Herbal Tea Recipes For Sore Throat

Tulsi Tea-holy basil-Sore Throat Tea Recipe
Wonderful cure for sore throat.Anti-viral and soothing properties of tulsi are well-known, what makes this remedy all the more effective is the addition of lemon juice, which helps cut through the mucus, increases salivation to lubricate the throat, and improves your immunity with its anti-oxidant powers.
Makes 1.25 cups
Ingredients
1/4 cup tulsi (indian basil) leaves
2 tsp lemon juice
Method
Combine the tulsi and 1½ cups of water in a deep non-stick pan, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 10 minutes, while stirring occasionally.
Strain the water using a strainer in a deep bowl.
Add the lemon juice and mix well.
Serve warm.
Tulsi-Basil, Ginger, Peppercorn Tea for Sore Throat
Tulsi leaves along with ginger and peppercorns to treat sore throat in no time. They do it by making tea with dried tea leaves. You can, however, omit the tea leaves if you wish to and boil the other ingredients in water to have the essential concoction for sore throat.
Ingredients
Water- 2 cups
Basil leaves- 4-5 leaves
Fresh ginger root- 1 inch piece
Peppercorns- 4-5
Method
Boil the water in a pan
Crush basil leaves, ginger root and peppercorns using mortar and pestle. If you do not have mortar and pestle, you can use any other heavy kitchen tool to crush them.
Put the crushed ingredients into boiling water.
Let them boil all together for the time till the water reduces to half of its quantity.
Strain the water in a cup and drink it right away.
Have this tea for three to four times a day to cure your sore throat.
Apple Cider Vinegar Honey Tea for Sore Throat
This is the traditional way of treating sore throat.
Ingredients
Apple Cider Vinegar- 1 tsp
Cayenne Pepper- A pinch of it
Lime juice extracted from ¼ of a lemon
Honey- 1 tsp
Hot water- 1 cup
Method
Take the hot water and add all the above ingredients in it. Stir it properly to nix them all and have it three to four times a day.
Cinnamon Honey Milk or- Tea for Sore Throat
Cinnamon is a great spice and equally great herb to treat sore throat. Cinnamon milk or tea it prevents the illness before it spreads due to its anti bacterial and warming properties. Chinese traditional medicine has long used Cinnamon for treating phlegm coughs.
Ingredients
Milk- 1 cup
Ground Cinnamon (Ceylon cinnamon- ½ tsp
Baking soda- a pinch of it
Sugar (optional) – 1 tbsp
Honey- 1 tsp
Method
Take a pan and put cinnamon, sugar (if using) and baking soda in it.
Mix well all the ingredients.
Add milk to all these ingredients and mix well again.
Heat the milk mixture until it’s warm. Do not boil it.
Once milk is just warm, put off the flame and add honey to it.
Mix well and have it.
Having this cinnamon milk just before going to bed will benefit your sore throat the most. If you are lactose intolerant and cannot have milk, you may use alternate milk such as almond milk. If, however, you just don’t want to have milk
Cinnamon Tea -for Sore Throat
Ingredients
Ground Cinnamon- ½ tsp
Ground Ginger- ½ tsp
Cayenne pepper- ¼ tsp
Honey- 1 tbsp
Hot Water- 1 cup
Method
Mix all the ingredients in a cup and pour the hot water over them. Drink it right away to soothe your sore throat. Like cinnamon milk, this tea is also best when taken at bedtime.

Tulsi Hot Basil Tea for Sore Throat
Serves: 4
Ingredients
cardamom pods
2 cloves
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
600 ml water
2 tsp leaves holy basil, dried
honey, to taste
Method
Remove the cardamom seeds from their husks, before roughly crushing the seeds along with the cloves. It's best to do this using a mortar and pestle.
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, dry-roast the pounded cloves and cardamom seeds, with the cumin and fennel. As soon as they start smoking, add the water and holy basil.
Bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat.
Sweeten to taste with honey and serve hot.
Haldi doodh Recipe for Sore Throat
Haldi doodh One of the best and most widely used turmeric remedy to treat cough, cold and a sore throat, haldi doodh helps by bringing the anti-inflammatory action of turmeric with the plethora of health benefits of milk together.
Ingredients And Method
take half a spoon of turmeric
Coarsely grounded black pepper
Add it to a glass of boiling milk.
Drink this mixture twice in a day (in the morning and evening) to find relief from a sore throat.

