Treatment of sore throat at home with folk remedies

Angina is often affected, especially in childhood. But if in childhood the treatment was wrong, then the disease will often persecute and adults. This unpleasant disease, weakens the body, causes severe pain and increased body temperature. We offer effective methods of treating angina at home with folk remedies.

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Important! The main danger of angina is that with improper treatment, in incomplete volume, can cause various complications, affecting the systemic organs( even the heart).

Treatment of angina depending on its kind

As it is known, the angina is of several kinds:

  • purulent;
  • lacunar;
  • is follicular;
  • chronic;
  • sharp;
  • catarrhal.
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Therefore, for each species is assigned a separate treatment. Let's look at each species in detail.

Purulent

Unfortunately, this form should be treated by a doctor. In this case, appoint:

  • antibiotic( from a number of penicillins, then macrolides);
  • uses antiseptics in the form of sprays( Ingalipt, Stopangin);
  • use absorbable tablets( Sebidin, Strepsils);
  • requires regular gargling( Rotokan, potassium permanganate, chamomile, calendula).

Lacunar

For the treatment of lacunar angina at home, it is possible to use both antibiotics and folk recipes in the complex. You can prepare a special mass for resorption from conventional products:

  • you need to melt 1 tbsp.l.butter;
  • add 1 tbsp.l.honey and soda on the tip of a teaspoon;
  • mix everything thoroughly to produce a homogeneous mixture;Use
  • 3 times a day.

If you do not want to cook, find propolis and just slice it off.

An effective tool is brewed tea:

  • brew black tea, add to it the root of ginger, a lemon slice;
  • let it brew for 15 minutes, then drink.

Follicular

If a follicular sore throat occurs, the patient should be kept separate from everyone in his room:

  • , the room should be ventilated 2 times a day, cleaned, wet cleaned;
  • observe bed rest;
  • drink more warm drinks: broth of wild rose, chamomile, warm teas with lemon;
  • need to gargle more often: decoctions of herbs, salt and soda solution;
  • the patient needs a diet( without fatty, salty, smoked);
  • more to consume vitamin.

For treatment, alternative medicine offers:

  1. 5-7 garlic cloves chop and pour apple juice to make the mass look like a mush.
  2. Heat the mixture on fire for 5 minutes.
  3. Then strain and drink in small sips, throughout the day to drink 2-3 glasses.

Important! If angina only began to develop, then home therapies are an excellent way to stop the symptoms, and to stop the disease. When the moment is missed, the folk remedies are used only as additional to the main medicamental treatment.

Chronic

Treatment of chronic tonsillitis can be carried out freely at home, but after examination and doctor's recommendations. Self-medication leads to bad consequences. The specialist will describe the therapy in detail:

  • will include antibiotics if necessary( they are not always used to treat sore throats);
  • will prescribe antiseptic drugs;
  • anti-inflammatory drugs.

Traditional medicine recommends using for the treatment of herbs and tinctures:

  • teas from herbs( thyme, sage, coltsfoot, St. John's wort, fennel);
  • gargle with a solution of soda and salt;
  • carries out inhalations with the addition of eucalyptus;
  • take propolis tincture( drink tea with honey).

Acute

For the treatment of acute angina at home, first of all, gargle rinsing, for this you can use:

  • pharmacy solutions Chlorhexidine, Chlorophyllipt;
  • broths of herbs( chamomile, sage calendula, yarrow);
  • solutions of soda and salt;
  • beet juice( grate 200 g of beet, squeeze juice, rinse once every 2 hours).

At normal temperatures it is recommended to make a compress: leaf a cabbage with a thin layer of honey, put on chest, wrapped in a scarf. You can use resorption pills from the throat:

  1. Strepsils, Tharyngept, Travisil.
  2. Mumiye - 3 times a day( also need to be resorbed).

Catarrhal

This form of the disease requires timely treatment, otherwise you can earn otitis media, myocarditis, rheumatism and other diseases. To treat catarrhal angina at home, you can use various methods. Therapy is as follows:

  • regular rinsing of the throat with medicinal plants, furacilin and ready-made solutions;
  • use a dry bandage( wear all day), do compresses;
  • carry out inhalation procedures;
  • children to give warm fruit juices, tea with lemon.

But this is not enough for treatment, you still need to see a doctor so that he can prescribe physiotherapy and antibiotics.

What is important for home treatment of sore throat

Bed rest

It is especially important to pay attention to this item when treating quinsy at home with folk remedies for children. Adults with weakness and fever remain in bed, and children should be monitored. If you assume excessive activity, it can cause complications.

Drinking drink

It does not matter what a sick person will drink, it's important to drink. Maybe just warm water, tea, fruit drinks and compotes. Pay attention that the drink should be warm: not hot or cold, namely warm.

Mouth rinsing

In the described disease, tonsils and those parts of the throat that adhere to them are affected. If you look at the infected areas, you can visually see the white coating. You can get rid of by rinsing, which takes place every 60 minutes. Solutions for rinsing - a decoction of herbs, dissolved in water, soda, salt or specialty pharmaceutical products.

Admission of antiseptic drugs

To relieve the condition, because in the sore throat it hurts so much that it is difficult to swallow, you need to take medicine. Doctors often with this purpose appoint aerosols or chemist's candy specifically for the treatment of the throat.

Antibiotics

The intake of antibacterial drugs must be clearly agreed with the physician. Often the course of treatment is up to 7 days. Antibiotics are used to not complicate the disease. Often appoint:

  • Penicillin;
  • Benzylpenicillin;
  • Bicillin;
  • Erythromycin;
  • Sumamed;
  • Amoxislav;
  • Cephalexin;
  • Amoxicillin.

