How to quickly cure a throat at home

You can catch a sore throat not only in winter or rainy autumn, but also in summer. It is enough to sit on a draft or drink cold water so that a tickle appears in the throat, and the mucous membrane turns red and slightly swollen. Infection and microbes multiply rapidly in the nasopharynx, worsening the patient’s well-being and spreading to the nearest organs. You cannot start a sore throat so that complications do not occur. Treat when the first symptoms appear, using an integrated approach.

Woolen socks and mustard

Start the fight against angina with measuring body temperature. If the thermometer shows no more than 37, it is allowed to warm the throat and soar the feet. Heat accelerates blood circulation throughout the body, helping the immune system fight inflammation

What is the sequence of the procedure?

• Half or third wash the basin with warm water.
• Dilute in it a few tablespoons of sea or table salt.
• You can add 3-4 drops of essential eucalyptus or orange oil.
• Place a kettle or pot of hot water near the bowl.
• Gradually raise the temperature by pouring boiling water into a bowl.

Soar feet for 10 to 30 minutes. Monitor your well-being: if the pulse becomes too frequent or starts to feel dizzy, finish the procedure. Wipe your feet thoroughly, wear wool or terry socks. It is advisable to soar the feet before bedtime, but it is possible in the afternoon, but then you need to lie down for 1-2 hours under a warm blanket.

If the sore throat progresses, it is recommended to pour a little mustard powder into the socks. The main thing is not to overdo it with the ingredient, because you can earn a burn. Not only feet should be warm, but also a sore throat, which is wrapped with a scarf or shawl.

Drinking mode

The body spends a lot of energy to fight viruses and the inflammatory process, so with angina, rest is recommended. You need to postpone the trip to the gym and general cleaning until recovery, it is better to lie on the couch, covered with a blanket, and take a nap.

With angina, as with colds, you should drink a lot of tea or herbal decoctions. The drink must be warm in order to warm the throat from the inside. A delicious medicine is prepared from:

• raspberry leaves or twigs;
• chamomile flowers;
• dried rosehip or hawthorn berries;
• grated ginger root;
• lemon or orange peels;
• peppermint or lemon balm;
• calendula or sage flowers;
• eucalyptus leaves;
• oak bark or oregano.

Herbs are combined or brewed individually. You can put in a thermos tea leaves of green or black tea, add a sprig of mint and 50-60 g of wild rose, season with grated ginger and pour all the ingredients with boiling water. Wait until the broth becomes warm, strain and divide into several stages. Before drinking, add a few teaspoons of honey and 30-40 ml of lemon juice.

Together with herbal decoctions, it is recommended to drink fruit or berry fruit drinks, in which there is a lot of ascorbic acid. Vitamin C is exactly what the body needs for quick recovery. Fruit drinks are cooked from cranberries, red or black currants, as well as lingonberries. Use in the form of heat at 250-500 ml per day.

Half an hour before bedtime, you need to drink a chamomile broth or a glass of milk, which must be heated to 40–45 degrees. Put a pinch of soda, 20-50 g of linden honey and a little natural butter in the drink, which will soften the irritated mucous membrane.

Special recipes
If angina is a harbinger of a cold, you need to strengthen the immune system with freshly squeezed lemon juice. Dissolve a tablespoon of citrus ingredient in a glass of warm water and add the same amount of honey. Chop thoroughly and drink immediately.

Important: This treatment option is contraindicated for people with high acidity, and in pregnant women, the combination of lemon juice with honey can cause an allergic reaction.

Is a sore throat a result of hypothermia or a walk in the pouring rain? In an emergency, change clothes, wrap yourself in a blanket and get a bottle of red wine, hidden for a rainy day. Uncork and heat 150-200 ml of alcohol in a water bath. In a hot wine, put a pinch of black or red pepper, and when the drink cools down a bit, add a spoon or two honey.

Having poured into a cup, first breathe over the vapors, and then drink the drug in small sips. It remains to steam your legs and go to bed.

Opponents of alcohol are recommended a different recipe:

• Grind a medium or small onion to a mushy state.
• Pour into a jar.
• Pour 250-300 ml of boiling water.
• Chop, wait for the onions to precipitate.
• Drink the whole strained product in several sips.

The bulb can be replaced with several heads of garlic, which, as in the first ingredient, contain volatile and antimicrobial substances.

Rinse solutions

If the tickle has turned into a full-fledged sore throat with sore throat and secretions, heavy drinking and woolly socks are not enough. The inflamed mucous membrane of the nasopharynx should be regularly cleaned of mucus and bacteria using herbal decoctions or special solutions. Gargle from 4 to 8 times a day, because during the procedure, pus is washed out and the number of bacteria decreases. Most herbal decoctions possess not only cleansing, but also antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.

There are several basic rules for gargling:

1. Use only warm solution. Cold broth leads to vasospasm and exacerbation of tonsillitis, while hot burns and burns the mucous membrane, slowing its recovery.
2. 150–200 ml of solution should be used at a time.
3. Clean the mucosa an hour before meals or 30 minutes after a meal.
4. Gargle 4 to 8 times a day. The more often, the sooner pain and perspiration will pass.

