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Asyncritus
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Whenever we got a cough, my grandfather used to make us drink a ginger extract.
He would crush some root ginger, and boil it in water and make us drink it.
It burned the throat, so I used to add some sugar to reduce the strength of the taste.
No cough could survive that onslaught.
I'd forgotten about it, until one day many years later I got a cough which simply would not go away.
I zapped it with a few shots of the ginger extract - and it cleared up almost immediately.
My son came home coughing his head off for a day or so, and I gave him some of the extract to drink. In a few hours, he cleared off, coughless.
So:
chop or grind it up fine
boil
add a bit of sweetener
Drink.
If it brings tears to your eyes, you've probably overdone it a bit!
He would crush some root ginger, and boil it in water and make us drink it.
It burned the throat, so I used to add some sugar to reduce the strength of the taste.
No cough could survive that onslaught.
I'd forgotten about it, until one day many years later I got a cough which simply would not go away.
I zapped it with a few shots of the ginger extract - and it cleared up almost immediately.
My son came home coughing his head off for a day or so, and I gave him some of the extract to drink. In a few hours, he cleared off, coughless.
So:
chop or grind it up fine
boil
add a bit of sweetener
Drink.
If it brings tears to your eyes, you've probably overdone it a bit!
