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"COUGHS: A team of researchers discovered that theobromine, a derivative found in cocoa, is nearly a third more effective in stopping persistent coughs when compared with codeine, currently considered the best cough medicine. The use of theobromine as a cough suppressant is still being investigated. COLON CANCER: Researchers from the University of Barcelona in Spain found that antioxidants in cocoa may be effective in suppressing genes that trigger colon cancer cell growth. COGNITIVE FUNCTION: Dr." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "It is thought to increase the appetite and is still widely used in tonic and cough medicine in India. Coriander has been used for the relief of anxiety and insomnia in Iranian folk medicine. Recent experiments in mice may provide the secret to its enduring usage for anxiety. Throw Me a Lifesaver! DIABETES: When coriander was added to the diet of diabetic mice, it helped stimulate their secretion of insulin and lowered their blood sugar. HEART HEALTH: Coriander was given to rats that had been fed a high-fat and -cholesterol diet." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Chicken Soup Instead of a few spoonfuls of cough medicine, how about a cup of hot chicken soup? Yes, your mother was right: Chicken soup will cure what ails you. The protein in chicken contains cystine, an amino acid similar to acetylcysteine, a drug that thins mucus and clears lungs. A bowl of steaming hot chicken soup helps release fluids within the body that will drain your chest of fluid and make mucus less likely to settle in lungs and become infected. • A Sweet but Smelly Cough Syrup Finely chop one onion, place it in a pot and cover it with honey." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"In folk medicine, Lungwort is used in irritant-relieving cough medicine, and as a diuretic. It was formerly used in the treatment of lung diseases, i.e. tuberculosis. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. DOSAGE Mode of Administration: Standardized preparations for oral use as a component of herbal teas or liquid antitussives. Preparation: To prepare an infusion, finely cut 1." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Even cough medicine with dextromethorphan doesn't quell it. A. As you have guessed, a persistent cough that does not respond to cough suppressants might be a reaction to blood pressure medicines like lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril). Ask your doctor about an iron supplement (ferrous sulfate). One small study found that some patients taking such a supplement had a dramatic improvement in ACE-inhibi-tor cough [Hypertension, August 2001). Some people tough it out by sucking on hard candy. The cough may fade away after several weeks." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "Terpin hydrate was a popular cough medicine from the late 1800s until the early 1990s. Then the FDA banned it on the grounds that it had not been proven effective. As an expectorant, terpin hydrate was supposed to loosen mucus and relieve coughs. It was derived from natural sources such as oil of turpentine or compounds found in oregano, thyme, and eucalyptus. Terpin hydrate is no longer available in the United States. Instead, you may want to try a different old-fashioned remedy. Vicks VapoRub contains similar ingredients: oil of turpentine, thymol, and eucalyptol. Don't take it internally." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "Cost: Approximately $6 to $10 for a bottle Dextromethorphan By far the most readily available cough medicine is dextromethorphan. It is the primary ingredient in most OTC cough syrups, including Robitussin DM (the DM stands for dextromethorphan) and many other popular brands. Dextromethorphan has been almost the only choice for nonprescription cough relief for years. It is considered fairly safe because (unlike codeine) it is not classified as a narcotic. The effectiveness of dextromethorphan has been questioned, however." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "The American College of Chest Physicians issued guidelines in 2006 on the diagnosis and management of cough that discourage the use of dextromethorphan or any other OTC cough medicine. According to Richard Irwin, MD, the head of the committee that developed the guidelines, "There is no clinical evidence that over-thecounter cough expectorants or suppressants actually relieve cough." That's a pretty discouraging view, since very few coughs actually warrant a doctor's attention." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"One exception is the wonderful (and in my experience entirely useless) French cough medicine Pulmoserum, which contains guaiacol and looks and tastes like the late nineteenth century. Similar hygiene time-travel is provided by the tar compositions used to paint fences. Guaiacol is still recognizably vanillic. To be more exact, one can smell with the mind's nose a faintly cough-syrupy, medicinal note in pure vanillin. Indeed, some very phenolic compounds are used as replacements in cases, such as in soaps, where vanillin cannot be used because it rapidly turns chocolate-brown." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"NOTES The aromatic leaves are used in India as a traditional cough medicine. In parts of Indonesia, nursing mothers eat the leaves with the aim of increasing milk flow. Essential oil distilled from the leaves is used in shampoos. Plectranthus esculentus Description a perennial herb with somewhat fleshy, opposite leaves borne on angular stems. Some of the basal branches bend down and grow into the ground to form oblong tubers. The plant has yellow flowers but these are rarely seen, as vegetative propagation predominates." