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Honey with lemon from cough
Last reviewed: 10.08.2022
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Traditional medicine, which has long been used to treat coughs, bronchitis, inflammation of the throat and nasopharynx, is honey and lemon. This medicine was used by doctors of antiquity: Avicenna, Hippocrates, prescribed to their patients potions and elixirs prepared on the basis of these components. In the Middle Ages, they saved themselves from numerous epidemics, introducing these components into the composition of medicines. Tea with lemon and honey was treated by soldiers during the Great Patriotic War. Do not ignore honey and lemon and modern pharmaceutical companies: they produce cough syrups, candies, tablets and medicines containing honey and lemon in their composition.
How to make a lemon with honey?
A drink that has medicinal properties can be prepared at home on its own. It will take a lemon, honey. The easiest way is tea. You need to make tea, heat it and add honey. Then cut off a slice of lemon, and also put it in tea. Thoroughly mix, drink in small sips. It is advisable to drink all the funds from a cough, lying in bed. Quickly cure cough is only possible by keeping bed rest.
You can also use milk, cream or juice instead of tea. The main thing is to warm and drink in a hot state.
You can use another recipe. It is necessary to prepare this remedy in the morning, since it is intended for one day of treatment. One large lemon (along with the peel) is passed through a meat grinder, or a tinder on a grater. The juice is squeezed out from the mixture. Separate the mashed potatoes from the juice. Puree is cleaned in the refrigerator. In the lemon juice add 1 tablespoon of honey, mix thoroughly until completely dissolved. I drink in small portions throughout the day. You need to distribute the product in such a way that it is enough for a whole day, until evening.
In the evening they take out the mashed potatoes from the fridge, warm it in a water bath until it is warm. Then add 1 tablespoon of honey. Stir thoroughly. Separately, prepare tea or herbal decoction. Add honey to taste. Lying in bed, eating the resulting puree, then washed down with pre-cooked tea. Tea for this time should not be cooled. Go to bed. In the morning the procedure is repeated. You should start with hot tea.
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