Wrapped Ginger – Remove Mucus From Your Lungs and Cure Bad Cough

Being forced to stay up all night because you cannot stop sneezing or coughing can be a pain. This is something that can ruin not only your day but your whole week.

Children can be subject to this kind of thing even more so than adults. This is because they have much weaker immune systems than we do.

If you are dealing with a cough it is likely that your doctor will simply prescribe you something like cough syrup because it is ‘this best solution.’ However, it is not the best solution.

Pharmaceutical solutions like that can have negative effects on us and our children this is something we know, and a large portion of us actually ignore it.

Cough medicine can cause headaches, sleepiness, and other negative effects. Natural methods that contain things like raw honey would be much more beneficial than cough syrup.

If you or someone in your family is dealing with a mild cough this is the best thing to do. Combining ginger and honey will do more good than you could imagine. Enjoy!

Ginger Honey Wrap

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp of fresh ginger or ginger powder either works
  • 1 tbsp raw honey
  • flour (to thicken the mixture)
  • 2-3 drops of olive oil
  • adhesive tape
  • gauze

Directions:

  • Combine the honey, olive oil, and flour.
  • Add ginger in last and mix it well.
  • Put the mixture on a napkin and wrap a gauze around it.
  • Using the adhesive tape place this to your chest or back.
  • If doing this for a child they should only have the wrap on for about three hours before bed.
  • If for an adult then leaving it on overnight is ideal. This ginger wrap will make you sweat much more than usual.

Adult can sleep with the wrap, but you need to know that it will make you sweat. This treatment has no side-effects, but be cautious if using it with kids since the wrap might cause an irritating effect on their gentle skin.

Rachel Lim, form Singapore used this wraps on her child and she shared her experience on Facebook, affirming its immense effectiveness.

She used tin toil for her wraps. Her child used to begin coughing 2 or 3 hours before bed. He coughed profusely and also whined. She adds that after putting a foil on him, which she kept for 4 hours, she didn’t hear him cough, he didn’t have nasal congestion or phlegm.