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Cough Remedies Please!

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Hayley Legend

Hayley Legend Report 21 Oct 2010 20:23

I see you on a long long journey.....in the lap of LUXury......you'll have the time of your liofe so you will :)

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 20:19

*sticks fingers in ears.......

Hayley Legend

Hayley Legend Report 21 Oct 2010 20:18

** Nods head at the wise ol...ermm women**

hang on I am getting a message....its says:

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 20:16

*stares at Mrs Leg End.....Only witches get warts...hmmmmmmm.

Hayley Legend

Hayley Legend Report 21 Oct 2010 20:14

cut the onion in half rub one half on your chest and bury the other in the garden. *ponders* or is that one for getting rid of warts????????

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 20:14

Drat!! Too late Helen....I am in floods here.....lolol

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 20:13

I am afraid you are fantasising, my dear, but I will give it a go:-))

Helen1959

Helen1959 Report 21 Oct 2010 20:11

BC don't forget to put a spoon in your mouth while cutting the onions. We don't want you crying now.

Hayley Legend

Hayley Legend Report 21 Oct 2010 20:10

Hey I am only trying to help....and I think I sawed on it t'telly.

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 20:08

Thanks Helen...XX

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 20:07

Thanks Mrs Leg-End or should that be Scrag-End? *howls at own wit. You see I live nowhere near...*checks map.....Manchester, and do not own a Scotch Mac and why should the socks be odd? EH? Answer me that while I cut up some more onions....

Helen1959

Helen1959 Report 21 Oct 2010 20:05

BC, is it a chesty cough? I always suffer with a cough for weeks after I've had a cold or flu. My Mum, God bless her, always used to make me take my cough medicine in some hot water as that helped break up the phlegm. If it's chesty then get some Covonia bronical balsam, if it's dry then Actifed red is good. Also doing steam inhalations with menthol crystals is good as well.
Hope this helps.
Helen

Hayley Legend

Hayley Legend Report 21 Oct 2010 19:55

Here is just one of my old Grannies cures, remove ones socks and rubs vicks on the soles of the feet put on clean fresh odd socks, take the socks you have removed and place one under your pillow and tie the other round you neck, take the 92 bus in to Manchester sit up stairs on the back seat and drink a bottle of scotchmac concealed in a brown paper bag, get off the bus and round backwards 3 times round the terminus and take the same journey back home, once home take the remaining scotchmac from bottle and add to a 2 pints of boiling water in to a bowl, removed the sock from your neck and add to the contents of the bowl, sit with your head facing inside the bowl and gently inhale ( more effective if you place a thread candy striped towel over ones head) , wait 40/60 mins, please don’t drink the contents of the bowl. Take the empty scotchmac bottle and fill with more boiling water, wrap a clean white bolster pillow case round said bottle and place under the Ida down , get in too bed and rest…by morning cough will be gone!

ButtercupFields

ButtercupFields Report 21 Oct 2010 19:48

How awful for you Jean! I am so impatient and have only had this cough for several days. I love to sleep flat but find I have to almost sit bolt upright in bed to ease the cough.Hope you will get sorted soon.

And many thanks for all the suggestions. BC XX

Jean (Monmouth)

Jean (Monmouth) Report 21 Oct 2010 19:40

If you find a remedy that is a surefire winner, Ihave had my cough for 10 months, been on various antibiotics and still no joy. I apparently have a bug which is unusual in the lung, is usually found in the gut. Have to wait now for an appointment with a respiritory specialist.

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 21 Oct 2010 18:16

Codeine. Doesn't "cure" a cough any more than anything else, but makes it go away and lets you sleep.

I can get cough syrup with codeine "behind the counter" here in Canada (you can't in the US, so we've always had to be very careful not to try to cross the border with non-prescribed 222s, aspirin with codeine, for instance). Dunno about you ... but since Julia's recipe has morphine in it ... !!

Rambling

Rambling Report 21 Oct 2010 18:13

Rofl Julia, at "they will help you lift them on." lol I know what you meant, but they are'nt THAT big that it takes 2 to manage the weight........yet! lol ;)

Thankyou ladies :)

xx

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 21 Oct 2010 17:08

This never fails and I have posted this before, For hard to shift/chesty colds. Slice thinly one large onion, place layer in bowl cover with muscavado sugar and layer till finished finishing with sugar layer. Cover with cling film and place in fridge. after few hours a juice will appear, you can have as much as you like - NO it does not taste of onions the sugar kills that. It will cut phelgm. Has worked for 4 generations in this family that I know of. RR it is uncomfortable - that is all and could save your life!

MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 21 Oct 2010 16:11

lol. Yes they do help you to lift them on ....whatever size.
Its like slapping them on a plate lol

Julia

Julia Report 21 Oct 2010 16:05

Dear RR, mammograms are a piece of p***. had loads, even one a couple of weeks ago. Doesn't matter if there is a lot to squash, they will help you lift them on.
Good Luck
Julia in Derbyshire