Four Ingredients Herbal Cough Relief

natural cough remedies for children.. The herb is a drug that is believed to be hereditary panacea cure disease. One of the diseases that can be cured with herbs
is coughing.

Lime juice, ginger, nutmeg, mint leaves and kencur often touted as a natural cough suppressant that can be obtained easily from the home kitchen. However, what is the herbal medicines are safe for consumption and efficacious to relieve cough?

"If the herbs are mixed naturally without chemical additives, will not cause any side effects and is safe for consumption," said the expert from the Center for Study of Drug Herbal Natural Products Department of Pharmacy, University of Indonesia, Prof. Sumali Wiryowidagdo, APT, when met at the Media Workshop "How to Soothe Herbal Cough 'in Jakarta.

For that to know what herbal ingredients that could be useful to relieve cough. Here are four ingredients that you can use.

1. Ginger (Zingiber Oficinale Roscoe): efficacious to relieve bloating (karminativa), anti-inflammatory, analgesic or pain reliever because of cough and efficacious as an antipyretic. The content of essential oils in it that contains terpenoids zingiberol, gingerol and shogaol, has been researched and tested efficacious cure cough.

2. Powder (Kaempferia galanga L): can be directly consumed by chewing in the mouth after cleaning or grated juice and water is taken for consumption. In addition to relieving coughs, also kencur can control pain, lowers blood pressure and is useful as influenza drugs.

3. Extracts of lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle): not only useful as a reliever influenza, but also believed to relieve abdominal pain, nausea and cough cure. Eriocitrocide compound content therein, is also efficacious to reduce muscle tension, including stretching the muscles of the throat.

4. Nutmeg seed extract or oil of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt): commonly consumed in the form of candied nutmeg. When consumed, often causing drowsiness so efficacious soothing sensation (sedativa).

Prof. Sumali suggested that ulcer patients do not use lemon juice as a cough suppressant. That's because the nature of the acid gastric juice can aggravate the condition.

However, if forced to consumption of lime, to relieve acid, can add a bit of lime, honey or soy sauce in herb lemon. This method can reduce the acid consumption and safer for people with ulcers.

"These additions can be made easier to drink potions and herbs make it taste better but it did not diminish his usefulness," said Prof. Sumali.

Then, for the herbs are processed in traditional ways such as boiling, be aware of how to process that contains active compounds that are useful in them is not lost. It is recommended to boil using the correct technique.

"If you want to mixed with boiled, such as ginger ale, it would be better to use a pot made of ceramic or stainless. It is important that the content of active compounds to survive and not disappear, "said Prof. Dr. Broto Leonardus Sugeng Kardono, Natural Products Extraction of Expert Indonesian Institute of Sciences
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