Sore and Dry Throat: Chinese Medicine Can Help

　　If you have a sore and dry throat, Chinese medicine can help. The weather is dry and cold in winter, and sometimes we may suddenly feel dry and sore throats. In life, many people usually ignore it when they feel a sore throat, thinking that as long as they drink more water, it will be fine. In fact, this is not the case. If you don’t pay more attention to a sore throat, it may lead to the emergence of other diseases. So, what are the methods to treat a sore throat?

　　1. There is a medicine in traditional Chinese medicine that is very effective in treating sore throats, ulcers and viral infections. It is licorice. Rinsing your mouth with licorice soaked in water can effectively relieve sore throat.

　　2. Autumn and winter are relatively dry, which is the period of high incidence of pharyngitis. People often feel sore throat, dry and itchy throat, and foreign body sensation when swallowing. At this time, the tongue base movement method can be used, which can achieve good results. That is: close your mouth, put the tip of your tongue against your teeth, turn forward 18 times, and turn backward 18 times, then swallow the fluid in your mouth in three parts, once in the morning and once in the evening.

　　3. Use both hands to lift the earlobes of both ears, then put them down, and lift them up and down 100 times in a rhythmic manner; after that, drink an appropriate amount of boiled water. Three times a day will reduce throat pain.

　　You should also pay special attention to your diet. You can eat more foods that nourish yin and promote body fluids, such as apples, grapefruits, spinach, etc.; eat less spicy and greasy foods, and avoid being greedy for cold. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine dietary prescriptions also have certain effects on treating sore throat.

　　Dietary Recipes:

　　1. Ginger juice mixed with honey

　　Ingredients: half a spoonful of ginger juice, a spoonful of honey.

　　Preparation method: Take with warm water. Take twice a day, morning and evening.

　　Indications: Ginger juice mixed with honey has the effects of harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs, eliminating phlegm and cough, and dispelling cold. It is commonly used among the people to treat chronic cough in the elderly, or dry cough and cold cough. Regarding the compatibility of ginger and honey to treat coughs, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "for long-term cough, ginger and honey can be cooked". Ginger is pungent and warm in nature and enters the three meridians of the lungs, spleen, and stomach. It has the functions of dispersing cold, warming and stopping vomiting, eliminating phlegm, promoting water circulation, and detoxifying.

　　2. Fritillaria Fritillaria Steamed Pear

　　Ingredients: One Sydney pear or Yali, 6 grams Fritillaria fritillary, 20 grams rock sugar.

　　Preparation method: cut the pear at the handle, hollow out and remove the core, grind Fritillaria fritillary into powder. Put it into the pear and use toothpicks to fix the handle. Add rock sugar in a large bowl, add a small amount of water, and steam for half an hour. Eat the steamed pears and Fritillaria japonica inside.

　　Indications: Fritillaria is a good medicine for resolving phlegm and relieving cough. When used together with snow pear and rock sugar, it can reduce phlegm and relieve cough, moisten the lungs and nourish yin. After long-term treatment, the cough does not heal, resulting in excessive phlegm, dry throat, shortness of breath and fatigue.

　　3. Tremella porridge

　　Ingredients: 20 grams of white fungus, 150 grams of japonica rice, and 20 grams of rock sugar.

　　Instructions for making and taking it: Use warm water to soak the white fungus, remove the hard stems and impurities, and tear it into flaps. Wash the japonica rice. Put the japonica rice and white fungus in the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 30 minutes, add rock sugar, stir well and serve.

　　Efficacy and Indications: It has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, promoting body fluids, quenching thirst, etc. It also has the functions of nourishing the lungs, replenishing qi and blood, nourishing the brain and strengthening the heart.

　　The weather is dry, and the body can easily get angry due to lack of water, resulting in dry, itchy throat, pain, etc. To solve this problem, the most important thing is to avoid it from the root, that is, drink more water every day, eat more fruits and vegetables, improve your own immunity, and prevent autumn dryness.