Natural Cough Remedies

Many adults and children are suffering from coughs this flu season. Coughs evolving into croup, bronchitis and other deep chesty or phlegmy coughs.

Below are some remedies that may assist you and your family on your road to recovery

Bryonia 😷 

This remedy relieves a dry and painful cough, with a dry throat and intense thirst. Coughing is triggered by speaking. Better for lying in a dark room.

Phosphorus 🤒 

This remedy is indicated when a person experiences hoarseness and a tickly cough that hurts the throat, or a cold that travels quickly to the chest. The cough can be aggravated by talking, laughing, and exposure to cold air. 

Pulsatilla 🤧 

This relieves a wet cough with thick, yellowish, greenish phlegm, aggravated in bed. Better for open air, worse in hot, stuffy rooms.

Antimonium tartaricum 

This remedy relieves a wet cough with thick phlegm and difficult to expel.

Spongia tosta

This remedy relieves croupy, barking cough, especially after a chill or cold weather, worse when lying down at night. 

Drosera 🗣️ 

This remedy relieves a dry cough, worse at night and from the warmth of the bed, triggered by speaking or laughing, with a feeling of tickling in the throat.

Arsenicum 🤒 

A person needing this remedy can feel exhausted, yet be very restless and anxious. Breathing problems tend to worsen while lying down, improve when sitting up, and may begin to subside, becoming most intense between midnight and two a.m. Dry wheezing may progress to a cough that brings up frothy whitish fluid.

Ipecacuanha 🤢 

Coughing spasms that lead to retching or vomiting strongly indicate this remedy. Wheezing can come on suddenly with a feeling of suffocation and heaviness in the chest. 

ACONITE 🥶 
Sudden attack usually after exposure to dry, cold winds. Dry barking croupy cough. Dry, tingling sensation in the throat, making it difficult to swallow. Take within the first 24-48 hours of symptoms.

All of the above are best used in a 30c and administered according to symptoms.

Herbal drops can be taken at the same as remedies.

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 Blends available in shop. There is also Mullein, which is amazing for coughs and colds.

 Not sure what to use, please book an acute appointment for symptoms that have just come on suddenly.

Appointments may be adjusted to a sooner slot, as I have afternoon slots available fir last minute appointments. https://www.alunawellspring.com/booking-calendar/acute-appointment?referral=service_list_widget

For cold and flu blog information - https://www.alunawellspring.com/post/cold-and-flu-remedies

Thank you for reading, and wishing you a restful Sunday

Elona x