What is cough syrup made of?

[shenmue]

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[NYC_SKP]

1. I was gonna say "magic".

Or love.

[mopinko]

2. alcohol

i just skip it and have a beer.
but yeah, nyquil- industrial waste and ground puppies.

[betsuni]

3. I assumed cough syrup is made of coughs.

Isn't it?

[struggle4progress]

12. It used to be but it's cheaper to make it from chemicals

That doesn't work as well, of course

[Bluenorthwest]

26. If olive oil is made of olives and corn oil is made of corn, I worry about baby oil.- Lily Tomlin

nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. If it's Nyquil, it's probably full of something like chloral hydrate,

otherwise known as a "Mickey." That stuff will stop a raging bull in its tracks.

[struggle4progress]

13. I sure miss Chlorodyne™ -- a healthful mix of chloroform, laudanum, and tincture of cannabis

It's really hard to get Heroin™ nowadays, too, but that stuff could really snuff a cough

[Rhiannon12866]

5. My doctor recommended Delsym, works pretty well and contains no alcohol:

http://www.delsym.com/adult-cough-medicine



ACTIVE INGREDIENT (IN EACH 5mL)
Dextromethorphan polistirex
Equivalent to 30 mg dextromethorphan HBr

[Ron Obvious]

6. It's no longer made like it used to.

You can't get high off of them any longer. Or so they tell me.

[pipi_k]

9. Hee hee

When I was a kid I used to fake having a cough just to get my fix of the stuff.



just kidding...

Anyway, it doesn't taste as good as it used to either.

[hlthe2b]

7. nothing that really works--at least for me...

In several countries outside the US, one can still get low dose codeine-containing cough syrup. That actually does help.

[Marthe48]

11. we had exchange students from Brazil and Costa Rica

In the 1990's. They could go in grocery stores in both countries and buy antibiotics without a prescription.

[bobclark86]

16. Yeah, in places with cholera, it's kind of needed. n/t

[Major Nikon]

8. Whiskey

At least mine is.

And isn't everything made from chemicals?

[PasadenaTrudy]

14. Yes

Everything is made from chemicals.

[bobclark86]

17. "But it's ORGANIC!"

Because organic chemistry isn't a thing...

[Marthe48]

10. Colt's foot aka Swamp dandelion

If you are familiar with this plant, it can be infused to create a wild herb cough medicine. I can't remember if it is an expectorant or suppressant. The plant contains tussin, which remains a major cough syrup ingredient. You can google a recipe and method to make it. When I made it, I mixed some honey in with it.

We used to live on 9 1/2 acres in Monroe County, S.E. Ohio. I got interested in wild food plants and herbs. I'd get a book from the library, read about useful plants, go outside and bam, there they were, such a huge variety of useful wild plants. We moved away over 25 years ago, but I kept reading on wild plants. I almost suspect that someone transplanted a lot of those wild plants so they were near the house. I had a lot of fun experimenting with the plants and recipes. Coffee from dandelion root, lemonade from sour grass, the cough syrup, things like that.

[BlueJazz]

15. Shouldn't it be called uncough syrup ?

[sharp_stick]

18. It's horrible crap

my wife had a chronic cough for like 4 weeks following a cold. Finally convinced her to go see her doc and he gave her all of 35ml of a guaifenesin and codeine phosphate syrup. That's one teaspoon a day for 7 days.

I went to Canada a week later and came back with 250ml of the same codeine stuff over the counter along with the most effective and nastiest cough syrups I've ever used.



Their motto is: It tastes awful and it works.

https://www.buckleys.ca/products/adult_complete_extra_strength_mucus_relief.htm

[easychoice]

19. These were good til the moralists drove up...They always wreck it for the rest of us.

[jmowreader]

20. Ex-Lax

It works by making you afraid to cough.

[magical thyme]

21. when I was a kid, the good stuff had codeine

plus cherry flavoring and color. These days, chemical crapola.

Boy do I miss the good ol' days.

[riderinthestorm]

22. Morning! Totally OT but any news on the shipping of your new girl? nt

[magical thyme]

23. morning! strike 3 -- he's out. last I heard from him was Thursday, when

he was hoping to get his paperwork straightened out Friday morning when the vet opened again. He said he'd update me. He never did contact me or the breeder.

I wrote to the breeder Friday night and heard back yesterday afternoon. He strung her along too, and she hadn't heard anything either. So she's waiting on her husband's work schedule to plan a day to bring her here themselves. It's 14 hours round trip, so hard for them but not impossible. And with just one horse they'll barely be getting gas money.

In the meantime, I googled again, with different word combo, and came up with Canter NE's page that lists truckers they use. One they recommended is based just 2 hours due east of the Breeder, also near Fingerlakes track, so I'm going to call this afternoon to see if he's still in biz and available. So many of the smaller people have been driven out...

[riderinthestorm]

25. Oh my god! Ridiculous! So sorry about this. nt

[davidpdx]

24. I refuse to take a stance on the grounds I may incriminate myself