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Millions of people need to know the truth that there are natural ways to soothe a sore
throat.
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Number one, raw, local honey.
Honey contains over 200 different types of microbes, it contains trace minerals and actually
has anti-microbial properties especially if it's raw and local.
Now, here's something I do want to mention.
There was a study done at Texas A&M University and they found nearly 80% of store bought
honey did not have any pollen in it and did not have any enzymes because it was pasteurized
and all of those nutrients were killed off.
So that's something else you need to think about and know that listen, this is for raw,
local honey or Manuka honey, not certain other types of honey.
You really do want to make sure that again, it is the real deal raw honey when you're
using honey.
By the way, I'd love to hear from you, do you buy raw, local honey at your health food
store, at a farmer's market?
If you do, hey, let everybody know who they are if you buy it from a local farmer's market
or where you shop at a local farmer's market.
I personally get my raw, local honey at two places.
I get it at the Franklin Farmer's Market in Franklin, Tennessee by the factory in Franklin
and I get it at the Seaside Farmer's Market in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.
So those are the two places I get my raw, local honey.
The reason being because that's where I spend most of the year.
When you are in that area, have you ever heard that honey if it's local, fights the cold
or fights allergies specifically.
That's because when you're consuming local honey, it contains over 200 types of local
microbes and types of pollen so you're actually building up your immunity every time you consume
it so when spring and fall roll around you and you have this big bombardment of pollen
where your body has built up a tolerance to it and the same goes for buying dirty vegetables.
But again, raw honey is great for soothing sore throat as well.
You can take it at just a little bit of raw honey and a teaspoon.
You can add it to tea.
And then by way, I also love Manuka honey for the same reason.
Manuka honey might be just as good or better than regular honey for soothing a sore throat
because of all of its antiseptic properties.
It's actually a type of honey that's found in New Zealand.
Works really, really well.
Number two, bone broth.
When somebody got sick in China, if you study traditional Chinese medicine or classical
Chinese medicine, you'll read and find out that typically people were given a lot of
broth soups and herbal teas.
So when somebody is sick, you give them a lot of broth and a lot of herbal tea.
Well, bone broth, especially a warm chicken broth, contains type 2 collagen which helps
seal and heal the gut lining, helps soothe a sore throat.
One of the best things you can ever consume is warm bone broth.
We also know bone broth contains reparative compounds such as hyaluronic acid, glucosamine,
and chondroitin, as well as the amino acids proline, glycine, and glutamine all of which
support the immune system.
Remember this, 70% of your immune system is located in your gut.
If you want to fight that virus or that infection that is causing your throat to be irritated,
you've got to strengthen up your immunity.
Bone broth is a great way to do just that.
By the way, if you consume bone broth, I'd love to hear from you as well.
What is your favorite type of bone broth that you consume?
Regular bone broth or a powder that's bone broth protein like a scoop in a smoothie.
Would love to hear from you if you use bone broth on a regular basis.
Number three, garlic.
You know, garlic has really powerful antiviral properties.
A lot of times when we come down with a sore throat, sometimes it can be a viral infection.
Garlic contains a compound called allicin and is part of the allium family.
Well, allicin has antiviral properties and garlic has been used for thousands of years
for treating sore throats, colds, and flus.
Oftentimes, when people made the chicken broth with the chicken bone broth, they would add
in garlic and onions because of those allicin properties which are antiviral and antibacterial
in nature.
Also, it's really high in something called sulfur, often known as vitamin U, which also
supports the immune system.
So garlic really, really unique at its benefits and one other thing about garlic it contains
prebiotics.
Now, most of us have heard of probiotics that help support our digestion.
Prebiotics are like the fertilizer for probiotics, helping them grow within your body.
So again, garlic also contains prebiotics so that's going to be good for feeding and
nourishing your gut lining and boosting that immune system to kick a sore throat fast.
Getting more water.
Most people are far too dehydrated.
I want to mention this.
If you are sick with a sore throat, do not consume cold water, do not consume really,
really hot water.
You want to consume warm water, like a warm cup of tea is ideal.
You want to get a lot of warm liquids in your body if you have a sore throat, staying hydrated,
helping your body cleanse there as well.
All right, number five.
Vitamin C. Vitamin C naturally supports the immune system.
It really works with actually, what's found in chicken broth or a type of bone broth powder
which has proline.
Vitamin C and proline work together to really support the immune system.
So again, vitamin C is great.
Here are some of the top vitamin C rich foods you can eat to get rid of your sore throat
fast.
Number one, citrus fruits, oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits are great.
Also, broccoli is packed with vitamin C. Red bell peppers have a lot of vitamin C. Mango
and papaya have high levels.
Kiwi is a vitamin C powerhouse.
Elderberry is probably one of my favorites as well.
So all of those are vitamin C powerhouses.
You know, get more vitamin C in your diet.
I recommend typically, if you're going to take it as a supplement when you have a sore
throat, a thousand milligrams five times a day for adults.
Number six here, Echinacea.
Now, Echinacea works in a really unique way that really helps oxygenate your body.
And there was a study that was done that found when people supplemented with Echinacea, it
cut their cold and flu time down by a day and a half, okay, almost in half for the study.
So it really, really helps strengthen the immune system and the body's overall energy
level as well.
If you're kind of like just dragging and exhausted and you're just really not feeling well, Echinacea
will give you that natural booster as well.
Number seven is licorice root extract.
