Another Kit to create more herbal alchemy in your own kitchen. Expand your herbal medicine cabinet and keep this on hand for when the coughs and colds hit your family. This kit has specific indications for its use and should only be used short term, unlike the elderberry kit which acts an immune tonic. Make a batch, use during acute infection and freeze the remainder for the next time!

Over the counter cough syrup acts to just suppress the cough, not remedy the root cause. Herbal Cough Syrup will act to work with the vital force of the body to remedy what is going on at the root of the cough and cold and not just suppress the symptoms.

Specific Indications for Wild Cherry Cough Syrup:

• hot and dry barking cough

• forceful and intense coughing with sharpness

• breathing triggers coughing fits

• yellow or green discharge from the nose

• yellow coating of the tongue during an acute infection indicates trapped heat within the system

• red eyes and redness in the face

This blend will act to decrease the tension present within the lungs and cool the tissues as all the herb are cooling to the tissues. With the help of mullein and hawthorn it will help to nourish and tone the respiratory system. As the tissues are hot and inflamed and over time they will become dry. The honey and mullein will bring moisture to the inflamed and dried tissues. Wild Cherry Bark was traditionally used as a nutritive tonic in pneumonia, whooping cough, nervous cough, acute inflammatory conditions, fevers and pleurisy.

What you need: Wild Cherry Cough Syrup Kit, 2.5-3 cups water and honey

Directions: Empty contents into pot with water. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce to low, simmer until it reduces by half (45-60 min). Remove from heat, strain and let cool until lukewarm. Whisk in honey at a 1:1 ratio. Store in fridge.

**alternatively you can take the honey portion and divide by half and do 50% honey and 50% alcohol for longer storage purposes (note this will make it a thinner consistency like a tincture versus a syrup)**

*for children under 1 (or to make vegan), maple syrup may be substituted*

Recommended Intake: Adults take 1 tsp and Children take 1/2 tsp as needed until cough has subsided, but should not exceed more than once per hour

Ingredients: Wild Cherry Bark (Prunus Serotina), Elderberry (Sambucus Nigra), Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus), Hawthorn Berry (Crataegus Spp.), and Rose Hips (Rosa spp.)

**Please note that sometimes dried hawthorn berries develop a white film on their surface. This is a natural sucrose maturing on the outer skin of the berry and is not to be confused with mould**

**Wild Cherry Bark contains small amounts of cyanogenic glycosides which is toxic in large doses or when used for long periods of time. It is also contraindicated in pregnancy**

**All ingredients are certified organic or grown and harvested from my chemical free gardens**