Red Clover Syrup to the Rescue!
When my eight year old woke up the other night at 3 a.m. with a relentless dry cough, I couldn't bear to let her go one more minute without my doing something to help her. I remembered reading something about a remedy for night time coughs that would stop it dead in its tracks in minutes. So, in the wee hours of the morning, I pulled out my three ring binder where I keep some of my favorite herbal recipes and searched for it.
In ten minutes, I had the delicious syrup ready and my easy-going little girl was more than glad to arouse herself from sleepiness to take a big spoonful of it. I listened from my room the next half hour for any sign that the remedy may not have worked for her, but no such sound ever came. We all slept peacefully the rest of the night.
Why does it work so well? Besides being candy for cattle, the extremely nutritious Red Clover is one of God's best herbs for clearing mucus from the body. It's an excellent expectorant and sedative for whooping cough and is very soothing to the bronchial nerves. Red clover has a long medicinal history and a strong track record as the go-to herb for a plethora of physical ailments. The trace element, Molybdenum, found in this herb helps discharge certain wastes and impurities from our system cleansing the blood, and its antibiotic qualities prevents infections from spreading. I like the sound of all this! I'd much rather whip up a fresh and tasty syrup using an herb that God created for the very purpose and that'll work in minutes rather than give my family an expensive cough syrup loaded with ingredients that aren't fit for my toilet.
Click here for the recipe!
When my eight year old woke up the other night at 3 a.m. with a relentless dry cough, I couldn't bear to let her go one more minute without my doing something to help her. I remembered reading something about a remedy for night time coughs that would stop it dead in its tracks in minutes. So, in the wee hours of the morning, I pulled out my three ring binder where I keep some of my favorite herbal recipes and searched for it.
In ten minutes, I had the delicious syrup ready and my easy-going little girl was more than glad to arouse herself from sleepiness to take a big spoonful of it. I listened from my room the next half hour for any sign that the remedy may not have worked for her, but no such sound ever came. We all slept peacefully the rest of the night.
Why does it work so well? Besides being candy for cattle, the extremely nutritious Red Clover is one of God's best herbs for clearing mucus from the body. It's an excellent expectorant and sedative for whooping cough and is very soothing to the bronchial nerves. Red clover has a long medicinal history and a strong track record as the go-to herb for a plethora of physical ailments. The trace element, Molybdenum, found in this herb helps discharge certain wastes and impurities from our system cleansing the blood, and its antibiotic qualities prevents infections from spreading. I like the sound of all this! I'd much rather whip up a fresh and tasty syrup using an herb that God created for the very purpose and that'll work in minutes rather than give my family an expensive cough syrup loaded with ingredients that aren't fit for my toilet.
Click here for the recipe!