Can pharyngitis be cured by drinking salt water? Four folk remedies for treating pharyngitis

People often say that "small folk remedies can cure all diseases", but recently there has been a rumor on the Internet that drinking salt water can cure pharyngitis. Is this true or false? In fact, after suffering from pharyngitis, drinking salt water regularly can help recovery, because salt water has the function of protecting the throat. In addition, there are four other folk remedies that can treat pharyngitis. Let's take a look at them one by one!

Pharyngitis is a disease caused by bacteria and can be divided into acute pharyngitis and chronic pharyngitis. The lesions may manifest as acute simple pharyngitis and acute suppurative pharyngitis. Repeated attacks of acute pharyngitis can turn into a chronic disease. Long-term excessive smoking and drinking or exposure to harmful gases can also cause chronic pharyngitis.

You can drink salt water for pharyngitis. Salt water can protect the throat. The climate is dry in autumn and winter, which is a high incidence period of acute and chronic pharyngitis and tonsillitis. Salt soup can be used for treatment in the early stages of the disease. Here’s how: When you feel slight discomfort in your throat, you can use salt water as a morning mouthwash. When your throat is swollen and painful, gargle with concentrated salt water 5 to 6 times a day to achieve anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects.

In addition, to treat pharyngitis, you can try:

Home remedy for pharyngitis: Pharyngitis causes sore throat, dry and itchy throat, and a foreign body sensation when swallowing. You can use tongue root exercises to achieve good therapeutic effects. That is: close your mouth, put the tip of your tongue against your teeth, rotate clockwise 18 times, counterclockwise 18 times, and then swallow the saliva in your mouth three times. Do this once in the morning and once in the evening.

Home remedy for pharyngitis 2: If you suffer from chronic pharyngitis, hold a head of raw garlic in your mouth for several months and the pharyngitis can be eradicated. It is best to choose purple-skinned single-headed garlic when putting raw garlic in your mouth. At the beginning, the garlic will be so spicy that tears will flow and the oral mucosa will hurt. You can hold the garlic in your mouth and spit it out from time to time, and avoid biting the smooth surface of the garlic. After you get used to it, you can hold it in your mouth and bite it at the same time. This method is also effective for oral problems such as toothache and hoarseness.

Home remedy for pharyngitis three : Take 10 walnuts, remove the hard shells but keep the skin, and take them twice a day, morning and evening. A course of treatment is 15 days. Walnuts have anti-inflammatory, lung-moistening, phlegm-resolving and cough-relieving effects. It can cure diseases such as sore throat and cough.

Home remedy for pharyngitis four: If you suffer from chronic pharyngitis, your throat will always be itchy and dry, you won’t have phlegm but you will keep coughing, especially at night, and you will be unable to fall asleep. Before going to bed, you can find a small piece of "Scrophularia" (available at Chinese medicine stores, very cheap) and hold it between your teeth or under your tongue. Leave it overnight and spit it out in the morning. In this way, you will cough less throughout the night, your sleep will be much improved, and when you wake up in the morning, your throat will not be as dry as before. If you persist for several months, it will have a healing effect.

The above is an introduction to the relevant content. I hope it will be helpful to patients and friends.

In order to better treat pharyngitis, here are some medicines:

Lanqin oral liquid: clears away heat, detoxifies, relieves sore throat and reduces swelling. Used for sore throat, dry throat and burning sensation in the throat caused by acute pharyngitis and lung and stomach heat syndrome.

Liushen Pills: cools and detoxifies, reduces inflammation and relieves pain. It is used for sore throat, red sha, sore throat, laryngeal wind and throat carbuncle, single and double breast furuncle, children's heat furuncle, carbuncle furuncle, breast abscess on the back, and unknown swelling and toxicity.

Qingre Sanjie Tablets: Anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, dispersing nodules and relieving pain. Used for acute conjunctivitis, acute pharyngitis, and acute tonsillitis.