How to Make Homemade Herbal Cough Syrup
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper I’ve been making my own cough syrup for years to support my family with anything from a little tickle to a full-on cough. The recipe has changed a bit over the years, especially once I began traveling internationally. I’ve taken a little bit from my Southern mountain upbringing, the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, and Mexico and combined it into a very useful mixture. (Please excuse the awkward wording in this article – the FDA has extremely strict rules about how one can write about remedies that have been around for centuries.) This being said, I’m not a doctor, and this isn’t medical advice. I’d been making honey-lemon cough syrup for years. You can find that recipe here . It’s pretty effective and soothing. Then I got sick when I was living in Europe. I went to the pharmacy determined to purchase a familiar-looking bottle of purple cough syrup for the deep, bronchial cough I’d developed right before arriving in Montenegro. The pharm...