Four Easy Natural Ways to Get Rid of Sore Throats

Sore throats are irritating. Once we have them, it's difficult to ignore them and that constant uncomfortable feeling up your throat can make many people go crazy. The sooner we get rid of them, the better.

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So here are four easy ways to get rid of them:

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Drink warm/hot fluids. Warm milk, hot green tea with stuff like, lemon juice, ginger, honey can ease the congestion in your throat very quick. Drinking warm fluids help reduce the spasms in and around your throat helping you to breathe much better and dampen the pain in your throat. Drink or eat lots of oranges and vitamin C in general. This will help boost your immune system and fight any flu, infection or bacteria causing your sore throat. Vitamin C has been clinically shown scientifically to be an effective in boosting your immune system. Oranges have a lot of vitamin C in it, and is one of the most natural ways of boosting Vitamin C levels in your body. Gurgle your mouth and throat with warm water and salt to sterilize your mouth. Warm water with salt helps kill bacteria and infections in your mouth. A glass of water with salt in it can do the trick quickly and effectively. Avoid fatty foods. Stay away from fatty things like chocolate, chips or oily fatty takeaway. Fatty foods can cause irritation to the lining of the throat as it causes increase levels of inflammation in the body. Sore throats are usually caused by inflammation of the throat, hence avoiding fatty foods can reduce the severity of sore throats.

Four Easy Natural Ways to Get Rid of Sore Throats

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Marshmallow Root For Digestion, Ulcers, Sore Throats and More!

Marshmallow is not what you might think: it is not the puffy white sugary sweet marshmallow that people roast over fires! Rather, marshmallow root is a common herb used to heal burns, wounds, chaffed and sore skin, to soothe sore mouths and sore throats, for dry coughs, and gastrointestinal irritation. Its emollient and demulcent properties make it very suited to healing irritations, and therefore it is almost always included in combinations for ulcers, leaky gut, and for irritated mucous surfaces. Since the Marshmallow herb is such an effective wound-healer, it is well suited to healing peptic and duodenal ulcers, gastroenteritis, enteritis and colitis. It really is one of the best herbs to treat an ulcerated digestive system. It should come as no surprise that Marshmallow Root has been used for over two thousand years in Europe. Its first recorded use was in the ninth century BCE. It was widely used in Greek medicine. Its name Althea comes from the Greek aitho, meaning, "to cure".

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Marshmallow capsules typically come in a 450 mg dosage - a normal daily dose is either 10 Marshmallow Leaf capsules, or 12 Marshmallow Root capsules. If you prefer Marshmallow Tea made from leaves, infuse 1 - 3 teaspoons of the marshmallow leaves, or 1 - 3 tea bags, in a cup of water and drink three cups a day.

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For Marshmallow Root Tea, decoct 1 - 3g of the loose root in a cup of water and drink three cups a day. (Note that the Commission E recommends slightly lower doses of the tea.)

Tincture doses vary: herbalist David Hoffmann recommends 1 - 4 mL three times a day, but others recommend
the much higher dose of 5 - 10 mL of the leaf two to three times a day, and 10 - 25 mL of the root up to three times a day.

Marshmallow Leaf Extract should be taken 1 - 2 mL of the two to three times a day; a typical Marshmallow Root Extract dosage would be 2 - 5 mL up to three times a day.

The marshmallow plant is very safe and has no side effects or contraindications. It is quite safe to take while pregnant or breast feeding. There are no drug interactions, although marshmallow may delay the internal absorption of drugs taken at the same time. This possibility, however, is only speculative.

Botanical Name: (Althea officinalis)

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Marshmallow Root For Digestion, Ulcers, Sore Throats and More!

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Garlic and Onion Cold Remedy For Sore Throats

Did you know garlic and onion honey has been used for generations to help soothe a sore throat and fight the colds and flu? I know, you're thinking you will never get your kids to eat that. But, once kids try it, they actually do like it. Honey sweetens these pungent herbs and you just might not be able to keep them out of it.

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You can make this garlic and onion honey when you get the first signs of a cold or flu. It can be made up and used the next day. Kids will be pleasantly surprised that it tastes so good and that it feels good on their sore throats. The honey tames the pungency, but at the same time it draws out all those cold and flu fighting compounds.

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Here's how to make this traditional remedy used by cultures around the world. Fill a glass jar with garlic cloves. A small canning jar works well. Leave the skins on and add the cloves whole or crushed slightly to get those juices flowing. Cut a small onion in quarters, leaving the skin on, and put in the jar with the garlic. Fill the jar with raw honey and stir to saturate the garlic and onions. Top off again with the honey if needed and put the cap on. Set it out on your counter and it will be ready the next day.

Take 1-2 teaspoons several times a day. This remedy has been used by cultures around the world for coughs, bronchitis, respiratory ailments and sinusitis. But it is especially soothing for sore throats.

©2009 Shanna Ohmes

Garlic and Onion Cold Remedy For Sore Throats

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