For a child above one year, a spoon of honey with a pinch of ginger juice at bedtime quiets night cough. Tulsi leaves boiled in water through the day thin the phlegm; warm turmeric milk at night heals the throat. Keep everything cold off the menu till it settles. A cough beyond two weeks needs a doctor.
One spoon at bedtime, straight or with a drop of ginger juice (only above one year).
Documented
Honey has trial evidence for night-time cough in children over one.
CautionNever give honey to a baby under one year — the risk is infant botulism. This rule has no exceptions.
तुलसी · Tulsi
Five leaves boiled in a cup of water, sipped warm twice a day.
Traditional
मुलेठी · Mulethi
A small mulethi stick to suck eases a tickly throat in older children.
Traditional
CautionIt raises blood pressure and lowers the body's potassium. Not if you have blood-pressure, heart or kidney disease. Not continuously for more than a few weeks.
On this page Documented — There are human studies behind this ingredient for this particular complaint. Traditional — Carried by tradition and experience; modern evidence for this particular complaint is limited.
All of this is what others have found — tradition, shared experience and the studies done so far. It is not advice given to any one person. Before changing your diet, and especially if you take any medicine, ask your dietician or doctor.
Bhojanveda
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