Cough cakes on the chest: honey, mustard, potato

Cough is a physiological process of cleansing the respiratory tract from sputum or other foreign substances resulting from inflammation and other contaminants. It accompanies acute respiratory infections, tracheitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, and may be a symptom of more formidable pathologies: tuberculosis, pleurisy, cancer. The use of alternative methods of treatment, which include cough cake, is possible only after determining the diagnosis, because its action is based on the warming up of areas located in the projection of the respiratory organs.

Indications for use

Not every cough can be treated with this alternative medicine remedy. Indications for use is a cough with:

• ARVI and ARI;
• bronchi;
• tracheitis;
• pneumonia;
• dry and wet cough accompanying these diseases.

Dry cough cakes

The onset of cough usually precedes tickling and sore throat, runny nose. Further, the inflammatory focus falls below, causing a dry cough. This period can be quite long, followed by a wet one, bringing substantial relief from coughing. Therapy of the disease is to reduce the cough reflex, to accelerate the formation of bronchial secretions of the viscosity, which is easily removed from the respiratory organs. In the treatment of dry cough help cakes. Made from various natural materials, they warm up the upper airways, thus stopping the inflammatory process, eliminate congestion, thin the sputum and facilitate their output to the outside. Such a grandmother's method is successfully used for cough with bronchitis.

Adult cough cakes

Adults will approach any of the proposed recipes, unless there are contraindications to warming compresses. Cough puddings are a completely harmless procedure for the body, so this treatment can also be used in pregnancy. It is distinguished by low cost, ease of preparation and effectiveness of action. In addition to warming, it nourishes the skin with useful components contained in it, helps to enhance immunity, make mucus less liquid and facilitate its elimination.

Cough cakes for children

Children, as well as pregnant women, cough cake is much preferable to drug treatment. The only thing you need to take into account the characteristics of those or other ingredients. So, honey is a strong allergen, so using it to make cakes, you need to monitor the reaction of the child. Mustard works very well with a cold, but it will not work for small children because of burning skin, in this case you will not use alcohol or vodka. But you can add to the composition of lard, aloe juice, wiped pumpkin, soda in a potato cake or make a curd from cottage cheese and honey.

Cough Cake Recipes

In the age-old alternative storerooms accumulated a lot of recipes cough cough and descriptions of how to make it. The selection of components is based on their ability to warm up, causing a rush of blood to the bronchi and speeding up metabolic processes, penetrate beneficial substances through the skin and increase the body’s resistance to pathogens. When making them, it is important to maintain proportions so as not to cause burns to the body. The resulting mass should be elastic, dense, well formed into a cake. Here are a few of their cough-warming types:

1. honey cake:

Honey - the most popular product of cough recipes due to its many useful properties. The main condition is its liquid state. So after collecting it is not long, therefore, the frozen product is melted in a water bath:

• taken in equal proportions flour, honey, vegetable oil are well mixed and distributed into gauze, which will be put on the body;
• to the previous composition is added a teaspoon of salt. This will increase the warming ability of the cake with honey cough;
• onions are rubbed, a tablespoon of juice is squeezed out through gauze, mixed with the same amount of honey and flour to the consistency of medium thickness;

2. flat cake without honey:

• with mustard: a spoonful of dry powder is combined with the same amount of sunflower oil, the dishes are kept above a container of heated water, gradually introducing flour. Next, the mixture is kneaded until a homogeneous thick state. Even more effect will be from such a cake with honey and mustard. In fact, it replaces mustard plaster in action;
• potato: potatoes are boiled in their uniforms and lightly kneaded. This is the basis of the cake instead of flour. There is also introduced vegetable oil and other ingredients to enhance the therapeutic effect, including mustard, you can honey;

3. with other components:

• rye cake: it is believed that a greater therapeutic effect is obtained from the rye flour test. It has everything you need to restore metabolic processes: vitamins A, E, group B, including thiamine (B1), folic acid (B9), as well as calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium. It can be enriched with any of the ingredients described;
• with vodka: adding two tablespoons of an alcoholic beverage or alcohol tincture to the composition of any of the above mentioned recipes will increase its warming effect;
• with vinegar: this product is suitable not only for the treatment of cough in the composition of compresses, but also inhalations, drugs for internal use. The dough is kneaded on equal parts of vegetable oil, mustard powder, apple cider vinegar.

Mode of application

Before applying the cake, leather requires special preparation. The area where it will be located, and this is the right side of the chest and the back between the shoulder blades, is smeared with cosmetic cream or milk. The cake should not be very hot and should be put on gauze or other cotton fabric. Over it put tracing paper or plastic bag, towel or scarf for warming, fasten. It is best to do this kind of cough compress at night, but it is possible in the evening, leaving it for 2-3 hours, children can restrict an hour. The main thing, after not to go out, and be in a warm room. Some argue that such a procedure can cure a strong cough in the evening, but experience shows that this will require procedures 5, and more is not recommended. The cake is not suitable for reuse, for the next time preparing a new one.

Contraindications

Not everyone is shown warming compresses. They can not be done with:

• elevated body temperature;
• allergic reaction to its components;
• sensitive skin, abrasions and lesions;
• hypertension;
• asthma;
• tuberculosis, scarlet fever and other infectious diseases;
• malignancy;
• pathologies of the cardiovascular system.

Side effects

Under the influence of the warming mixture, the vessels dilate, blood rushes to them and this can lead to an increase in blood pressure. Side effects of non-compliance with the proportions of the components can be manifested by burns, the appearance of urticaria, redness and other rashes on the skin is possible.

Possible complications

Ignorance of the diagnosis, inconsistency of actions with your doctor can lead to complications: fever, cough, aggravated, causing the need to consult a specialist. Therefore, it is better to start with this.

Reviews

According to reviews of people resorting to this method of treatment, the recipe "works." They felt relieved after several procedures: the cough became not so debilitating, it was easier to cough, it improved the general condition.