Sore Throat refers to the inflammation of the pharynx or back of the throat. Sore throats usually occurs with a cold and cough or can be a result of swollen tonsils or an infection and irritation in the throat, which can sometimes lead to pain or ache in the ear. An irritating condition of the throat may range from the harmless to the serious problem.
Causes of Sore Throat
The main causes of sore throat are:
- Bacterial or viral infection
- Various ailments like cold; influenza, tonsillitis, mumps, sinusitis, measles and diphtheria
- Leukemia
- Excessive smoking
- Talking loudly and shouting
Home Remedies for Sore Throat
Use of mango bark is very beneficial in sore throat. Make a gargle by mixing 10 ml of the fluidextract with 125 ml of water. This is one of the effective and simple home remedies for sore throat.
Sore throat treatment - An infusion of the seeds mixed with common salt can be used as a gargle in acute condition.
The leaves of the holy basil have also been found beneficial in the treatment of sore throat. The water boiled with basil leaves should be taken as a drink or can also be used as a gargle. This is also effective natural remedy for sore throat.
A hot Epsom salt bath will be highly beneficial.
Take 4 cloves of garlic, 1 tbsp. Honey, 1/8 tsp. cayenne and Mix them together, take a spoonful when needed and chew it up well before swallowing as this provides relief and is good natural remedy for sore throat.
The throat gargled several times with warm water mixed with a little salt also provide relief from sore throat. This is one of the simplest sore throat cures.
Make a tea by adding 1 or 2 teaspoons of dried chamomile blossoms to a pint of boiling water and drink a cup after every few hours. This is a good home remedy for sore throat.
Diet for sore throat - Mix 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a pinch of cayenne pepper, extracted juice of 1/4 a lemon, and 1 teaspoon of honey. Add to this 1 cup of hot water and stir well. Drink this up to 4 cups a day for sore throat relief. This is one of the effective home remedies for sore throat.
The spice cinnamon is also regarded as an effective sore throat remedy. Powdered spice boiled in a glass on water with a pinch of pepper powder and honey is highly beneficial in the treatment. The oil of cinnamon mixed with honey also provides relief. Good Home Remedy for Sore Throat.
A gargle prepared from fenugreek seeds is also beneficial in the sore throat treatment.
Add 2 sprigs of coarsely chopped parsley, 3 whole spice cloves, 1 teaspoon of powdered myrrh, and 1/4 teaspoon powdered goldenseal to 1 pint of boiling water to prepare the tea. Stir use as a gargle or mouthwash. This is one of the effective home remedies for sore throat.
Daily dry friction bath is also beneficial for the sore throat.
Diet for sore throat - Cut an onion, put in a cup with a top, soak with honey, cover the cup and leave for one hour, swallow 1 spoon of the honey after every few hours to get relief. This is also effective home remedy for sore throat.
- Sage gargle
Make a tea with 25 grams fresh sage in 600 ml of water and add one-fourth teaspoon of cayenne. Allow it to cool and strain it before drinking.
- Red sage tea
Infuse one teaspoon of dried red sage in one cup of boiling water. Cover and leave for 10 minutes, then strain and add vinegar. This can be used for gargling four times a day and can be drunk as a tea without adding vinegar.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/4 teaspoon honey
mix these ingredients in 1/2 cup warm water and gargle once in the morning and once in the evening daily.
i use dollar general brand hot tea
(the honey and lemon thing...?)
However, raw garlic is the remedy for sore throats that I think I like best. Get a good-sized raw clove of garlic and chop it up into small pieces of any kind. First, take a piece or two and chew them up, using mostly the molars in the back of the mouth. Swallow hard. Then, take another piece or two of the garlic and swallow them with water, just like you would medicine. After that chew up some more raw garlic and repeat until you've finished the entire clove. This remedy helps best when you drink hot tea immediately after, though, probably because of the burning sensation the raw garlic will usually inflict on your tongue, and it might get the mucus in your throat working up a little bit, but the relief should be pretty much instantaneous. The fresh raw garlic sort of both numbs your mouth and throat and helps to kill the bad bacteria in your esophagus.
Anna
1: A fresh tomato sliced thick (about the size of 2 regular tomato slices) and fried in a pan til skin is fried and tomato is soggy. Add salt and enjoy!
2: 1 1/2 lemons sqeezed in a coffee mug, 1 tablespoon of salt, HOT water stir well and enjoy!
These two work great for me! I hope they are as effective for you!
this is an effective home remedy:
fill about half a coffee mug with hot water, add 1 pinch ground ginger, 3 squirts lemon juice, 1 tablespoon honey. mix it all up and drink. sip slowly to get use to the taste and heat. it may taste a bit bleh but it works well.
you can also try lemonade warmed up, or Buckleys Canadol Mixture, or ginger milk (you just boil milk and add some tumeric and ginger powder, mmmmmm)
It is not apple cider AND vinegar, it is apple cider vinegar!
Although I imagine the combo of apple cider and vinegar is most likely also soothing.
VERY IMPORTANT to all reading this page - I would not use peroxide in your throat! That could be very dangerous, it will completely destroy the flesh if done wrong, making your sore throat much much worse!!! That suggestion should be removed. Who's moderating this site? Anyone?
