*COUGH?
Go to your cupboard and get out the HONEY!! According to Chris D'Adamo, Ph.D., assistant professor @ Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine "the nerves that sense sweetness & those that control coughing are closely related....by targeting one, you may suppress the other."
Suggestions: try adding honey to your hot tea (or some have suggested coffee. Personally, I have not tried this, nor wish to, but some that have seem to really like it!) Or dip apple wedges in honey for a tasty, yet soothing, snack.
*HEAD COLD with POSTNASAL DRIP?
Post nasal can be such a nuisance!
Alpa G. Desai, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Stony Brook University, suggests taking a HOT shower. The steam vapors help loosen the congestion that is in your chest.
*TICKLE in THROAT?
Best home remedy (passed down generation to generation for a reason!): gargle with some warm salt water!
*DRY COUGH?
Here's something I had never heard of: According to Tieraona Low Dog, M.D., chief medical dir. of the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess' Well & Being @ Willow Stream Spa in AZ "SLIPPERY ELM is one of the best herbs for treating a dry cough, because it protects the sensitive tissues of the mouth & throat." (You can try a variety of flavored lozenges that contain slippery elm, such as: 'Thayers Slippery Elm').
SOURCE: Shape Magazine, March '13
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