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Wet Cough – How to Get Rid of It Fast (9 Natural Remedies)

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What is a wet cough?

How to Get Rid of a Wet CoughAlso known medically as a productive cough, a persistent wet cough is characterized by excessive mucus that is often expelled from the throat in the form of a gooey phlegm.

It typically results from changes in the weather or infections, and the sufferer usually experiences pain in the chest and throat when coughing. A wet cough, if not properly treated, leads to tiredness and exhaustion as it can greatly affect normal sleep patterns.

No one wants a miserable wet cough, right?

Keep reading to find out what exactly a wet cough is, what it might be an indication of and natural remedies that can help you get rid of a wet cough fast.

As quickly as overnight!

And what’s even better than an herbal remedy that knocks a wet cough right out? Avoiding it in the first place!

We’ll help with that and share a great video showing just how easy it is to make a great-tasting herbal remedy recipe with all-natural healthy ingredients in just a few minutes.

But, first things first!

How can you tell if you have a wet cough?

A wet cough is one of the first symptoms that indicate an issue with the respiratory tract. Some of the health issues that are diagnosed through the presence of a wet cough include:

  • How to Get Rid of a Wet CoughBronchitis
  • Pneumonia (inflammation of the upper or the lower respiratory tract)
  • Asthma
  • Heart disease
  • Allergies
  • Tuberculosis
  • Lung disease (often characterized by bloody phlegm)

In most cases, a wet cough is often accompanied by the presence of some other symptom of an infection. The most common among these symptoms is a high fever. People suffering from the flu or from a cold or hay fever may also have wet coughs.

symptoms and remedies of wet cough

Why do we cough?

Coughing is a normal body reflex that serves to clear the air passages that make up the entire respiratory tract of foreign particles. Note that the tract is lined with millions of nerve endings.

Once an irritant penetrates any part of the air passages, the body automatically tries to minimize its negative effects by producing mucus. This then causes a blockage in the airways, which prompts the nerve endings to send signals to the brain.

These signals trigger the brain’s so-called cough center, which then triggers the cough reflex. According to scientists, the cough reflex starts with the hardening of the epiglottis. This then temporarily closes the larynx off.

The abdominal muscles then contract, which puts pressure on the airways. This pressure causes the epiglottis to relax, which also opens the larynx back up. Air would then burst forth from the lungs in short spurts.

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In most cases, the cough reflex is effective in dislodging whatever irritant may be blocking the airways. However, there are cases wherein the irritant lodges itself so deeply that the body has to produce more mucus to try to combat it. This means that the cough also develops into a full-blown wet cough.

And while coughing is a natural process that protects the throat and lungs, excess coughing can cause discomfort and is annoying both to the one suffering from the cough as well as those who have to listen to it!

This irritability can also help to weaken the immune system, thus fostering perfect conditions for the infection and symptoms to worsen.

Natural Overnight Home Remedies for Wet Cough

Those who want overnight relief from a wet cough can benefit from any of the proven natural remedies posted below. The sooner you get started with the treatment, the sooner you can fight off the infection and get your symptoms under control.

Lemon Juice

How to Get Rid of a Wet Cough - Lemon teaOne of the most effective natural home remedies is lemon juice mixture. The mixture requires only three natural ingredients:

  • lemon juice
  • peppermint
  • honey

This combination is an effective treatment in dislodging the mucus so that it can be expelled by the body and you can get rid of the wet cough faster.

Lemon juice also contains high levels of Vitamin C, which the body needs for boosting up its immunity. Once the immune system has received the necessary boost of vitamin C and other nutrients, it can then create natural antibodies.

These antibodies not only work to stop the mucus buildup, but it also goes directly to the source of the infection and fights it until it is completely eliminated.

Aside from peppermint and honey, other options that can be added to the treatment mixture include:

  • Edlerberry (Sambucus)
  • Cayenne pepper
  • Licorice root
  • Grated onions
  • Peppercorns

Ginger Tea

How to Get Rid of a Wet Cough - Ginger teaAnother natural home remedy that you can use for beating a wet cough is ginger tea. Naturally, the main ingredient for this tea is ginger. Most homemade recipes make use of fresh ginger root that’s either crushed or grated.

