Welcome kitchen witches, crafty cooks, and bewitched bakers!
This is the kitchen pharmacy collection - a gathering of edible healing remedies, such as cough syrups, throat lozenges, and other home cures. Feel free to scroll down to explore! May the recipes provide guidance for your craft and inspiration for your kitchen creations.
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Blessed be and happy crafting!
Cinnamon-Honey Lozenges
Ingredients:
½ cup - honey
ÂĽ cup - coconut oil
2 tsp - ground cinnamon
Directions:
Add coconut oil into a mixing bowl and beat with a hand mixer until it’s whipped. If you don’t have a hand mixer, you can use a whisk instead, making sure to move at a fast pace to obtain the desired texture.
Add the honey and continue to whip until the honey and oil are well incorporated. Begin adding cinnamon and continue to mix.
Once thoroughly combined, pour the mixture into silicone candy molds and freeze for about 20 minutes.
Once frozen, you can wrap them up individually using small squares of wax paper and store them in the refrigerator.
Notes:
*Candies must remain refrigerated.
Recipe courtesy of Honey.com
Honey Cough Syrup
Ingredients:
Zest of 2 lemons (approx. 1 1/2 T)
1/4 cup - ginger, peeled, sliced, or 1/2 tsp. of ground ginger
1 cup - water
1 cup - honey
1/2 cup - lemon juice
Directions:
In a small saucepan, combine lemon zest, sliced ginger, and 1 cup of water. Bring the mixture to a boil, simmer for 5 minutes, then strain into a heat-proof measuring cup.
Rinse the saucepan out and pour in 1 cup of honey. On low heat, warm the honey, but do not allow it to boil. Add the strained lemon ginger water and the lemon juice. Stir the mixture until it combines to form a thick syrup.
Pour into a clean jar with a lid.
Note: This can be refrigerated for up to 2 months.
For children ages 1 to 5, use 1/2 to 1 tsp. every 2 hours. For children ages 5 to 12, use 1 to 2 tsp. every 2 hours. For children 12 and older and adults, use 1 to 2 T every 4 hours.*
Remember, honey is not recommended for children after the age of one.
Recipe courtesy of Honey.com
Sick season is definitely here - I appreciate the homemade healing remedies, Amethyst! This looks like a healing blend of lemon, ginger, and honey. I usually fling them into a cup of tea, but I may have to give the cough syrup a try as well.
Thanks for sharing! 
You’re welcome! I stumbled across these yesterday and had to post them! I like the idea of coughsicles, it seems that would feel good on your throat!
Tahitian Honey Cough Syrup
Ingredients:
8 - limes, to yield ½ cup of fresh lime juice
2-4 sprigs - fresh mint leaves
1 cup - honey
Directions:
Wash 6 - 8 limes and the sprigs of mint. Squeeze enough limes to yield ½ cup of lime juice (Note: You can also use prepared limeade if you don’t have access to fresh limes).
In a small saucepan, warm honey for 4 minutes. Do not boil. Add 2 –4 large mint leaves or 1 sprig of mint to the warming honey.
You can adjust the amount of mint to your taste. After warming the honey, take it off the heat and add ½ cup of lime juice, stir until well mixed. You can store this in a clean jar for 5 days in the refrigerator.
For children aged 1 - 5, use ½- -1 teaspoon every 2 hours*
For children 5 - 12, use 1 - 2 teaspoons every 2 hours
For children 12 and older & adults, use 1 - 2 tablespoons every 4 hours
Notes:
*Remember, honey, is not recommended for children after the age of one.
Recipe courtesy of Honey.com
Honey Lemon Coughsicles
Ingredients:
½ cup - Special Honey Cough Syrup
1½ cups - water
Directions:
Mix together ½ cup of Nurse Barb’s Special Honey Cough Syrup and 1½ cups of water. Pour into your favorite popsicle molds or a small plastic container to freeze.
Notes:
Remember, honey is not recommended for children after the age of one.
Recipe courtesy of Honey.com
Cough Syrup Times Two
INGREDIENTS
Productive Cough Blend:
½ cup thyme (Thymus vulgaris) aerial parts
½ cup mullein (Verbascum thapsus) leaf
ÂĽ cup elecampane (Inula helenium) root
ÂĽ cup licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) root
Syrup
2 oz (60 g) herbal cough blend (productive or non-productive)
32 fl oz (960 mL) water
8-16 fl oz (240-480 mL) honey or maple syrup
DIRECTIONS
- Combine dried herbs and store the blend in a labeled, tightly sealed storage container. Store in a cool, dark place and use within 12 months.
- When you’re ready to make a cough syrup, begin by preparing a concentrated herbal decoction:
- Combine 2 oz of your chosen herbal cough blend with 32 fl oz water in a saucepan.
- Bring the mixture to a simmer, and cook until the liquid volume is reduced by half.
- Keep an eye on the mixture to ensure it stays at a gentle simmer, and continue to check the water level occasionally.
- When the liquid has reduced by half, carefully strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer, reserving the liquid. Strain the liquid once more through a fine-mesh strainer lined with an unbleached coffee filter to remove fine herbal particles that can irritate tissues. Return the liquid to a clean saucepan.
- Add 8-16 fl oz of honey (not for babies under 12 months old) to the 16 fl oz of liquid in the saucepan.*
- Warm mixture just slightly to enable the liquid and sweetener to mix, and stir well.
