I have tried tabasco in V8 juice and it helped some just not for long. I may
try your remedy if I can get it down. Dianne
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:50:47 -0600
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CS>cough
Something that works surprisingly well with a cough is cayanne
pepper - dried and powdered. I take about a teaspoon of it, mix it
in a bit of cold orange juice, and sip it down through a straw, so
the fluid reaches the back of the throat and goes down, coating it.
I've also used various lukewarm teas. You do feel the heat from the
pepper, the burning sensation, but there is a tremendous "AHHH"
within seconds, when the urge to cough is just gone. Feels
particularly wonderful when you've been coughing for awhile - like
when it starts up when I'm out back, or away from home in the car.
It relieves the coughing urge and brings relief to the rawness of
the throat.
We've gotten rather addicted to the stuff, carrying around a little
bottle to take a swig from time to time throughout the day - and the
cough has been long gone now. Cayanne is wonderful stuff!! Sara
On 2/13/2012 6:34 PM, Dianne France wrote:
I am open to suggestions to try to get rid of an aggravating
cough (day/night). I'm pretty sure it is allergy
and have been using salt in the netti pot at night and it will
hold me until about 4AM and then the drip from
the nasal cavity starts and I start coughing. I'm not congested
and have started taking some allergy meds.
It hasn't stopped the cough. Is it safe to mix a few drops of
DMSO with the salt water to try to penetrate
the phylum coming from the sinus? Honey and cinnamon seems to
help for short periods but then I have
something in the sinus that starts up again.
Dianne
