Sore Throat and mysterious green tea

Would love to hear your suggestions to aid in soothing a sore throat. I have been sick all week and am gettin worse. Just brewed a pot of a mixture of jasmine pearls and a semi mystery green tea. It is hand written on the bag as Yin Tu Green. I remember in the shop the jar said Yin Tu Green, Spring 2007 flush however the website says Yun Ju Green.

(from I Dream of Tea or Dream About Tea in Evanston near Chicago,Il does anyone know more about this particular green

I couldn not find much about it online aside from their website

needless to say the mixture of green and jasmine works well for my sore throat.

Cheers.

Reply to
Maxwell
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I have to admit this is the first time hearing of it for me. I have read the description on the site and looked at the two blurry photo's but it's still a bit of a mystery to me. I have to say that I have some reservations about the tea from the description and price, but it is possible I guess. Any tea that would be pretty rare and require a 4- hour journey to pick would probably fetch more than $13 for 4oz., but who knows. Red flags spring up when I get tales of virgins picking and roasting my tea during full moons or monkeys dressed in tailored suits hand rolling leaves while playing pinochle. It looks interesting, I may have to order some though to try it out.

As for the sore throat, some of my favorite tea remedies are:

  1. Slice a few quarter sized slices of fresh ginger and boil the heck out of it in some water and drink it down
  2. A black tea of any sort and a large amount (2-4 tablespoons) of honey in 4-6oz. of water
  3. If you can find it, Ricola makes a tea version of it's lozenges which does wonders
  4. Not tea, but eat a few spoonfuls of raw honey (you can find it from local bee keepers or health food/organic stores)
  5. Theraflu. It's like tea but packed with 4x the doses of a number of medicines that won't help but ease the suffering and knock you out.
  6. Nyquil (the real stuff that is now behind the pharmacist's counter, NOT the shelf), not even remotely tea but you won't care.

Good luck, and if you get a chance I'd like to hear about the Yin Tu/ Yun Ju Green tea as it brews up by itself,

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

A licorice root tea often soothes sore throats. If you have a bacterial throat infection, lavender in your tea isn't particularly soothing but it is surprisingly effective at fighting it (my wife's physician recommended it to fight mild strep throat when he found she was allergic to the antibiotic he had planned to give her).

Reply to
Iggy

sore throats is most often viral so whatever you do doesn't change the outcome much = resolution in some number of days.

Reply to
SN

not sure that you forgo antibiotic in a bacterial infection... especially for bacterial "strep throat" that has many complications. since there are other antibiotic alternatives to penicillin "allergy"

as for symptomatic relief i just pop some tylenol or ibuprofen

adding some milk+honey or herbal tea+honey/sugar for pleasure...

Reply to
SN

I finally caved in and went to my school clinic to get checked out yesterday. Good thing too as it turns out I have the lovely fortune of having Strep and Mono at the same time! I now have antibiotics and steroids but I must say this is the most miserable I have felt in ages

thanks for all the suggestions for remedies. I'll be sure to post some more about that green tea and how it tastes on its own asap once I can actually taste and smell things again.

Reply to
Maxwell

Chinese herb Luo Han Guo, looks like a brown mottled handball. Smash it and use a spoonful per cup, very soothing, no known side effects, tastes good, inexpensive. 50 cents to a dollar

Reply to
beecrofter

You can probably buy lo-han-kuo (Momordica grosvenerii or Momordica sinensis) tisane in little blocks from a good Chinese grocery too. It's very soothing on your throat, and can be drunk hot or cold. I like it as a pleasant sweet drink when I don't want caffeine but want something hot.

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

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