How can I cure my throat?

How can I cure a sore throat?

• I have been crying all night from pain I can't believe how bad my throat and neck ache, wow I can't even swallow a little drop of water, I am in so much pain, any time I "gulp" I just feel so so so so so so so so so sore :'( I have taken ibuprofen, paracetamol, took cough medicine, taken lemon and honey and gargled with salt water I am going on vacation for a week in 2 days :'( I need to get rid of this fast, please help! I've started new pills levothyroxine and the pain of the throat has started to hurt the first day that I took the pills!

• Answer:

  Gargling with salt water will reduce swelling in the throat. The excess salt in the gargle helps to draw less saturated fluids out, reducing inflammation. It does NOT kill bacteria. The best way to treat a sore throat is to gargle with warm salt water 6-8 times a day. Of course, the best solution is to eliminate the cause instead of treating the symptoms. Eating half a leaf of fresh sage, combined with 1/8 teaspoon of turmeric, will greatly reduce the drainage and congestion. This works at least as well as the pharmaceutical medications (and without their side-effects). You should make your body alkaline to boost its uptake of oxygen. Drinking homemade lemonade with a pinch of baking soda periodically is a fast, safe, and effective way of doing this. Lemon juice is an acid, but it makes the body more alkaline because of the way it gets processed. The baking soda will add buffering bicarbonates to make the body resistive to becoming acidic again, which is the normal state during sickness. None of these things will provide immediate relief for the throat pain. That requires time. A great natural remedy is a spoonful of tehina or sesame paste - this home remedy is used quite often in the Middle East. Take a small bowl. Squeeze some lemon into it and then add some salt. Take a tablespoon and drink some. Drink some more. Then gargle the last bit and spit it out. It might taste horrible, but afterwards - in about a minute - I felt some relief.