Natural Cough Drops

We are trying to keep our medicine cabinets a little more on the natural side this year. Between salves, tinctures, essential oils, and natural healing condiments I think we will be pretty set!

I've never tried these before, but I'm hoping they work!

ABOUT THE INGREDIENTS:

Raw Honey – Known to naturally suppress coughing and help with sleeping due to respiratory infections. In clinical studies, honey has shown to be just as effective in alleviating coughs as over the counter cough medicine. Honey is also known to help reduce allergies. Also, taking a few teaspoons of local raw honey a day prior to pollen season can be effective in boosting your immunity to pollen!

Coconut Oil – This healthy fat is rich in antioxidants and contains lauric acid, which is antibacterial and antiviral. Coconut oil can be used to help prevent colds by boosting the immune system. Once the cold is set in, coconut oil can help reduce the length of sickness and can be quite soothing when added to warm honey-lemon water or tea.

Cinnamon – Cinnamon has been used in folklore and traditional medicine to help reduce cold and flu symptoms.

Homemade Cough Drops

Ingredients

1/2 cup coconut oil at room temperature
1/2 cup raw local honey
1 teaspoon of organic cinnamon (optional)

Directions

1. Scoop coconut oil into a mixer bowl and beat with a hand mixer or stand mixer until it’s whipped.

2. Add the honey and continue to whip until the honey and oil are mixed.

3. Add cinnamon if using.

4. Pour mixture into small ice cube trays. I use the molds you can find at target!

5. Freeze the coconut cough drops until they’re hard, about 20 minutes.

6. Pop the cough drops out of the ice cube tray and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

These could keep forever, as honey and coconut oil really have no expiration dates!

Comments

No Bake Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Balls

You will need: 3/4 cup quick oats (60g) 1/2 cup oat flour (or make your own by blending oats in a food processor until they become powder. Measure after blending.) (75g) 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 cup xylitol or sugar (or coconut sugar or sucanat) (55g) 1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional: a pinch pumpkin pie spice as well) optional: handful mini chocolate chips 1/3 cup canned pumpkin (or sweet potato puree) (80g) 2 to 2 1/2 tablespoons milk of choice, as needed 1 tablespoon oil (omit if you desire, but I can’t vouch for the results) 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract Instructions: Combine all dry ingredients and stir very well. In a separate bowl, combine all liquid (including pumpkin). Then stir to combine, and form into balls or cookies. Or put in the fridge to firm up a little before forming cookies.

Plans may Fail, but God doesn't

I have decided to not go in to much depth about the passing of Sadler, but I do want to write about it. Writing is very healing for me. The following blog speaks of infant death, please only read at your discretion. Sadler's tiny body reacted negatively to the surfactant that was administered to him to help with the maturity of his lungs. His vitals were stable, until he was given the first dose of those steroids. The first call to come down to the NICU was terrifying. What's even more terrifying is walking in to the nursing staff and the neonatologist reviving your child. Chest compressions and intubation. Stats dropping to a low, low. Loud noises from machines going off. Sitting there, unable to do anything as your child lays there helpless and lifeless. The hospital chaplain approaches and asks if we would like to pray, and of course being a family of faith we do. We cry, and we pray. We pray, and we cry. I text my best friend, Shannon, and asked that she...

UnSubscribe

It’s been almost 5 months. Yet I still haven’t been able to fully unsubscribe from all the junk emails from all the hideous baby crap. There is SO MUCH. “Buy one get one, one daily only @ Motherhood!” “25% off at Buy BUY baby” “8 weeks postpartum Lindsay” Mama Natural “Today’s the day! It’s Your due date” — enter in the name of of of the one million baby related websites there are these days. Every time, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I go to check my emails, another one squeezes it’s way in. And when that happens, another very-detailed, very sad memory of a moment has an open window. Letters in the mail. Social security cards. Insurance information. Accidental bills mailed to your address showing every procedure and every dime, and every detail of your dead sons expenses. Will it ever stop? Is there a button for “un-subscribe” for all these constant reminders that your baby is dead. Will my phone EVER forget to auto-correct the words Infant loss, N...

Raisinglittlegrays

Search This Blog