Lemon in angina: ways of using and effectiveness

When a lemon is mentioned, saliva is formed in the mouth, and a corresponding grimace is formed on the face. It would seem that it is difficult to find a product more sour than this. What does not prevent fruit from being one of the most popular and loved ones. Lemon is used not only for food, but also for alternative medicine. Lemon with angina is used internally, with drinks, and externally for inhalation and rinsing of the throat.

Whether it is possible a lemon at an angina?

To determine whether a lemon can be administered with angina, you should familiarize yourself with its properties. Many with any catarrhal disease drink liters of hot teas with lemons, sincerely believing in their healing power. Although high temperature adversely affects the beneficial properties, leaving only flavor. For a real benefit, lemon with angina should be applied in a special way.

There are several ways to use citrus to treat a sore throat:

• to eat pure lemon in parts;
• sprinkle with sugar;
• gargle with a diluted juice;
• combine with honey, salt, herbs, spices;
• make mixtures and medicines based on fresh juice;
• apply for procedures citric acid.

The benefits of vitamin fruit are obvious: it relieves pain, reduces swelling of the tonsils, helps reduce heat. Acid citrus enriches with vitamins, necessary for immunity. The juice acts antiseptically, suppressing pathogenic microorganisms. Essential oils have anti-edematous and anti-inflammatory properties. In general, the fetus ensures the prevention of secondary infections and complications.

Contraindications to the use of lemons a little, they are mainly associated with hypersensitivity to the active components. For those who suffer from increased acid in the stomach, ulcers, dermatitis, there is a danger of exacerbation, especially when combining lemon with honey.

How to treat sore throat with lemon?

It is useful for a sick quinsy to eat lemons with lobules, cutting half the fruit for one meal. Eat without rest, that is, with the skin, because it contains the lion's share of useful components. At the same time, lemon juice with angina during chewing is washing the inflamed parts of the throat and depressing the microbes that cause angina.

A few hours later they finish eating the second half of the fruit. Chew should be long and slow. To get the maximum effect, you can not drink or jam. Take full-fledged food is allowed not earlier than an hour. Treatment of sore throat with lemon is repeated until the patient's condition improves.

• Before treating angina with lemon, you should rule out the likelihood of allergic manifestations. Especially it concerns children under 5 years old. At a sensitive throat from the concentrated agent it is necessary to refuse or reduce the dosage. It is better to drink warm lemon-honey liquid or gargle with diluted lemon juice.

Despite the effectiveness of the procedures, you can not help lemons. They are able to strengthen immunity, clear the surface of the throat from pathogenic bacteria, reduce the severity of symptoms. But to cure serious pathology exclusively by alternative methods is unlikely to succeed. Therefore, it is important for a patient to consult an ENT specialist and act on his recommendations.

Lemon in sore throat in adults

The effectiveness of lemon in angina in adults depends on the way of consumption and the phase of the disease. With strong immunity, as a rule, tonsils are not inflamed. But if the first symptoms are present (weakness, chills, perspiration and growing pain in the throat), then there is no time to strengthen the immunity of citrus fruits. Tonsillitis develops rapidly, so treatment with fresh lemon in angina should be at the very beginning. And if it was not possible, then apply the sour fruit only after the subsidence of acute inflammatory phenomena.

• Why the lemon in the acute period is not recommended, in general, it is clear: the sore throat mucosa at this time is too painful and responds to acidic stimuli with the intensification of symptoms: pain, dryness, coughing.

Lemon can be eaten on a piece, along with zest and flesh, rinse juice with water, do aromatherapy or inhalation, including in a mixture with other ingredients.

Lemon is very effective for the prevention of inflammation of the tonsils. A vitaminized preparation for this purpose is prepared from grated citrus, divided into two parts. Half mix with sugar, the second - with honey. In the season, avitaminosis is consumed on a spoon: in the morning - a lot with sugar, in the evening - honey-lemon. Such a mixture, tasty and very useful, is recommended to give to children.

Lemon with angina in children

Children often have sore throats, and in some cases angina happens several times a year. Lemons with angina in children are allowed from 2 years of age. But small children may not perceive an acute product, they are also easily exposed to an allergic reaction. Therefore, this method is better for older children, from about five years of age, who are able to consciously take the recommended food and medicine.

Lemon in angina in children, like in adults, has a beneficial effect on the whole organism, since it is a vitamin, immunostimulating, antioxidant product. In patients with tonsils, the local effect of sour fruit is also important, which is as follows:

• reduction of puffiness;
• removal of pain and inflammation;
• lowering of temperature;
• oppression of pathogenic microbes.

At the initial stage, citrus, in combination with medicines, increases the body's support capabilities and does not allow the aggravation of pathology. If the angina still developed into a purulent, the lemon does not lose relevance, because the ascorbic acid, vitamins, ethereal compounds contained in it strengthen the body and relieve the symptoms of the disease.

