy, colds and flu, coughs, and asthma; as well as for sore throats, laryngitis, and fever." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.) "In addition to the cough syrup detailed above, the traditional remedy is to take 2 cups of fresh leaves (or V2 cup dried leaves) and infuse them in a liter of water. A half-cup of this infusion is taken four times daily for rheumatism, respiratory problems, and coughs. A standard tincture is also sometimes employed for the same purposes at dosages of 3^4 ml three times daily. The leaf infusion may also be prepared as above and used as a topical wound healer and pain-reliever (although the fresh leaves are more effective for this purpose than using dried leaves)." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Or you can make your own herbal cough syrup. Soothing cough syrup i tablespoon each licorice root, mullein leaves, thyme leaves, rose hips, slippery elm bark and lemongrass leaves 1 quart water Y4 — Y2 cup rice syrup or fruit syrup (or honey, for children who are at least 2 years old) TO. Bring herbs and water to a boil in a large uncovered saucepan. Remove from heat, cover and let steep for 30 minutes. Strain out herbs. Return to heat and simmer, then turn off heat. While still warm, stir in syrup or honey. Let cool. Give a suffering child 1 tablespoon, as needed. Store in the refrigerator." - Kathi Keville, Herbs for Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"This "drug" is still a popular home remedy today throughout Brazil for the same purposes, but locals prepare it themselves by boiling guaco leaves into a tasty spicy cough syrup. The recipe calls for putting a handful of fresh leaves (or about 2 ounces dried leaves) in 6 cups of water and boiling until it is reduced to 2 cups. Then 3/4 of a cup of sugar is added and it is boiled again for about twenty minutes into a syrup. The mixture is strained to remove the leaves, three soup-spoonfuls of honey are added, and the syrup is cooled, bottled, and stored in the refrigerator." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Avoid products such as cough syrup or mouthwash that contain alcohol—these are hazardous for young children. Look for alcohol-free alternatives. • Keep cosmetics and beauty products out of children's reach. Remember that hair permanents and relaxers are toxins as well. Carbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odorless, poisonous gas that can also cause sickness and death. The incomplete burning of fuels such as natural gas, oil, kerosene, propane, coal, and wood produce carbon monoxide." - James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D., Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More (Get the book.)

"The Physicians' Desk Reference lists guaifenesin as an expectorant and an active ingredient in about seventy-five over-the-counter and prescription cough syrups, cold tablets, and expectorants, including Robitussin, Vicks cough syrup, and Actifed. But mustard, horseradish, curry, and garlic, he says, perform essentially the same way. All can act as emetics and trigger bronchial gland secretion. One of Dr. Ziment's favorite chest medications is garlic, an intriguing natural drug to help cure colds, he believes." - Jean Carper, The Food Pharmacy: Dramatic New Evidence That Food Is Your Best Medicine (Get the book.)

"You could end up taking a painkiller like acetaminophen for your headache, plus a decongestant that contains the same drug, and a cough syrup. Drugs interact. To avoid overmedicating, pick your most uncomfortable symptom—the painful headache, for example—and treat that. Skip the OTC decongestants or cough syrups." Get vaporized. "Plugging in a vaporizer and resting in bed for two days is key to treating the flu," says Janet McElhaney, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. " - Prevention Magazine Health Books, The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Women: Women Doctors Reveal over 2,000 Self-Help Tips on the Health Problems That Concern Women the Most (Get the book.)

"Thyme leaves are tiny and their stems are woody—so instructions for using the fresh THYME-HONEY COUGH SYRUP This is so very easy to make and so much more soothing than a ready-made cough syrup. I hope you'll try it. One teaspoon taken every hour will relieve a cough. 2 cups boiling water 3 tablespoons dried thyme 1 cup honey Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from the heat. Add thyme, cover, and steep until cool. Strain. Stir in 1 cup honey. Store in a covered glass jar, refrigerated, for several months." - Rebecca Wood, The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating (Get the book.)

"Phytomedicines: Numerous cough syrup preparations are available though predominantly star anise oil is used (see: Anisi stellati fructus). Regulatory status Canada: Approved active ingredient in numerous Schedule OTC Traditional Herbal Medicines (e.g. Salus® Alpen-kraft Liquid), cathartic and laxative preparations (e.g. Blackhawk Indian Herbal Laxative) and in some homeopathic medicines, all requiring pre-marketing Excerpt from the German Commission E monograph (BAnZ no. 122, Published fuly 6, 1988) Uses External: preparations containin y 5-10 Internal: dyspeptic complaints." - Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier, Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis (Get the book.) "Tussiflorin® cough syrup and cough drops (fluidextract 1:1, solven-t: ethanol 25%). H3CO a-L-Rhamnose Excerpt from the German Commission E monograph (BAnz no. 76, Published April 23, 1987; Revised BAnz no- 50, Published March 13, 1990) Uses Mild catarrhs of the respiratory tract; inflammatory changes of the oral and pharyngeal mucosa. Contraindications None known. Side effects None known. Interactions with other drugs None known. Dosage Unless otherwise prescribed: daily dosage: 4—6 g of dried herb or corresponding preparations." - Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier, Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis (Get the book.)

