How to make your own cough syrup with only three ingredients
Tame a nasty cough with onions, honey, and ginger.
Ingredients
- 3 onions thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup honey (preferably Manuka)
- 2 thumb-sized pieces of ginger root
Instructions
- Place sliced onion on a plate.
- Grate ginger over-top of the onion.
- Drizzle 1/2 cup honey evenly over the onion and ginger.
- Place in fridge for 4 hours – enough to allow the honey to extract the active ingredients from the onion and ginger.
- Pour the syrup into a glass jar with a tight lid in a dark cabinet, or refrigerator, for up to a few weeks.
Adult dose: 1 tablespoon every 4 hours for anyone over the age of 10.
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Child dose: 1 teaspoon every 4 hours. Honey is not recommended for children under 1 year old.