Basically, a cough is a signal of the onset of the disease. Recently, people have often encountered a cough of a mixed form. This is facilitated by poor environmental conditions, the presence of harmful components in food, bad habits. Icelandic cough moss is an effective remedy that copes well with both the common cold and allergic cough.
This perennial lichen grows in the tundra and forest-tundra on trees and on the ground. Its peculiarity is that it can grow only in ecologically clean places. Icelandic moss resembles a bush about 15 cm high with small green blades that become lighter below. Since ancient times, it has been used by the peoples of the north as a food supplement that helps to recover from a serious illness.
Structure
The plant contains carbohydrates, proteins, fats, organic acids; many trace elements (iodine, iron, manganese, zinc, etc.), enzymes, vitamin C, vitamin B12. The polysaccharides in the composition of Icelandic moss have an enveloping effect, lichen acids produce an antibacterial effect, bitterness helps increase appetite.
The main and most important component of the plant is mucus, which, enveloping the mucous membranes, calms, softens and relieves their inflammation.
Due to its composition, Icelandic moss is widely used in the treatment of cough, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis. The tea mixture prepared on the basis of the plant is an effective remedy for pertussis.
In addition, preparations from Icelandic moss help with pathologies of the digestive system, general exhaustion of the body, skin problems, and help to eliminate poisons and toxins from the body. Icelandic moss is appreciated for these qualities.
Cough
You can buy a moss-based cough pharmacy, or you can cook it yourself. Depending on what type of cough annoys, the dosage and method of preparation of the drug are determined.
Tuberculosis
Icelandic cough moss is used as an adjunct treatment for tuberculosis. Take 4 tbsp. plants, pour two glasses of water and cook for five minutes on low heat. Ready broth needs to be filtered. Take a few sips during the day.
Whooping cough
To prepare the medicine, you need thyme (dessert spoon) and Icelandic moss. Pour the components with boiling water and insist for five minutes, filter and consume 30 ml three times a day.
Bronchitis
A tablespoon of moss is placed in an enameled bowl, filled with a glass of milk. Boil on low heat for half an hour, covered with a lid. Take in a warm form before bedtime.
With bronchitis, a mixture of moss and coltsfoot helps. Drink the infusion of one cup in the morning. This helps sputum discharge and weakens coughing attacks.
Paroxysmal cough
A tincture prepared as follows will help to cope with this problem: forty grams of moss is poured with alcohol and insisted for a week. Take ten drops twice a day.
Bronchial asthma
Two dessert spoons of the plant are poured with 250 ml of water and insisted for half an hour. You need to take 2 tbsp. up to six times a day before meals. Treatment with Icelandic moss lasts ten days. After that, take a break for three days and resume the course.
Cold and allergic cough
Two tablespoons of moss is poured with a liter of water and set to cook on low heat for half an hour. When the broth becomes like jelly, it must be filtered and put in the refrigerator. With a cold, you need to drink two liters of infusion per day, with an allergic cough - one.
Preparations based on this plant are often found in pharmacies in the form of tablets or syrups.
Cough medicine for children
Icelandic cough moss is a great way to treat children, but babies don't like its bitter taste. Therefore, instead of water, it is better to use milk to prepare the broth. A tablespoon of moss is poured into a glass of milk and placed in an enamel bowl on a small fire for half an hour. The broth is filtered and given to the baby before bedtime. The medicine should be warm. The broth can be sweetened with honey.
The readiness of decoctions based on Icelandic moss can be determined by the presence of a rainbow film on the surface.
Tablets
This dosage form is used for respiratory diseases. The tablet is absorbed or swallowed. With rhinitis and sinusitis, the use of the drug occurs by inhalation. The tablet is pulverized and inhaled with both nostrils in turn.
Due to the presence of components with antibacterial effect in the composition of the plant, the tablets help with bronchitis, whooping cough, and are also a means that helps to increase immunity.
Syrup
Icelandic moss, mostly positive reviews, has one drawback. Those who have tried to be treated with Icelandic moss, note its specific sour-salty taste. In this case, you can use ready-made syrup with Icelandic cough moss, which is the most popular type of use of this plant and tastes much more pleasant than decoctions.
A syrup-based medicine in the form of syrup effectively fights a cough caused by a cold. The active components in its composition contribute to the formation of a protective film on the mucous membranes and relieve inflammation in the nasopharynx. Syrup with Icelandic moss has an antibacterial and restorative effect. It is prescribed for acute respiratory viral infections, flu, pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy, pulmonary tuberculosis and bone tuberculosis, in the postoperative rehabilitation period.
The syrup contains no alcohol and cane sugar; it is allowed for children from the age of one. Kids who refuse to drink decoctions, the basis of which is Icelandic moss, will take cough syrup in this form with pleasure.
Adults consume ten milliliters three times a day; children 8-16 years old - five milliliters three times a day; children under 8 years old - five milliliters twice a day.
Judging by consumer reviews, Icelandic cough moss is a wonderful tool to help get rid of the disease in a short time and cope with a painful exhausting cough, it strengthens the immune system and does not require large expenses.
Contraindications
Icelandic moss, reviews of which confirm its unique properties, may not be used by everyone. Contraindications to the use of medicines based on Icelandic moss are individual intolerance, pregnancy and lactation, diabetes mellitus.
Icelandic moss is a unique healing plant that effectively fights many diseases of the upper respiratory tract, eliminating such an unpleasant symptom as a cough. But no matter how harmless this plant may seem, it is undesirable to use it without consulting the attending physician.