Sore Throat Remedy Someone?

[BroonsBane]

I've got a wicked sore throat to go with my nasty cold. Started yesterday and is getting worse by the minute. Damn throat kept waking me up last night.
Anyone have a home-brew remedy for a throat on fire?

[Fisherdude]

Alright, I'll tell you. It's legit, it works, I've used it for 40 years, and everybody who's tried it says it works.

Gargle every two hours or so with full strength regular Listerine.

Not the candy-flavored froo-froo crap. The real, piss-colored nasty stuff.

If you try it for the first time this evening, I guarantee your sore throat will feel so much better you'll fall asleep easily, and after half a day you'll be essentially over it.

[x_25]

It isn't a home remedy but I swear by this stuff. If you still have a soar throat tomorrow have someone go out and find you some. It is amazing. :yes:

[ybaolywa]

I've tried ginger tea and it does relieve the soreness for me. Here is a general recipe if you desire to try it.

"How to Make Ginger Tea

Ginger tea has a spicy, invigorating taste. It's used as a home remedy for indigestion, nausea, and to ward off colds, flu, and sore throats.

Ginger tea is very easy to make. Here is a recipe for you to try.
Ginger Tea Recipe
# water, 4 cups
# 2-inch piece of fresh ginger root
# optional: honey and lemon slice

Peel the ginger root and slice it into thin slices. Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan. Once it is boiling, add the ginger. Cover it and reduce to a simmer for 15-20 minutes. Strain the tea. Add honey and lemon to taste.

Note: Keep in mind that if you are making ginger tea as a home remedy during cold and flu season, sweeteners are not recommended"

[OvenMaster]

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well, Mike. :(

The only thing that kills a sore throat for me once it's started is the Halls Mentho-Lyptus® (with Vapor Action!) cough drops. The eucalyptus oil and menthol in them numbs my throat up enough to let me fall asleep. I like the cherry flavor. They keep the sinuses clear, too.

Those first feelings of scratchiness that warn me that a cold is on the way usually make me head toward the cherry brandy and vodka bottles. But since I've been having to use a chlorhexidine rinse for my teeth and gums for about a year now, I haven't had even the slightest scratchiness... chlorhexidine is a prescription disinfectant! :yikes:

Tom

[onepixel]

I've tried ginger tea and it does relieve the soreness for me. Here is a general recipe if you desire to try it.

"How to Make Ginger Tea

Ginger tea has a spicy, invigorating taste. It's used as a home remedy for indigestion, nausea, and to ward off colds, flu, and sore throats.

Ginger tea is very easy to make. Here is a recipe for you to try.
Ginger Tea Recipe
# water, 4 cups
# 2-inch piece of fresh ginger root
# optional: honey and lemon slice

Peel the ginger root and slice it into thin slices. Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan. Once it is boiling, add the ginger. Cover it and reduce to a simmer for 15-20 minutes. Strain the tea. Add honey and lemon to taste.

Note: Keep in mind that if you are making ginger tea as a home remedy during cold and flu season, sweeteners are not recommended"

This stuff works for me.

Hope you get well soon!

[Spectrum77]

Another vote for the ginger tea. A shake of garam masala too, if you're feeling gourmet.

[MAXZ28]

Hope you're feeling better....

A warm brandy sour always worked for me, even without a sore throat.

[MRX37]

The stuff in the pic that x_25 posted is similar to Vicks Chloroseptic spray. It'll relieve your throat, but might make your tongue a bit numb.

[jonman]

I use ginger brandy and eat spicy teryaki steak jerky. I used to be a singer in a bar band years ago and an old bartender tipped me off to this combo. It pretty much always worked for mew.

[Eric Clark]

Wisky with a little honey will take care of it and make you sleep like a baby.

[BroonsBane]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Can't do anything with alcohol and needed something fast so I tried tea and a whole wack of honey and that really helps :thmbsp:

[similost]

May not be legal.. but I bet a little "coke" mixed with water and garged with, would be sure to numb the throat instantly.. Seems it was used and worked way back when for just such things..

Otherwise, I second the cloraseptic spray... I used to really like the really nasty tasting yellow Cepocol losenges, bt don't know if they still make those..

[bordeno]

The liquid Tylenol sore throat concoction really works, especially for the type of sore throat that makes it incredibly painful to swallow.

[pustelniakr]

Hydrocodone

Enjoy,
Rich P

[toxcrusadr]

I hope you're not getting strep. Although you'd have a fever too.

That Chloroseptic spray, if it's like the others I've seen, it has phenol in it. Great numbing and only slightly toxic. :D

[bshorey]

I've got a wicked sore throat to go with my nasty cold. Started yesterday and is getting worse by the minute. Damn throat kept waking me up last night.
Anyone have a home-brew remedy for a throat on fire?

#1 in my book, from a Chinese herbal pharmacy, is "Golden Throat" lozenges, from the Guangxi Golden Throat Health Products Company.

bs

[Holst]

I'm with the throat spray (equate cheap stuff), a couple of Halls mentholiptus (however you spell it) cough drops and lots of water.

[jimfet]

I use throat spray with methillate in it. Doing it sinse I was a kid. Always worked for me.

You have to add a small bottle to the throat spray.

[redcoates7]

A Kiwi friend of mine gave me these AMAZING Active Manuka Honey Lozenges that simply work wonders. My voice was kicked after a couple of days of trade show yakking and I needed to give a presentation...one of these things before the talk and I was completely back in action.

Hard to find in the 'States, but in Canada? Maybe...

