This product is used to temporarily help relieve symptoms such as sore throat, throat irritation, or cough (due to a cold, for example). It works by providing a cooling feeling and increasing saliva in the mouth. Check the ingredients on the label even if you have used the product before.

In Each Drop: Active Ingredients: Menthol (4.8 Mg), Cough Suppressant, Oral Anesthetic. Inactive Ingredients: Color (Caramel), Extract Of A Ricola Herb Mixture (Elder, Horehound, Hyssop, Lemon Balm, Linden Flowers, Mallow, Peppermint, Sage, Thyme, Wild Thyme), Natural Flavor, Starch Syrup, Sugar.

For nearly a century, Ricola has been helping throats feel better naturally. Using high-quality herbs grown high in the Swiss mountains to make our world famous herb cough drop. Along with its pleasing herbal taste and unique square shape, it provides you soothing relief from coughs due to colds or flus.

I've tried many different brands of cough drops over the years, but these are the only ones that I will continue to use. I actually enjoy the cooling natural flavors of Ricola, unlike the unpleasant medicinal taste of other brands. Best of all, these drops really do offer (temporary) relief of a sore throat.

13-herb Company founder Emil Richterich invented the 13-herb mixture himself. The sugar free original Ricola herb have an aromatic taste and are renowned for their soothing properties.

Many times Ricola Natural Herb (menthol lozenges) is taken on an as needed basis. Do not take more often than told by the doctor.

Herbal ingredients for traditional and organic cough drops vary but can include peppermint, lemon balm, thyme or sage. Fans of herbal remedies can also find herbs in some other wellness products. Possible options may include cold and cough formulas, probiotics and personal care items.

There's no standard limit to how many cough lozenges can be consumed. This is largely due to the amount of active ingredient variation between brands. If you're worried about overdosing, follow the dosage on the label or avoid menthol lozenges completely.

The bottom line. Honey and saltwater gargles are popular home remedies for coughing. You can also drink herbal teas made of peppermint, ginger, slippery elm, thyme, turmeric, or marshmallow root. There's some evidence that bromelain supplements and probiotics can help ease a cough, but more evidence is needed.

He loved nature and intensively studied the curative powers of herbs, so much so that by 1940 he had found the ideal recipe for a lozenge made up of 13 herbs. They are ribwort-plantain, lady's mantle, elder, marsh mallow, peppermint, thyme, sage, cowslip, horehound, burnet, speedwell, mallow and yarrow.

Medicinal ingredients per lozenge: Menthol 3.74 mg, Peppermint essential oil 3.12 mg, Extract of Ricola's herb mixture 27.74 mg: peppermint herb (mentha x piperita) 6.93 mg [1.33:1, QCE 9.22 mg], lemon balm (melissa officinalis) 6.93 mg [1.33:1, QCE 9.22 mg], thyme herb top (thymus vulgaris) 4.16 mg [1.33:1, QCE 5.53 ...

Cough drops are intended to be eaten occasionally when you're feeling sick. While there's no solid number on how many cough drops are too many, consider some of the ingredients. Cough drops tend to contain a decent amount of sugar - if you eat a significant number over a period of time, you could begin to gain weight.