How to get rid of a persistent cough? (By natural medicine)?

Sit in a steam room for at least 20 minutes

Your bronchials are sensitive, still enflamed most likely, and so is your throat. Try green tea, slippery elm, rasberry tea. Grapeseed oil in small teaspoon shots, but dont do WITH tea. Drink tea seperate of slippery elm and oil. For any lesions, aloe vera gel. These will soothe inflammation and kill what harmful bacteria there is left. You can get slippery elm lozinges from a health food store. Good luck!!

Let me just provide you with a small reality check here. If you've been hacking up lung for two months since a trip to Mexico, you should see a doctor. A regular medical doctor. You may have a serious infection in there, or some nasty tropical virus. Unless you want to play craps with your health, see a doctor.

A teaspoonful of malt vinegar (best biological) sent down slowly 2/3 times a day. If you're a smoker it's time to give up for good.

gargle with warm water and peroxide if that doesnt work you need and antibiotic dude!dont wait too long you could have bronchitis.

Dudeee go to hospital or something. check if you had avian flu or not? or maybe even SARS? Hopefully not any of those.

Bacterial Pneumonia has cold/flu-like symptoms. The only part of the symptoms that actually subside are the stuffy nose, aches, etc. The chronic cough remains. Unfortuneately the only way to get rid of it is a course of antibiotics. Each flare-up will be sucessively worse as the bacterium become more purvasive in your body. Please go to the doctor.

Dark chocolate. Seriously it contains an amino acid, theobromine that works better than codeine at cough suppression. Here's a news brief below and the link to a page with it. Enjoy :-) Chocolate for coughs In a small, new study, the chemical that makes chocolate a mild stimulant outperformed codeine in suppressing coughs. Treating anything with chocolate always has its fans, but what is of greatest interest to the researchers is the way the chemical, theobromine, appears to work. Codeine and other opiates fight coughs by acting in the brain, reducing activity in its so-called "cough center," said the paper's senior author, Dr. Peter J. Barnes of Britain's National Heart and Lung Institute. But they also slow down other brain activity, inducing sleepiness. Theobromine, he said, seems to work in the lungs, suppressing the firing of the nerve fibers there that send signals to the cough center. In the study, published in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 10 healthy volunteers were given theobromine, codeine or a placebo during a series of tests.

Hmmm. Have you tried rubbing vicks on your chest? It might help break it up, and make sure if it does to spit it out, don't swallow it. It's not only gross, but you shouldn't swallow sputum anyway, it's has bacteria in it.