Natural home remedies for tonsillitis help to gently relieve and heal the symptoms of angina. Gargles, teas, throat wraps, and hot vapors for inhaling are proven home remedies for tonsillitis.
The throat hurts, swallowing is difficult, and the temperature rises. If you feel bad and have chills, angina could be creeping up. If you have angina, you should definitely consult a doctor, but you can support your healing with some home remedies. The most important home remedies for angina include teas, and liquids for gargling and inhaling and compressing.
Cause of tonsillitis (angina)
Angina is inflammation of the tonsils, usually caused by bacteria. The word angina is Latin for oppression or tightness, which fits the symptoms of this inflammation. The most noticeable symptoms are a sore throat and difficulty swallowing, and these are often accompanied by fever and headache. Often the word is misspelled like this: Agina.
Forms of tonsillitis (angina)
Angina can take many forms and is therefore caused by a variety of causes. If you have acute angina, you probably caught it from someone else. Because the pathogen can be passed on by speaking, coughing, or sneezing. In chronic angina, the bacteria accumulate in the tonsils, causing chronic scarring and tissue inflammation. Other forms, such as angina Plaut-Vincent or scarlet angina also have bacteria as pathogens and in rare cases, such as herpangina or monocyte angina, it is a viral infection.
Home remedies for tonsillitis
Home remedies for tonsillitis and angina can help alleviate the symptoms and combat the causes. A warm tea not only feels pleasant to drink, but it can also help fight inflammation and support the body in other ways. When inhaled, the airways open, moistens the mucous membranes and the additives in the vapor have an anti-inflammatory effect.
1) Gargling for tonsillitis
- The easiest option for a gargling liquid is saline. Simply mix a pinch of salt with a glass of warm water and gargle with it several times a day. This method relieves the sore throat.
- You can also prepare black tea, add a pinch of salt and a few drops of olive oil and gargle this mixture several times a day.
- The juice of a lemon dissolved in a glass of warm water also helps with angina.
- You can also add 4 to 5 drops of iodine tincture to a glass of warm water, mix, and gargle.
- Sage tea is a helpful home remedy for angina. You can do this by pouring boiling water over a sage tea packed in tea bags or preferably 5 or 6 fresh sage leaves and letting it steep for about 10 minutes. Now you can gargle the lukewarm tea and gargle again after briefly warming it up.
- Aloe vera reduces pain and fuels your healing process. Therefore, gargle the undiluted juice every hour.
2) Helpful teas for angina
Teas and tea blends help as home remedies against tonsillitis in a very mild way. The body is supplied with liquid and the medicinal herbs can alleviate the symptoms of tonsillitis.
- Cut 2 large onions into small pieces and mix them with 1 liter of water in a saucepan. Let this simmer for about 15 minutes and then pour the brew through a sieve. Drink some of this onion tea several times a day.
- The juice of lemons reduces mucus production and honey relieves your pain. So mix four tablespoons of honey and the juice of one lemon in a cup, then pour warm water over it and stir well.
- You can also mix some freshly grated horseradish, a teaspoon of honey, and two cloves in a glass of warm water, let it steep for about 15 minutes and then sip.
- You can also sip current juice at room temperature, keeping it in your mouth for 1 to 2 minutes if possible.
- Ginger tea can also work wonders. To do this, peel a piece of ginger root, cut it into small pieces and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Sieve out the ginger pieces and add a tablespoon of honey and the juice of half a lemon. Now drink the tea throughout the day.
- Chamomile tea inhibits your inflammation.
- Sage tea as a home remedy relieves your pain.
3) Inhale hot vapors for tonsillitis
You should inhale primarily in the morning and evening, breathing in alternately with your mouth and nose. Do not breathe in too deeply or too quickly.
- Add a few drops of sage, cinnamon, thyme, lemon balm, or tea tree oil to your water bath to help kill the pathogen.
- In general, essential oils have an anti-inflammatory and decongestant effect and they support the removal of mucus in the respiratory tract.
- Anise has an expectorant effect.
- Fennel also has an expectorant effect.
- Chamomile has an anti-inflammatory and germicidal effect.
- Eucalyptus has a germ-killing effect, loosens mucus, and supports the evacuation of mucus in the respiratory tract.
- Peppermint is an effective headache remedy.
- You can also put two chopped onions in a water bath and inhale.
4) Neck wrap for relief
- You can relieve your pain by spreading room-warm cottage cheese on a linen cloth, placing the cottage cheese side on your neck, and tying a cloth over it. Quark also has a detoxifying effect. Read more about curd wrap and its effects.
- You can also mix 4 to 5 tablespoons of healing clay with a little water, spread it on a linen cloth, and put it on your neck with the side that has the healing clay on it. The healing earth also has a pain-relieving and detoxifying effect.
- 2 to 3 tablespoons of ground flaxseed mixed with 4 to 6 tablespoons of warm water, boiled for 3 to 5 minutes, also make an excellent wrap. The flaxseed porridge has a pain-relieving and expectorant effect.
- A wrap with boiled potatoes has a pain-relieving and detoxifying effect.
