Cough Medicine is Also Worthless for Adults

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Kimsvoice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:01:08 GMT

We avoid most colds and flus by jumping into our infrared sauna at the very first tickle. However, if we ignore that first sign and don't get into the sauna in time, I've found the best recipe for coughs and chest congestion is to:

- boil one cut up lemon with a large chunck of peeled ginger.

- simmer for about 20 minutes and sweeten if needed with some maple syrup

It's wonderfully comforting and the ginger not only helps loosen up your congestion, it keeps your stomach feeling good. Cheers.../Kim

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BecomingChloe — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:15:41 GMT

I find cough medicine useful for getting to sleep when i have a cough that wont stop. I realize its not really taking care of the cough itself, but you need sleep when you're sick, which can be near impossible to get if you're coughing all night.

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rigatoni — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:00:14 GMT

Curious7

Breathing correctly is important for good health. Your yoga instructor is right. I tell you what works for me.

Raw onions and raw garlic, but especially the onions. Puree in the blender, Cuisinart them, or just slice the onions and eat with your meals. Once you cook either garlic or onions, the volatile oils and mucous cutting elements are ineffective, as well as the anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral properties as well. It sounds funny, but "A raw onion a day, helps keep the doctor away," has some truth to it. Try it and after a few months, you'll feel the difference. No more colds or coughing.

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rehtaeh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:56:40 GMT

I haven't had a cold in 3 years!

Homeopathic Zicam at any sign of a cold has always worked to ward off the evil spirits, along with following the good Doctor's health guidelines, of course.

Peace. Love. Kefir.

Heather :)

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MarthaB — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:35:08 GMT

My colds tend to turn into horrific coughs as well. I tend to get sick after stressful events -- usually involving something that happens to my son. (New German Medicine might very well be on to something.)

Using a salt inhaler pipe for 30" per day, sometimes twice a day, helps immensely. Until I move to the Big Island of Hawaii, this is what I'll be using.

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flbooks7 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:52:07 GMT

I have a son that will cough all night long. He will cough until he vomits. The only thing that I've found that will work is a mixture of honey and lemon in hot tea. That seems to soothe it right away.

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dressagefreak — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:43:25 GMT

A coworker friend of mine who happens to be from Ethiopia shared with me an Ethiopian remedy for colds: simply chop up small amounts of garlic and ginger (I'm not sure how much, she just replied "just a little bit! not too much! :-P), boil them in some water in a sauce pan, and drink (yes, including the ginger and garlic pieces.) Sounds horrible, but I'd rather put that in my body than cough syrup..

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T_rex — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:06:40 GMT

Take a look at the active ingredient in most cold remedies: pseudoephedrine. Take away the fillers added to the pills and you get pure 100 percent pseudoephedrine, also known as crystal meth, a powerful highly addictive synthetic narcotic. So that's how Bigpharma makes its huge profits: selling narcotics with the blessing of the FDA.

The war on-drugs is nothing more than a war on the competition: BigPharma wants everybody to switch from cocaine and heroine to synthetic narcotics which they alone can produce and legalize. The colombian cartels take away profits from BigPharma, hence the "war-on-drugs".

Notice how drug addiction is "treated" with synthetic narcotics suchs as methadone ?

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Debb66mom26 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:41:39 GMT

It amazes me how most of the people I know will give their kids multiple cold and cough remedies, often at the first sign of a sniffle. I was horrified when my sister-in-law was visiting with her 4 month old and gave her some Tylenol Cold, simply because she was a bit fussy and she thought the baby might be coming down with "something". I have also had several people criticize me because I don't use cold and cough medicines or fever reducers with my kids. My mother-in-law even asked me how I could let them suffer like that. Well, at least I won't have to argue about the cough medicine any more. Sometimes it is hard being "different". Why is it that people seem to get angry because of choices you are making? Is it that they feel somehow you are insulting their choices by rejecting those choices? I never try to convince people of what they should or shouldn't do, but they seem to always ask me why I am doing certain things. When I do explain, then they get angry or say that I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet. Just thought I'd rant a little!

