I began making homemade cough syrup in April of this year. My girl got a nasty cough that she couldn't kick and with my attempts to do all things natural, sought out a natural fix for the crud. These ingredients below are all organic and made the perfect blend that can coat the throat and keep a cough at bay for a while.
Ingredients:
2 cups water
8 fresh thyme or sage sprigs (we use thyme)
Ginger (1 full root)
1 lemon
1 cup local honey
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
Directions:
Before you start, juice the lemon. For best results, roll firmly on the counter to loosen up the juice & cut top to bottom into strips to juice.
Cut ginger root into slices & measure the remaining ingredients.
Simmer water, thyme & ginger until reduced by half. Allow it to cool to warm *not hot* steeping herbs. Strain and return tea to pan. Pour in lemon juice, honey & cayenne pepper. Stir in honey until it is dissolved. Keep in airtight jar and store in fridge for best results.
This time, my batch was to make three jars as seen, to hopefully get my family of four through sick season.
You can take a tablespoon at a time, as needed. The benefit of having a natural cough medicine is being able to take several doses a day without fear of liver damage from overdose, as there is no pharmaceutical medicine in this.
