Natural Cough elixir, Persistent cough, chronic catarrh & lung congestion remedy

Simple, natural remedy for congestion, chronic catarrh and persistent coughs

I have been told about this remedy many times by grateful people who’d cured persistent coughs with it. They had all has the cough for ages and were so fed up with it that they’d try anything, even something that sounds as strange as this; they’d all tried lots of other things and found this was what actually cleared the problem.

Victorian Cough Remedies

The Flax Farm collection of Victorian cough medicine bottles shows linseed, aka flaxseed was a favourite ingredient at that time. The Victorians used it on its own as a “tincture”. Some manufacturers  combined it with other traditional wholesome ingredients such as honey but others used anything that sounded even faintly exotic, like turpentine. A common combination for cough syrups and cough lozenges was linseed and chlorodyne, which contained chloroform, cannabis and laudanum – no wonder it was popular!  Some of those ingredients would do a great job at making you feel like  they were working wonders but underneath the syrup of linseed was really the ingredient that was curing your cough.  , Even in modern times it is still sometimes added to some cough linctus. Speaking from long experience it’s very gentle but really helps soothe coughs and does seen to work on chronic coughs too.

Linseed cough treatment

The remedy is simply a slightly thick mucilaginous drink made from linseed boiled in water drunk three times per day.

This amazing remedy has just one ingredient. It is chemical-free, additive-free, colouring free, sugar-free so on that front it’s got to be the healthiest cough medicine ever.

Cough remedy recipe 

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon whole linseed

1 pint of water

 Method:

Place seeds and water in a saucepan and bring to the boil, then turn the heat down and simmer for one hour. The liquid should be thick but thin enough to pour, you may need add a little more boiling water before you finish.

Strain the liquid through a sieve and store in fridge for up to one week.

How to take

To make a mucilaginous drink, take some of the  enough of the gloopy liquid, dilute with boiling water, milk or juice until still noticeably thick but thin enough to drink; take a cupful at least three times a day or however often you want, until better.