What should I do if my throat hurts when I swallow saliva?

A cold can easily cause a sore throat, and even swallowing saliva will cause pain. If you have a cold, you must seek timely treatment, drink more boiled water, and pay more attention to rest. You can also use diet therapy. Mung bean and lily soup, monk fruit, and snow pear can all clear away heat and detoxify to treat pharyngitis.

1. What to do if you have a sore throat after a cold

Usually, you can take cold medicine to relieve the symptoms of a cold. Usually, cold medicine is a compound preparation containing antibiotics and allergy drugs. It has a certain sedative effect and often causes drowsiness. It is not suitable for people who need to keep a clear mind at work during the day, such as taxi drivers.

Recently, a more complete formula for treating colds has appeared, called Baijiahei for treating colds. This type of formula is divided into day tablets and night tablets. The daily tablets contain acetaminophen, which can relieve fever, headache, sore throat, body aches and other symptoms of colds; pseudoephedrine hydrochloride can relieve nasal congestion, nasal mucosal congestion and edema; dextromethorphan hydrobromide can relieve cough. This can relieve the patient's symptoms while keeping the mind clear. In addition to the above ingredients, the night tablets also contain chlorpheniramine maleate, which can control runny nose and sneezing and has a sedative effect. It can further relieve night symptoms and allow patients to sleep peacefully and comfortably, thus meeting different life needs during the day and night. If you can drink more boiled water and cool drinks such as mung bean and lily soup at the same time, it will help you recover from the cold.

Ginger contains gingerol and other substances, which have the functions of removing fishy smell, stimulating appetite, detoxifying, expelling wind, dispelling cold and stopping vomiting. In summer, ginger is often used as a seasoning to prevent common diseases such as food poisoning, enteritis, and dysentery.

Vinegar contains 2-5% acetic acid, which is both appetizing and bactericidal. In summer, using vinegar to season food can prevent food poisoning and enteritis.

2. Diet therapy for sore throat

The pharynx refers to the widest part of the laryngeal cavity behind the root of the tongue. It is the passage between the oral cavity, trachea and esophagus. Many meridians in the body run through or penetrate here. Throat pain can occur when you have a cold, measles, acute or chronic pharyngitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, etc. In addition, dry climate, lack of water, excessive fatigue or allergies to certain substances can also cause temporary or permanent throat pain. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that long-term excessive smoking and drinking can cause internal heat due to lung yin deficiency, fire due to kidney yin deficiency, wind heat, heat toxins, etc., which can also cause sore throat. If you have a sore throat, you can choose the following dietary therapy methods:

1. Yin nourishing and heat clearing drink:

Use 12 grams of Asparagus cochinchinensis, 12 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 9 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, 6 grams of Sophora flavescens, 30 grams of Rhizoma Cyperi, and 6 grams of Licorice each time, decocted in water and taken, 1 dose per day. It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing heat, detoxifying and relieving sore throat. Suitable for treating sore throat, acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis, etc.

2. Monk fruit and plum decoction

Use 1 snow pear or 30 grams of dried snow pear, half a monk fruit, and 20 grams of raspberry, decoct in water or drink instead of tea, 1 dose per day. It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing heat and detoxifying. It can treat acute and chronic pharyngitis.

3. Tremella, Adenophora and Egg Drink

Use 10 grams of Tremella fuciformis and 10 grams of Northern Adenophora each time, decoct in water to extract the juice, then beat in 1 to 2 eggs, and after the eggs are cooked, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and take it. It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing heat, and moistening the lungs. It is suitable for treating symptoms such as dry throat, sore throat, thirst, etc. caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness.