End Dry Cough in 5 Minutes – Here’s How!
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m going to show you how to stop a dry cough, but these home remedies will also work for a mucus cough.
Most dry cough remedies involve medication that suppresses the cough. However, suppressing the cough is not always best because coughing is one of the body’s vital defense mechanisms.
A cough can result from a post-nasal drip caused by an allergy, cold, virus, or fungal infection. It can also be a side effect of certain medications or be related to GERD or asthma.
Many children have asthma because their mothers did not get enough vitamin D during pregnancy. Vitamin D is essential for lung formation. If a cough is caused by croup, vitamin D is also an excellent home remedy.
Some coughs are caused by low humidity. In this case, try a humidifier.
Laryngospasms can also cause a dry cough. These spasms are often caused by low calcium in the blood. A deficiency in vitamin D3 can cause low blood calcium. Take 20,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily if you’re dealing with a cough related to laryngospasms. Always take magnesium and vitamin K2 with vitamin D3.
Chronic dry cough can also be caused by perfumes, smoke, new furniture, or tic disorders.
NAC (n-acetyl-cysteine) is a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that breaks up mucus in the lungs. To use NAC for a cough, dissolve ¼ teaspoon of NAC powder into 4 ounces of water. Once dissolved, add ⅛ teaspoon of magnesium in the form of Epsom salt. Add this liquid to a nebulizer and breathe in for 5 minutes, 1 to 2 times daily.
• Be sure to use food-grade Epsom salt.
• Make sure the NAC and Epsom salt are fully dissolved before nebulizing.
• Use sterile or distilled water to prevent contamination.
• Consult a healthcare professional before nebulizing any homemade solution.
Black seed oil and white horehound are also good home remedies for a cough if taken with vitamin D3, K2, magnesium, and zinc.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about how to get rid of a cough within five minutes or less. You have a |
| 0:05.6 | mucous cough and then you have a non-mucous cough, which is called a dry cough. The remedy that I'm |
| 0:11.4 | going to talk about will work on both, but there's nothing worse than having this dry cough while |
| 0:15.3 | you're trying to sleep. Here's my problem with most remedies for coughs. They are going to give you |
| 0:20.4 | a medication that suppresses |
| 0:22.4 | the cough. If we think about what the reason why you're coughing in the first place is, your |
| 0:26.7 | body is coughing as a vital defense mechanism because there's some type of particle or it could be |
| 0:34.2 | a virus or some type of irritant that your body wants resolved. The perfect |
| 0:39.1 | remedy for a cough has to align with the actual cause of that cough. Coughing can come from a |
| 0:45.5 | post nasal drip. You have this sinus infection that's causing this irritation down in your throat. |
| 0:50.6 | This can relate to an allergy, a cold, a virus, a fungal infection. This dry cough can also |
| 0:57.3 | relate to a side effect from certain medications. You're going to have to do something to find |
| 1:02.1 | some alternative to really get rid of your coughing. You can also have Girt, gastro-asophageal |
| 1:07.4 | reflux disease, where this coughing is coming from acid that is coming up through this |
| 1:13.4 | valve on the top of your stomach coming all the way up through here and if you suspect that being a cause |
| 1:18.9 | I'm going to put a link down below of how to fix this problem the solution is not to take another |
| 1:24.1 | anti-acid it's just that the valve is not closing and then this acid is |
| 1:28.4 | regurgitating up. To fix the valve, there's several ways to do that. Another cause of coughing |
| 1:33.9 | is asthma. So many young children develop asthma when they're younger because their mother did not |
| 1:40.6 | have enough vitamin D. Apparently vitamin D deficiency early on sets you up for asthma |
| 1:46.3 | down the road because you need vitamin D to help form the lungs correctly. Realize anyone with |
| 1:53.7 | asthma problem needs a lot of vitamin D to put that into remission. People that get asthma |
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