Bronchial Irritation

USE THIS REMEDY IF:

you have mild to painful coughing, perhaps with a heavy, sore chest.

In addition to your cough you may have other complaints, including a runny nose, and a scratchy, sore throat with hoarseness. You might also feel weary and tired. Perhaps you even have a low-grade fever.

You might experience painful coughing after extended periods around cigarette smokers, from living or working in a smoggy city, or from other air borne irritants. You might experience it before or having an upper respiratory infection, or after getting over a cold. You could occasionally cough up mucus.

Some people have occasional or chronic bronchial cough from no known cause.

This remedy should relieve your complaints. It is useful for people suffering from either acute or chronic cough. It can also help people prone to chronic bronchitis. If you are subject to chronic coughing, and this remedy only temporarily relieves it, try ADDICTIVE HABITS, page 77. It may be able to break the repetitive tendency that underlies your cough.

Coughing is a natural healing response of the body, which is trying to rid itself of some irritant in the air passages. Never try to suppress a cough.

If you smoke, this remedy may not be able to help, because each new cigarette will irritate and weaken your respiratory system anew, in effect antidoting the healing effects of the remedy.

HOW TO USE THIS REMEDY:

Make and drink this remedy every 15 minutes until your coughing improves. For mild cases two or three glasses will be all you need.

Stop using the remedy as soon as you feel fully recovered.

If you experience no improvement after 3 glasses of this remedy, switch to the most appropriate among the alternatives listed below, or use the RESISTANCE remedy, page 229.

ALTERNATIVE REMEDIES TO CONSIDER:

Allergies, page 81
Stimulating Your Healing Response, page 253
Ache, page 73
The Cold Preventative, page 277
Fatigue, page 129
Sudden High Fever, page 265

MEDICAL ALERT:

If you have a fever that climbs to 103 °F or higher despite your use of this remedy, and your chest pain on coughing becomes intense, you may be developing pneumonia, a potentially life-threatening condition. Seek medical advice at once.

The Well Adult: page 304 describes and distinguishes between acute and chronic bronchitis, emphysema and pneumonia.

Bronchial Irritation

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