Herbal Remedies- Coughs I

April 14, 2010 by KerryAnn Foster.

 Ginger Honey cough syrup, photo courtesy of Kayla at Life in Small Town, Wyoming

Recently, we’ve had the yearly sinus fun that comes from the wild weather swings of Spring.  We had short sleeve weather, two days of freezing, then we hit 90 degrees the next day.  This was compounded by us doing some heavy gardening and cleaning out the chicken coop, exposing us to a lot of dust.  The weather and the dust caused my husband and son to have post-nasal drip and a nagging cough from the resulting tickle in the throat.

I am always on a quest to find cheap and natural ways to help treat ‘what ails ya.’  A few weeks ago I read about making a cough syrup by very thinly slicing a hand-sized piece of peeled ginger, Read the rest of this entry »

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