Home Remedies For Whooping Cough/Pertussis
Avoid cold, and stale food items.
Take warm and easy-to-digest food.
Take lentils, green gram, and vegetable soup twice a day.
Take turmeric warm water for drinking. (take a cup of warm water, add 1 pinch of the turmeric powder, take directly after.)
Gargle with salt and turmeric water 2-3 times a day, it helps to soothe the throat well.
Take Vasa (Adhatoda vasica) juice with warm water is also beneficial for extreme coughing. It acts as an expectorant and relieves inflammations.
Take ajwain seed, and black pepper, roast in cow ghee, make a powder, take it 1 pinch with cow ghee and honey, twice a day it helps.
Roast cloves and cinnamon in pan for while, until they give aroma, make a powder, add into jaggery, take it in the morning, it reduces the coughing.
Take cardamom in the goat/ cow milk, boil for 5 minutes, add pippalimoola (the root of piper longum), it reduces coughing and gives relief from the strain, and induces sleep.
Take steam inhalation of normal water/ medicated water, it gives relief from the sneezing and headache too.
When to consult a doctor?
It is advisable to consult a doctor and get the right medicine given by him.
Avoid complications and long-duration treatment by taking the right medicine at the right time.
|