Lemon, glycerin and honey for cough: 6 recipes

Rarely does a person not know about such a debilitating symptom of any cold as a cough. Although to some extent it is even useful, since it removes phlegm from the body, and with it all harmful substances. But a dry cough can cause a lot of discomfort. The recipe for lemon with glycerin and honey for coughing is not at all a new word in medicine. Rather, a slightly forgotten old, but tried and true remedy.

How are lemon, honey and glycerin useful?

During the pharmacy boom and the invention of new potent drugs, many traditional medicines were forgotten. But over time, it turned out that new fashionable medicines have so many contraindications that it is time to once again remember about proven remedies from nature itself.

Honey has always been known as an excellent natural antibiotic, which is also able to positively affect the functioning of the immune system. It can suppress many pathogens that are responsible for the development of diseases such as bronchitis, tracheitis and pharyngitis. It is in these diseases that cough is the main active symptom. In addition, the anti-inflammatory properties of honey are known. It is able to relieve irritation of the mucous membranes and alleviate the general condition of the body when coughing.

Glycerin is a viscous liquid. Due to its emollient and moisturizing properties, it can thin phlegm and promote its excretion from the body. Glycerin effectively relieves sore throat and is especially helpful for dry coughs.

Lemon is known for its rich vitamin and mineral composition and especially the content of vitamin C. Due to this, it stimulates the protective properties of the body. And the active substances contained in the peel and pulp are able to fight bacteria and viruses.

Thus, the combination of these three natural ingredients has an amazing healing effect:

• softens and moisturizes inflamed mucous membranes;
• helps the discharge of phlegm from the bronchi;
• fights against pathogenic organisms that caused the disease;
• helps relieve throat swelling and spasms;
• saturates with healing substances and restores immunity.

Of course, there are different types of coughs. And a mixture of lemon, honey and glycerin, with all its unique composition, is unlikely to be able to help with such serious diseases as tuberculosis, pneumonia or lung cancer, except as an auxiliary, relieving agent.

But numerous reviews indicate that at the initial stages of any cold disease, or, conversely, if a dry cough has long prevented sleep at night, lemon with glycerin and honey, made according to any of the recipes below, will help to significantly alleviate the painful condition.

How to make a remedy

Since the healing composition consists of natural remedies, then their choice must be approached very responsibly. Since even with a slight deterioration of the products or their discrepancy with the specified characteristics, the healthiness of the remedy can be greatly reduced.

Glycerin must be used exclusively natural, not synthetic. When buying a product from pharmacies, you need to carefully study the label.It should contain instructions for internal use. The product for external use is categorically not suitable. You can get more harm than good from it.

Any natural honey is suitable for making a medicinal product. But if it will be used to treat a predominantly dry cough, then it is best to find light varieties of honey. Linden and flower honey are ideal. Acacia honey works well because it does not crystallize and remains liquid for a long time.

To cure a wet cough, dark types of honey, especially buckwheat or mountain honey, are more suitable.

The requirements for choosing lemons are not so strict - any fresh fruit without dark spots and dots on the peel will do.

For the preparation of a natural medicine, either freshly squeezed lemon juice or the whole lemon with the zest is used. In the latter case, the fruit must be thoroughly washed before processing so that no traces of artificial substances remain on the peel, with which they are processed for better preservation.

With a strong cough, a remedy made from lemons, honey and glycerin is taken in an incomplete tablespoon from 6 to 8 times a day. In moderate cases, 3-4 single doses are sufficient. It is useful to take the remedy one last time before bed, so that coughing fits do not bother you at night.

It is best to consume the mixture on an empty stomach, half an hour before meals or a few hours after meals.

The easiest lemon recipe with honey and glycerin

According to this recipe, a finished drug can be obtained in just a few minutes.

You will need:

• 1 lemon;
• 100 g of honey;
• 2 tbsp. l. natural glycerin.

Manufacturing:

1. The lemon is squeezed out using a citrus juicer. Or simply, cutting into two halves and squeezing the juice through cheesecloth by hand.
2. Glycerin is added to lemon juice, mixed.
3. Last of all, liquid honey is added to the mixture.
4. Once again, they are thoroughly mixed and placed in a cold place.