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History and Principles of Tib-e-Yunani

Origin & History of Unani Medicine Tibb-e-Unani or hikmet as it is famously known in Pakistan is the health system which was intially utilized by Greeks and was improved upon by Muslims. It was later on developed into the modern health systems and its remnants in ancient form are being practiced in Pakistan as Tibb-e-Unani
Unani medicine originated in Greece and is primarily based on the principles propounded by the ancient Greek practitioners Hippo crates and Galen. Over the subsequent centuries, a number of Arab and Persian scholars enriched the system, among them Ibn e Sina an Arab philosopher and physicist, who is also known as Avicenna is the most prominent name whose book "Canon of Medicine" remained the prime text book of medicine in all the major medical schools of East and west till the 19th century. He also wrote Kitab-al-shifa (Book of Healing). This system, earlier known as "Galenics", later became known as Unani Tibb, (Unani being the Arabic word for "Greek" and Tibb an Arabic word for "medicine").
Principles of Unani medicine
Unani medicine states that disease is a natural process and that symptoms are the reactions of the body to disease. It employs the humoral theory which presupposes the presence of four akhlaat (humours) in the body – dam (blood), balgham (phlegm), safra (yellow bile) and sauda (black bile). Each humour has its own temperament: blood is hot and moist; phlegm is cold and moist; yellow bile is hot and dry; and black bile is cold and dry. According to Unani, if the four main humours and the four primary temperaments (hot, cold, dry, moist) are all in a state of mutual equilibrium, the person is considered healthy.
The body is made of four basic elements; Earth, Air, Water, & Fire with different temperaments i.e cold, hot, wet & dry. The body organs get their nourishment through four humors; Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile & Black Bile. The concept of health in Tibb-e-Unani is a state of body in which there is equilibrium in the humors, and the function of the body is normal in accordance with its own temperament and the environment. When the equilibrium in the humors is disturbed and the functions of body are abnormal that state is called disease. Tibb-e-Unani takes a holistic approach towards prevention of disease, cure and promotion of health. Tibb-e-Unani relies on drugs made from medicinal plants, herbs, minerals, or of metallic or animal origin, for the treatment of disease.
Seven Essential Constituents
The essential constituents and the working principles of the body, according to Unani, can be classified into seven main groups:
arkan or elements
mizaj (temperament)
akhlat (humours)
aza (organs); arwah (life, spirits or vital breaths)
arwah (life, spirits or vital breaths)
quva (energy)
af'al (action)
Four Elements 
According to Tibb-e-Unani the human body is composed of following four elements:
Air
Water
Earth
Fire
Each of the four elements has its own special qualities: earth is cold and dry; water is cold and moist; fire is hot and dry; air is hot and moist.
Four Humours
According to Tibb-e-Unani four humours are responsible for transportation of energy in Human body.
Blood (dam)
Phlegm (balgham)
Yellow bile (safra)
Black bile (sauda)

