On Monday, I was scheduled to be interviewed for one of my favorite business podcasts, Entrepreneur on Fire. (The episode will go live in April, so I will tell you more about it then.) The only problem was that I woke up coughing and sounding like Kermit the Frog due to lovely mixture of allergies, cold and bronchitis. With a few hours to spare, I reached out to my friends on Facebook for natural sore throat remedy suggestions. Thankfully, they came through for me. I did a mixture of what they suggested and (thankfully!) was able to get through the half-hour interview without one cough. Below were the top suggestions:
1. Gargle with warm water and salt.
2. Drink a lemon and honey mixture.
3. Drink tea and honey.
4. Sip molasses and honey with lemon.
5. My friend Candace suggested that “After a salt gargle, drink hot water – hot as you can take – with lots of honey, a dash of lemon and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper mixture.
6. Natasha recommended the ”juice of half a lemon mixed in with hot green tea, a teaspoon of raw honey and a tablespoon of fresh grated ginger”.
7. My friend Beth shared one of her posts Five Ways to Cure a Sore Throat which had some great ideas that my friends had not mentioned. Check it out!
8. Suck on some horehound .
Then (of course) I had the comic relief answers…
“Just go with it and sing, “It Ain’t Easy Being Green.”
“Just sing the Rainbow Connection and it’ll be complete.”
Did my friends miss anything? If you have any other natural sore throat remedies, please let me know. Thanks!