For runny nose and chest congestion i.e when there is a whizzy sound coming from the child when it breathes the best remedy is Jaiphal.Available at every grocer or seller of spices.Just rub it with a little water on a clean stone surface and put it on a spoon. Add few drops of drinking water or milk and make the child drink. Give it 3-4 times a day. rub this jaiphal and water mixture on the childs chest also and let the child wear his clothes. Keep the chest covered as usual. Also roast some ajwain seeds on a tava. Crush them and feed the powder mixed with a little sugar to the child and see all the phlegm come out in half an hours time. Dont force the child unnecesarily. If the child cries talk to the child and try to divert his attention to some article and stealthily put the mixture on the childs tongue. Hold the spoon on the tip of the tongue and dont let the child close his lips till he has gulped down the mixture. It will all be over in a few seconds' time.
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3:41 PM on June 20, 2008