Shared with my cleanandcozyhome email discussion list this morning:
Good day, beautiful homemakers!
I have been fighting off something for over a week now
and a part of it the past few days has been coughing. It has gotten worse by
the hour, I think and reached a point where my ribs and back are aching from
it! I have been taking my vitamins, making sure to get enough zinc, drinking my
organic apple cider vinegar “tonics” and getting fresh garlic and ginger in as
much as I can. I have consumed hot, herbal teas, very spicy foods and sipped on
chicken broth, chicken soup and spicy tomato soup. The head congestion and
cough have persisted relentlessly.
Last night, in exhaustion and with a heart of mercy for
my husband --- who has been working almost without stopping and I am sure
hasn’t missed the few hours of sleep he does get --- I tried to think of
anything that could help.
I remembered that years ago, I stopped using as many non
natural medicines as I could unless they were definitely needed [still go by
that after and during prayer over whatever it is] and found a recipe for cough
syrup. It had worked so well for our son that we used little else for cough and
cold.
I had forgotten all about it but I knew it had honey as a
base. I googled honey cough syrup or something along those lines and found a
few. I settled with the one that looked as close to what I remembered as
possible and that I could make quickly.
Here is what I found at ehow.com: * Shared the way I made
it in my kitchenJ*
1 cup of honey
3 T. lemon juice (I used the juice of one lemon and an
additional T. of lemon juice)
¼ cup warm water
Warm the honey in a sauce pan and then add the lemon juice
and stir until blended. Add warm water and let simmer for a few minutes,
stirring frequently. Mine had seeds and little pieces of lemon so I strained it
through a little tea cup insert when pouring in a pint Mason jar and put a lid
on it. I let it cool for a bit and then took 2 or 3 teaspoons (was so tired , I
do not remember which!) and guess what?! It was immediate… literally immediate
relief AND I slept from around 11:00 pm to 5:00 am and then went BACK to sleep
until after 9! So, praising GOD this morning. . .
smiles.
Here is the link for the actual recipe:
Sandy :)
