Home RemediesIngredients: Water
Instructions: Drink lot's of water (8-12 glasses). Make sure the water is room temperature to warm. Water is a very effective remedy for laryngitis because it helps to lubricate the larynx (voice box).
Ingredients: tea, lemon
Instructions: Add fresh lemon to your tea and drink as many cups as you want. The lemon will help loosen mucus in throat.
Ingredients: Honey, lemon
Instructions: mix to your likings and gargle your throat. This remedy is very soothing to your throat.
Ingredients: Apple cider vinegar
Instructions: An effective home remedy for laryngitis is to mix a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in half glass of warm water. Drink every hour for seven hours.
Ingredients: Onion syrup
Instructions: Another excellent remedy for laryngitis is made from onion syrup, honey and lemon. To make the onion syrup: slice three large onions and put them in four or five cups of water; simmer until syrupy; strain. Next, put five or six tablespoonful of the syrup into a glass of warm water, along with a tablespoon of honey and a dash of lemon. Sip slowly.
Instructions: Avoid talking for a while. if you have to speak then do it quietly. Its better to speak quietly than to whisper.
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Home Remedies1. Saturation, or bowel tolerance, of vitamin C will stop laryngitis in a matter of hours. If you take as much "C" as you can hold, as often as humanly possible, your voice will be back promptly. People who take multi-gram doses of vitamin C every day preventively are unlikely to ever lose their voice in the first place. When I do weekend seminars, I am speaking for six consecutive hours on two consecutive days. I take about three grams (3,000 milligrams) every hour, and don't lose my voice anymore.
2. The homeopathic remedy Ferrum Phos 6X works for loss of voice due either to overstraining or simple inflammation. This remedy works best taken promptly, preferably as soon as you notice the slightest huskiness or hoarseness. A homeopathic remedy is taken until the symptoms begin to improve. Then Mother Nature takes over and you body heals itself.
3. An ounce or two of cider vinegar, straight, will do wonders for a simple sore throat and laryngitis. When I do this, I get the impression that the vinegar is absorbed into the throat on the way down and never even reaches the stomach. If you immediately, and I mean immediately follow the vinegar with a chaser of a cola soft drink, you will barely taste the vinegar at all. Be sure to rinse your mouth with water afterwards, to remove any lingering acidity from either the vinegar or the cola. If your stomach is delicate, taking a calcium supplement along with the vinegar will buffer it in the tummy.
4. Avoid dairy products. Dad liked to sing Barbershop harmony. Years ago, the men's chorus director (who was also one of my favorite music teachers in elementary school, by the way) told him not to drink milk or eat ice cream before a choral concert. This cannot be just an old wives' tale, because men know of it! Try and see: leave out the dairy if you are going to give us a speech or break into song.
Here is an education website that gives information and ideas on management:
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsConditions/Laryngitiscc.htmlHerbal Remedies:
Herbal References
Lemon Locally, lemon is a good astringent, whether as a gargle in sore throat, in pruritis of the scrotum, in uterine hemorrhage after delivery, or as a lotion in sunburn. ..The juice may be used in diaphoretic and diuretic draughts. It is highly recommended in acute rheumatism, and is sometimes given to counteract narcotic poisons, especially opium...Lemon is said to be the best cure for severe, obstinate hiccough...Lemon is helpful in jaundice and hysterical palpitation of the heart. The decoction has been found to be a good antiperiodic, useful as a substitute for quinine in malarial conditions, or for reducing the temperature in typhoid. Maud Grieve
Colt's Foot You will notice by reading the characteristics of coltsfoot that it is both emollient and expectorant. It will soothe the tissues of the throat as well as cause phlegm to be expelled. Adele Dawson
Elm, Slippery The tree's inner bark contains a copious amount of mucilage, a spongy, gummy, even slippery fiber that soothes inflammed, irritated mucous membranes form the inside of your mouth all the way through the rest of your gastrointestinal tract. James Duke
Licorice Gan-cao (licorice) is used in prescriptions for weak spleen and stomach energy, for coughs, sore throats, asthma, carbuncles, swelling with pain, sores with toxic matter, stomach ulcers, hepatitis, hysteria, and as a detoxicant for food or medicine poisoning, as well as to "mediate" or "harmonize" the poisonous character of toxic medicinal plants. Steven Foster and Yue chongxi
Sage The Chinese value sage for its healing properties. Sage tea was and still is primarily used as a gargle for sore throat and an aid to digestion. Sage has also been used as a beauty aid. Early Greeks drank, applied or bathed in sage tea. Turkish women said sage was a wonderful hair dye, and it it still recommended for use in dark hair. Llewellyns Herbal Almanac
Mullein Mullein tones the mucus membranes of the respiratory tract, soothes irritated lungs and speeds healing of damaged tissues Linda B. White, M.D.
Plantain A tissue-soother, plantain is demulcent, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial. The German Commission E, that country's equivalent of the USDA, endorses it as safe and effective for throat inflammation.
Linda B. White, M.D.
