Looking for a natural remedy to cure a chronic cough that you've had for weeks or even months? Well, you've come to the right place. After testing multiple home remedies and natural supplements for a cough that went on for 4 months, we finally found a lasting cure. If you are willing to make a few temporary changes to your diet and try an inexpensive herbal combination, your chronic cough may soon be history.
After battling a cough that started with a nasty virus in the fall and was still going strong at the end of December, and trying multiple supplements and home remedies to little or no avail, a friend told us to try an herbal concoction that has consistently cured him of any virus before it takes hold. This remedy was so powerful, our debilitating cough was cured in less than 24 hours!
What cured it? A dropperful (i.e., about 24 drops) of Echinacea and Goldenseal tincture in a small glass of water, taken 2-3 times a day. It's that simple. Not only does it work fast, but the tincture is inexpensive, costing less than $10 for a bottle! Search your local health food store or online for this inexpensive herbal combination. Echinace and Goldenseal combination is available in both tincture and capsule form. I bought mine on Amazon here.
What is Echinacea?
Echinacea is a coneflower in North America and known for its antibiotic and wound-healing properties. In ancient times, echinacea was used to treat blood poisoning, scarlet fever, syphilis, malaria, and diphtheria. Today however, echinacea is used shorten the duration of colds and flu and to help ease the symptoms of a sore throat, cough, and fever. It is one of the most popular herbs available today.
What is Goldenseal?
Goldenseal is another powerhouse herb that comes from North America. It's a perennial herb in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae and is native to Eastern United States and Southeastern Canada. Like echinacea, goldenseal root is an herbal antibiotic and immune system enhancer.
Dietary Changes for a Chronic Cough
Prior to taking the herbal tincture, you might want to make 3 temporary but important changes to your diet that helped diminish extensive mucous production. These include eliminating sugar, gluten and dairy. As long as you can avoid these food items, your cough will be manageable. It takes less than a day to see improvement after making these dietary changes.
Additional Home Remedies for Coughing Fits
As you will reader below in our feedback section, Apple Cider Vinegar can also help chronic coughs. In our case, an apple cider vinegar drink was very helpful in reducing constant coughing fits and excessive mucus production, but it did not cure the chronic cough. We put 1-2 teaspoons of ACV in a mug filled with hot water and sip it slowly.
Steaming with 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in water was another helpful and simple remedy that helped soothe sore bronchial passages from constant coughing fits.
Keep reading below to find many more remedies that may help. If you have a different remedy that worked to cure a chronic cough, please share it with us!
Echinacea & Goldenseal is a miraculous healer for chronic coughs. I had a chronic cough for over 3 months tried every natural remedy I could find only this brought healing.
Thank you Ted for earthclinic.com.
The apple cider vinegar treatment was ineffective for me. I've had a chronic cough off and on for seven years that no doctor has been able to treat. I found this site recently and started taking 2 tablespoons of ACV mixed with 1-2 teaspoons of honey and about 1/4 cup of warm water, three times a day. It's been over a week now and there's been no improvement in my cough, unfortunately. I'm giving ACV three stars only because I don't mind the taste and it seemed to help reduce some phlegm, at least for a few days.
My new doctor thinks this is a neuropathic cough and wants me to take a bunch of supplements (probiotics, magnesium, multivitamin, digestive enzymes) and possibly Gabapentin, which has shown some promise for helping chronic coughs.
Hi, Kelly
Here is tested remedy for chronic cough (consumption, phthisis) –
You must take 100gr of yellow propolis (not with black parts), freeze it at home in your freezer- it can be crushed in small parts or cut- freeze it once again for a few hours – take 3-4 small parts from freezer each time ( to avoid defrost) and grind it in coffee grinder – place grined propolis in 1 litre glass jar – poure 250gr of 75-degree alcohol (ethanol) – shake it well, close the lid and place the jar in fridge (don't freeze) for 10 days – shake it several times each day – outcome is natural tincture of propolis.
