An Herbal Diary: Culinary Herbalism | Medicine Recipes

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 ho