A Doctor prescribed this for my 3 month old son for congestion. We did not give it to him. The next day I called the Dr back. It told me to do it. It had less alcohol than most cough medicine. I gave it to him and it cleared it right up. Our go to meds for congestion.

My mom use to make this for us when we were kids. After having a bad cold and no OTC medicine would give me relief I called her, she's 100% Italian for the recipe, it was exactly what was listed here, smiles. This helps you sleep, soothes a sore throat and will help you sweat out the cold.

I am 71 years old from the deep south. My mother raised us on whiskey cough syrup for as long as I can remember. I use to accuse her of trying to burn our guts up. That whiskey use to burn like the devil when I was a child. One sure thing you could forget about the cough. Now I got fully growed and had a son. I gave him the same thing. I had one of the pediatricians tell me there was nothing any better.

Perfect. I added a ton of cinnamon and took 2 tablespoons. Throat felt better instantly and I got a warm fuzzy feeling - actually could be dangerous because it tastes wonderful!

I have been looking for my grandpa's cough medicine and this is it. I knew there was honey and whiskey but couldn't remember what else. Going after work to get all this. Been staying awake until 1 in the morning due to coughing fits so here we go.............

My Mom made this when I was a child. I remember crying because I thought it could make me drunk, haha. She thought I didn't like the taste. It works great

Made this last night for my sister who has had a cough for a month. She took 1 t. of it and hardly coughed at all...had been waking up once or twice in the night with a coughing fit. I served it to her warm (the honey had started to crystallize, sp heated it for about 30 sec. before stirring it in the whiskey and lemon juice).

Have been coughing for two weeks and taken several meds... decided to try this today, sure hoping for it to work! : )

This works! In the last four days I have taken one prescription and two OTC cough medicines which did nothing for me. Last night, I slept without coughing for 5 hours after trying this. My grandmother always used this, but I thought she just liked the liquor. However, now I am a believer.