You should carefully consider the sequence of actions in the recipe. Mixing honey with pure glycerin cannot always be added last to the ready-made lemon-glycerin mixture.

Glycerin recipe with honey and twisted lemon

If the patient is tormented by a dry paroxysmal cough and the phlegm does not want to go away, then it is best to act according to the following recipe.

You will need:

• 1 lemon;
• 2 tbsp. l. glycerin;
• 2 tbsp. l. honey.

Manufacturing:

1. The lemon is thoroughly washed, poured over with boiling water and the zest is peeled off with a vegetable peeler or fine grater. Only a thin yellow layer of the rind should be peeled off without touching the white rind.
2. The remaining pulp is cut into slices, the seeds are removed and chopped in a blender or using a meat grinder along with the peeled zest.
3. The resulting puree is mixed first with glycerin, then with honey.

How to Make Boiled Lemon Healing Blend

This recipe is the most versatile and can be used for any type of cough, as an adjunct or even the main drug.

You will need:

• 1 lemon;
• 25 ml food grade glycerin;
• about 200 ml of honey;
• glass container with a volume of 250 ml with a lid.

Manufacturing:

1. The lemon is thoroughly washed, the peel is pierced in several places and placed in boiling water for 5-6 minutes.
   Comment! After such a short digestion, the juice can be extracted from the fruit much better.
2. Allow the lemon to cool, then squeeze the juice using any convenient means at hand.
3. Squeezed juice is poured into a clean glass container with a volume of 250 ml, glycerin is added and the entire remaining volume is poured with honey.
4. Stir and leave for 2 to 4 hours.

Adults should consume one dessert spoon of the healing mixture at a time.

How to make ginger cough suppressant

Ginger is a terrific cough supportive because it can not only soothe coughs, but also mildly affect the bronchi and upper respiratory tract, and thin phlegm.

You will need:

• 1 lemon;
• a piece of ginger 3-4 cm long;
• 2 tbsp. l. glycerin;
• 3 tbsp. l. honey;
• 1/3 cup water.

Manufacturing:

1. Wash the lemon, grate the zest.
2. Remove the skin from the fresh ginger rhizome and chop it with a knife, blender or meat grinder.
3. The pitted pulp is also crushed together with the zest.
4. Mix lemon with ginger and glycerin.
5. Add honey and water to the resulting puree, stir thoroughly, heat slightly in a water bath to + 40 ° C.
6. Cool and store in a dark place at + 6 ° C.

The remedy is taken for spasms in the bronchi and coughing fits in 1-2 tablespoons.

Recipe with the addition of vodka

This cough suppressant recipe, as you might guess, is for adults only. Vodka plays the role of a disinfectant. In addition, it helps to extract the maximum useful properties from the components.

You will need:

• 1 lemon;
• 50 g of honey;
• 30 ml glycerin;
• 400 ml of vodka.

The manufacturing method is traditional. After mixing all the components, they are poured with vodka, stirred and insisted in a cool place for several hours.

Consume 2 to 4 times a day, 1 dessert spoon.

Lemon with glycerin for cough for children

For children, especially those under the age of 3, you can use a product with glycerin and honey, only prepared according to a recipe with boiled lemon. You can add one softened banana to the mixture to soften and improve the taste.

Children can take the medicine from the age of one year. Up to 5 years old babies can be given 1 tsp. 3-4 times a day.

From 5 to 12 years old, a single dose can be increased to 1 dessert spoon. Those who are already 12 years old are given an adult dose of the drug mixture.

Limitations and contraindications

The use of a mixture of lemon with honey and glycerin is absolutely contraindicated in case of allergy to any of the constituent components.

In addition, glycerin has some additional contraindications to its ingestion.

• inflammation in the intestines;
• diarrhea;
• diabetes;
• severe heart problems;
• dehydration of the body.

This remedy should be taken with caution during pregnancy, especially in the last 3 months, as well as in the presence of diseases of the stomach and gallbladder.

Conclusion

The recipe for lemon with glycerin and honey for cough has been known in folk medicine for a long time. And in the absence of pharmaceutical preparations, it can bring no less tangible relief for the patient and even completely relieve him of unpleasant symptoms.

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