Comments on: Homemade Cough and Cold Syrup

By: Cherish

Cherish — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:49:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I think it helped and it certainly tasted good!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:52:05 +0000

Remember it's not safe to give children under honey, esp raw honey.

By: Rashmi Ashok

Rashmi Ashok — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:23:07 +0000

Hi, My son has cough more or less every week cropping back, I donot want to medicate him much, just read your blog, will try it today, thx.

Regards,
Rashmi R

By: Stephanie L

Stephanie L — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:15:17 +0000

Thanks for this recipe! We used it for my daughter a few weeks ago and it totally got all the gunk up!

I am wondering - can I use it for my 18 month old?

Thanks!
Stephanie

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:12:03 +0000

I use onions to break up a tight cough or congestion overnight. This is my remedy: cut an onion in thick slices and cover the sole of the feet with the raw slices. Wrap with plastic wrap and put socks over it to help keep it on. The kids sleep with the onions on all night and by morning the cough is loose and breaks up easily. When removed the onions look cooked. A few night's application and it will be gone. Warning: this stinks up a whole room, bedding etc! :)

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:33:24 +0000

I've used onion to make a salve before. It stinks like crazy but worked and it was really soothing.

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:03:06 +0000

I meant to mention that if you wanted another suggestion, you can do this same mixture in 100% natural vegetable glycerin. It is used in most children's glycerite mixtures. We use glycerin to make children's herbal syrups over honey because it is more effective. It is naturally sweet, and you can heat it higher than honey, thereby getting more of the herbal properties out of the herbs.
Hope this is helpful!

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:59:58 +0000

The sugar that is naturally found in the honey does not decrease your immune system. The amazing benefits of honey cannot be completely understood or even accounted for, but what we do know is enough to take it! Scientists can go only so far as to understand the benefits of raw honey (raw honey: has not been cooked at all, some say above 105 degrees, but I would say not at all, which is how we buy it, and most importantly, local honey). :-)

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:55:36 +0000

I might mention again that you sit the onion or clove of garlic in the ear like a hearing aid, not in the actual ear hole. :)

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:50:26 +0000

I haven't read anyone else's posts, so this may have been mentioned already. You can put a sliver of onion in the ear cavity (not in the ear hole) for ear infections. The fumes go right into the ear and heal the infection, as well as relieve pain pretty quickly. We do this with garlic all the time, but I know you can do it with a small cut of onion also, cut- side facing the ear hole. Works every time :) God's blessings to you all!