Throat Dry Cough Sore Throat
When you cough, the throat becomes irritated, making you cough more. Cough an action by your body to get rid of any substance that could be blocking the air passage. Tissues along the air passage gets irritated and cough is triggered. The result air in the lungs is pushed out with very high pressure. “This is called cough “ A voluntary cough – this cough is on your own or it could be – your body reacts of its own volition. A cough can either be chronic or acute depending on its duration. A cough could also be productive in that it produces mucus, or it could be unproductive – a dry cough. Whatever the categorization may be, a cough is uncomfortable and excessive coughing can make you weak.

Remedies for cough, can be effective in curing the cough or help in preventing the conditions. It can cure the associated symptoms or ease the discomfort. A dry cough occurs when you have a tickle in the back of your throat alerts an individual that a problem has developed that needs attention. Dry cough, home remedies can provide the relief you looking for! We all look for remedies that soothes the throat.
Causes and Natural Remedies
Causes of Cough: throat feels dry and hoarse and makes swallowing painful plus a dry irritating cough with no phlegm, is not a good sign. This are infections caused by bacteria or viruses. Other irritants include cigarette smoke, dust, extremely hot foods, chronic cough, fried foods and polluting chemicals in the environment.Any cough for more than a week, with headache or fever, and cough which has thick yellow or green mucous should be evaluated by a doctor. Persistent dry cough leads to tuberculosis.
Talking: even excessive loud talking and the nervous habit of clearing throat will irritate the mucous membranes, with hoarseness being the early side effect. Sore throats are self-limiting diseases and, depending on the status of the body’s natural defense system, should clear within a week. if the sore throat worsens, Antibiotics, such as penicillin, is an important form of treatment in serious cases of sore throats.
Below are Helpful Home Remedies:
Garlic: take a garlic extract, in your diet it has remarkable antibiotic properties and helps the immune system in stimulating cells, killing pathogens and detoxifying carcinogen. It penetrates microorganisms in the cell walls and upset their biochemical balance and impede their activity.
Onions: Onion juice mixed with honey helps loosen the mucus and relieve cough and chest congestion and soothes the throat. Onions helps sooth blood circulation, clears clogged arteries. This articles speaks it all: Onions with Many Health Benefits
Vitamins: boost immune system with nutritional supplements vitamins C and E and zinc.
Turmeric: Boil a glass of milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder, 1/8 teaspoon white/black pepper, ¾ teaspoon honey, drink this mixture while still hot before bedtime and in mornings. It helps reduce the swellings and heals the inflammation from the inside of throat, very effective for sore throat, coughing and tonsils
Hot Tea: cup of hot ginger tea, two drops of lemon, 1 teaspoon of honey, honey is a powerful natural antibiotic. Drink it while it is hot. It soothes your throat and controls the itchiness in the throat and stops dry cough. Peppermint tea is a natural decongestant and thyme is an expectorant, which helps you to cough more productively. Chamomile tea is soothing.
Grapes: another home remedy for cough. Grapes tone up the passages of the lungs and are excellent expectorants, coughs out mucus. Half cup grape juice with honey can relieve cough. Article with health benefits: Red Wine and Purple Grapes Have Cardiovascular Health Benefits
Home made remedies are always helpful with no side effects. Always when coughing drink warm/hot wateror tea. Hot water helps better digestion and releaves congestion.
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Teves | Oct 16, 2009 | Reply
Nice one…Good work
Shaman | Oct 17, 2009 | Reply
I have this problem myself so I found this extremly helpful. Thank you for sharing.
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chitragopi | Oct 18, 2009 | Reply
Useful article.
Diana Robinson | Mar 15, 2010 | Reply
nothing is helping this dry nervwrecking cough, I have been to the doctor all they keep gving me is stuff to sniff up my nose, adn rubutussin with codine. cough drops do not work. they do not know what is causig this cough. and it is driving me crazy. can some on please help, no I do not smoke or drink never have. I work in a very closed environment at NIH. I cough all doing the day at work and at home on the train on the bus. at meetings etc.