Natural Cold Remedies
Children's Cold Remedy Syrup
Children's Cold Remedy Syrup is a blend of three herbs and sweet tasting glycerin.
Natural cold remedies like this will help activate a child's body to heal from a cold.
When a cold comes around our house, my two boys are clamoring to be first in line for this "medicine".
Steven Horne, well-known herbalist has this to say of glycerin:
"Glycerine is not a sugar, so it won't spike your children's blood sugar or feed yeast
infections. Glycerine does not have the toxicity of alcohol making it a safer choice for
infants and small children. Being a natural component of fats, even babies have the metabolic
pathways to process glycerine. And finally, because glycerine is slightly sweet, it acts as
like that 'spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down.'
In addition to being sweet and non-toxic, glycerine has some very beneficial properties.
First, when made vegetable oils are suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets.
(Most capsules are made with animal products.) Dr. Edward Shook in his Advanced Treatise in
Herbology claimed that herbal glycerites helped to rapidly remove inorganic drugs and other
toxins from the body...
Glycerine helps the body burn fats and stablize blood sugar levels, too,
so unlike sugar it's not going to contribute to hypoglycemia, diabetes or obesity."
Safe Dosing - Please read my instructions for children's herbs, safety and dosages here.
For children over the age of three give 5-10 ml of the syrup every couple of hours.
5 ml would be for a smaller child maybe 3-7 years of age and 10 ml for an older child maybe 8-12 years of age.
Be sure to watch for reactions and discontinue use if noted.
Here are the materials you will need.
1. Canning jars (1/2 pint, pint or quart, depending on how much you want to make) with clean
rings and lids.
2. A pot or pan big enough to hold the jars.
3. Purified water (buy distilled water from the store or run your tap water through some kind
of water treatment appliance, such as a reverse osmosis unit).
4. Vegetable Glycerine
5. 25 grams of elderflowers (Sambucus nigra) and 25 grams of yarrow (Achillea millefolium) and peppermint essential oil.
6. Cloth for straining. Cheesecloth works okay but I prefer a piece of soft flannel,
the cloth baby diapers used to be made from. You can also strain the herbs through an
old white cotton sheet. Make sure the cloth is clean and sterile though.
To make natural cold remedies in the form of glycerites, follow these easy steps.
1. Wash the jars, rings and lids thoroughly in hot, soapy water and rinse in hot water
so they are clean and sterile, just as you would do if you were going to do home canning.
2. Place the herbs in the jars. Don't add the peppermint essential oil yet.
3. Place 300 ml of glycerin and 200 ml of water into the jar. Stir well.
4. Put a few extra canning rings on the bottom of the pot
(so the jar(s) won't sit directly on the bottom of the pan) and place the jar(s) of herbs into
the pan on top of the rings. Fill the pan about
1/2 up the sides of the jars with water.
5. Bring the water in the pan to a boil and then reduce to a simmer and simmer the jars gently for 2-3 hours.
6. Remove the jars from the pan of water using a hot pad or jar lifter to protect yourself
from getting burned. When the jars are cool enough to handle, strain the herbs out of the
solution using the cheesecloth or other material you have for straining.
The resulting liquid should be put into a bottle with a tight fitting lid and stored in a
cool, dark place. It should remain good for about two to three years.
7. To make the yummy syrup - Add 4 Tablespoons of the strained glycerite to 1 cup of honey. Add 10 drops peppermint essential oil. Store this in a clean sterilized jar.
Credit is given to Steven Horne for the above method of making a glycerite.
You can get yarrow, peppermint, elderflowers and pure vegetable glycerin at Mountain Rose Herbs
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