No, not a boulder, just something small and light, but enough to hold the cloth in place while holding in the heat it creates. I chose the method where my daughter lay on the couch, I put some of the mixture on a thin piece of cloth, covered that with another piece of thin cloth, and laid a small thin piece of rock on top of that. There are several ways you can apply this.Mix a bit of water at a time until you get a consistency that’s a little thinner than pancake batter. Mix 1 part DRY MUSTARD (absolutely NOT the yellow variety!) with 8 parts flour.So, how do you make one of these? It took me quite a bit of searching, but this is what seems to work best… Once the mucus is gone, your cough will be gone with it. Getting all that gunk out of your lungs will decrease the chance for infection to get started and clear them so you can breathe much better. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
It might seem counterproductive to actually CAUSE a cough. It also gets the blood flowing and acts as an expectorant, causing you to cough up all the crud that has settled in your lungs. When you use it in this manner, it opens up the lungs. Mustard is actually something that stimulates blood flow and opens capillaries to let the blood flow better. You might be wondering what a mustard plaster is, and why it works so well. It did make her chest a little red because she does have sensitive skin. Sure enough, it worked like a charm and her cough was gone by that night. So I decided to use the old tried and true mustard plaster.
Even my homemade cough medicine wouldn’t clear it up. This particular time, she’d had a bad cough for a few days.
She rarely ever gets sick, and as of this writing, I think she has only actually been sick enough to vomit twice in her whole life. But until my daughter was about 4, I had never used one. I had heard about mustard plasters pretty much all my life.
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