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Homemade Cough Syrup

September 19, 2016 · 11 Comments

Homemade Cough Syrup

 Homemade Cough Syrup

 

Recently my hubby got a really bad cold and cough. He doesn’t often get sick and it really knocked him around. As well as my regular cold and flu fighting remedies, I also made him up a homemade cough syrup. It worked so well I wanted to pop it on the website for you all to try out too.

This homemade cough syrup is from the amazing Aussie naturopath, Mim Beim and her book, Natural Remedies! It’s a must have book for anyone that wants simple home remedies for a huge range of common ailments.

What I love about this remedy is that you probably have the ingredients already in your pantry. No need to source weird herbs or ingredients! You can’t get much simpler.

So this is how you make it:

Homemade Cough Syrup

What you need:

1 onion
enough raw honey to cover

*use organic ingredients if you can get them

What to do:

Chop the onion and place in a bowl. Pour over enough honey to cover and set aside in a warm place for a few hours or overnight. The onion will steep into the honey! Strain into a sterilised jar.

How to use:

Mim says that adults can have one dessertspoon of honey every hour and children can have one teaspoon.

onion and honey cough syrup

 

I can’t believe how well it worked, within two doses, he had stopped coughing! That was a relief for all of us, I can tell you!! 😀

When I mentioned this recipe on social media, some of you suggested adding lemon and garlic and you could totally do that as well. In fact the beauty of natural remedies is that you can tailor make them. Pretty cool huh.

Just make sure you are using a good quality honey – not that yucky supermarket stuff!

You might also like to check out:

Sore Throat Remedy

Homemade Chest Rub

 

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Comments

  1. Olga Dossa says

    September 19, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    This looks wonderful Sonia. I will add this to my repertoire :).

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      September 21, 2016 at 1:58 pm

      Let me know what you think lovely xx

      Reply
  2. Holly Simpson says

    June 21, 2018 at 4:47 pm

    My mum would leave a cut onion beside our bed to help with overnight coughs, always helped!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      June 24, 2018 at 9:54 pm

      That’s brilliant Holly! 🙂

      Reply
  3. SAMANTHA HORTON says

    June 26, 2018 at 11:19 am

    Can I use any type of onion? I only have red ones at the moment thanks

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      June 26, 2018 at 3:07 pm

      You can try it with that! Organic is the best if you can get it. 🙂

      Reply
      • SAMANTHA HORTON says

        June 27, 2018 at 9:34 am

        Thanks it has worked a treat!!! How do I store it? Fridge or cupboard? Thanks 😊

        Reply
        • Natural New Age Mum says

          June 28, 2018 at 10:24 pm

          Awesome! I put in the fridge x

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