But those who don’t want to go to all the trouble of crushing or grating can also make use of ground ginger. These are often sold at various herbal shops and are well-preserved with natural ingredients so they don’t go stale for months.

A few other natural ingredients to add to the ginger tea treatment include:

  • Maple syrup
  • Honey
  • Cumin or Turmeric

These ingredients not only help to cure the wet cough, but they also serve to sweeten the brew. These are the healthier, more natural options to white or brown processed sugar.

In order to make the ginger tea more effective, you can also add:

  • Lemon juice
  • Clove
  • Cinnamon powder
  • Jaggery (Indian brown sugar made by evaporating the sap of palm trees – it has major ayurvedic health benefits vs. refined white sugar)

How to Get Rid of a Wet Cough - Warm teaThe brew can be prepared by simply placing all the ingredients in a cup and adding some hot water over it. Stir the mixture and let it steep for a few minutes. Be sure to consume it while it is still warm because that’s when the brew works its magic best.

Ginger contains a compound known as oleoresin, a compound that is present in many other medicinal herbs. Oleoresin is the primary reason why ginger can effectively suppress coughing after just a few hours of consuming the tea.

And finally, garlic!

Garlic is a mighty antibiotic, it’s all-natural and chemical-free and can quickly aid the immune system in fighting off infection. You can build up beneficial levels in your system by simply adding it to the foods you eat.

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Are These Natural Home Remedies Better Than Cough Medicine?

How to Get Rid of a Wet Cough - Child takes cough syrupThere are numerous cough medications that can be used for treating either wet or dry cough. The thing about this medicine is that the shortest time that they can effectively cure a wet cough is about 3-5 days and many times they actually just delay the natural healing process by masking the symptoms.

More often than not, these medications have to be taken for a full 7 days. That is because they need that amount of time to completely erase all traces of the irritant in the body.

Unlike cough medicine that is made out of synthetic ingredients, this holistic natural home remedy can be taken for however long the individual wants to take it and instead of working against the human body’s natural healing abilities, they work with it to get rid of the wet cough.

But that’s not all!

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Synthetic drugs often have harmful side effects when taken in excess, such as the up-to-a-week daily doses needed to fight off a wet cough. And we haven’t even mentioned the matter of cost. Taking cough medication for a week or so is not only unhealthy, but it’s also far from cheap!

One of the risks of taking excess cough medicine is addiction. Addiction to cough syrup, believe it or not, is becoming a real health problem!

Also, some people also tend to develop immunity against the medicine especially if they have been taking it for longer or shorter than the recommended period and dosage.

Contrary to this, natural medicinal remedies are not addictive and people don’t have to keep a close eye on the dosage and length of intake. And chances are, as they fortify the immune system, they’ll help strengthen defenses against other health threats you might not even be aware of.

It’s a real win-win!

Other Tips for Treating a Wet Cough Overnight

Aside from herbal remedies, experts also have a few other tips in regard to suppressing a wet cough.

These tips include:

  • How to Get Rid of a Wet Cough - Young woman sleepingElevate the head when sleeping. This effectively keeps the mucus from blocking the airways, thereby suppressing the cough reflex. This is especially useful because it keeps the cough from disrupting a good night’s sleep. As everyone knows, sufficient sleep is also one of the best remedies for any illness.
  • Use some steam. This is one of the oldest cough suppressants in history. It is also the cheapest since all you need is a bowl and some hot steaming water. The best way to inhale the steam thoroughly is by placing a blanket or a towel over the head. Just make sure that it is big enough to cover the bowl of hot water as well. In lieu of the bowl, you can also just indulge in a steam bath or get an inexpensive facial steamer like the one posted below.

Having enough knowledge about natural remedies for a wet cough is invaluable, especially during the cold season. However, aside from the knowledge of remedies, it is also necessary that people keep prevention foremost on their minds.

This is especially true if they have a baby, toddler or young school kids whose immune systems are still not developed enough to fight against infections.