Melt on fire 250 gr high quality butter together with 2 tiles of dark chocolate, let it cool down a bit, and mix with tincture. Finally, add 250 gr of raw honey. That's all.
Can have 1 teaspoon on empty stomach twice a day.
Increase the dose up to 2 teaspoon twice a day after two weeks, if no allergic reaction.
Take until it's over.
Use it during a year in severe case (phthisis, along with regular prescriptions).
Good luck
Hi Kelly,
NAC is great for thinning mucus, you might consider a mallow herb extract for it's mucilaginous and protective lining, and you could try adding baking soda to your Apple Cider Vinegar per Ted's protocol to see if that gives the health benefits you require. You can still add the (raw) honey for taste. Final thought, iodine resides in mucus areas, and many others, sexual organs eg. Antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial etc, and most people are deficient. You may research the benefits of the Iodine protocol, or much gentler to the body add some kelp extract. Best to you.
In case you were wondering where everyone went, they are on Facebook! 16 great responses on Earth Clinic's Facebook page when we posted this question! Since not everyone frequents Earth Clinic's Facebook page, we've posted responses here for Kelly.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/earthclinicllc/posts/
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Janet Hull: Kelly, things that come to mind.
The very first is mold. It can be a tiny amount hidden. Unseen and a problem.
You can buy inexpensive Petrie dish mold tests. Amazon or Lowes. You set one in each room. You can compare to pics on Google or pay for analysis.
Or you can experiment. Best decision I ever made.
Teds remedy on E.C. for mold.
1 gallon bucket. Add 1/3 cup of 20 Mule Team Borax. Let stand 1 hour. You now have a saturated solution of borax. Pour into a spray bottle. Leave some room. Add 5 to 10% white ammonia. To 90 to 95% borax solution.
Shake, stand in shower. Spray above your head. Inhaling some of the fine spray. You will find the cough is gone. I usually spray and breath 5x. This will answer the cause question immediately. If this is not it, there are some others. If it is, I recommend going to Teds remedies on earth clinic. Read his chapter on mold. The one I am posting is my go to. But there is much more throughout the chapter.
If it is not mold. Bill Munro's hydrogen peroxide spray, a wonderful effective treatment for so many issues. The lung especially. It is listed on the EC index page.
NAC n acetyl cysteine. The amazing cure. This 1 amino acid does so much. But for coughs it is quick and effective a real solution.
Take 1 dose each time you cough. By the third cough, usually gone.
You might look into whooping cough. The people that get vaccinated spread it, I think.
If it is that, you need Teds l lysine remedy. To kill the virus.
There are 2. I is 4 to 8 oz of water. 1 capful of 3% food grade hydrogen peroxide. Add 1/4 tsp baking soda. Sip for 15 minutes until gone. 2 to 3x a day.
I like to have, in the morning, 1/4 tsp sea salt in water. This just raises minerals in the body. Usually depleted in the unwell
Lysine remedy
3 ..8 to 10 oz water bottles
in a measuring cup pour 1/3 the content of each water bottle. Pour off 1 inch of water down the drain from each bottle.
in measuring cup
buy powdered from amazon
l lysine 12,000 mg
l threonine 4000mg
2 plain aspirin to kill bacteria
2000 mg sodium ascorbate
methylene blue, from aquarium supplier on amazon
This comes as a powder in a bottle.
Fill with distilled water to first rim. It stains, work on a glass plate, vitamin c or ascorbate removes stain.
Cap and shake gently.
Buy a 2 oz dropper bottle
take 2 droppers of solution. Add to dropper bottle. Fill remaining with distilled water. Careful to leave room to put dropper back in. About to seven tenths of the bottle. Cap shake. Add 2 droppers of m.b. to your measuring cup.
Whisk. Pour back into water bottles. Cap.
4 equal marks on each bottle for doses.
Store in frig.
For 3 days. 4 hourly doses in the am. You should start getting results right away.
Vitamin e 400iu 1x a week supports the lung.
We use dry emulsified E.
Some other causes come to mind, to pursue Teds info. Gut health. Read Gerd remedies. Often a cause of coughing.