Now, the way that I like to do a licorice root is typically in the form of a tea.
You know, licorice has that natural sort of sweet that on the base of the aftertaste of
licorice root.
And licorice root is known to actually soothe irritated lining.
So if you have a red and scratchy throat, just drinking that licorice root tea is going
to really soothe that pain and discomfort that you have in your throat.
Now, licorice root is also known as an adaptogenic urban Chinese medicine.
It's been shown to help heal stomach ulcers.
The benefits of licorice root are tremendous but really drinking it as a tea is definitely
going to help soothe the sore throat.
One of my favorite natural remedies there.
Number eight is colloidal silver.
What I recommend you do with colloidal silver if you have a sore throat is gargle with it
three to five times a day or more and also just doing a little bit internally as well
typically a teaspoon depending on the parts per million.
But colloidal silver gargling with it on a regular basis can actually help relieve a
sore throat as well.
Number nine, zinc.
Now, zinc is known as the immune system mineral.
Now, so you've heard vitamin C is the vitamin for the immune system, well zinc is the mineral
for the immune system.
It's also important for healing and sealing again, the gut lining.
Remember, this is all about boosting your immune system.
Zinc is fantastic.
Typically doing 30 milligrams two to four times daily when you're sick.
It does really well.
So again, zinc.
And you can get zinc lozenges that you just sort of suck on or zinc in elderberry or zinc
in Manuka honey lozenges.
But doing those zinc lozenges can be very, very effective at fighting and soothing a
sore throat.
Number ten, probiotics.
Again, probiotics are what line your gut.
And remember, probiotics, one of the things it's responsible for is killing off bad bacteria
in your body.
So if you're coming down with a bad bacteria or virus or yeast or something within your
system and you want to get rid of it, well, probiotics really help with communication,
producing certain vitamins and minerals, major immune system support, taking probiotics.
I typically do a triple dose of probiotics a day or more if I come down or have any sort
of signs of a sore throat there as well.
Here's a big one.
Maybe this seems obvious, but get more sleep.
This is one of the biggest reasons people get sick.
Let me tell you what, I have been sick, you know, probably three times, maybe four times
in the past five years.
And every time it was because I was flying all over the country and I wasn't sleeping.
I was still eating healthy but I was not sleeping well because I was in a bad bed.
I mean the last time I was sick I'm trying to think I went from Atlanta to South Florida
to the middle of Florida to the Panhandle of Florida and then I actually . . . anyways,
I was gone on a two-week trip and I had hardly slept in two weeks that was the last time
I got sick and I got a sore throat.
And I wasn't sleeping.
This and all the things on here, you got to get good sleep.
Go to bed early, sleep in, maybe take a nap in the middle of the day but get some good
quality sleep.
It is the key to overcoming chronic illness.
And listen, if you can't sleep, maybe take something to support, something natural to
support you in sleeping.
Passionflower can help.
Roman chamomile, lavender oil, sometimes taking melatonin, but really doing everything you
can to help your body get a good quality night sleep.
But I love actually taking a really hot bath before I go to bed at night can help you sleep.
So again, a bath with maybe some Epsom salts and lavender oil to really get you relaxed
and ready for bed.
Number 12, lemon essential oil.
Lemon contains a compound called D-Limonene, which is actually been shown to help with
lymphatic drainage.
You'll notice when you have a sore throat these lymph nodes in the neck are all swollen.
Well, lemon oil helps drain those lymph nodes and helps to actually acts as an expectorant
helping your body get rid of some of that mucus and excess phlegm within your body.
So lemon oil, what I do is typically when you're doing that licorice root tea, getting
all those warm liquids in tea form, doing about two to three drops of lemon oil in that
a few times a day can be very effective as well.
Or doing a tablespoon of honey with some ginger powder and actually sucking on that honey
with a lemon oil can be good as well.
And then eucalyptus essential oil.
This is especially effective if things get into your lungs and sinuses.
But for a sore throat, eucalyptus oil is very effective.
What I would do with this is make a homemade vapor rub.
Take a tablespoon of coconut oil, about five to seven drops of eucalyptus oil and rub it
all over your chest and your lymph nodes.
You want to rub it right on that area of your neck and your upper chest and then go into
a hot shower and let that beat down on you.
But eucalyptus oil, a great essential oil for really helping relieved that pain associated
with a sore throat.
And the other great thing is eucalyptus oil acts as a natural antibiotic and natural antiviral
so can actually help kill that pathogen that's causing you to have a sore throat in the first
place.
And by the way, I would love to hear from you.
Is there an essential oil or an herbal remedy or treatment that you use to help fix a sore
throat that I've missed.
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Again, here is the run down to get rid of a sore throat.
Let me give you an idea what this might look like during the day as well.
You might start off waking up in the morning by doing a warm cup of tea and taking a cup
of licorice root tea, maybe do a few drops of lemon oil in there and you take your supplements
of Echinacea, vitamin C, probiotics and zinc, so maybe that's how you start off.
And then maybe for lunch, you do a big bowl of bone broth soup with chicken and garlic
and onions and some fresh veggies like carrots and celery.
You do that during the day.
And then later on at night, you decide to take a shower and you rub eucalyptus on your
chest and you gargle in between with colloidal silver.
So anyways, you get the point.
All of these things are going to help you get rid of a sore throat very, very fast.
So guys, I hope you've enjoyed this live video.
This is with me, Dr. Josh Axe talking about the top remedies to help heal a sore throat.