DIY Herbal Cough Remedies: From Ginger Honey Drops to No-Cook Lozenges

The video walks you through creating various homemade cough remedies using natural ingredients. In the first part, it shows how to make ginger honey cough drops, using ginger, lemon zest, cinnamon, sugar, and honey. After simmering the mixture and reaching the desired temperature, it's poured into candy molds, cooled, and coated with superfine sugar. The resulting drops offer a sweet taste with the soothing properties of ginger and lemon. The second part details herbal honey cough drops, featuring herbal tea made from elderberry, slippery elm, and chamomile. This tea is combined with honey and peppermint extract, heated to a specific temperature, poured into sugar molds, and left to cool. These drops are then dusted with powdered sugar and can be stored in the fridge or freezer. Lastly, it shares a no-cook herbal cough lozenge recipe using slippery elm powder, cinnamon, honey, and essential oils. Mixing these ingredients and shaping them into lozenges, this no-cook option provides a simple alternative to the heated methods in the other recipes, offering a different herbal blend for soothing coughs and sore throats.