• It is better for children to offer a chewed sweetened lemon, pleasant to taste.
• Lemon-honey juice is useful for lubricating purulent tonsils. The procedure is carried out with a cotton swab, three times a day, it helps reduce inflammation and softens purulent plugs.
• For internal use, prepare a sweet gruel from crushed lemon and honey. For treatment, give 1 tsp. 3 times, for prophylaxis - 2 times a day (within a month).

Lemon in children can cause unpleasant sensations in the throat, increased pain, irritation of the mucosa. In such cases, you can limit the use of warm tea with the addition of a slice of useful fruit. Or dilute the drink until the acid taste disappears.

Apply citric acid to children is not recommended, because the industrial product most often does not have the properties of natural juice.

Lemon with purulent sore throat

Correctly used lemon in angina actively confronts pathogens, normalizes temperature, reduces swelling, flushing, pain accompanied by a purulent form of the disease. Acids and fungicides create an extremely unfavorable environment for bacteria, as a result of which they stop multiplying and soon perish. Especially since lemon with purulent sore throat is not the only effective remedy; For the treatment, medicamentous therapy is always used, aimed at inhibiting harmful microflora and repairing the mucosa.

The fruit has properties useful for various infections:

• stimulates the immune forces;
• tones up the body;
• improves reduced appetite;
• acts as an antiseptic;
• strengthens blood vessels and myocardium
• reduces the intensity of inflammation.

For rinses with purulent tonsillitis prepare a lemon solution (2 tablespoons per 100 ml of water). The procedure is performed for at least a minute. For the desired effect, such rinses should be up to six per day.

If the lemon solution causes burning or pain in the throat, rinses should be discarded. Contraindicated drug for children under 5 years, do not prescribe it with intolerance of ingredients, increased acidity in the stomach, ulcer and colitis in the phase of exacerbation.

Tea with lemon in angina

Lemon with angina is useful at any stage. At the initial stage of catarrhal disease, the effective way is to eat lemon together with the skin: first - half, in three hours - the second. If necessary, the next day, limonotherapy is repeated.

• Especially useful is warm tea with lemon in angina. Drink brewed from leaf tea or medicinal raw materials, for example, chamomile, which has antiseptic and antioxidant properties.

A piece of citrus is put in a mug and kneaded to squeeze out more juice. You can do simply: add a little lemon juice to a warm chamomile broth. To speed up the improvement, drink tea several times a day in bed, then wrapped in a warm blanket.

Together with pharmaceuticals (tablets, sprays) the drink actively promotes recovery. The added natural honey not only improves the taste, but also enriches the drink with the whole spectrum of nutrients that it possesses. With purulent sore throat, the fruit strengthens the defenses, relieves uncomfortable sensations and high fever.

• Tea with lemon can be drunk even by those who, due to a strong acid, can not gargle with lemon water or chew the whole fruit. Tea is softer, it does not irritate the inflamed tonsils and laryngeal mucosa.

When treating tonsillitis with lemon it is important to give up harmful habits - smoking and drinking, do not eat hot and dairy foods in large portions, do not consume harmful foods.

Lemon with honey in angina

Honey and lemon in angina are used in non-traditional medicine individually and in combination with each other. Lemon contains a huge dose of vitamin C, useful for immunity, oils with antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Honey is a natural antibiotic, enveloping irritated mucous membranes and accelerating recovery.

Combined together, lemon and honey with angina represent a powerful medicine with the following properties:

• antimicrobial;
• antipyretic;
• painkillers;
• anti-edematous;
• restorative;
• updating.

There are many ways to prepare home remedies against sore throats. To increase the effectiveness in them add additional ingredients: medicinal plants, spices, table salt. And, of course, medications prescribed by the otolaryngologist.

Tea with honey and lemon is easier to prepare, because each of us drinks this drink with healthy tonsils. With angina it is recommended to do so:

• 2 tbsp. L. Leaf tea pour 400 ml of boiling water in a teapot, add half a lemon, cut into slices. So fruit gives juice better. After infusion (up to 10 minutes), when the drink has cooled, put honey (to taste). In boiling water, honey loses useful properties and becomes harmful. Drink a serving of tea every two to three hours. Slices do not throw away, but eat.

An effective remedy, a sore throat, is prepared from candied honey and sour juice, in equal parts. Mass dissolve, like candy, every three hours, after which you can not eat or drink for an hour.

Lemon juice with angina

To use lemon juice in angina, fresh citrus is squeezed into clean dishes. There are special convenient squeezers, with the help of which quickly get the maximum of sour juice. Pre-cut the citrus across, then insert the half of the fruit into the squeezer and rotate around its axis, easily separating the soft contents from the dense peel.