[Elfasto]

Okay, this is what I do, and I have to warn you, it's kind of sadistic.

1) Get about a dozen lemons and limes.
2) Squeeze out the juice into a large glass.
3) Add 2 teaspoons of Buckleys.
4) Look at the whole thing in fear. :D
5) Swallow the whole darn thing, and make sure you swallow alot to get the full effect.
6) Scream in pain
7) Get some sleep.


Honestly, this will knock down the sore throat alot, mostly by the sheer amount of citric acid killing everything in it's path.

[thisOne]

Here is a remedy that my Grandmother would apply to my sore throat and it works wonders (you don't have to spray, swallow or ingest anything)

1. Take a clean cloth and fold it to about the width of your palm (4-5 inches) and about 18 inches long (clean dish towel will work)

2. Place it over a piece of polyethylene folded to about the same width and length. Folded plastic grocery bag will work. The cloth is on top of the plastic bag.

3. Take some rubbing alcohol and sprinkle it over the center portion of the cloth (about 8 inches wide centered on the cloth)

4. Take an egg and separate the white and the yolk. Spread the EGG WHITE (forget the yolk, otherwise you're making an omelette) over the same area you made moist with the rubbing alcohol. Beat it up a little with a fork so it’s all mixed in with the alcohol.

5. Rub your throat and neck (all the way around) with a liberal amount of petroleum jelly (Vaseline). THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP, IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU'LL BE IN DIFFERENT KIND OF PAIN.

6. Have someone help you to wrap he entire concoction around your neck, with the egg part over the sore throat area (easiest way is to lean over it as it's laying on the table and have someone lift it to your throat and wrap it - some will leak out and it feels a little weird). Then wrap the whole thing is a big towel to keep it warm.

7. Go to bed and get some sleep.

Here is what happens. The egg white and the alcohol go into a chemical reaction and create a considerable amount of heat. The whole thing acts as a heat compress and it somehow draws out the sickness out of you. The reason that you need to apply Vaseline to your throat / neck is to prevent a chemical burn to your skin (the thing gets pretty hot, the more alcohol the hotter, but not so hot as to do damage, even without the Vaseline. It's just better/safer with the Vaseline).

When you wake up the sore throat will be gone and you will have scrambled egg white all over your neck.

All I can say is that I used to hate when my grandmother would make this for me (she used denatured alcohol, the blue stuff and camphor oil instead of Vaseline, so the thing stunk to high heaven); but boy..., does this work!!!

I did this to my wife once. She was very skeptical, but when her sore throat pain got unbearable and nothing else worked, but this compress did, now she swears by it.

Hope you get better (don't forget the petroleum jelly)

[mwr885]

I always gargle with salt water, works like a champ. Just repeat everytime it hurts!

[mwr885]

Here is a remedy that my Grandmother would apply to my sore throat and it works wonders (you don't have to spray, swallow or ingest anything)

1. Take a clean cloth and fold it to about the width of your palm (4-5 inches) and about 18 inches long (clean dish towel will work)

2. Place it over a piece of polyethylene folded to about the same width and length. Folded plastic grocery bag will work. The cloth is on top of the plastic bag.

3. Take some rubbing alcohol and sprinkle it over the center portion of the cloth (about 8 inches wide centered on the cloth)

4. Take an egg and separate the white and the yolk. Spread the EGG WHITE (forget the yolk, otherwise you're making an omelette) over the same area you made moist with the rubbing alcohol. Beat it up a little with a fork so it’s all mixed in with the alcohol.

5. Rub your throat and neck (all the way around) with a liberal amount of petroleum jelly (Vaseline). THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP, IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS YOU'LL BE IN DIFFERENT KIND OF PAIN.

6. Have someone help you to wrap he entire concoction around your neck, with the egg part over the sore throat area (easiest way is to lean over it as it's laying on the table and have someone lift it to your throat and wrap it - some will leak out and it feels a little weird). Then wrap the whole thing is a big towel to keep it warm.

7. Go to bed and get some sleep.

Here is what happens. The egg white and the alcohol go into a chemical reaction and create a considerable amount of heat. The whole thing acts as a heat compress and it somehow draws out the sickness out of you. The reason that you need to apply Vaseline to your throat / neck is to prevent a chemical burn to your skin (the thing gets pretty hot, the more alcohol the hotter, but not so hot as to do damage, even without the Vaseline. It's just better/safer with the Vaseline).

When you wake up the sore throat will be gone and you will have scrambled egg white all over your neck.

All I can say is that I used to hate when my grandmother would make this for me (she used denatured alcohol, the blue stuff and camphor oil instead of Vaseline, so the thing stunk to high heaven); but boy..., does this work!!!

I did this to my wife once. She was very skeptical, but when her sore throat pain got unbearable and nothing else worked, but this compress did, now she swears by it.

Hope you get better (don't forget the petroleum jelly)

I may try this one day, if nothing else it sounds like a fun science experiment! :scratch2:

[analog addict]

with a bottle of Magic Mouthwash...

It's something hand mixed by a pharmacy, and includes some viscous lidocaine, liquid tetracycline, whiff of steroid, etc. I used to have a recipe around somewhere, but it's been 10 years since I did any urgent care work...:dunno:

A pint bottle will last you forever though...:yes:

http://theblondepharmacist.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/magic-mouthwash-the-vague-term-for-a-concoction-of-anything/

[jbrainey]

Salt water....Hope you get over it soon.

[AnalogDigit]

I gargle with warm body temperature salt water. If you are running a fever, go see a doctor. It might be strep.