Physical temperament (Mizaj)
The interaction of the elements produces various states, which in turn determine the temperament of an individual. It is of paramount importance to keep that temperament in mind while prescribing a course of treatment. Each individual has a unique temperament, which may potentially be real equitable, equitable or inequitable.
Following are the nine Temperaments types
Balanced
Hot
Cold
Moist
Dry
Hot and Dry
Hot and Moist
Cold and Dry
Cold and moist
The state of real equitable never occurs in reality, rather it is a theoretical situation in which the temperaments of the four elements used are equal. The resultant quality of the uniform body is called its mizaj. The temperament of a substance may be a mizaj-e-mutadil (balanced one) or a mizaj-e-ghair-mutadil (imbalanced one).
Different types and shades of imbalanced temperaments are described in Unani, which believes that at birth every person is endowed with a unique and healthy humoral constitution determining the temperament of an individual.
Six Key Factors influencing Health & Disease
In Unani medicine, six key factors are evaluated in relation to health. These six factors are called "al-umoor al-tabiyah". Each has a close relation to, and a direct bearing on, the state of health of an individual. Therefore, it is necessary for a Unani medicine practitioner to take all these factors into consideration in order to arrive at a correct diagnosis and decide how to treat the ailment. Unani medicine stresses the influence of surroundings on the state of health of human beings. It states six essential prerequisites for the prevention of disease and it places great emphasis on the maintenance of a proper ecological balance and on keeping water, food and air free from all pollution. These prerequisites, known as al-asbab al-sitta al-dharuriya (six essentials) follow:
Air.
Food and drink.
Physical exercise and repose.
Mental exertion and repose.
Sleep and wakefulness.
Evacuation and retention.
Concepts of the stages of digestion
According to the Unani system of medicine, there are four stages of digestion.
Gastric digestion
followed by intestinal digestion, when food is turned into chyme and chyle and carried to the liver.
Hepatic digestion
when chyle is converted into the four humours in varying quantities, blood being the largest. Thus, the blood that leaves the liver is intermixed with the other three humours; phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
Vessel digestion
in which every tissue absorbs nutrition by its attractive power and retains it by its retentive power.
Tissue digestion
is the digestive power that, in conjunction with the power of assimilation, converts the nutritive elements into tissue. The waste material remaining in the humours at this stage is excreted by the expulsive power. Unani practitioners maintain that when any disturbance occurs in the equilibrium of the humours, it causes disease. Therefore the Unani mode of treatment aims to restore the equilibrium of the humours.
Yanani Methods of Diagnosis and Treatment
States of the human body (Haalaat al-jism) According to Unani medicine practitioners, the states of the body are grouped under three headings:
Health, in which all the functions of the body operate normally;
Disease, the opposite of health, in which one or more forms or functions of the bodily organs are at fault; and
Neither health nor disease, where there is neither complete health nor actual disease, such as in the case of elderly individuals or those who are convalescing. Diseases are of two types, namely simple or complex. A simple disease is one that completes its course without complications.
A simple disease may manifest itself in three forms:
Imbalance of the humours (dyscrasia);
Structural or organic diseases;
Diseases of disharmony.
Diagnosis
The unani Physician-called Hakim diagnoses primarily by information obtained through
Clinical history of patient.
Muaenah-e-nabz (pulse).
Mushahidah-e-bol-o-bazaz (Stool and urine examination).
Assessment of Mizaj (Temperament).
Four types of treatment lines are available:
Ilaj bil tadbeer (regimental therapy),
Ilaj bil Ghiza (dietotherapy),
Ilaj bil dawa (Pharmacotherapy) and
Jarahat (Surgery).
The regimental therapy includes procedures like venesection, cupping, Turkish bath, massage, exercise and leeching among others. These therapies involves working on specific body reflexes, most commonly by massage. But in case of musculoskeletal problems like arthritis and back pain, application of cold, heat or suction cups is also done. In rare instances, serious and acute diseases are treated by puncturing certain reflex points, during which a few drops of blood are released.
Similarly, dietotherapy involves administration of specific diets or regulation of quantity and quality of food, where as pharmacotherapy deals with administration of drugs derived from plant and mineral sources. In unani system, single drugs or their combinations in raw form are preferred over compound formulations.
"A Unani physician does not prescribe the strongest drug at the beginning of the treatment. He selects the drug according to the degree of variation from the normal healthy condition and observes the effect produced by the treatment. At the same time, he instructs the patient to observe some restrictions in diet and lifestyle."
Since in Unani, health and disease depend upon the equilibrium or imbalance between the four humours, a thorough examination of the pulse is undertaken to determine which humour is dominant at the time. The examination of the urine is the next important step. Its colour, taste, viscosity, whether it has froth on its surface, if the bubbles formed are large, indicating balgham, or small, indicating safra are scrutinised. The stool is also examined in a similar way.

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The publication of this information does not constitute the practice of medicine, and this information does not replace the advice of your physician or other health care provider. Before undertaking any course of treatment, the reader must seek the advice of their physician or other health care provider