My throat feels like it's smoking

Throat discomfort is a common phenomenon. Some lesions in the throat or bronchus can cause throat discomfort. Patients with colds often have sore throats. If you have a sore throat, you should not only treat the cause in time, but you can also relieve the symptoms of sore throat by drinking honeysuckle, hawthorn soup, snow pear soup, egg drop soup and monk fruit tea.

1. Honeysuckle - bacterial cold, dry and sore throat

A dry and sore throat is a warning sign of a cold. Substances such as luteolin, inositol and saponins contained in honeysuckle have excellent antibacterial effects and are very effective for sore throats caused by bacterial colds. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, honeysuckle can also clear away heat and remove fire, so drinking honeysuckle tea is very effective for a dry and sore throat.

How to drink: It is recommended to take 3-4 grams of dried honeysuckle each time (pinch a small handful with your fingers), add hot water to soak, and drinking two cups a day is very effective in relieving this symptom. The symptoms will improve after two consecutive days. If you feel the taste is not good, you can add a few pieces of rock sugar. However, it should be noted that honeysuckle is cold in nature and can easily damage the spleen and stomach, so it is not suitable to be consumed frequently.

2. Hawthorn Soup: Late stage of cold, foreign body sensation in throat

In the later stages of a cold, coughing, excessive sputum, and foreign body sensation are the main causes of throat discomfort. Hawthorn has a certain effect in relieving asthma, reducing phlegm and relieving sore throat.

How to drink: Steam the fresh hawthorn, peel it, and then mash it into hawthorn soup, which can be eaten as a snack. Hawthorn soup can not only relieve sore throat but also solve the problem of tastelessness in the mouth. It tastes great when spread on bread or steamed buns and eaten as jam.

3. Snow pear soup: for lung heat, cold, sore throat

Snow pear is also a good food for nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. It is very effective in relieving dry throat and sore throat caused by lung heat and cold. You might as well make some snow pear soup yourself.

How to drink: Take a fresh pear, mash it completely with a spoon, then steam it in a steamer. Add a small amount of honey before eating.

4. Egg drop soup: chronic pharyngitis, foreign body sensation in the throat

If you have dry throat, foreign body sensation, and chronic pharyngitis, you can drink some "egg drop sugar and oil soup" every day.

How to drink: one egg, two tablespoons of white sugar and two tablespoons of sesame oil. Crack the eggs into a cup of water, use chopsticks to stir the egg white and yolk, add white sugar and sesame oil, then pour in 200-300 ml of freshly boiled water, cover and keep warm for three minutes.

When it is warm but not too hot, take a sip of the egg drop soup and hold it in your throat. Let it soak for a few seconds and then swallow it. Repeat this process and drink it slowly, mouthful by mouthful. Drinking a bowl of egg drop soup like this every day can moisturize the throat and relieve the symptoms of chronic pharyngitis.

5. Monk fruit tea: cough and whooping cough caused by lung heat or dryness

Luo Han Guo has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is suitable for coughs and whooping coughs caused by lung heat or dryness. The cough-relieving and phlegm-reducing effect of Luo Han Guo mainly comes from the D-mannitol it contains.

How to drink: The most common and simple way is to take one and soak it in water directly. Brew an appropriate amount of dried monk fruit with boiling water, and drink it when it cools down a little. It tastes sweet and fragrant. For a small number of people with cold constitution, they can add one or two slices of ginger when taking monk fruit to soak and boil it to neutralize the coldness of monk fruit.