Sore Throat

With your constant speech and eating, right from birth, your mouth and throat is one of the most over worked organ. If you had chewed it properly, the antiseptic chemicals contained in your saliva would have killed the germs in the mouth itself before they entered your throat. But unfortunately, we eat without chewing. We gobble food along with the germs contained in it. Now that we have gobbled it, we have the germs in our throat.

Thus a sore throat simply communicates the fact that you have abused your throat either by its over use or by wrongful eating. Quite naturally, you would get cured if you simply keep your mouth shut for the next forty eight hours taking ample fruit juice which is a great cleaning agent. If that does not work, opt for any of the following Home Medicines:

1 On a mixture of 1 tsp each of cinnamon and cardamom
Pour 1 glass boiling water
Filter and use for gargling

2 Boil ½ tsp each of powdered cinnamon and black pepper in one cup water
Add honey and drink

3 Boil fenugreek leaves with ½ cup moong dal and 10 small onions
Eat regularly

4 Chew a small piece of fresh ginger

5 Take a handful of leaves of lime; pour over it 1 cup hot water and take the water

6 Chew or suck a small piece of raw athimadhuram

7 Add 1 tsp turmeric powder to boiling water and inhale the vapour

8 If sore throat is due to cold, make pepper powder, add it to a spoonful of hot ghee and take

9 Before going to bed, take milk added with pepper powder and a little of turmeric powder for three days

10 Gargle with salt and ajwain seeds in warm water

11 Add a few dried rose petals to honey and chew frequently

Throat irritation

1 Powder 1 tsp fried cloves; mix with 1 cup warm water and gargle frequently

2 If throat irritation is due to coughing, chew 3 cloves with a pinch of common salt

3 Make a kashayam of Palm candy + little pepper + jeera + virali turmeric small piece and drink with one tea spoon of butter. Pepper and jeera to be fried and powdered before putting in kashayam

4 In case of ulcer in the throat, take jeera and palm candy and chew them together. After a little time, take warm water

5 Before going to bed, take milk added with pepper powder and a little of turmeric powder for three days

6 Lick a small piece of vasambu

Swelling in throat

Fry a handful of jasmine leaves in 1 tbsp gingelly oil and tie around the throat when bearably hot

Throat pain

1 Miix 1 tbsp each of lime juice and honey
Swallow tiny amounts slowly

2 Crush neem leaves in water, remove fibre, warm it up, add little honey
Use it for gargling