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"In Samoa, the leaves are used as a cough medicine and as an antidote for all types of poisonings (Uhe 1974, 22*). Constituents The leaves contain some 10% tannin, (3-sitosterol, maslenic acid, guaijavolic acid, essential oil (chiefly caryophyllene, along with (3-bisabolene, aromadendrene, (3-selinene, nerolidiol, caryophyllene oxide, sel-ll-en-4a-ol, and eugenol), triterpenoids (oleanolic, ursolic, crategolic, and guaijavolic acids),282 a quercetin derivative, guaijaverin (= 3-a-l-arabopyranoside), and several unidentified substances (Argueta et al." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Like mustard, whose pungent oils it shares, horseradish was used medicinally by both the Greeks and Romans, having been added to smelling salts, chewed to ease toothaches, put into rubs for rheumatic joints and low back pain, and used as an expectorant cough medicine and even as an aphrodisiac. By 1300, horseradish had spread to Scandinavia and England, where it was used as a cough expectorant and treatment for food poisoning, scurvy, tuberculosis, and colic. Throughout the Middle Ages, both the root and leaves of horseradish continued to be used medicinally." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Papaverine increases the flow of blood into the corpus cavernosum of the penis; codeine is the best cough medicine known. The effects of opium are manifested quite rapidly and persist for six to eight hours at an almost constant strength. Among the undesirable side effects of opium use are constipation, nausea, and vomiting (which usually occurs the following day). Metoclopra-mide (e.g., Paspertin) is an effective antidote for these symptoms. Chronic use can lead to dependency structures with "addictive behavior." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "In Cambodia, a traditional cough medicine is made from dried kancha (hemp herbage), which is chopped up on a board made from nux-vomica (Strychnos nux-vomica) wood. Mixed with small pieces of the wood (which contains strychnine), the resulting product is then smoked (Martin 1975,67). Literature Martin, Marie Alexandrine. 1975. Ethnobotanical aspects of cannabis in Southeast Asia. In Cannabis and culture, ed. V. Rubin, 63-75. The Hague: Mouton. Silphion In ancient times, silphion was a renowned medicinal plant, apparently with psychoactive effects." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"A syrup made of figs makes a very excellent cough medicine. It can be used alone or with a little lemon added. Take a pound of figs, cut them up, put them in a quart of water, simmer for a few minutes, then put them in a cheese cloth and squeeze out all the juice possible, add the juice of two lemons and a little honey if desired. This makes an excellent cough remedy. Of the leaves take one heaping teaspoonful (cut fine) to a cup of boiling water. Drink three or four cups a day one hour before meals. Sometimes the results are better if taken five or six times a day in wineglassful doses." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.) "Everyone should have on hand antispasmodic tincture and the cough medicine made according to the formulas given in this book. Bronchitis (Acute) Causes.—Changeable weather, catching cold, exposure, wet feet, chilling when not sufficiently clothed, insufficient ventilation in house, especially in bedrooms. Bronchitis would be rare if people ate the right food and systems were not filled with mucus and poisonous waste matter, and if they were properly clothed. Where there is bronchitis there is invariably stomach trouble and constipation." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.) "Everyone should have on hand antispasmodic tincture and the cough medicine made according to the formulas given in this book and used in acute and chronic bronchitis and asthma. Bed Wetting Causes.—Kidney and bladder trouble caused by wrong diet. Weak and undernourished children are most likely to have this habit. Other causes are late suppers, constipation, worms, gas in bowels, and general nervousness. Treatment.—Do not let the child eat late at night or eat any stimulating foods, such as tea, coffee, soft drinks, white bread products, or cane sugar products." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.) "Take cough medicine as given in the book, in teaspoon doses, give freely. Always give after a coughing spell. A patient must always be kept warm with warm clothing, especially the feet, legs and arms. Tonsillitis Causes.—Disordered stomach from wrong diet. I have known cases where I had been sitting at the table with people whose throat was all right the day before, and they ate an abnormal amount of rich food, and developed a case of fever the next day with tonsillitis. They blamed the food, but it was not that but the abnormal amount they had eaten." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.)

"Or you may simply need a stronger cough medicine. mends syrups containing dextromethorphan. But like many doctors, she discourages overuse of any type of cough medicine. Many of them are filled with ingredients (guaifenesin, terpin hydrate, phenothiazine promethazine) that you don't need, since they haven't been proven to do anything beneficial for your cough. Keep the liquids flowing. Even if your cough is the last remnant of a cold, drink plenty of water, juice and broth, recommends Dr. Wenzel. Drinking plenty of fluids—including chicken soup—will thin the mucus in your airways and lungs." - 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.)

"I'm sure my doctor has probably given me up for dead, because I have not had to call him in years for the antibiotic and cough medicine. Just this past Thanksgiving, someone asked me if I were using a special lotion for my face because I looked younger. With all the problems I had in the past, I know that it is difficult to explain to someone that the simplicity of it all, is hydration as well as nutrition, but it is. I will be eternally grateful for your discovery and all your help Dr. Batman. May God be with us all in spreading this discovery. Healing Hugs, Connie G." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.)

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