What food to eat if you have symptoms of pharyngitis

Pharyngitis is a relatively common disease, which often causes sore throat. Severe cases can cause pain when eating, difficulty speaking, difficulty swallowing, etc. In addition to anti-inflammatory treatment, you should eat more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods, such as soybean soup, Sterculia lychnophora and rock sugar tea, which have good cooling and pain-relieving effects, and blood circulation and blood stasis removing effects. You can also drink some radish juice, honey water, etc.

1. Soybean soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of soybeans.

Method: Add 1000 ml of water, boil until 1 bowl, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, and drink cold. Swelling and ulceration in the pharynx and hoarseness. Soybeans can relieve gas, promote bowel movements, reduce swelling and toxins, and have the effects of relieving throat and improving voice.

2. Pangdahai Rock Sugar Tea

Ingredients: 4 sterculia lychnophora seeds, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: Soak the Sterculia lychnophora in boiling water until it becomes sponge-like, and drink the water several times a day. Sore throat and hoarseness. Plantago ovata can clear away heat and promote the production of body fluids, and has the effects of facilitating the throat and opening the voice.

3. Olive and Sour Plum Soup

Ingredients: 100 grams of olives, 2 sour plums.

Method: Chop the olives, add 2 bowls of water and sour plums, boil until 1 bowl of soup is left, add rock sugar and drink. Dry throat and dysphonia. Olives are sweet, astringent and cool, and can relieve sore throat and promote salivation; sour plums are sour and can promote salivation; rock sugar is sweet and moist, and can moisten the lungs.

4. Radish juice

Ingredients: 500 grams of fresh radish.

Preparation: Wash and eat raw or mash it into juice to drink, or cook and drink the soup. Prevent and treat pharyngitis. Radish, also known as radish in ancient times, has high nutritional value and contains large amounts of protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, vitamin Bl, vitamin B2, vitamin C, etc. The vitamin C content ranks among the highest among general vegetables, which is 10 times the vitamin content in pears and apples. Hence the saying “radish is better than pear”. According to research, the alcohol extract of radish has antibacterial effects; it is clinically effective in preventing and treating influenza, pharyngitis, etc.

5. Honey carrot juice

Ingredients: appropriate amount of white radish, 20 ml of honey.

Method: Wash and chop the radish, and squeeze the juice with clean gauze. Take 30 ml each time, add 20 ml of honey, and then add appropriate amount of warm water, mix well and take it all at once, 3 times a day. Dry throat, itchy throat or dry cough in autumn. Radish can moisten the throat and reduce phlegm, detoxify, help digestion, and disperse blood stasis, and has the effect of treating asthma; honey can nourish the lungs and has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.

6. Radish, olive and sugar drink

Ingredients: 10 green olives (sliced), 250 grams of fresh radish (shredded), and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Method: First, boil the green olive slices with water for about 15 minutes. Add the shredded radish while it is boiling. After it boils, take the soup and add appropriate amount of sugar and drink it or as tea. Chronic pharyngitis. Olive, also known as green fruit, is sweet, astringent, sour and flat in nature. It enters the lung and stomach meridians. Its functions are to clear the lungs, relieve sore throat, promote salivation and detoxify.