What to do if you have a sore throat during menstruation

Many people experience sore throats and physical discomfort during menstruation. In fact, such symptoms can be considered as a mild cold. Because the body's immune function is relatively weak in the early stage of menstruation, sore throats will occur. This is also a normal phenomenon. Don't worry too much. Just relax and you will slowly recover.

What should I do if I have a sore throat due to a cold?

When you have a cold, you usually have symptoms such as nasal congestion, cough, and sore throat. When your throat is sore, even swallowing saliva hurts. What should you do if you have a sore throat due to a cold?

Dietary remedies for cold and sore throat

1. Lily and Coltsfoot Flower Drink

Ingredients: 30-60 grams of lily, 10-15 grams of coltsfoot, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation and use: Place all ingredients in a casserole and cook into syrup. Drink water and eat lilies, preferably after dinner and before going to bed.

Indications and functions: Lily moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Coltsfoot flowers are pungent and warm, and have the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving qi, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. The extract of this product can slightly dilate the bronchi and has an antispasmodic effect on spasms caused by histamine. Therefore, it has the effects of relieving cough, removing phlegm and relieving asthma. The combination of the two medicines has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and reducing gas and resolving phlegm.

2. Ginger juice with honey

Recipe: half a spoon of ginger juice and one spoon of honey. Take with warm water. Take twice a day, morning and evening.

Ginger juice mixed with honey has the effects of harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, and dispelling cold. It is often used by the public to treat chronic cough in the elderly, or dry cough, cold cough, etc. Regarding the combination of ginger and honey to treat cough, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "for long-term cough, ginger and honey can be cooked and eaten." Ginger is pungent and warm in nature. It enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispelling cold, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, eliminating phlegm and promoting diuresis, and detoxifying.