Introduction

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The Harmattan is out and with a vengeance signaling the start of a seasonal ailment called cough and catarrah. This is one very known ailment to everyone,most especially Nigerians as the Harmattan comes with heavy dusts and dry breeze which affects everyone from the old to the young.
This is the season where we need to cover up properly and not forget to cover our nose with nosemasks whenever we leave the house. Notwithstanding these preventive measures,we still find that a lot of us especially our young kids come down with cough and catarrah. So how do we deal with cough and catarrah when it inflicts us???

Boiled Ginger water. Yes you heard me right. How?? Before I proceed to tell us of this simple yet very effective method of dealing with cough and catarrah let's see briefly some benefits of ginger.

Benefits Of Ginger

Ginger

Over the centuries ginger has served very good health benefit,and it continues to. Some of the health benefits include:

• Helps prevent and reduce the rate of Heart related issues
• Helps treat extreme indigestion
• It's been said that ginger helps slow down the body's ageing process
• Helps in the treatment of cold and the flu.

Treatment Procedure for Cough and catarhh

Get 1 ginger,peel the bark off

Soure

• Put in a pot or kettle with some water. Put this on fire and allow it boil well for a long time. You'll notice the aromatic smell of the ginger will come out.

My Peeled ginger in a kettle of water.

• When the ginger has boiled well,pour some into a cup,and allow it to cool down,though not totally.

• Drink it warm,not cold. You can decide to sip it until you've downed it or you can drink it at one gulp,your choice.

Source

You can boil and use one ginger peel for two drinks. Anyone from the age of five (5) can drink this.

Disclaimer: This method I just shared for dealing with cough and catarhh is a personal one I use. You can alternatively decide to seek medical attention.

I hope you've learnt a thing or two about the amazing ginger and also how it helps deal with the prevalent cough now. If you have other methods,do well to share in the comment section. Here's a link to my achievement 1 post Bye for now.

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