Sore throat is a common malady that each one of us faces sometime or the other in our lifetime. This is one of the ailments which responds very well to home based remedies, so there is no reason why one should hesitate to try out these invaluable tips which have been handed over to us by generations of yore. After all these remedies have negligible side-effects and so there is no harm in trying them. And you can always rush to a doctor if they don’t work for you.
Sore throat – Home remedies
* Dissolve a teaspoonful of common salt in a cup of water and gargle.
* Apply a fine paste of drumstick (Sahijan) leaves with a pinch of lime at the base of the throat at bedtime. Combine this therapy with a salt water gargle.
* Take 1 tsp fresh ginger juice, ½ tsp honey and a pinch of turmeric. Take this mixture thrice a day.
* Drinking warm milk to which a pinch of turmeric and a teaspoon of sugar are added also helps to soothe your throat.
* Gargle with a decoction of betel (areca) nuts.
* Chewing on cardamom soothes the throat and clears any obstructing phlegm.
* Extract juice from neem leaves and mix it with a small quantity of honey. Heat the mixture slightly. Use this warm liquid as a gargle.
* 1 tsp of honey should be mixed with a glassful of decoction of harad (available at any ayurvedic stores) and consumed, twice a day to relieve your throat infection.
* Boil liquorice (Jesthamadhu, mulhati) roots, pepper seeds and a few sugar candy crystals in milk and take an ounce thrice a day with honey to soothe throat irritation.
See also: Home remedies for hoarse voice / Keep your voice young and healthy
14 comments:
I have found that turmeric in milk is the best remedy for cough and sore throat.
Do you have a stuffy nose? If so, before you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning, use "Ocean Ultra". It's a saline nose spray the really works good. I use it when I have that kind of sore throat. Sometimes you breath through your mouth when you have a cold and you throat dries out. This should help
pineapple soothes it.
Bromelain with papaya will cure it (in with the vitamins).
sucking on whole cloves overnight and when you mouth is dry helps. I keep cloves by my bed and carry them in my purse...like when you get dry mouth..kind of like a security blanket.
chiken noodle soup, garlic, salt water gargle are all good..as is honey, hot tea, any thing that feels good.
Gargle with salt water OR depending on how old you are (my grandma's favorite which really works) is to gargle WILD TURKEY. I know it sounds weird but the alcohol will kill anything!
You'll be okay taking a sore throat lozenge or zinc lozenge
the least expensive sore throat remedy is rinse mouth with warm water with salt added or water and baking soda; some people gargle with water and hydrogen peroxide; one tsp. per quart h20
eating garlic can help; like spagetti with garlic;
taking Vitamin C helps; buy 100 tabs for $5.
drinking mint tea or slippery elm tea as someone else said tea honey lemon all "cheap !
Use about a 1/4 cup warm water with about a tsp or tbsp of salt, mix well, gargle like with mouth wash and spit out.
Try hot lemon and honey, boil some water put about 2 Tbsp Lemon juice in the cup of water and about at least 1 1/2 tbsp honey, mix well and drink down, it will really feel funny drinking it, but the honey soothes your throat and acts as an antiseptic.
Just mix 1/4 cup of vinegar with 1/4 cup of honey and take one Tablespoon six times a day. The vinegar kills the bacteria.
Try sippin on some honey that could help or something warm.
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Water boiled with basil leaves can be taken as a drink in case of sore throat. This water can also be used as a gargle.
Sooth a sore throat by gargling with one teaspoon of salt mixed in a small amount of warm water. Do not swallow. Repeat as often as necessary.
For soar throat lick juice of Tulsi leaves mixed with honey
Gargling with a decoction made by cardamom-seed powder, cinnamon, and clove with water helps to control the pain in sore throat and prevents further worsening of the event. It is an effective home remedy of laryngitis by cardamom.
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