A natural Vixx vapor rub

[Midnight]

For those of you that get those deep, aching chest coughs. Instead of heading out to the store to purchase the next best vapor rub, give this a try.

Get ahold of a thin piece of square cloth material (anything from old unsued pillow cases or shirts can work for this, as long as they are of thin material, going to a fabrics store will also be effective). You're looking for something along the lines of a tea bag. You'll also need some ground ginger.

Place some ground ginger into the center of the material, fold up the corners and then tie it off into a little bag of ginger. You dont want the bulb end to be pack/tied too tightly however, you need room for the ginger to breathe.

Set a pot on the stove to boil. Once the pot is at its boiling point, place the ginger baggy into the pot and let it sit for a bit. You want it in there long enough for the entire package to be good and moist. You should begin to smell a really strong ginger vapor, at which point you'll want to take it out of the pot.

Squeeze the ginger baggy slightly....you dont want it dripping, but you would like a VERY little amount of water still in the ginger. Be careful, it'll be hot.

Then you simply rub your chest with the baggy.

Enjoy

[Pakmei]

Midnight,

Interesting post. Actually if you were to drink the water that the ginger has been boiled in and combine it with fresh lemon, that will also help to open the channels and release the exterior (promote sweating), scatter cold and resolve phlegm.

Thus helping to alleviate the chesty cough... assuming that it is an acute attack of pathological wind cold / wind heat.

So basically you could actually "kill two birds with one stone" if you combine this with your ginger rub!

If ithe cough is of a chronic nature, then there will be some deficiency involved with the Lung Qi combined with some heat which is not allowing the Lung Qi to descend and disperse.


Regards