No Antibiotics!! only home remedies(cold and cough)

Dinny · Mar 11, 2013

Re: Kids got cold? Use home remedies and No Antibiotics

kundavai said: ↑

Hi Dinny,
My kid often gets cold and cough. I usually give him home made kashayams. B
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I also give my son " eladi lehyam" and "cheriya karpuradi chooranam".it too works well

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kundavai said: ↑

but when I give him honey the cough stops immediately and he sleeps..but y is it reoccuring
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My guess is either he has some allergy and you have yet to figure out the allergen
Or his body resistance has come down.Try giving him "amla" goose berry chutney or amla in any form.It helps in increasing the body resistence
Hope this helps

Rakhii · Mar 11, 2013

Dinny said: ↑

With every climate change kids catch cold.Cold helps develop body's resistance instead we use antibiotics to suppress it.Understand that antibiotics can never completely cure cough and cold.If you start using home remedies immediately after a cold starts then the cold would be gone in 3-5 days.Home remedies help children develop their resistance and slowly the cold would be gone in just 1-2days.

1.Mix a little turmeric powder and little honey ,so that it is little loose.You can give it 3-4times a day.(you can make turmeric powder at home if you can manage dried turmeric from supermarkets and then grind it to powder)

2. Mix 1 tablespoon of honey and 1tbsp of ginger juice.Use a dropper if your child is not very keen on takin it.This is extremely effective if you give it the first thing in the morning.

3.Strain 1/2 tsp dried ginger powder(chukku/ saunth) with 1/4tsp of pepper and mix it with honey.Give it 2times a day

4.make a concoction of 2-3small pods of garlic with sugar crystals by boiling it with little water 200ml.when it turns half its quantity then let it cool.you can give it occasionally during a day.the concoction should be used within a day.

But try not giving honey to children under the age of 1.And if possible try avoiding a headbath for 1-2days.For somedays you might have to just sponge the kid.Let the child sleep well.For the first one or two days the child might still be coughing but usually by the 3rd or 4th day,it will come back to running nose and then it takes another 1-2 days for cold to go off completely.
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Good points Dinny. Question: is it going to be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4? I mean, we shouldn't be following all the steps together right?

Dinny · Mar 12, 2013

Rakhii said: ↑

Good points Dinny. Question: is it going to be 1 or 2 or 3 or 4? I mean, we shouldn't be following all the steps together right?
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Sometimes i give just one of the home remedies and at times 2 of them(at different times of the day).But i have tried not to give the same home remedy again and again.
I keep changing the medicines( home remedies in this case)

ramyaramani · Mar 12, 2013

http://www.indusladies.com/forums/baby-kids-foods/16330-cough-and-cold-remedies.html this thread also has good info on home remedies for toddlers.

Dinny · Mar 12, 2013

Thanks Ramya!!

PYUVA · Mar 13, 2013

Hi Dinny,

Thanks for the remedies, can you please share the recipie for gooseberry chutney.

Priya

kundavai · Mar 13, 2013

Thank u Dinny.

Dinny · Mar 13, 2013

PYUVA said: ↑

Hi Dinny,

Thanks for the remedies, can you please share the recipie for gooseberry chutney.

Priya
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I make gooseberry chutney with roasted coconut.
I roast grated coconut(1/4cup)till it is light brown.Then i grind roasted coconut, 1 goose berry, 1 green chilli, little ginger,and some curry leaves with little salt.Thats it and the chutney is ready

aarthizone · Jun 21, 2013

Hi
Dinny u r giving some 4 home medicines for cold n cough. Have to follow all the 4 everyday or we can follow anyone?

Dinny · Jun 21, 2013

aarthizone said: ↑

Hi
Dinny u r giving some 4 home medicines for cold n cough. Have to follow all the 4 everyday or we can follow anyone?
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Arthi when i started off i used to give a different home remedy after every 2-3 hours...because i wasnt sure which one might work for my son.
But seriously its upto you to follow...if you want to try just one of them then give just one.
The 3rd one thats the ginger powder+honey+pepper powder worked best for my son...so later i used to give him that mostly.