Ailment: Cough

Remedy: Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar. Traditional home remedy for heartburn/reflux and many ailments detailed on this site. How to use it. What to buy. Warnings on its use.

Comment posted by Chantelle of Brooklyn, NY, USA on 3 December 2012 at 14:29       841

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My chronic cough and excessive mucus problem started about 5 years ago. I woke up one morning with a cold and it turned into a long hacking mucus cough that has not gone away. I am up every night from coughing and can feel mucus in my throat at night. It upsets my sleep because I wake up coughing which feels like throwing up from coughing so hard. I have coughed so hard in the last couple of months that I started coughing up a little blood because the heavy coughing irritated my lungs. I have tried every cough syrup and cough drops otc and none worked or helped. Many visits to the doctor did not help either. In desperation last week I started looking up all remedies on the internet. I have had so many visits to the doctor and the prescribed meds were useless. Worse, they were so expensive. The doctor also made out as if the illness was all in my head. At the top of the list was Grow Youthful, where I read about apple cider vinegar and honey, and had nothing to lose and decided to try them as these things were already in my cabinet. I took two tablespoons of ACV with a small teaspoon of raw honey in a glass of warm water in the late morning as I was heading out with the kids. I usually cough every couple of minutes but 10 minutes went by before a slight clearing of the throat. After two hours we were back home and I repeated the ACV honey dose. There was a little of the thick, sticky mucus still there, but not enough to make me want to cough. I took another dose before bed, and this was a miracle to help me sleep. The best nights sleep for a couple of years. It has been a week now and my cough has gone. There was an occasional dry tickle at night for the first few nights, but now that has gone too. Thank you soooo much!!

Remedy (new) posted by JohnM of Sydney, NSW, Australia on 17 June 2010 at 18:43       293

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Years ago, I had a horrible cough and a cold as well. It was like a tickle in the back of the throat that made me want to cough it out, but nothing would come. I mixed a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and a teaspoon of raw honey a quarter glass of slightly warm water (not too warm or it damages the honey and the vinegar's enzymes). Sip it and gargle with it for immediate relief. And it stops the cough coming back. Nowadays I use this remedy at the first sign of a cough or cold, which is very unusual. Most effective!