Try this cough syrup!

I picked up a new kind of cough syrup, its homeopathic (made entirely from plants), from Value Drug Mart here in Sylvan. It cost about $7-8, comparable and even a bit cheaper than other name-brand syrups. Its super-powerful and effective, so children aged 0-6 only need 1/2 tsp, 7-11 is 1 tsp, and 12+ is 1 tbsp. As symptoms improve, dosage intake can be reduced. This product contains no antihistamine ingredients, which makes it surprisingly potent.

I had bought it before, months ago when the kids were all sick, and I remembered Lena saying it didn't have "a taste". And it worked really great, too; cleared the sickness up within a couple of days.

Poor Lena has been sick with a persistent cough and cold for the past week, and flat-out refused to take any medicine that "tastes like poison", which is basically every kind of cough syrup and chewable pills out there, regardless of 'fast-melting action' or cherry, grape and orange flavors. She threatened to punch me if I even mentioned Oil of Oregano (one experience was enough for her, thankyouverymuch), and the peroxide-in-the-ear trick really only works if you catch the sickness in the early stages. So I've been a little desperate about what to give her to help ease the painful hacking cough, non-stop runny/stuffy nose, and the chest congestion.

Then, on a trip to Value Drug Mart to find something to help her, I came across the box of Phytotux and like a flash of lightning, her little voice "It has no taste" ran through my head. Yesss! Brought it home to her and she piped up, "I remember this stuff! Thank you Mom, thank you!" and to my utter astonishment, she gulped her dose down in one swallow. Giving her any other medication was an hour-long process: first, ten minutes of threatening, bribing and flat-out pleading to pleeeaasseee drink it; then her grudging acceptance but warnings of "I don't know about this!"; then standing there and watching her for like twenty minutes as she lifted the little medicine cup to her mouth, then put it back down, then back up again, and repeat; then, finally, watching her gather her courage, face screwed up in a grimace, taking teensy-tiny sips, shuddering and gagging after each one, whining and complaining "I can't do it again! Don't make me!"; until eventually, an hour later, the full dose was swallowed. And then lastly, of course, listening to her angry tirade of "I can't believe you made me drink that! It tastes like POISON! My throat is burning! Its all I can taste! I'm never drinking that again!"

So you can imagine my relief at finding this wonder syrup that she gulped down in seconds.

According to the Phytotux H by Homeocan website,

PHYTOTUX H

COUGH & COLD SYRUP

The ingredients contained in Phytotux H are described in the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, by Dr H. Voisin, H.D., as effectively relieving:

• Spasmodic cough, with fits of suffocation
• Excessive whooping-cough
• Dry painful cough brought on by a sensation of irritation
• Dryness in the trachea
• Accumulation of bronchial mucus
• Rattling of mucus and wheezing in chest, violent cough attacks
• Coughing fits with stringy mucus, spasmodic cough with difficult expectoration of viscid mucus

Advantages

• No side-effects
• No contra-indication
• No drug interaction
• No drowsiness
• Safe for pregnant women and seniors

Active Ingredients and Purpose

Sun-Dew: dry cough

Leopard's Bane: muscle pain and congestion

White Bryony: coughing fits

Ipecac: cough suppressant

Iceland Moss: dry cough

Deadly Nightshade: cold and fever symptoms

Cochineal: cough with expectoration

Red Coral: painful cough

Tin: mucus, cough and chills