For dry coughs, cough medicine usually helps. If you have very productive cough with thick or lots of mucus, suppressing your cough with drugs may be the wrong thing to do.
If you have an upper-GERD problem like me, bronchitis, or some other medical problem or just have too many productive gagging coughs; you need to remove the extra (often thick) mucus from your body (lungs, throat, and/or sinuses) as fast as you can without hurting your body.
As I have posted many times on my blog; exercise, a puff or two of marijuana (moderation is key, a puff or two is all that is needed and it will not get you stoned, at least not much - and if you are worried about this for any reason; smoke high-CBD weed that will not not get you high, but really helps your health), Mucinex, sniffing (onion, menthol, and/or peppermint); steam, rubbing your forehead right between and above and between your eyes, and snorting and sucking the extra mucus out of your body before spitting (see my previous post about how to spit) with both one and/or both nostrils closed; are all very useful to remove your extra mucus. Of course, your body needs some mucus, so only remove enough to stop your productive coughing or spitting. If you use onion, to avoid eye irritation and rubefaction of the skin, put the onion in a baggie, and open the baggy only enough for your nostrils.
The above tips work better than any drug besides Mucinex and Marijuana; to loosen and help you remove extra mucus. The best tool is to gargle and and then sniff in and out with very warm water. Simply take a glass of water/tea/beer/any liquid, and microwave it for (e.g.,) 60 seconds to make the water very warm but not too hot. Then, gargle with the warm liquid and then hold one, then the other, then both nostrils closed; and sniffing hard (with your mouth closed) and then blowing your nose with one nostril, then the other nostril closed (and constantly rotating your head while moving it up and down, then left from right) then spitting until not much mucus comes out. (If you are spitting less than 1/2 a teaspoon, just swallow the mucus.)
Rinse, lather repeat - meaning you continue this routine until the warm liquid is used up, or you stop coughing and/or spitting mucus. Then, hold your left nostril closed, lean to to the right and suck and spit to clear one side of your sinuses. Then repeat with the right nostril closed and lean to the right and spit. Then blow your nose until you are done.
Finally, rinse gargle and rinse once more to protect your teeth from possibly acidic mucus. I do this myself many times after each big meal, because of my massive upper GERD problem. I give my "stop productive coughing" advice to anyone that I see or hear who is suffering with a violent gagging productive cough; and in every case, I am thanked profusely because I helped them much more than their doctors or any medicines did.
This is not medical advice, and I am not a doctor. (However many people tell me I helped them much more than their doctors do with congestion problems.) And, if you have a sudden productive cough problem please see your doctor to rule out infections or other problems. However, if you have no infection or your doctor cannot help you; try gargling and sniffing with hot water/etc! One last tip, try and laugh out the extra troublesome mucus or sing it out, rather than coughing or spitting it out if you can.
Update, some people emailed me asking why not use a nasal rinsing kit to flush my sinuses? My answer is I did that in the past, and nasal rinsing does not work for me as well as my own techniques, but the ideas above will also help you a lot after you do a nasal rinse.
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Mark Shapiro, judgment expert, judgment broker, judgment writer, and a smile chaser. Visit: http://www.JudgmentBuy.com
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