How to Cure Sore Throat & Cough Using Natural Products

Video Transcript

"You may be feeling a little bit achy, feeling like you have body aches generally speaking, slight headache and one of the key symptoms can be sore throat. Hi my name is Mark Brinson doctor of oriental medicine, physical medicine specialist. What it sounds like is that you are coming down with something. These are some of the first key signs that something may not be right in your body and you really need to listen to them. Making sure that you get enough rest and get plenty of water to drink are two of the first things that you can do to help prevent that from turning into a full cold. But let's say that you are already start to have that sore throat and maybe you are getting a little bit of a cough, there are a few natural products that you can use to help significantly. One of them that I highly recommend is some type of a zinc lozenge or a gargle that you can do either with salt water or maybe a little bit of lemon. Lemon and warm water. Those types of products are good for antimicrobial effects also antibiotic, anti fungal effects as well. Anything that kind of soothes the areas is going to be good as well so maybe you can take a little bit of tea with a honey and lemon as well. Once you start to have a cough though there's a few natural products that will help with that. In different Asian markets you can get juice from a more exotic type fruits so panellia is really good for cough or loquat in particular. Natural loquat juice is excellent for both cough and expectoration. If those are a little harder to find, pear, pear can be extremely good to soothe the lungs and also to help soothe the cough and prevent it. My name is Mark Brinson, doctor of oriental medicine physical medicine specialist hoping that you have a happy healthy and balanced day."