Cough Cure- Whooping Cough Problems

All kinds of cough can be cured by eating the juice or powder of the roots of ash-gourd mixed with a little hot water.

To cure all kinds of cough:  Mix 25 gms. each of the skin of pomegranate fruit, jyestamadhu, cloves, and pepper.  Grind them in a little water; strain, dry in shade and form into small tablets.  Put 1-2 of these tablets into the mouth and chew them.

For all kinds of cough:  Make a decoction of 25 gms. Of the leaves of tamarind by boiling them in water, add half a gram of fried and powdered asafoetida and 2 gms. of powdered rock-salt and drink it a few times.

For phlegm congestion in the respiratory tract and  coughs:

Mix together five leaves of tulasi, one betel leaf, one clove, and a little alum and eat them together 2 - 3 times a day. A glass of hot milk, or a little brandy in which a teaspoon of turmeric powder and a good pinch of coarsely crushed pepper have been mixed or boiled and taken before going to bed, cures cold, cough, phlegm and sore-throat.

Whooping-cough:  When there is whooping cough in a locality,  healthy  children  can  be prevented  from getting the contagion by gradually sipping a spoonful of honey to which 4-5 drops of garlic juice have been added.  OR, mix a little garlic juice in a little gingely oil and let the child sip it a little at a time. A child is immunized  by  administering  triple  antigen   prophylactic  (and polio drops) at the tender age of about 3 months or more to make it immune for life against  whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and polio.

Dry cough can be cured by gradually sipping a mixture of ghee and powdered cumin-seed ( jeera ).

For curing long-standing   cough:  Powder the root of “Hippali”, mix it with the juice of wild brinjal leaf and a little honey and eat it once daily for a few days.