HCS Part 3 : Throat Care

The bee's knees for a scratchy throat!

Propolis and honey

Feel a sore throat coming on? Try the following.

#### salt gargle

First clean and disinfect the throat by gargling with salt. Be brave, and repeat 3x daily, especially first thing in the morning and before going to bed at night.

dissolve in a glass of luke warm water 1 tsp of your favorite salt
- table salt is one - duller - way to go, but know it has iodine added to and its natural properties taken away from it); try a sea salt like Celtic, Cyprus, Atlantic, Murray River, Flor de Algarve or a rock salt like Blue Persian, Kala Namak, Himalayan or Hawaian for a variety of minerals and geological vibes.
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propolis extract

dilute about 20 drops of proplis extract in a small glass of water.

- note how the golden drops are a little resinous in the bowl, but when disolved they make the water cloudy white. The taste will be a little bitter, so you might want to start on a lower dosage to get used to it. Gargle 3x. Followed by a sip swallowed. This will boost your immune system. You can also chose to drink a small glass.

in addition

You may like to suck on propolis lozenges, 3-5x a day. The most effective are the ones which are almost 100% propolis, but they can taste extremely bitter. Check others for sugar and other additatives: make sure you limit your intake of these, although sucking on any lozenge helps to increase production of saliva which soothes the throat (by eliminating the germs, fighting them off, washing them down).

honey

The saying goes: a teaspoon of honey makes the medicine go down, but it IS the medicine!

Try thyme honey, for chestiness, but also soothes that scratchy throat. I won't start the winter without a pot at hand! Its flavour oozes summer delight.
Eucalpytus and Manuka honey with their disinfectant properties make for the ideal first-aid remedies in your kitchen cabinet. But they also may have a limited use as such, with otherwise an acquired taste as a sweetner (or sandwich spread).

Any honey of your preference will help take care of a sore throat, so take a teaspoon 1-2 x daily when you feel a cold coming on or you have a recital, gig or lecture coming up! The miraculous little bees provide a medicine chest no Strepsil or Fisherman's friend can compete with.

hayfever-prevention

What I like to have for breakfast every morning is a teaspoon of pollen. After a dreamy night, this sets me right back on earth in the middle of nature's blessings. As I carefully savour the multicoloured packets of flower-power, some sweet, some bitter, all full of summery fire, I feel reconnected to the spiritual streams that flow deeply but sweetly into nature to help lift us out of dark matter.

Furthermore, there are some impressive results with milder cases of hayfever when you start to "immunise" yourself before the first trees start to flower by taking pollen every day.

Previously:

Holistic Care for Stemians. Part 3. Sore Throat