Honey is not the best treatment for a dry cough, the best way to treat a dry cough is to find the specific cause of the dry cough and then treat it. Cough is a common respiratory symptom, the first thing to rule out respiratory diseases, you can go to the hospital to improve the blood routine. If there is a bacterial infection, anti-infection treatment is needed. Chest X-ray, chest CT, and even bronchoscopy are also needed to rule out dry cough due to respiratory tract tumors. If after the above examination, can exclude organic disease caused by cough, only due to dry throat or chronic pharyngitis, can be consumed before going to bed moderate amount of honey to improve the cough, if necessary, need to use under the guidance of the doctor some cough medication.