Home remedies · Throat, pharynx & cough
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Keep sugar-free lozenges, sage sweets or a piece of ginger in the mouth, several times a day as needed.
Sucking stimulates saliva, and saliva is the natural protective film of the throat.
The effect lasts as long as the sucking does.
Not for small children because of choking. Sugary sweets spread over the day harm the teeth.
Get seen at once: severe one-sided pain with high fever, trouble swallowing your own saliva, a muffled voice or breathlessness. Likewise hoarseness lasting beyond three weeks, and coughing blood. In children also drooling and sitting with the chin pushed forward.