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Coughs can be so uncomfortable. Coughs can linger after the cold has long gone. Herbal cough syrups hold possibility to soothe and quiet a cough or support expectoration. Today’s kitchen medicine has three steps and uses three herbs combined to make a cough syrup that keeps in the refrigerator for when you need it.

Ingredients for Wild Cherry ? Cough Syrup:
Dried Mullein Leaf
Dried Wild Cherry Bark
Dried Angelica Root
Water
Honey
Tinctures: 2 ounces each of Wild Cherry, Mullein Leaf and Angelica Root

Cough Syrup Recipe Instructions:
Day 1: make teas (measure as volume in glass measuring cup)
Wild Cherry Bark
6 ounce dried wild cherry bark
6 ounce room temperature or cool water
Combine in glass jar with lid
Let sit, covered at room temperature overnight or 12 hours. Strain.
Refrigerate until ready to use
Mullein Leaf
4 ounce dried mullein leaf
4 ounce hot water
Combine and steep for 30 minutes. Strain
Refrigerate until ready to use

Day 2: make honeys ?
Mullein Leaf
1 ounce prepared strong mullein tea
1 ounce honey
Gently warm tea, then stir in honey until dissolved
Angelica Root
5 ounce dried angelica root
5 ounce honey
Combine angelica root and honey in top of double boiler. Add 1-2 inches of water to bottom of double boiler and heat to gentle simmer. Add top of double boiler and cover. Simmer on lowest heat for 6-8 hours, stirring occasionally. Add more honey if needed so angelica root remains immersed in it. Strain while still warm.

Day 3: finish syrup ?
Measure 2 ounces of each tincture – angelica root, mullein leaf, wild cherry bark
Combine honeys, tea and tinctures in large(32oz) glass measuring cup. Stir to combine.
Pour into smaller bottles using a funnel for neatness. Label. Keep in refrigerator.

Mentions:
Mountain Rose Herbs – source for dried herbs
Jim McDonald, Herbalist – herbcraft.org
Juliet Blankespoor’s Online Herbal Immersion
Herbalist & Alchemist – source for tinctures
Specialty Bottle – source for glass medicine bottles

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