Siddha Medicine - For Cough

Step 1 : Take three leaves of Adathodai (Adathoda Vasica) cut them into small pieces, and put the pieces into a vessel. add two teaspoon full of honey and fry the content until some pleasent smell comes. At that stage add the following coarsely powdered Athimathuram (Jamaica liquorice) 2 gms. Thippli (Piper longum) 1 gm. Thalisapathri (flucourtia calaphracta) 1/2 gm., Chitharathai (galanga the lesser) 1/4 gm. then add 1/2 litre of water and boil, reduce to 60 ml.

Dose : 30 ml. two times a day.

Step 2 : Take 250ml. of water. Add the following drugs, Adathodai leaves (Adathoda Vasica) three numbers, Kandankathiri leaves (Solanum Xanthocarpum) five numbers. Thulasi (holy basil) leaves five numbers Thoothuvalai (Trilobatum) leaves ten numbers and 3 gms. of Athimathuram (Jamaica liguorice) after roughly powering them boil and reduce into 60ml.

Dose : 30ml. two times a day with honey.

Step 3 : 10gms. of the root of Thoothuvalai(Trilobatum), grind with Cow's Milk and to be taken in the morining.

Step 4 : Adathodai leaves juice 60ml.(Adathoda Vasica), Finely powdered Milagu(pepper)6gms. Perungayam (asafoetida) 1gm. mixed all and take in the morning and evening.

Step 5 : For Chronic cough, it will give relief when 2 gms. of chooranam (powder) which is made out of equal quantity of Kadukkai (chebulic myrobolan, lnk nut) and " Thippli" (Piper longum) is administered in honey twice daily.