Home Remedies for Pneumonia

• Pneumonia is life threatening disease and hence, home remedies may be useful in aid of the main treatment and should not be considered as main treatment one can depend on
• To begin with, one should go for raw juices for 5-7 days for initial days. For this, one can take glass of fruit or vegetable juice diluted with warm water on 50-50 basis. This is to be taken every two hourly. Fruits like oranges, pineapple, apple, orange etc are beneficial.
• Avoid strong tea, coffee and other stimulant beverages. This may produce bad effect in pneumonia.
• One should also avoid white sugar, white flour and all products made out of them. These are heavy to digest and may worsen the case of pneumonia.
• Meats and alcoholic beverages are not allowed in any condition.
• Massage turpentine oil on the patient's ribs and wrap warm cotton wool. It will help in reducing the pain of Pneumonia. This is one of the effective home remedies for pneumonia.
• Smoking works as poison in case of pneumonia. It gives lots of trouble to lungs and puts extra burden to get right oxygen levels.
• During acute and early stage of pneumonia, the herbal tea having fenugreek seeds and black pepper will be beneficial. This is one of the simple home remedies for pneumonia.
• Turmeric, ginger, fenugreek and black pepper are mucolytic and hence are considered to be good for expelling mucous from the body especially from the respiratory tract. Take these herbs in any form; raw or cooked it will be better for your lungs.
• Simple lukewarm water with lemon juice and pinch of rock salt will give temporary relief in coughing and congestion during the pneumonia attack. This is one of the best home remedies for pneumonia
• Some of the traditional Ayurvedic therapy suggests an application of garlic juice along with sesame oil over the chest is highly beneficial in treating the pneumonia.
• Another good home remedy for pneumonia is rubbing oil of turpentine over the ribcage externally. This will relieve the congestion from the chest.
• Sesame seeds are one of the favorable natural remedy for pneumonia. Take 250 ml of water and put 15 gm of sesame seeds. Add one tbsp of linseeds and a pinch of common salt and one big tbsp of honey. Mix it well and take it daily. This will help in removing the excess mucous from the bronchial tree. This is one of the best home remedies for pneumonia
• Take 200 ml of spinach juice and 300 ml of carrot juice daily. This will help making lungs stronger and is also one of the good. home remedies for pneumonia
• Some of the Ayurvedic drugs like punarnava, vaasa, yashtimadhu, aardrak, methika, lahsuna, kantakari etc are good for pneumonia. You can go for either single drug as an extract or can go for the various formulas containing the above said herbs.