Sunday, December 26, 2010

Sore throat remedies

Cold air has already made its presence; did it make your tonsils angry? Here are some ideas.

  • Drink herbal teas made from a mixture of sage, colt’s foot, plantain, field horsetail, St. John’s wort, yarrow, chamomile (make an infusion of all the above) and add a few drops of Swedish bitter.
  • Take two baths a day for 25 minutes.
  • Apply a poultice of clay and grinded onions on the neck race for 2 hours per day.
  • Place your feet in hot water for 30 minutes and take steam baths of chamomile and peppermint or lavender oil at the head and chest.
  • Apply neck compresses the comfrey kernel, fenugreek or raw cabbage leaves.
  • Do garlic, onion, lemon and oil gargle for 3-4 minutes.
  • Gargle with tea as an infusion made of marshmallow, chamomile, marigold, yellow bedstraw, horsetail, sage and thyme.
  • Apply warm compresses at night, with infusion of oak bark
  • Massage your body with an alcoholic solution of peppermint and lavender.

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