What causes salty throat?

If you feel a salty feeling in your throat, the most common reason is chronic pharyngitis. At this time, in addition to medication treatment, you should eat a light diet, avoid greasy and spicy foods, and it is best to quit smoking and drinking. In terms of medication, you can take Lanqin oral liquid or Zhenhuang pills orally. You can also do nebulization treatment. Nebulized drugs include gentamicin or dexamethasone, etc. Of course, you must follow the doctor's advice when taking medication.

Treatment of pharyngitis

1. Add 300 grams of watermelon rind to two large bowls of water, fry until one large bowl of water remains, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, and drink after it cools down.

2. Use fresh lotus root and honey, take 150 grams and 20 grams respectively, then mix them well and take them in the morning and evening.

3. Crush 60 grams of raw Rehmannia root, boil it into a decoction and remove the residue. Add 80 grams of lily and 60 grams of rice and cook into porridge.

Self-medication and self-treatment

(1) Take 2-4 drops of Fengyoujing orally and swallow slowly (do not take with water), 5 times a day.

(2) After getting up early every morning, apply 3-4 drops of essential oil on the palm of your left hand and massage your throat (clockwise) 20-30 times. After 2-3 months, the condition can be greatly improved and basically recovered after a year.

Prescription therapy

(1) Take 5 grams of raw licorice root and 10 grams of platycodon grandiflorum, and drink with boiled water.

(2) Boil 10g of golden olive in water and take once a day for acute pharyngitis.

(3) Wash and mash 60 grams of fresh Houttuynia cordata, boil it in 1 bowl of rice water, add appropriate amount of sugar, and take it twice a day for acute pharyngitis.

(4) Take 60g of raw Rehmannia root, 60g of Polygonatum odoratum, and 6g of cinnamon twig, decoct in two doses, one dose per day, for chronic pharyngitis.

(5) Take 10g each of honeysuckle, Ophiopogon japonicus and 2 pieces of Sterculia lychnophora, brew with boiling water and drink as tea. Used for chronic pharyngitis.

(6) Use garlic for treatment. Take 2 cloves of garlic and mash them and apply them on the Yuyuan and Dazhui acupoints. This prescription can clear away heat and clear the lungs, and is used to treat heat disturbing the throat and sore throat.

(7) 30 grams of small single-headed garlic and 50 grams of vinegar. Mash garlic in vinegar and apply to the affected area. This herb is very good at reducing swelling and relieving pain, and is effective for sore throat caused by wind, cold, dampness and heat.