Your Signal
Cough
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Also known as: tussis · cough reflex · irritable cough · coughing fit · compulsive throat-clearing · persistent cough · coughing attack · chronic cough · bothersome cough
Your Body Is Speaking
You cough. The body forces air out of the lungs — explosively, uncontrolled, sometimes so forcefully that your ribs ache. Medically, cough is a protective reflex — the airways clear themselves of mucus, foreign bodies, irritants. It is the simplest signal your respiratory system knows. Everyone has experienced it. And precisely because it is so everyday, it is easy to miss what it is really saying.
Because cough is more than a reflex. It is an eruption. Something is pushing from inside outward — with pressure, with force, without regard for the moment. Something in you can no longer stay in. The only question is: what exactly is being expelled — and why now?
Cough is not a quiet cry for help. It is an outburst.
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