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Milk with onion and garlic from cough
Last reviewed: 23.11.2021
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A popular alternative is milk with a cough onion. Its effectiveness lies in the biological value of products and their effects on the body.
Onions - a vegetable that includes vitamins, minerals, organic acids, dietary fiber, essential oils and tannins. It is actively used in the treatment of bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchial asthma.
Useful properties of onions:
- Antiseptic.
- Antimicrobial and antiviral.
- Anti-allergic.
- Expectorants.
- Restorative.
- Immunostimulating.
The main advantage of the onion-milk drink lies in its bactericidal and antiseptic properties. The drink warms the mucous membrane of the bronchi and trachea, suppresses pathological coughing attacks, prevents damage to mucosal tissue.
Alternative recipes with milk onion from cough
- Take a large onion, peel it from the peel, chop it with a blender or grate it on a fine grater. Press onion juice. In a glass of warm milk, add a couple drops of onion extract.
- Peel two medium-sized bulbs from the peel, cut into 4 pieces and pour a glass of milk. The product should boil on low heat until the onion is completely soft. Then the beverage should be wrapped and insisted until it cools. Strain, add honey or sugar to improve the taste and take 1 spoonful every hour.
Take this medicine should be in the initial stages of inflammatory lesions of the respiratory tract, as well as with attacks of dry cough. If the disease goes into a wet form, then therapy must be stopped. It is also necessary to take into account the presence of contraindications for treatment: hypersensitivity to the components of the drug, lactose intolerance, diabetes mellitus, renal failure, obesity.
Milk with garlic from cough
Milk with garlic from cough acts as an additional effective tool in the treatment of colds. Garlic is valued for its expectorant, anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties, and the milk relieves pain, minimizing coughing attacks.
The use of garlic with milk has a positive effect on the body:
- Reduces pain.
- Has anti-inflammatory effect.
- It has a beneficial effect on the nervous system.
- Reduces cholesterol in the blood and detoxifies the body.
Most often for the treatment of using such recipes:
- Take 1 head of garlic and a couple of large onion heads, 500 ml of milk, 100 g of lime honey and mint juice. Garlic chop until mushy. Onions peel and pour with milk, put on slow fire and cook until softening of the vegetable component. Then add to the medium crushed garlic, honey and mint juice. Stir all the ingredients thoroughly until they are completely dissolved. Take 1 tablespoon every hour during the day.
- Take the head of garlic, peel and pour a glass of milk. Boil for 3-5 minutes, cool and strain. Add a tablespoon of honey and take ¼ cup 3-4 times a day.
- Put 100 g of chopped garlic into a half-liter jar and pour 150 ml of vodka. Put the container in a dark, cool place and let it brew for 10-14 days. Strain the tincture and dilute 25 drops per glass of warm milk. Tincture should be taken 3 times a day.
Before the treatment, it should be borne in mind that garlic has certain contraindications to the use. The drug is prohibited for gastritis, pancreatitis, during pregnancy and lactation, stomach ulcer.