Ok so i got a really bad sore throat, i even lost my voice. and school is tomorrow. All day i have been doing, gargles of hot salt water, and lemon. i also drank lemon and honey mixed together, eventually im feeling a little bit better, my voice is starting to come back, but if i talk for too much then it goes away. Early in the morning, i drank 3 teaspoons of milk and garlic, it is not a pleasant feeling, but i stopped coughing. i also suggest you drink orange juice. Keep yourself from drinking, cold beverages, if you're going to drink water, drink it warm. Another good recipe, is apricott. Boil the appricott, until its melted, dont boil too much just what you think you may be able to drink, well actually eat because it has appricotts. it actually tastes quite good, serve it in a cup and drink it with a spoon. The effect may not appear right away, but it will help your throat, when it feels the warm appricott, and open the passageways. Hope i helped, if you do this twice a day, u will probably be better in 3 days.
my doctor gave me some huge pills that just aren't helping fast enough.
anyways, a friend showed me a way to ease the pain, dramatically speed up recovery, and kind of make my throat feel better/refreshed.
-mix hydrogen peroxide and iodine(i dont know EXACTLY how much my friend used, it doesn't have to be exact, she used what looked like twice as much peroxide than iodine, the mixture will be dark brown..)
-you can either gargle/ swish it, or take 2 q-tips, dip them in the mixture, and pretty much rub it all over your tonsils and throat.
-spit it out of course shortly after you do this..its okay if you cant spit out every little bit.
it does NOT taste bad.
it does NOT hurt at all. i think it feels really good actually :]
it will fight off the infection, and get all of the nasty stuff off of your throat, making you feel very refreshed..
thanx.
ps - i gargle with hydrogen peroxide every day in place of mouthwash. as long as you don't swallow, it won't hurt you! it is safe to do, & has kept me from getting recurrent periodontitis & mouth/tongue ulcers. it's cheaper than mouthwash, & doesn't burn!! :o)
It might work for you, try doing it about every hour. Remeber luke warm water not cold!
salt 1 tsb
get warm water from the tap and mix the water with the salt and gargle. YOU MUST DO THIS AT NIGHT TIME JUST BEFROE YOU GO TGO BED. DO NOT DRINK THIS.
i am a huge fan of bragg apple cider vinegar, 2 spoons honey 2spoon acv and 8 oz water
everyday it is the best for health
Take 1 tbs 6 times a day.
Although I dont like the smell of the cayene, it does not taste bad at all.
i need to go to the party tomorrow and i've had this sore throat for 3 or 4 days. I can barely swallow... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!
IM DESPERATE!
It's gross tasting, but it's the only thing that works for me when I get really sick, besides medicine, of course.
soak a wash cloth in rubbing alcohol but not were it drips. then tie the wash cloth around you neck and sleep with it on overnight. in the morning your sore throat will be gone. The smell is the only bad thing but you get use to it after a while.
Process: Squeeze Lemon into a Small container mix with Baking Soda (let the bubbles calm down).
Insert one side of the Q-Tip into the mixture and clean one of your Tonsils(use 3 sides of the Q-Tip for each Tonsil). When done cleaning your Tonsils, Gargle the rest of the mixture DO NOT SWALLOW!!!
When done gargling rinse mouth with water then take a Table Spoonfull of Honey....
do This TWICE PER DAY.
Recently I did a google search for "sore throat home remedies" and found many pages suggesting the ACV route so I decided to employ it. I used the following recipe:
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Lemon, Apple Cider Vinegar, Cayenne, and Honey Tea
An old home remedy for sore throats is a tea made with lemon, apple cider vinegar, cayenne, and honey.
It is made by adding one teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, a tiny pinch of cayenne pepper, the juice of 1/4 lemon, and one teaspoon of honey to a cup of hot water. Stir.
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I must say this has been the most effective treatment I have used to date (I just did this a few hours ago so the long term effects are not yet known - tomorrow AM the sore throat could return I suppose .... but based on the results so far this is my new solution.
Additionally I want to agree with an earlier poster about NOT using peroxide. I have no scientific reason why not to use it other than I just sounds a bit dangerous.
Good luck all!!
Peroxide is a WONDERFUL Gargle not only for sore throat but also those annoying sores you tend to get if you bite your tongue or inside your cheek. It also whitens your teeth and kills all plaque. Thumbs up to a peroxide gargle for any type of open sore in your mouth. I also brush with baking soda....just powder up your toothbrush and go at it. Feels great and leaves your mouth germ free! The more germs you have in your mouth the more it will fizz...perhaps that was why the person did not like it. But it is doing it's job and nothing is wrong with the fizzing. I suppose it is just like using on any other cut or wound. If you use it on an infected wound it will fizz and burn. Have some honey after and that will soothe the burn.
Its really good on infections in the throat, add some warm water and some salt and gargle... the ACV is a good one also... I have saved much money in home cures and dont plan on going to the Docs unless I have too...!!!
If you are using it for the first time, especially with a young child or toddler, watch closely for any signs of a reaction.
Symptoms to look out for are:
- tingling of the mouth
- swelling of the mouth, lip, tongue, throat or eyes
- coughing or difficulty breathing
- vommiting
- abdominal pain
- hives, rash or redness of skin
Note: not all symptoms have to be present in an allergic reaction.
I myself was a huge fan of the ACV remedy until oneday I stopped breathing. I was shocked to find I had a severe allergy to sulfites (preservatives 220 - 229). All the small bouts of nausea, skin rashes and coughing fits I had been dismissing for months had finally turned into a full blown anaphylactic reaction where my airway closed completely and I was unable to get any air in or out.
Obviously Im not saying not to use apple cidar vinegar, like any product just be cautious if you are using it for the first time.