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Milk with honey, butter and soda from cough

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Last reviewed: 10.08.2022
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For the treatment of cough, honey and milk have long been used. Milk saturates the body with the necessary nutrients, helps to cleanse the body, removing toxins and toxins. Honey has a softening effect, eliminates swelling, inflammation, flushing. Mucous membranes soften, coughing ceases to irritate a person, becomes more productive. Mucous is released from mucus and phlegm, resulting in coughing gradually subsiding, inflammatory process and infection also decrease. Recovery comes much faster. There are many recipes for the use of honey and milk for medicinal purposes.

The basic recipe, on which all the others are layered, is as follows: take a glass of warm, warmed milk, add 1-2 tablespoons of honey to it and drink it hot.

A method for preparing milk with honey with cinnamon addition is also known. In warmed milk with honey add 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, mix thoroughly. Cinnamon has a warming effect on the body, stimulates receptors, facilitates the separation of mucus.

No less effective means - milk with honey and ground ginger. You can also use puree from the root of natural ginger, grated. For 1 glass of milk with honey, add about 1-2 teaspoons grated ginger, or half a teaspoon of ground ginger.

To eliminate wet cough, fever, remove spasms, use milk with honey and clove grains. On a glass of honey with milk add 10-15 grains of cloves, insist for half an hour, drink in a hot form.

With a strong, prolonged cough, whooping cough, and angina, fatty milk is used. To get fat in the hot milk is added goat fat, or butter-cocoa. Fat milk promotes better sputum discharge, accelerates recovery. You can also add to the milk the usual butter, which gives fat.

Reduces the temperature, reduces the manifestations of coughing tea with milk. Black tea is mixed with milk in a ratio of 1: 1, add honey to taste, several cinnamon sticks.

You can use a mixture of milk with carrot or lemon juice and honey. You can add a mixture of 2-3 slices of radish black. The remedy is drunk after eating, after which you should lie down, covered with a warm blanket.

If a person does not go through a long time dry cough, you can try milk with onion juice. For cooking, take about 100 ml of milk, add to it 50 ml of juice, add 2-3 tablespoons of honey. Stir until the honey dissolves completely, drink after eating.

To remove a spasmodic cough, use a decoction of milk with anise and honey. For 250 ml of milk you need to take about 10-15 mg of anise root, drink a glass for the night, then immediately go to bed.

To remove the long painful cough and symptoms of intoxication, use a decoction of oats in milk. To do this, take a liter of milk, boil in it 150-200 grams of oats, add 2-3 tablespoons of honey and sugar. It should be noted that oats are cooked in milk on low heat for an hour, and only after full availability add sugar and honey. When dry in the throat, pepper, add a piece of butter.

Honey and milk are used for any kind of cough: dry, wet. These drugs are effective in treating bronchitis, laryngitis, tracheitis and even pneumonia. Has a positive effect not only with bacterial infection, but also with viral and colds. The main effect is due to the impact on the immune system.

Milk with butter and honey from cough

Honey and milk are perfectly combined. They have numerous effects, significantly reduce inflammation and accelerate recovery. The main action is that milk and honey stimulate the escape of sputum and mucus, and, therefore, purify the respiratory tract. At the same time, honey softens and relieves irritation, as a result of which cough does not torment a person, pain and burning sensation also do not bother.

With a strong, painful cough, or an unproductive cough that does not last for a long time, does not allow a person to clear his throat, milk is better added to milk. It intensively softens the throat, lubricates the mucous membranes. Oil prevents the development of complications, stops the progression of the disease, reduces the infectious process, as it has an enveloping effect, as if forming a protective film inside the throat. This is an additional stimulating factor for the immune system. Thanks to a combination of all three drugs, infection is prevented from entering the lower layers of the respiratory system. That is, it can be said that milk, butter and honey are reliable means of preventing pneumonia and bronchitis.

There are several rules for how to apply this tool correctly. First you need to boil the milk, then immediately add honey and mix thoroughly until completely dissolved. After that, you need to cool the milk to a comfortable temperature, which you can drink. This milk should be slightly hot. As soon as a little cold, add 2-3 teaspoons of butter, stir, and drink to the bottom, in small sips. After that, we immediately go to bed, cover ourselves with warm blankets. Drink this drink better 3-4 times a day.

The basic recipe, which underlies all subsequent modifications, is simple enough. You need to take about 250 ml of milk, boil it. As soon as the first signs of boiling appear, it is removed from the fire, filled with honey. Add about 1-2 tablespoons of honey. Then again put on the fire, bring to a boil. Allow to cool for 4-5 minutes, add a piece of butter, drink in small sips. Based on this classic recipe, many varieties are prepared.

For example, milk with honey and butter with the addition of cinnamon has proved to be very good. Prepare a drink according to the classic recipe, only in the end, along with butter, add half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon or 1-2 whole cinnamon sticks. Allowed to infuse for 4-5 minutes, covered with a saucer beforehand. I drink small sips, after which I must warmly take cover. This option is drunk only for the night, as the cinnamon provokes intense sweating.

Instead of the usual butter, you can use chocolate oil, or cocoa butter. Also on sale you can find special coconut oil, which adds a unique taste to the beverage and a pleasant aroma.

Instead of cinnamon, you can add anise or ginger to the drink. Anise is taken with a dry cough, as well as with a spastic, paroxysmal cough, dryness in the throat. Ginger is recommended for taking with a moist, viscous cough, from which it is difficult to clear the throat. Add about half a teaspoon of the product, mix thoroughly, allow to infuse for 5 minutes, covered with a saucer or lid.

Milk with honey and soda from cough: proportions

Quite often, for the treatment of a severe, complicated cough, take milk with honey and soda. This remedy is quite effective, it eliminates cough very quickly. But this method has its own contraindications, and doctors treat it with apprehension. First, soda is alkali. Therefore, the intake of soda is contraindicated if any medication that contains acid is used. Between acid and soda, a neutralization reaction will occur, as a result of which both agents are neutralized and have no effect. Such treatment will be absolutely meaningless.

Secondly, it is not recommended to give soda to children, since their digestive tract and intestinal microflora are not yet fully formed, as a result of which serious complications can arise. People who have diseases of the stomach, intestines, and badly tolerate soda, complications may occur. It is not possible for pregnant women, nursing mothers, people prone to hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Elderly people also do not recommend this remedy, since they increase the load on the heart, blood vessels, and the digestive tract.

If there are no contraindications, then it is worth trying with the most famous and proven recipe. For cooking it is recommended to take milk, about a glass, add a tablespoon of honey and a pinch of soda. All this is thoroughly mixed, then a piece of butter or pork fat is added.

Optimum proportions: for 200 ml of milk 1 tablespoon of honey and a pinch of soda (0.5 g).

You can also try a preparation made on the basis of melted milk, honey and soda. Proportions are similar to the previous method. You can drink the medicine at a time. In this case, it is better to use at night. You can drink a third of a glass three times a day. In this case, you need to warm up the product, drink it in a warm form.

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