soothing sore throat?

Cough syrups, cough drops, 'cold cure teas' are all too sweet, or too
burning....

I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection. The nurse
practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran out of cough
drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.

Teas like Sleepytime (chamomile and mint etc) help, and hot chocolate
(unsweetened); so do hot oily soups like chicken broth. What helps more is
solids in hot oily liquid, like canned corn with butter; the solids sort of
clean off the throat, spend longer there, so there's more contact with the
throat before the stomach fills up.

Citrus, orange juice, tomato juice, etc irritate my throat, make me feel
sneezy; even the 'chewable' acerola-type vitamin C lozenges.

One odd thing that helps me a little is chewing fragments of stevia leaf.
That makes saliva flow but it isn't a cloying sweet in the stomach.

Other ideas, please???



Skinny
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LCing for BG, not weight

A humidifier for the house. It's the dry air you are inhaling that is the
primary cause of the problem.

In ,
Skinny stated
| Cough syrups, cough drops, 'cold cure teas' are all too sweet, or too
| burning....
|
| I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection. The
| nurse practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran
| out of cough drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.
|
| Teas like Sleepytime (chamomile and mint etc) help, and hot chocolate
| (unsweetened); so do hot oily soups like chicken broth. What helps
| more is solids in hot oily liquid, like canned corn with butter; the
| solids sort of clean off the throat, spend longer there, so there's
| more contact with the throat before the stomach fills up.
|
| Citrus, orange juice, tomato juice, etc irritate my throat, make me
| feel sneezy; even the 'chewable' acerola-type vitamin C lozenges.
|
| One odd thing that helps me a little is chewing fragments of stevia
| leaf. That makes saliva flow but it isn't a cloying sweet in the
| stomach.
|
| Other ideas, please???
|
|
|
| Skinny
| --
| LCing for BG, not weight

chrysanthemum tea made without any sugar, just the tea.

posing as a chinese med doctor I think the fire element is going a bit too
wild in your body. Have you been staying up till late recently? Working long
hours? Haven't had enough sleep? Let me check your tongue - ahhh... the tip is
a bit too pink, surely you're lack of sleep. Now get some dried chrysanthemum
and make tea with it...

now seriously - chrysanthemum tea should work quite well, and don't drink too
much mint tea, esp. just before you go to bed, as I read it somewhere that it
tends to cause heart burns and quite a few asdlc-ers used to get heart burns.

since you say chewing leaves help, may be chewing gum would also help?


Skinny wrote:

Cough syrups, cough drops, 'cold cure teas' are all too sweet, or too
burning....

I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection. The nurse
practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran out of cough
drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.

Teas like Sleepytime (chamomile and mint etc) help, and hot chocolate
(unsweetened); so do hot oily soups like chicken broth. What helps more is
solids in hot oily liquid, like canned corn with butter; the solids sort of
clean off the throat, spend longer there, so there's more contact with the
throat before the stomach fills up.

Citrus, orange juice, tomato juice, etc irritate my throat, make me feel
sneezy; even the 'chewable' acerola-type vitamin C lozenges.

One odd thing that helps me a little is chewing fragments of stevia leaf.
That makes saliva flow but it isn't a cloying sweet in the stomach.

Other ideas, please???



Skinny

There is a tea called Throat Cote that is made just for this purpose.

I find it at the supermarket and health food stores.

Jennifer


Skinny wrote:
Cough syrups, cough drops, 'cold cure teas' are all too sweet, or too
burning....

I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection. The nurse
practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran out of cough
drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.

Teas like Sleepytime (chamomile and mint etc) help, and hot chocolate
(unsweetened); so do hot oily soups like chicken broth. What helps more is
solids in hot oily liquid, like canned corn with butter; the solids sort of
clean off the throat, spend longer there, so there's more contact with the
throat before the stomach fills up.

Citrus, orange juice, tomato juice, etc irritate my throat, make me feel
sneezy; even the 'chewable' acerola-type vitamin C lozenges.

One odd thing that helps me a little is chewing fragments of stevia leaf.
That makes saliva flow but it isn't a cloying sweet in the stomach.

Other ideas, please???



Skinny

Jennifer wrote:
There is a tea called Throat Cote that is made just for this purpose.

I find it at the supermarket and health food stores.

Jennifer

Yes, Throat Coat (Traditional Medicinals) is wonderful as is Throat
Comfort (Yogi Tea). Neither affected my weight loss.

Jennifer wrote:

There is a tea called Throat Cote that is made just for this purpose.