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Cola Bill — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:13:21 GMT

It's been proven in Israel, Germany and Russia that elderberry and selenium work together as an anti-viral medicine. Accupuncture and practicing Chi Gung has kept me Bronchitis free for the last 4 or 5 years. I lost my spleen in 1980 and was being diagnosed with COPD in 2000. Now I avoid wheat, yeast, dairy and other allergy foods, use herbs when reccomended by my TCM doctor and play human pin cushion when I get any symptoms. I'm 56, overweight and yet I haven't met my insurance deductible for several years because I've stayed healthy thanks to my Accupuncturist.

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curious7 — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:17:29 GMT

I wonder how we became so jaded. Now it seems, we will believe anything "Big Pharma" tells us, and we will shun our friends, and family who try to tell us otherwise. As an example, Staten drugs are now under fire, as worthless garbage. Seems no matter how hard they try to hide the truth, truth seems to leak through the cracks.

So called cough medicine produced by "Big Pharma" is a useful as utters on a bull. No substance. I say look for a natural means of dealing with the cough from colds. My Yoga instructor has always told me the best way to beat a cough from colds, is to learn how to breathe. She says 90% of the time we as humans do so incorrectly. Also the breathing exercises should be done in the fresh air. In turn the flem will not settle in ones lungs, and thus no cough. We only cough to remove the conjestion from our lungs, and if we breathe better to start with, there is little, or no congestion.

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Ruth Lawler — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:39:27 GMT

I have post nasal drip. Sometimes my throat gets raspy and gurgles a lot when the drip gets active. This would turn into an upper respiratory infection were it not for Robitussin PE. (Guafinessein) (Spelling?) This cough medicine stops both the drip and the gurgles almost immediately, so I Never get the cold. That's important, because after a cold I cough for a month or more and I want to avoid that like the plague it is.

So study away, but bear in mind that most studies are either flawed, biased or both. If OTCs work for you why should you listen to anybody who claims they don't work? Be a people, not a sheeple.

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DizzyIzzy1 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:41:20 GMT

I maintain - manuka honey is the best remedy for a cough you will ever find.

I seem to be in the habit of being stuck with coughs over the last few months in between colds and flu (blaming the lack of sunshine my body isn't yet used to for that), and manuka is the only thing that sorts it out. Delicious, soothing, calming, and oh so addictive. That and a good regime of Vitamin C every day, alongside echinacea. And a healthy diet of course.

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New to Natural — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:58:29 GMT

Last year my husband and I discovered "Vicks Casero" cough medicine - it's honey and menthol. Anyways, that stuff worked GREAT! Tasted absolutely terrible, but worked great.

Last weekend, when we were dealing with a cold, I looked everywhere for the stuff - no one carries it anymore.

I suppose, it's no big suprise they would remove it from the market since it actually worked.

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Katee Roux — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:48:46 GMT

I developed a cold last week. I did the Vitamin C regime as recommended on the website Doctor Yourself by Andrew Saul. I was disappointed by the results at first. I was only having Vitamin C side effects. But i kept at it, & by the end of the first 24 hours, my symptoms were improved. I continued the following day at a lower dose, & that night my symptoms were worse. The third day i did only occasional Vitamin C, & added in Quercitin as recommended by a helpful girlfriend. That third day i used a few tissues, but by the 4th you almost couldn't tell i had had a cold. The one i had last summer (& treated with conventional medicine) took me 3 weeks to recover from, & i was 3 months recovering from the antibiotics.

By my history, like Islander, the slightest sniffle brings on an 8-9 on the Richter scale cough. It can last for weeks or months. With this regime i've had only the slightest of coughs i treated with lemon & honey. I did buy coltsfoot, but haven't had to use it.

This was much harder & took more commitment (& sometimes was more frustrating) than taking something "quick" for the symptoms, but the results are wonderful!