Antipyretic drugs

Taking medication with angina is only in the situation when the temperature keeps at around 38 degrees and above.

Folk remedies for sore throat

Important! When treating angina at home with folk remedies, you need to gargle correctly. How to do it, you can look at the video.

Mouthwashes

Oral rinse solutions can be easily prepared at home:

  • to 3 tsp.spoons of dry onion husks, which must be finely chopped with scissors, add water in the amount of 0.5 liters. Put on the stove and boil, then infuse for 100 minutes. For rinsing, the broth is used every few hours;
  • in 3 tbsp.l.dry sage add a liter of boiling water. Insist an hour, and then immediately used to rinse the mouth. To make the effect stronger, add crushed mint leaves or chamomile flowers when brewing to sage;
  • home-grown calanchoe juice. You need to tear off the leaf of the plant and rinse it thoroughly in running water. Then grind and pass through a sieve to make the juice. Mix with warm water in equal proportions;
  • beet juice will help with severe angina. Grate fresh root on a fine grater. Put the gruel in gauze and squeeze the juice. Add a large spoonful of apple cider vinegar to the beet juice. If the juice burns down your throat, you can dilute it with water.

Important! Inhalations are used at the stage when the sore throat is coming to an end. It is important that there is no longer a temperature, but at the stage of maintaining pain in the throat.

The most practical and effective is purified kerosene, which can be purchased or prepared at home by yourself.

  1. In a two-liter jar, pour 500 ml of kerosene and 500 ml of water( boiled and cooled).
  2. Close the lid and shake the jar. Then let it brew for 1 hour and merge the lower and separating layer( repeat 3 times).
  3. Add 2 tbsp.l.salt and give another 3 hours. Strain through gauze with cotton wool in another bowl.

Gargle with aviation kerosene 3 times a day or handle the amygdala with a cotton swab.

We prepare means for inhalations

Solutions for inhalations, made from herbs, are very popular:

  • to 2 tbsp.spoons of chamomile leaves mixed with sage and mint, add 1000 ml of warm water. Put on a stove and, after boiling, leave on fire for five minutes. Then let the mixture cool down a bit, bend over the pan, covering your head with a towel and breathing in steam;
  • can be used 3 tbsp.a spoonful of St. John's wort dry and crushed, which in equal proportion connects with chamomile. Pour, again, a liter of water, boil for several minutes. For greater effect in the mixture it is recommended to add a little essential oil of eucalyptus, other conifers.

Important! Traditional medicine for the treatment of angina at home promotes the use of alcohol or vodka compresses. They will need to be applied in the area of ​​the clavicle, and keep up to several hours. You can do compresses three times a day. On top of the compress it is recommended to insulate further.

Compresses

  • onion peeled, grate. Put the gruel in gauze, and, it is better to take several layers. The peculiarity of this compress is that you do not need to keep more than 30 minutes: it is fraught with skin burns;
  • leaves of fresh cabbage. It is necessary to cut the leaves of cabbage to excrete the juice. Attach to the neck and rewind the scarf. Well, if every three hours it will turn out to change the leaves.

What to take inside to treat

Radish black and honey

These ingredients have always been at hand for the Slavs. For this reason, they treated the sore throat with available and proven means. In the washed radish make a groove, pour the liquid honey into it and close it with a cut top. Infuse 10 hours, then honey, which is already mixed with the juice of root vegetables, drink 1 tsp.

Seeds of cumin

This folk method of treating angina at home was adopted from Mongolian culture. You need 200 grams of cumin seeds to pour in 0.5 liters of water. Boil a quarter of an hour, add 2 tablespoons.spoons of quality cognac( you can substitute vodka, other strong alcohol).The consistency of the broth should look like brewed coffee. Strain and drink every 30 minutes for 1 tbsp.l.

Beetroot

This vegetable contains a lot of vitamin, microelements and organic acids. Most often use the method of rinsing the juice: you need to peel, grate and squeeze juice. The resulting juice diluted with 6% vinegar. Gargle should be 3-5 times a day.

Aloe vera and honey

With a petite flower of aloe, rip the fleshy leaves. Then grind and add honey in exactly the same amount. Infuse about three days, then strain and drink syrups 3 times / day for 1 tbsp.l.before eating.

Birch buds with honey

It is clear, for the treatment of the throat, sore throats, honey fits perfectly. So, in this recipe, honey in the amount of 0.5 liters to warm up in a water bath, add 100 g of kidney birch( you can buy at the pharmacy).Boil 10 minutes, pass through a sieve. Add honey on birch buds to any drinks for the patient in the amount of 1 tsp.on a mug of a drink.

Treatment of tonsillitis in pregnant women

Angina in pregnant women, like many other diseases must be treated under the supervision of a doctor. It is not necessary to carry this disease on your feet, save yourself from the stresses and household chores that you find difficult to do at the moment.

  1. Rinse throat: 2 tsp.sea ​​salt diluted in 0.2 liters of boiled water, perform the procedure 4 times a day.
  2. Treat propolis with tonsils( you need to moisten the cosmetic stick in the tincture).

Treatment in children

Undoubtedly, the best treatment for angina in children will be prescribed by a doctor. Which determine the type of sore throat and will pick up the correct medication. In such cases apply:

  • absorbing tablets "Pharyngocept";
  • Sprays "Geksoral";
  • throat rinse aid "Chlorophyllipt".

Of folk remedies, beet juice is considered effective( it is used for inflamed tonsils, relieves edema and pain).You need to grate the beetroot on a grater through gauze, 200 g of juice mixed with 1 tbsp.l.acetic essences. Rinse 5 times a day, preferably after eating.

Initiation of treatment of sore throat at home by folk methods can be done at the very beginning of the disease. If you catch yourself in time, you can stop the disease and prevent its development.

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