When the cold season starts, everyone is talking about them again: home remedies that are effective against coughs and sore throats.
Radish is said to be a real cough killer.
Black radish tastes great with a snack. But the root has also proven itself as a cold remedy, which owes its name to the dark brown to black color of its skin. As a real vitamin C bomb, black radish is said to have a preventive effect with regard to colds.
But even if the viruses have already struck and you are fighting with coughs and other cold symptoms, the root can have a soothing effect - for example as a cough syrup.
Black radish has always been used as a cough suppressant. Its ingredients should have an expectorant effect, informs the
pharmacies Umschau
. And the typical sharpness of the radish, which can be traced back to the mustard oils in the plant, is felt by many people suffering from colds as beneficial, as it literally "blows the head free".
In addition, the mustard oil compounds have an antibacterial effect, according to Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), which is particularly helpful for respiratory infections and persistent coughs.
“There are two groups of ingredients that are of interest - on the one hand, the so-called mustard oil glycosides and the essential oils.
The latter play a subordinate role because they are quantitatively small.
The black radish belongs to the group of plant-based antibiotics, ”
br.de
quotes
Dr.
Nadine Berling-Aumann, ecotrophologist and medicinal plants expert, on the subject.
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Black radish cough syrup: it's that easy to make yourself
Would you like to try the home remedy with black radish?
Then try the following drink, which is said to have a relieving effect on coughs in particular.
The ingredients:
a black radish
brown rock sugar
Raw cane sugar
honey
How to prepare the black radish cough syrup:
Cut off the lid of the radish and hollow it out with a knife.
Chop the radish flesh.
Poke a few small holes in the bottom of the radish.
The syrup should later be able to drain through this.
Fill the cavity of the radish about halfway with the sugar and honey.
Now add the radish meat to the radish and mix everything briefly.
Put the lid of the radish back on the beet and put everything on a jar.
After a few hours at the latest, the cough syrup begins to drip into the glass.
The syrup will keep for a few days in the refrigerator.
If you have a cough, you should take the syrup three times a day, according to the BR (two teaspoons each).