I find it at the supermarket and health food stores.

Jennifer

Throat Coat is awesome!

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:23:02 +0000, Ada Ma wrote:

chrysanthemum tea made without any sugar, just the tea.

The local health food store doesn't have this. If I can find a chrisanthemum
plant, do I use the flowers or leaves?


posing as a chinese med doctor

bowing


I think the fire element is going a bit too
wild in your body. Have you been staying up till late recently? Working
long
hours? Haven't had enough sleep? Let me check your tongue - ahhh... the
tip is
a bit too pink, surely you're lack of sleep.


Ah so, bingo! And just before this started, I had a lot of very hot curry,
and then some Alfredo sauce with garlic.

If the honorable chinese doctor would kindly tell more...?


Skinny Grasshopper







Now get some dried chrysanthemum
and make tea with it...

now seriously - chrysanthemum tea should work quite well, and don't drink
too
much mint tea, esp. just before you go to bed, as I read it somewhere that
it
tends to cause heart burns and quite a few asdlc-ers used to get heart
burns.

since you say chewing leaves help, may be chewing gum would also help?


Skinny wrote:

Cough syrups, cough drops, 'cold cure teas' are all too sweet, or too
burning....

I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection. The
nurse
practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran out of
cough
drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.

Teas like Sleepytime (chamomile and mint etc) help, and hot chocolate
(unsweetened); so do hot oily soups like chicken broth. What helps more
is
solids in hot oily liquid, like canned corn with butter; the solids sort
of
clean off the throat, spend longer there, so there's more contact with
the
throat before the stomach fills up.

Citrus, orange juice, tomato juice, etc irritate my throat, make me feel
sneezy; even the 'chewable' acerola-type vitamin C lozenges.

One odd thing that helps me a little is chewing fragments of stevia
leaf.
That makes saliva flow but it isn't a cloying sweet in the stomach.

Other ideas, please???



Skinny

It's just the flower. If you go to a local chinese supermarket, you might find
some? I don't know v much about which variety of chrysanthemums are expected to
work, but I have drank chrysanthemum tea made with big chrysanthemums (diameter
of a closed cup mushroom) as well as tiny ones (like a haricot bean). It's
dried, and it looks like a dried flower.

Hope it helps. :-)


Skinny wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:23:02 +0000, Ada Ma wrote:


chrysanthemum tea made without any sugar, just the tea.


The local health food store doesn't have this. If I can find a chrisanthemum
plant, do I use the flowers or leaves?



posing as a chinese med doctor


bowing


I think the fire element is going a bit too
wild in your body. Have you been staying up till late recently? Working

long

hours? Haven't had enough sleep? Let me check your tongue - ahhh... the

tip is

a bit too pink, surely you're lack of sleep.



Ah so, bingo! And just before this started, I had a lot of very hot curry,
and then some Alfredo sauce with garlic.

If the honorable chinese doctor would kindly tell more...?


Skinny Grasshopper







Now get some dried chrysanthemum

and make tea with it...

now seriously - chrysanthemum tea should work quite well, and don't drink

too

much mint tea, esp. just before you go to bed, as I read it somewhere that

it

tends to cause heart burns and quite a few asdlc-ers used to get heart

burns.

since you say chewing leaves help, may be chewing gum would also help?


Skinny wrote:


Cough syrups, cough drops, 'cold cure teas' are all too sweet, or too
burning....

I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection. The

nurse

practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran out of

cough

drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.

Teas like Sleepytime (chamomile and mint etc) help, and hot chocolate
(unsweetened); so do hot oily soups like chicken broth. What helps more

is

solids in hot oily liquid, like canned corn with butter; the solids sort

of

clean off the throat, spend longer there, so there's more contact with

the

throat before the stomach fills up.

Citrus, orange juice, tomato juice, etc irritate my throat, make me feel
sneezy; even the 'chewable' acerola-type vitamin C lozenges.

One odd thing that helps me a little is chewing fragments of stevia

leaf.

That makes saliva flow but it isn't a cloying sweet in the stomach.

Other ideas, please???



Skinny

Skinny wrote:

I get dry sore throat that often develops into painful infection.

For pain maybe Choloseptic.

The nurse
practitioner said to keep the saliva flowing, told me if I ran out of
cough
drops or hard candies, to suck on a button or something.
....
Other ideas, please???

I chew sugar free gum. When possible I get a brand that uses
saccharine rather than aspartame. Carefree sometimes has one,
sometimes has the other so when I see it I read the label and
if it is the saccharine type I buy two.