In solutions and decoctions, it is recommended to add iodine, citric acid or soda to enhance the effect of homeopathic remedies.

Pharmacy preparations
Buy the Chlorophyllipt solution and the Furacilin plate. Pour two tablespoons of the first ingredient into one glass, pour 4 crushed tablets into the second. Dilute both components with warm water, stir until the drugs dissolve.

Alternate the first and second solution. If you can’t keep the liquid in the throat due to the gag reflex, you need to draw the product into a clean syringe and rinse the tonsils out of it, bending over the sink.

Replace "Chlorophyllipt" can be "Chlorhexidine" or three percent peroxide. A weak solution of boric acid, potassium permanganate or rivanol (0.1%) helps with angina.

Beetroot Recipes
Dilute 10 ml of table vinegar in a glass of freshly squeezed beet juice. Wash the throat with the mixture 5-6 times a day. It is advisable not to swallow, so as not to burn the stomach.

For the second recipe, you need large beets:

• Wash the root crop, cut off the tail, and leave the peel.
• Boil in plenty of water over medium heat.
• When the vegetable becomes soft, remove it from the pan, and cool the liquid to room temperature and gargle with it.

Soda and lemon treatment
The procedure consists of two stages, which cannot be skipped. If you follow all the instructions, angina passes after 12 hours or a day.

1. Pour boiling water over a tablespoon of soda.
2. Cool to room temperature and rinse the mucosa with tonsils.
3. Finish the procedure with a thin slice of lemon, which must be absorbed for 10-15 minutes.

Repeat 5–9 times. If the symptoms have disappeared, the throat should be gargled the next day to consolidate the effect of the treatment.

Ginger Tea and Propolis
A decoction of potato flowers will help remove perspiration and pain. A pinch of dried raw materials brew in 250 ml of boiling water and cool to room temperature. If after rinsing begins to pinch in the throat or mouth, it is recommended to slowly dissolve a piece of butter.

With a sore throat, which appeared due to a virus or infection, ginger root will cope. Dry and fresh, but grated or cut into small pieces, will do. Mix a pinch of fragrant ingredient with a glass of boiling water, insist for 2-3 hours, add a spoonful of lemon juice and honey.

Propolis is no less effective. Some recommend solid lozenges that need to be absorbed, but a safer option is tincture. 50 drops per 100 ml of water, gargle sore throat twice a day. The solution helps even with tonsillitis and laryngitis.

You can gargle:

• apple cider vinegar: 15 ml of the product per 250 ml of water;
• blueberry decoction: half a glass of berries on a half-liter jar of liquid;
• water extract from cloves: 1-2 stars per glass of water;
• one percent kefir, heated to 38 degrees.

Strong green tea or ordinary warm water is also useful, which can be used to clean tonsils, if even salt for preparing the solution is not at hand.

Inhalations and compresses from angina

You cannot treat the throat in this way if the lymph nodes are inflamed. Active heating leads to their increase and the development of lymphadenitis. Allowed only to wrap a neck with a scarf and drink warm tea.

Salt and cabbage
Compresses are forbidden for cancer and heart problems, tuberculosis and allergies. Contraindication is high fever. Keep the compress for no longer than 3 hours, and people with sensitive skin are recommended to reduce to 50-60 minutes.

An old version of sore throat is made from white cabbage: the vegetable is finely chopped and wrapped in a gauze bag. You need to lightly press on the compress so that the juice stands out, and then attach it to the upper part of the neck, cover with plastic wrap and wrap it with something warm.

Cabbage is used in another way:

• Tear off a large juicy leaf
• Pour boiling water over it
• Lightly beat off with a wooden mallet
• Lubricate one side with honey
• Attach to the neck with a sweet side and leave for 3 hours.

If there is no allergy to honey or cabbage is at hand, it is recommended to try the recipe with sea or table salt. From this ingredient it is necessary to prepare a ten percent solution. In salt water, soak a bandage folded in 6 or 7 layers, slightly squeeze and wrap the sore throat. Cover with a dry cloth, can be left overnight.

Alcohol and Mustard Tortilla
Combine vodka and water in equal proportions. Dip a towel into the mixture, unscrew and wrap the neck. It is advisable to apply a compress in the morning, because you need to keep it for 7 hours. But if there were uncomfortable sensations, take off earlier.

Instead of a compress from the fabric, a warming cake is used, which is prepared from flour, honey and mustard. Take the components in equal proportions, knead the dough and roll. Put the cake on the throat, cover with a plastic bag and a woolen scarf.

As a "filling" for the compress, you can use crushed potatoes and heated cottage cheese. It is useful to breathe over decoctions and prepare solutions for inhalation from boiling water and essential oil. Recommend eucalyptus, orange or mint.

You can quickly get rid of a sore throat with pharmacy drugs and alternative methods. The main thing is not to delay and timely start treatment after the first symptoms appear, so that the inflammation does not spread to the sinuses and ears, and the complication does not begin.

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