- Transfer syrup to a sanitized glass bottle or jar (ideally, a dark-colored jar to protect from light exposure) using a sanitized funnel, and cap tightly.
- Label, and store in the refrigerator.
Adult dose: Take 1 tbsp (15 mL) every 4 hours. Adjust children’s dose according to Clark’s or Young’s rule.
*This syrup made with 8 fl oz of honey has a refrigerated shelf life of 2-3 weeks; if made with 16 fl oz of honey it has a longer refrigerated shelf life (2-3 months). For a vegan option, substitute maple syrup or vegan sugar (note that maple syrup will reduce shelf life as it contains more water).
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Ooh this is a keeper, especially here, it’s getting cold. Thankyou 
thank u so much this is a keeper for my family and i cuz this winter we already started getting sick and its not fun at all. execially when my twins get sick at the same time i do lol.
Cold season is here! We’ve got the sniffles at my place and it’s spread around rapidly 
Always great to have healing recipes on hand for when a bug strikes. This looks like a lovely recipe - I really enjoy the content from Herbal Academy.
Thank you very much for sharing it with us, @Artemisia! 
Tahitian Coughsicles
Ingredients:
1/2 cup - Tahitian Honey Cough Syrup
1 1/2 cups - water
Directions:
Mix and pour into your favorite popsicle mold or a small plastic container to freeze. This makes some fun coughsicles or icy treats that help control cough.
Notes:
*Remember, honey is not recommended for children after the age of one.
Recipe courtesy of Honey.com
I’m confused. We are all after the age of one.
Oops. Sorry, I noticed a few mistakes from this page. You’ve got to be over one to eat honey. LOL!
Fabulous Friday my Faerie Friends, This is for PSORIASIS.
I do not have something for the cold season, but my BFF sent me this YEARS ago for the Psoriasis my boy has. The doctors said that we could not keep him on steroids forever, (he was 10, and had been on steroidal cream since he was about 5) My BFF found this recipe in Ancient Chinese Recipes. It WORKS. I gave it to him first, and it started working the next day, and the next, and the next. I had a hard time believing it was the tea. I stopped it, and within days, super flareup again, started the tea again, and again, next day clearer. He is now 30, and I make this tea every other day for him, unless he is having a flareup, in that case daily. So, that was the intro…now here’s the recipe….so easy….1-2-3-4
dried chamomile (try Mexican store, in a bad, the flowers and stems),
dried Burdock ROOT, (shaved if you can find it—I use a tincture of Burdock Root from Sprouts)
Water, sweetener to taste —this is pretty bitter!!!
I measure 1 TBSP (about a tea-bags worth) of each, chamomile and burdock.
About 16 oz water.
Bring to a boil, when it boils, turn it off and let steep about 5 minutes, cover it if you wish. Strain, sweeten to taste. Drink about 4 ounces at a time. To start with, drink 3-4 times per day the first week, then maintenance. Depending on the severity of the Psoriasis. For my son, maintenance is every other day.
Trader Joe’s no longer carries Burdock Root.
So, I use a chamomile tea-bag, and I have a tincture of Burdock Root that I bought at Sprouts. I make the chamomile for my boy, he takes the tincture, and adds a dropperful to the tea. He’s tough (and now 30) he doesn’t sweeten it any more, so I make it concentrated (about 1 oz chamomile tea) so that he can “shoot” it down, with that bitter Burdock in there.
This is a God-send. No pills, (chemical compounds), no creams (again, chemical compounds)…this is completely Natural….and the medical community is always trying to push pills. The medical community is only concerned with “band-aids” not curing. So, I assume that is why this is not touted in the medical community. I mean really, $1 million in loans to become a dr? No wonder they are pushing the drugs so much, some drugs (mainly new ones) give kick-backs to the doctors for prescribing them, so they do that, to pay their student loans.
Sorry about dissing the doctors (I have a cardiologist, 3 heart attacks), and I take med for my thyroid, but after my seizure they tried to give me 7 med. I’m looking at them in my hand, and ask what they do…they only had an answer for 2 of them, and “we think it will do this” for the other 5. I took my hand, and threw the pills away. Now 13 years later, I’m still alive, (no meds). Likewise, after my accident I was told I would need a transplant of probably not live more than 2 years. Ah, NOT on a transplant list, because I WILL NOT take anti-rejection meds for the rest of my life.
I look at it this way….when the body stops functioning….that’s it. I’m not gonna survive on pills. What kind of life is that? Sorry, going on a yap again, today…..anyway,
Hope this helps anyone; I always stick to natural when possible.
About Natural stuff….The Black Plague…..nobility rarely died…even when they left the city to get away, but their servants who followed died anyway….Here it is….because they ate off pewter and real silverware. The minute doses of silver was the “saving grace”. For over 20 years, we take Colloidal Silver (500ppm, there is a 250, but I figure more, the better)daily. A house of 3 people, in 20 years, maybe only 2 or 3 sicknesses. And, this is what the silver does. It “wraps” around the red blood cell creating a barrier, and sicknesses have a much harder time “getting in”> Just a tid-bit. In case anyone is interested….White Willow Bark….Natural Aspirin, it was the willow that prompted the scientists to “create” aspirin. I have a bottle of White Willow Bark, and we take that.
Well enough of my blabbing…..good luck and happy health!!! Lady Gene 
