Whatever causes caused pharyngitis, this disease should be taken seriously. Until the end is not cured or neglected disease can develop into a chronic form. With each new exacerbation in this case to cope with a pharyngitis all becomes more difficult. Pharyngitis can also lead to chronic rhinitis (runny nose), tooth decay, dysbacteriosis of the gastrointestinal tract. To prevent this from happening, we will tell you how to treat pharyngitis with folk methods.
The most formidable complication of pharyngitis is laryngostenosis (constriction of the lumen of the throat). With laryngostenosis, air into the lungs passes through the larynx with difficulty. At the slightest sign of laryngostenosis, an "ambulance" should be called immediately.
What should I do with pharyngitis? A special diet during the illness is not required to comply. The main thing is to give up cold, salty and spicy food. Forget about fizzy drinks - carbon dioxide acts on microorganisms so that they multiply with duplicated speed in our body. To quench your thirst is useful for blackberry or blueberry jellies and compotes. Very useful is the pumpkin. The pectin substances contained in it improve in the body all metabolic processes. Garlic and onions are irreplaceable. These vegetables are rich in phytoncides - natural natural antiseptics. They are very effective in combating pathogens.
From the very first hours of the disease, it is necessary to gargle with reliable antiseptic and antibacterial and phyto-drugs. In the treatment of pharyngitis folk methods the best means are decoctions from the bark of oak, alder, sage, calendula. To prepare the broths, pour a glass of boiling water 1 tablespoon of dry raw material, cover with a saucer and insist half an hour. Then the decoction is filtered and rinse the throat 3 times a day with warm (but not hot!) Infusion for the whole week. One dose of infusion is considered a single dose. After the period of exacerbation (after 2-3 days), go to the vegetable medicine. For this:
• You should squeeze the juice of young raw potatoes and rinse your neck 4 times a day. Half a cup of juice is a single dose. The course of treatment is 7 days.
• 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, add freshly squeezed red beet juice into one glass. Throat should be rinsed 5-6 times a day. A single dose is 4-5 tablespoons of the solution. The course of treatment is 5-7 days.
Even with the improvement of well-being for 7-10 days, use vegetable immunomodulators for rinsing your throat. To do this, you need infusions of echinacea purpurea, duckweed small, celandine large. Infusion is prepared as follows: pour 1 tablespoon of dry raw material 1 cup of boiling water. Then cover and insist for 30-40 minutes. Filter and gargle 3 times a day with warm infusion for a week. A single dose is 1/3 cup of infusion.
For prevention during the flu epidemic 2 times a day (morning and evening), rinse your throat with a glass of iodine-salt solution. To prepare it for a glass of water at room temperature, add 1 teaspoon of table salt and 3 drops of iodine. Attention! After rinsing your throat, do not swallow the medicine.
Slavic healers advised to treat pharyngitis with birch juice with milk and honey compresses. For this:
• Mix birch sap with milk in equal proportions to make a glass of drink, add 1/2 teaspoon of rye flour, stir and drink a glass a day. The course of treatment is 15 days.
• Knead a thick dough of flour and honey. Blind an oblong cake about the size of a hand and the thickness of the little finger and fix it on the throat for 7 days.
The Alaskan Eskimos are perhaps the first who applied the method of point cryotherapy. They have long treated the throat with cold, applying ice slices to the bases of the thumbs for 5-7 minutes. By the way, modern medical research has confirmed the effectiveness of such procedures. It turns out that it is at the base of the thumbs that the so-called throat zones are located, acting on which it is possible to facilitate the course of pharyngitis. The course of treatment is 3-5 procedures a day until the condition improves.
Over the course of countless centuries in India, all throat diseases, including pharyngitis, were treated with rinsing clay. And this is not accidental. After all, clay is an ideal sorbent that absorbs mucus, in which microbes are swarming. To do this, pour a glass of water at room temperature 1 teaspoon of clay. For rinses, you can use only special clay, which is sold in pharmacies. Throat should be rinsed 6 times a day. The course of treatment is a week.
But this folk method is especially loved by Russian singers, since it helps to get rid of professional pharyngitis in the shortest possible time. Pour half a glass of aniseed seeds with a glass of water and boil for 15 minutes. Then follows the drink to strain, add 1/4 cup of lime honey and bring the broth again to a boil. Then remove the infusion from the heat and pour 1 tablespoon of cognac. Drink every half hour for 1 tablespoon. The course of treatment is one week.
The next folk recipe came to us from the old records of the personal doctor of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. At the first signs of illness, the emperor rubbed his throat with cognac every hour. Single dose - 2 tablespoons of the drink. And the Georgian healers advised to apply with pharyngitis a red dry wine warmed to body temperature. Single dose - 3-4 tablespoons of wine.
It must be remembered that it is not so much the cold that is dangerous for the throat as the sharp temperature drop. To avoid illness, give up hot tea or coffee in the cold. Do not bite off large pieces of ice cream on a sultry summer day. Exclude from the diet very cold or very hot food. Very well in this regard, said the English naturalist John Lebbock: "Health is much more dependent on our habits and nutrition than from medical art." Treating pharyngitis with folk methods and be healthy!