Homemade Slippery Elm Lozenges

Slippery elm lozenges are really simple to make, easy for children to help with, and are extremely effective. They can be made with just 3 ingredients; typically slippery elm powder, strong tea, and raw honey, though you can certainly add a multitude of other ingredients to the mix to ease discomfort accompanied by colds, coughs, and flu. They are very transportable (just throw em’ in a reusable tin) and are usually well received by most, even small children.

Slippery elm has been used by Native Americans and the settlers of early America as an important herbal remedy for both healing and nourishment. It’s moistening properties clear heat, settle acidity, and treat inflammation in the bladder, colon, kidneys, lungs, and stomach.

Slippery Elm’s most known use is for cough and other chest complaints. It’s ability to coat the throat and soothe even the hoarsest cough goes without saying how effective this remedy truly is. It’s a must have for your home herbal remedy kit.

How to Make Slippery Elm Lozenges

Homemade Slippery Elm Lozenges- 3 Ingredients

These are the easiest and fastest way to make these lozenges and they work great!

Ingredients–

• ¼ cup boiled spring water or tea (I love using licorice root as an expectorant or rose petal)
• ¼ cup slippery elm powder (indicated especially for dry coughs)
• 2 TB local raw honey

Loving Preparation–

• Add the slippery elm powder into a large bowl
• Put 2 TB of raw local honey into your ¼ cup measuring cup
• Pour some freshly brewed tea or hot water into the measuring cup to dissolve the honey
• Pour the sweetened tea over the slippery elm powder
• Use a fork or your hands to mix the ingredients well
• Roll into small balls about the size of a marble (you can make quite a few)
• Roll the balls into some extra slippery elm powder to coat them
• Keep in the freezer, dehydrate (I love this dehydrator), let dry on their own, or just eat like candy =)

Don’t feel like making your own? You can buy slippery elm lozenges here.

These lozenges will harden in about 2 days if you leave them out on some parchment paper in a warm dry place. They keep for months in a nice jar or a tin kept in a cool cupboard

Slippery Elm Lozenges

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These lozenges are great for sore throats, cough, and all manner of digestive upset.

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Ingredients

1. • ¼ cup boiled spring water or tea (I love using licorice root as an expectorant or rose petal)
2. • ¼ cup slippery elm powder (indicated especially for dry coughs)
3. • 2 TB local raw honey

Instructions

1. Add the slippery elm powder into a large bowl
2. Put 2 TB of raw local honey into your ¼ cup measuring cup
3. Pour some freshly brewed tea or hot water into the measuring cup to dissolve the honey
4. Pour the sweetened tea over the slippery elm powder
5. Use a fork or your hands to mix the ingredients well
6. Roll into small balls about the size of a marble (you can make quite a few)
7. Roll the balls into some extra slippery elm powder to coat them
8. Keep in the freezer, dehydrate (I love this dehydrator), let dry on their own, or just eat like candy

By Tash

Holistic Health Herbalist http://www.holistichealthherbalist.com/

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• Rose petal powder
• Mallow powder (you can empty capsules for this)
• Sage powder
• Propolis
• Bee pollen
• Bee balm
• Elderflower (you can grind the flowers in a coffee grinder)
• Osha root
• Herbal infused honeys (learn to to make them here)
• Vanilla extract
• Superfood/green powders (I like this one)
• Maca
• Vitamin C powder

You can get all of the amazing herbs listed above at my favorite one stop shop for the highest quality herbs at MountainRoseHerbs.com 

How to Use Slippery Elm Lozenges

Slippery elm is nourishing and very safe to ingest. When feeling a dry or hoarse cough coming on, eat these pastilles liberally to soothe coughs and sore throats.

Slippery elm lozenges can also be used for stomach upset including-

• Acidic/sour stomach
• Digestive upset
• Diarrhea (because these things happen)
• Irritated bowel Can be used for children 2 and up.

Hope you enjoy!

For more slippery elm lozenge recipes and cold and flu articles look below:

The Best Remedies You can Buy for Cold and Flu
The Best Home Remedy for Cough
Herbal Remedies for Wet Cough
Herbal Remedies for Dry Cough
Homemade Herbal Throat Lozenges for Cough, Cold, and Flu
Sore Throat Care
Monday Health & Wellness: Cough and Cold Lozenges

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