"The other was for the mildest narcotic drug in widespread use: prescription cough syrup with codeine. On Friday night, she had taken the second of two prescribed doses of cough syrup and lay down on the couch of her home in northwest Washington. Soon she was looking out the window of her thoroughly landlocked " house and, surprisingly, was seeing the ocean and a beach. "I wanted to go to the beach. I could feel the ocean," she said. "I insisted to my roommate, Laurie, that we should go swimming. I wouldn't drop it. This conversation persisted for fifteen minutes." - Thomas J. Moore, Prescription For Disaster: Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet (Get the book.) "So he took a teaspoon of the cough syrup. Somewhere in his body a light went on. "It was a revelation," Iliades tecalled, "like, 'Hello, where have you been all my life?' " He felt watm. He felt energized and eager to tackle the rest of his waiting room full of patients. The next time he had a headache or felt bad, he took the wonderful cough syrup instead of an aspirin. Within a matter of months, he found himself using it whenever he needed a boost to get through an unusually tough day at work. But he never used it on weekends." - Thomas J. Moore, Prescription For Disaster: Dangers In Your Medicine Cabinet (Get the book.)

"Perhaps a cough syrup would be best? We also have mullein in several formulas to help colds and coughs, like these cough syrups, these tabulated formulas, these Chinese patented formulas, a child's glycerine syrup, these capsuled formulas...." On and on it can go! It is enough to make you give up and walk out of the store at that point. Yet, with some basic information, discrimination amongst these myriad forms is possible, if not even enjoyable. Following is a list of the various herbal forms with information on each to help you choose the right one for your needs." - Lesley Tierra, Herbs of Life: Health & Healing Using Western & Chinese Techniques (Get the book.) "When I have a bottle of herbal cough syrup out on the counter, my little boy often fakes a cough just so he can take some! I think you will find them delicious, too. Cough and Sore Throat Syrup This formula aids mucus expectoration, calms coughs and soothes the throat. Use equal parts: elecampane, wild cherry bark, licorice, comfrey root, coltsfoot and lobelia. Stubborn Cough Syrup For especially stubborn coughs or deep lung ailments, combine 1 cup lemon juice (fresh squeezed preferable), 5-7 cloves of pressed or minced garlic, 1 tbsp grated ginger and 1/2 tsp cayenne powder." - Lesley Tierra, Herbs of Life: Health & Healing Using Western & Chinese Techniques (Get the book.)

"The berries are also very useful in cough syrup. WALNUT The walnut is a well-known tree. It is only too bad that there are not more of them on every farm in the sections where they will grow, for the walnut is an excellent nut, and the leaves and bark are an effective medicine for a number of ailments. Will expel all kinds of worms from the intestinal tract, and is an excellent remedy for poisonous snake bites, or other poisonous bites, as mad dog bites. To be taken internally and also applied externally." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.) "It is excellent made into a cough syrup combined with other herbs. COMFREY (Root) Botanical Name: Symphytum officinale. Common Names: Gum plant, healing herb, knitback, slippery root. Medicinal Properties: Demulcent, astringent, pectoral, vulnerary, mucilaginous, styptic, nutritive. Powerful remedy in coughs, catarrh, ulcerated or inflammation of the lungs, consumption, hemorrhage, excessive expectoration in asthma, and tuberculosis. Very valuable in ulceration of the kidneys, stomach or bowels, or when sore. The best remedy for bloody urine." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.)

"Drugstore shelves are crammed with cough syrups, but if you don't like taking medicine, you can make your own natural cough syrup. Mix the juice of one lemon with two tablespoons of glycerine and 12 teaspoons of honey. Take one teaspoon every half hour, stirring before each use. For another soothing and tasty cough reliever, combine 8 ounces of warm pineapple juice and two teaspoons of honey. Go bananas. Bananas are delicious and loaded with folic acid, potassium, magnesium, and fiber, but did you know they may help quiet a cough? Heartburn is responsible for one in 10 chronic coughs." - Frank K. Wood, Natural Cures and Gentle Medicines: That Work Better Than Dangerous Drugs or Risky Surgery (Get the book.)

"NyQuil is a drug, cough syrup is a drug, Alka-Seltzer is a drug, aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, and nasal sprays are all powerful drugs. I believe Turns, Rolaids, and allergy sprays are all powerful drugs. Get off the drugs! There is one other important thing that I am just going to touch on and that is something that I unbelievably missed in my book in Chapter 6. Chapter 6 is full of the do's and don'ts if you want to cure every disease and remain healthy. One glaring omission is "Quit Smoking." It is obvious to everyone that smoking is bad." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

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