Mushy sphincters. Wreak havoc. Magnesium can be needed in all above remedies, especially Gerd.
250 mg 2x a day mag citrate for constipated types, mag malate for runny stool types.
Teeth, your mouth can get a lift, Milk of Magnesia mouth wash. 1/2 spring water, 1/2 m.o.m. add a drop or 2 of essential oil for taste 1/4 tsp sea salt, 1/2 tsp xylitol to kill infection. In a 1 liter bottle. Rinse and spit a few times leaving solution there after last spit.
A few x a day.
E.C.s video on colloidal silver, inhalation method. Excellent.
https://ted.earthclinic.com/cures/mold6.htmlManage
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Laura Noreña: With the exception of the multivitamin, the supplements he advices are great. I take those plus, Vit D, Vit K-2, Zinc, Fish oil and the desiccated liver and others. Talk about a bunch of supplements! But I feel great
ðŸ‘ðŸ». Anything that keeps me away from statins 
I also ditched all wheat and grains, which are very inflammatory.
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Sharon Parker: Hubby had man flu then sharp loud coughs for 7-8wks. After checking on here we decided to try echinacea tincture 3 times a day, took 2 weeks to calm and another to almost go. Also he stopped drinking red wine for 2wks as it appeared to aggrevate the cough.
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Debbie Smith: I had a cough forever from acid reflux.. Lemon water is what has helped me. I drink it with a straw to help protect my teeth.
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Stephie McCarthy: I modified an idea I found on EarthClinic. I began putting H2O2, 1/4 cup per gallon of water in an ordinary humidifier I ran at night. I was able to cure a cough I'd had, plus chest pressure, wheezing, post-nasal drip, and asthma, that I'd suffered for six months. Being able to breath at night IS a wonderful sensation!
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Cindy Kittrell Wilson: I make a cough syrup: 2 T. Hot water, 1/4 tsp. Cayenne, 1/4 tsp. Ground ginger, shake in capped bottle. Add T. Honey and 1 T. Fresh lemon juice. Shake. Take a sip when needed. I usually double this recipe.
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Linda Luke: My personal experience with a chronic cough:
6 years – Any and every natural remedy without success.
I had acute anemia which affected my circulation and caused fluid build up in my lungs. Treated with careful doctor's management over two years, given multiple other side effects and addressing the root of the anemia, I now have almost no symptoms and a very healthy cardiovascular system.
While this may not be your scenario, the root cause may not have yet been addressed.
I suffered for all those years because I lacked insurance, and when I finally submitted to a series of tests – blood, MRI, ultrasound, we found the problem and worked from there.
Not sure where you lie in trusting doctors, but that was also something I struggled with. There is a good balance, and modern medicine could possibly show you more answers than treating a symptom only.
All the best to you.
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Kathy B Mast: If taking any medications, check to see if coughing is a side effect… It was for my mother, and after quitting the med, her persistent cough stopped.
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Kathe Krcmar Mayhugh: Mullein–can be tea, syrup, or smoked. Great for lung health. http://www.cshs.com/herbsOfMonth/mullein.html
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Barb Noonan: My husband used to get this cough, for years. I started putting young living essential oils along his spine several times a day, particularly thieves and rc. Within a day he improved until it quit and never came back.
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Tana Archer :7 yr cough? has this been investigated? like thyroid ? you mention phlegm – have you had chest/lung scans?
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Sue Bryant: fresh ginger root tea with a touch of raw or manuka honey. you mentioned phlegm? also, if it is a 7 year cough, it is going to take time.. I'd stick with the apple cider vinegar- it may take a few weeks or month to really take effect.
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Lois Hoffma: I went to 6 doctors and specialists for my cough of 4 years, tried every home remedy possible. Acupuncture fixed me right up, to me it was a miracle.
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Dawn Anglea West: You might want to try Bovine Colostrum.
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Patricia Owens: 7 yr cough? I'd go to a dr
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Thurata Skudrinja: Try oil pulling