How to Get Rid of a Wet Cough - Hand washingThere are a few tips that can help keep your family safe from wet coughs, which include:

  • Frequent hand washing is possibly the most effective way to protect yourself from infectious agents.
  • Keep you and your children away from people who are suffering from the flu or colds.
  • Quit smoking. This also includes avoiding people who smoke since second-hand smoke is a more potent lung irritant.
  • Make sure every member of the family has had their flu shots before the cold season starts.

As the saying goes, prevention is always so much better than cure. Even if the cures are composed of all-natural ingredients that also contain nutrients that add to the body’s immune defenses!

Learn as much as you can, and not only will you be able to get quick and easy relief from the unpleasant symptoms of a wet cough now, but you’ll be prepared during the next cold and flu season to protect yourself and your family with the right products and healthy, all-natural herbal remedies!

Would you like to watch a video showing a simple recipe for all-natural herbal relief from wet coughs? You might be surprised how quick and easy it is to get rid of a wet phlegmy productive cough! Please watch and then a quick closing comment and request from you.

We’ve done our best to outline some simple home remedies for wet cough using herbs and all-natural ingredients, some of them common to Ayurveda and almost all of them readily available at any local grocery store or produce stand. Who knows? You probably have most of them in your kitchen now!

Now we want to hear from you in the comments below! Please let us know your results from trying out our easy suggestions and/or if you’re aware of other herbs, remedies or recipes that you’d like to share.




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10 thoughts on “Wet Cough – How to Get Rid of It Fast (9 Natural Remedies)”

  1. So is peppermint like the candycane type? Is the peppermint needed to make it work or can you just have lemon juice and honey? Thanks for this- very helpful! ????

    • You can typically get dried peppermint or peppermint tea at your local natural food store. The peppermint will definitely help break up the mucous but it definitely won’t do any harm to just use lemon and honey.

  2. > What kind of herbs would you use for sinusitis? Similar herbs as for flu as
    > to draw out stuff (toxins etc)? I have read that various vegetal plasters
    > can be used also in order to draw out toxins. Mullein tea?
    > In this case there is no mucus coming out, only pain in cheek bone. But
    > there has been a slight flu 1-2 weeks ago.

    You could do ginger, cayenne, garlic, mustard… as much as you can stand, as hot as you can stand. (Add lemon and honey to make your mixes palatable, or just eat Thai, or Turkish, or other hot foods.)

    Also, a tea of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea) is good for inflammations in the mucous membranes of the face.

    And lemon. Freshly juiced, with a bit of honey, and diluted with hot water – yum!

    • Finnish research, and other research, has found Xylitol effective as a sinus spray. Xylitol is a brand name for xylan hemicellulose which comes from sources such as Birch trees, cane bagasse and corn cobs/stalks.

      I have used the nasal spray Xlear (pronounced “clear”) with success. It was hard to find. I eventually found some at a health/natural food store. I see that it can be ordered on the web. Here’s one source, but if you search “xylitol” you’ll find a lot of references.

  3. If its an infection (yellow/green mucous), use goldenseal – organically cultivated. But ONLY for infections and discontinue use as soon as the infection has cleared… prolongued use of Goldenseal, or massive doses, will aggravate the condition.

    If its chronic sinusitis (stuffy), use Yerba Mansa (Anemopsis californica), 7-15 drops of the tincture as needed. I’ve seen repeatedly good results with this… it starts off lessening the symptoms, then lessens the severity, then the frequency of the sinus irritation. Used regularly for awhile (and what “awhile” is depends on how long the problems been around, and how developed the tissue irritation is) it can resolve the condition to “once in a blue moon”.

    You can feel Yerba Mansa working immediately. It helps to resolve the condition because it astringes the sinus tissues, which relieves congestion by curtailing mucous production, and it stimulates circulation to those tissues as well. The extra circulation will help clear up lingering, sub acute infections or inflammations. This plant works so well I have people who come to me only to get this.

    Mimbres Botanicals sells the tincture, and is a nice, two person family company from which to get it: (505) 536-2299. They know what they’re doing, are friendly, and have great prices. They also do custom wildcrafting, so you can order roots in the fall to make your own tincture. Good people, worthy of your business.

    A nasal spray can be made by combining 5-10 drops tincture with 60 drops glycerine and enough water to make 2 ounces. Fill a nasal spray bottle and use as needed.

