Milk is included in many recipes that are used to treat sore throat. Due to the high content of fatty fractions, this product has an emollient effect, covering the mucous membrane with a thin film. This reduces the intensity of inflammation and, as a result, reduces the severity of pain.
Before proceeding with the treatment of sore throat with milk, it is imperative to find out if the patient has an individual intolerance to this product. Most often, this violation is due to a lack of lactase - an enzyme that is necessary for the digestion of milk sugar. Allergy to proteins in milk is also rare.
Throat treatment with milk and milk-based formulas is best done with a whole product. But such "home" milk has a higher chance of causing intolerance.
Purchased milk is much less likely to cause such undesirable reactions, but at the same time, it contains fewer useful compounds.
Milk with soda
This is the most straightforward sore throat blend. To prepare a medicinal solution, you need to take 1 glass of warmed milk and add half a teaspoon of baking soda there. Then stir and dissolve the baking soda thoroughly and drink the liquid in one gulp. A stable result using this recipe is achieved within 2-3 days of using this product. It is also useful to gargle with the same mixture.
A solution of soda in milk has a particularly pronounced analgesic effect if a sore throat is caused by coughing attacks. Milk softens the tissues, and baking soda suppresses the cough reflex.
Butter recipe
It is believed that this liquid has a pronounced anti-inflammatory effect. To prepare it, take half a liter of fresh warmed milk, put 4 tablespoons of butter there and dissolve. Sometimes butter is preliminarily melted in a separate bowl, and then poured into milk and stirred thoroughly. This remedy is intended to be taken orally 3 times a day after each meal. But its effectiveness is sometimes questioned, because if the milk is whole, then the content of fatty fractions of animal origin in it is already high enough. Adding additional fats there in the form of butter will not change the overall situation and will not add any new medicinal properties to the solution.
With honey
But milk and honey combine very well - against the background of the soft enveloping effect of milk, honey provides an anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effect. This allows not only to relieve pain syndrome caused by inflammation of the mucous membrane, but also to help in treating the immediate cause of the disease, which is most often a bacterial infection.
To prepare a solution for 1 glass of milk, take 1 tablespoon of honey. Dissolve the honey, stirring constantly, and drink the mixture immediately after preparation. Take this treatment three times a day (most recently before bed).
The milk must be preheated, but not brought to a boil. Honey dissolved in a very hot liquid will lose many of its medicinal properties due to the temperature decomposition of the active ingredients.
With soda, butter and honey
This combined recipe has a complex effect on a sore throat, especially with the simultaneous presence of a dry, "tearing" cough:
- honey provides a decrease in the intensity of inflammation of the mucous membrane and suppresses the development of bacterial flora;
- milk softens and lubricates tissues;
- melted butter has an additional enveloping effect;
- soda inhibits the cough reflex, relieving throat irritation.
To prepare this mixture, take 1 glass of milk, heat it up and add 1 tablespoon of honey and the same amount of butter there. The butter can also be pre-melted in a separate bowl. After dissolving the butter and honey, add half a teaspoon of baking soda to the mixture.
Remember that the milk must be preheated - this will simplify and speed up the honey dissolving process.
But the liquid should not be too hot, so as not to destroy the beneficial substances contained in honey. You need to drink such a solution once a day, preferably before going to bed. In the absence of allergy to honey and with normal tolerance to dairy products, this recipe is used even in children.
With soda and salt
The peculiarity of this mixture is that the hygroscopic effect of salt is added to the above-described effects provided by milk and soda.
Sodium chloride has the ability to absorb water and "pull" it out of tissues.
When treating tonsillitis, rinsing with such a solution will help relieve swelling of the mucous membrane and contribute to the increased formation and excretion of sputum.
The recipe for the liquid is simple: for 1 cup of milk, add a pinch of kitchen salt and half a teaspoon of baking soda. Stir, making sure that the solids are completely dissolved in the milk, and drink in one gulp.
Use no more than 0.5 teaspoon of baking soda for 200-250 grams of milk! With an increase in the content of soda, the solution will acquire other properties (in particular, laxatives).
Other milk based recipes
The relief that milk brings from a sore throat is due to the composition and beneficial medicinal properties of this liquid. As a versatile solvent, milk serves as the basis for recipes such as:
- Peel and chop 3-4 garlic cloves, pour half a liter of milk over them and boil. Let the liquid cool down on its own and drink it a couple of sips 4-5 times a day.
- Take 1 glass of still mineral water and 1 glass of warmed milk. Then take a sip of milk, then a sip of water, another sip of milk, and so on, until you drink both glasses.
- To prepare milk with oatmeal, soak 1 cup of oatmeal in enough milk for 20 minutes. After that, filter the resulting liquid through cheesecloth and put 2 tablespoons of butter in it. Drink the solution at night, warm your neck before bed, and the next morning the sore throat will subside.
- Grate or grind 2-3 medium-sized carrots with a blender. Squeeze the juice out of the resulting mass and strain it through cheesecloth. Mix the juice with warmed milk in equal proportions and take this mixture by mouth 2-3 times a day.
- Pour 2-3 tablespoons of juice obtained from squeezed ripe lemon into 1 glass of warmed milk. The mixture should be drunk immediately after preparation, since the acid contained in the juice causes the milk proteins to curdle. Repeat the procedure 2-3 times a day.
A sore throat is often accompanied by loss of voice. Bran boiled in milk has an anesthetic effect at the same time as "unblocking" the vocal cords. Pour 1 glass of bran into 1 liter of milk and put on low heat. Boil the liquid for about an hour, stirring constantly. Let the solution cool and take 3-4 sips 3 times a day.- Another recipe for restoring voice along with anesthesia includes 0.5 cups of anise seeds, boiled for 20 minutes over low heat in 1 glass of milk. Then filter the liquid and dissolve 1 tablespoon of honey in it. Boil again and immediately remove from heat. Then pour in 1 glass of brandy and cool. Take the solution by mouth 1 sip after lunch and before bedtime.
- Decoctions of medicinal herbs mixed with milk will also be useful. The standard amount of phytopreparation is 1 tablespoon per 1 glass of boiling water. Boil the herb, let it brew for about half an hour, then filter the liquid and add an equal volume of warmed milk to it.The resulting solution is intended for rinsing the larynx 4–5 times a day.
A sore throat is often accompanied by loss of voice. Bran boiled in milk has an anesthetic effect at the same time as "unblocking" the vocal cords. Pour 1 glass of bran into 1 liter of milk and put on low heat. Boil the liquid for about an hour, stirring constantly. Let the solution cool and take 3-4 sips 3 times a day.
