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Homemade Natural Cough Syrup for Persistent and Dry Cough

This cough syrup is everything you need to help you cure dry persistent work. When everything else fails, this remedy is sure to come to your rescue.
Keyword cold, dry cough, flu remedy for kids, home remedy for cough, homemade cough syrup, sore throat
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 10-12 leaves Holy Basil (Tulsi)
  • 1 inch Ginger
  • 1 inch Raw Turmeric Root (check notes for substitute)
  • 10-12 Black Peppercorns
  • 2 Cloves
  • 1 tsp Carom Seeds
  • 1 tbsp Banafsha
  • 1 Liquorce
  • 2 tbsps Jaggery (check notes for substitute)
  • 300 ml Water

Instructions

  • In a mortar pestle, crush ginger, raw turmeric, cloves, liquorice (mulethi) and black peppercorns.
  • Take roughly 300 ml water in a pan, add all the crushed ingredients, carom seeds, tulsi leaves and banafsha.
  • Let this concoction simmer till the water reduces to 1/4th. Remove from the flame. Add jaggery and mix it it dissolves.
  • Cover and let it all rest for 1 or 2 hours and then sieve it.
  • Store this syrup in a glass bottle for maximum 2 days. You can also make it fresh everyday.
  • Take 10 to 15 ml of this syrup at a time followed by warm water.
  • You can take this syrup twice or thrice in a day depending upon the severity.

Notes

  • If raw turmeric root is unavailable, you can choose organic turmeric powder.
 
  • You can also replace jaggery with honey. Just make sure to use raw honey. Look for words like raw, unprocessed or unpasteurized honey on the label and not organic.
 
  • Do not add honey to hot syrup. Add honey after sieving the syrup and when the syrup is at room temperature.