Allright, in London it’s getting cold and it’s only October !

I thought i’d write about all the natural remedies i have seen on the web to deal with a sore throat. Please contribute, add your comments and give me your recipes.

Cure number 1 : Drinking tea with ginger powder or fresh ginger.

Cure number 2 : One way to help is to gargle salt water. However salt water gargling is only good for miner sore throats some people say.

Cure number 3: Throat Home Remedy. Mix Together in a mug: Hot water + Juice from 1/4 of Lemon, 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and a pinch of cayen pepper. Adding honey also soothes and sweetens!

Cure number 4: Sore throat can also be cure by adding hony in black pepper powder. Another version of this is Hot Lemon with ginger honey and black pepper.

Cure number 5: For painful throat with tonsils gargle by mixing 1 ts of salt, a pinch of turmeric and 1 disprene in one glass hot water juice of half lemon can be added

Cure number 6: Try getting a big bowl of hot, steaming water then cover your head with a towel to keep the steam in. Just relax and breathe in the steam to help soothe a sore throat.

Cure number 7 : Put about 6 teaspoons of runny honey into a mug, and add the juice of half a lemon. Then mix whilst adding about the same volume again of hot water. Drink it slowly in small sips – you will feel the honey ’sticking’ to the sore bits of your throat. Honey is a natural antibiotic (it is the only foodstuff known to man, that does not go off with age – it has been found in Egyptian tombs – still fit to eat !) and the lemon juice helps with vitamin C.

Cure number 8 : Gargle with a soluble aspirin then spit it out. Note that not everyone can take aspirin, for example people with stomach complaints or people who take warfarin medication.

Cure number 9: Hot Slippery Elm tea (coats the throat, instantly soothing) with lots of fresh squeezed organic lemon juice (antiseptic) and raw local honey (antibiotic).

Cure number 10:  What I’ve done in the past is suck on a lemon or a lime with a little bit of salt, it sounds gross and its an acquired taste, but it definitely makes my throat more tolerable

Please contribute, add your comments and give me your recipes.