Home remedy: mix lemon, honey, and whisky, proportions to de decided by the user.
In spite of the fact that the whisky is what a drug company would call the active ingredient, it's worth trying just the lemon and honey if you're not willing to try the whisky, and it's certainly not a good idea to leave them out and 'cut to the chase.' They're all active ingredients, really.
And, um. I hate recommending this, because of my history dealing with abuses of it in detox units. However, and over-the-counter cough medicine containing dextromorphan (Coricidin is one of the major names, but there are a lot of others) used as directed, which I know you would do, should kill the coughing trigger. That's what it's designed to do, that's what the dextromorphan is for.
(Obligatory tag: one of the many reasons I hate this stuff is that when it's abused as a recreational drug, it's not just addictive, like any opiate however distantly derived, it's also very damaging to the health quite outside of the addiction. *Especially* Coricidin, due to the other ingredients involved. But it's supposed to be extremely good for an unrelenting cough.)
There's also herbal teas. I don't have a stable full of them myself because I almost never get unproductive coughs, since I usually have asthma/bronchitis. But one is easy: slippery elm. Coltsfoot would also be good - it's latinate name (Tussilago farfara) refers to its virtue in dealing with coughs, and if I recall correctly wild cherry bark is supposed to be good, too. I can look up others in my favorite herbal if you're interested.
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In spite of the fact that the whisky is what a drug company would call the active ingredient, it's worth trying just the lemon and honey if you're not willing to try the whisky, and it's certainly not a good idea to leave them out and 'cut to the chase.' They're all active ingredients, really.
And, um. I hate recommending this, because of my history dealing with abuses of it in detox units. However, and over-the-counter cough medicine containing dextromorphan (Coricidin is one of the major names, but there are a lot of others) used as directed, which I know you would do, should kill the coughing trigger. That's what it's designed to do, that's what the dextromorphan is for.
(Obligatory tag: one of the many reasons I hate this stuff is that when it's abused as a recreational drug, it's not just addictive, like any opiate however distantly derived, it's also very damaging to the health quite outside of the addiction. *Especially* Coricidin, due to the other ingredients involved. But it's supposed to be extremely good for an unrelenting cough.)
There's also herbal teas. I don't have a stable full of them myself because I almost never get unproductive coughs, since I usually have asthma/bronchitis. But one is easy: slippery elm. Coltsfoot would also be good - it's latinate name (Tussilago farfara) refers to its virtue in dealing with coughs, and if I recall correctly wild cherry bark is supposed to be good, too. I can look up others in my favorite herbal if you're interested.