    You can, if your head is too stuffed up to spray anything into, do a steam inhalaion with sage too… that works good.

    Acute, hay fever sinusitis is help immensely by a combination of Goldenrod, Ox Eye Daisy and Ragweed, perhaps in Nettle and/or Red Clover Tea.

  4. for sinusitis, we’ve found this to work: keep air moist with humidifiers warm, moist compresses to the face/sinuses – encourages blood flow to the area and helps thin mucus keep up fluid intake to keep mucus thinned all the suggestions for hot, spicy food are great — especially loaded with garlic/onions, some good chicken broth/soup with garlic and astragalus sticks echinacea tincture for immune stimulation – we take 1-2 droppersful of tincture every 1-2 hours the first day while awake, tapering off over the next few days to qid bromelain/quercetin tabs, taken as directed (enzymatic therapy – nci – has some good stuff) will help to reduce the inflammation vitamin c with bioflavonoids – for big people in my family, we’d do 1 gm.

    every 2 hrs. as tolerated; big kidlets, we’d do 250-500 mg. every 2-4 hours as tolerated i like to combine osha root, yerba mansa, yerba santa, ech, and some cleavers in a tincture and take every 4 hours in the acute stage, then tapering off to qid. You may want to look into one that contains OGR, astragalus (increases interferon – helps prevent viruses from lodging in the resp. tract), eyebright, licorice root and ginger.

    usnea is great for battling sinus problems related to strep; sage good for staph and will help to decrease secretions, along with antiviral activity.

    steam inhalation using eucalyptus and/or thyme eo’s during the day.

    (antiseptic and decongestant)

    although I haven’t tried it, Rosemary Gladstar had a neat recipe using horseradish, apple cider vinegar and honey, and putting it atop crackers. freeze dried nettles caps especially when sinus problems are due to allergens.

    for pain, maybe some meadowsweet or willow bark.

  5. More about how to get rid of sinusitis with herbal remedies…

    It depends on what you are trying to do. First is it chronic or acute sinusitis?

    1. Chronic the constant production of mucous due to allergic reaction. May include post nasal drip, morning sore throat, sinus inflammation and sinus and/or nasal stuffiness.

    Treatment would include identifying and addressing allergy(ies), reducing inflammation, reducing mucous production, encouraging drainage. Different herb, dietary and/or homeopathic remedies for each of these.

    2. Acute Swelling and PAIN originating in one or more of the sinus cavities. Caused by growth (usually bacterial) when mucous stops draining. Mucous is the perfect culture medium! Treatment would include: reduction of pain, encouraging immune system to overpower the bacteria (or kill it with antibiotic types), reduction of inflammation and re-establishing drainage.

    Tumeric and others are antiviral/antibiotic. Tumeric is also anti inflammatory. Mullen is anti-inflammatory and also reduces mucous.

    Cayenne, horseradish, eucalyptus, peppermint, Chinese mustard sauce thin mucous and get it moving.

    Echinacea and others boost immune response.

    Long term untreated chronic sinus problems leads to more acute events due to scar tissue build up already narrow drain passages.

    I personally have a tea blend of mullein, eucalyptus and peppermint I personally use when ever I start to “clog up” in response to mold spores. Salt water gargles helps morning sore throat. Severely reducing dairy consumption has helped immensely also. If I do clog up to the point of pain, using my thumb to massage starting under eye and moving down and towards my nose promotes drainage too. Using a nettie pot (nasal irrigation) helps ¡§dry nose¡¨ and stuffiness.

  6. You mention skunk cabbage stopping a spasmodic cough and say skunk cabbage is very acrid. Does that acrid property survive drying? I once had dried skunk cabbage root, it had plenty of chances to stop my coughing but never had any particular effect on my coughing or on the spasms in my respiratory chest muscles. Would I have done better with a tincture? Source of the dried skunk cabbage root (Symplocarpus foetidum) was Blessed Herbs. Their catalog also lists skunk cabbage tincture, d/w, meaning the tincture was made from dried wildcrafted herb. So maybe the acrid property is lost before tincturing?

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