Lemon juice with angina is used in the absence of allergies to citrus fruits. The substance is used in different ways: diluted with water to rinse the throat, add to herbal teas for drinking, together with the pulp is mixed with honey. Such gruel is useful not only for the sick, but also for healthy people - for the prevention of angina, colds and other diseases that occur with weakened immunity.

Several recipes using juice:

1. Lemon-honey mixture (1: 2) lubricate the glands with an antiseptic purpose. If signs of irritation decrease the concentration of juice.
2. A similar composition (it is better to take solid honey) dissolve in the oral cavity until complete dissolution.
3. Water solution (2 liters of juice per 100 ml of water) rinse the throat no less than 6 times a day.
4. Juice with water (1: 3) to boil, drink chilled for 1 tsp. 4 times a day.
5. Juice from the peel used for inhalation with the help of an aroma lamp.

The sour fruit, containing only 2.5% of sugar, is practically the only citrus allowed to people with diabetes. In addition to immunostimulation, the juice strengthens the vascular walls, beneficially affects the heart muscle, promotes appetite, including in children, tones the body.

Contraindications to the use of lemon juice:

• age up to 5 years;
• peptic ulcer and exacerbation of colitis;
• reflux and hyperacid gastritis;
• treatment with antidepressants.

With caution should apply sour citrus pregnant women.

Scalded lemon with angina

Proper nutrition with throat diseases is aimed at protecting the affected organ from chemical, mechanical, thermal damage. A common opinion about the benefits of hot can do a disservice: exacerbate the course of the disease, increase inflammation and pain.

The right option - a plentiful warm drink, however, like the rest of the food. Hot is able to burn the shell, cold - to provoke an aggravation of the process. The same can cause a lemon in angina if a vitamin fruit with very acidic content is not used by the rules.

To facilitate the condition will help properly prepared, namely - scalded lemon in angina, when the throat starts to hurt, shiver and break down the whole body. Before consumption, it should be doused with boiling water, cut into thin slices and sprinkled with sugar. To eat whole in one go. A positive result will confirm a rapid decrease in temperature and improvement of well-being.

• Eliminates the pain in the throat the following way: slices of lemon without skin should be kept in the mouth, swallowing the juice emerging from the pulp. Repeat the procedure every 3 hours, but not more often, taking into account the harmful effect of acid on tooth enamel.

An effective recipe offers the following actions: split in half and eat scalded lemon in two stages, with a 2-hour break. One part chew with a skin, if necessary sweeten with honey or sugar.

Lemon and ginger in angina

Ginger, recently returned to its former popularity in cooking, confidently proves its effectiveness and as a healing plant. The rhizomes of ginger, like the fruits of lemons, help with angina:

• disinfect the oral cavity and throat;
• reduce the amount of pathogenic microflora;
• prevent the progression of inflammation;
• Increase the intensity of sweating and reduce fever;
• stimulate defenses.

Useful properties are due to valuable bioactive compounds, essential oils, vitamins, phytoncides, minerals, amino acids. Ginger-based products are recommended for acute tonsillitis, flu, pharyngitis, and cold infections.

Lemon and ginger with sore throat effectively used together. Such recipes provide a double action. We give examples of alternative recipes containing both components.

1. To slow down the development of angina. 1 tsp. Powdered ginger shaken with 750 ml of water, boil for 10 minutes. After cooling add 3 liters. Lemon juice and honey, a pinch of black pepper. Drink three meals a day, then cook and drink fresh - until recovery; Usually it's 3-4 days.
2. Tea against sore throats and various colds. Take a spoonful of grated ginger, a slice of lemon and apple, 1 tsp. Honey, 2 cloves, a little black tea. All the ingredients, except for honey, are brewed with 300 ml of boiling water and insisted in a thermos. Honey is put directly before use. Drink 2 servings per day.

Rinse throat with lemon in angina

Lemon rinses are an effective way to get rid of angina quickly. The acid creates conditions that are disastrous for microorganisms: they do not tolerate an acidic environment. To rinse the throat with lemon in angina requires juicy, ripe fruit, giving enough juice. It is mixed with warm water and rinse the throat as often as possible, making sure that the concentration of juice does not cause discomfort. Proportions - 2 tablespoons per 100 ml of water, the procedure time - 1 minute.

• Rinses were used by alternative medicine long before the appearance of official anti-anginal drugs. Today the method is successfully applied along with medical treatment and promotes the speedy recovery.

Lemon with angina in the form of rinsing has a local antiseptic, provivovospalitelny, decongestant, grogorynizyuschy effects. During the procedure, the inflamed zones get a shock dose of citric, malic acids and phytoncides, an environment that is unfavorable for infectious agents is formed here.

Due to the procedures, the surface of the throat is cleaned of microbes and toxic products of their vital functions, edemas and hyperemia decrease, the temperature gradually returns to normal, and painful sensations disappear.

To increase the effectiveness of rinse should be carried out according to the rules.

• Use only fresh means.
• Apply lemon solution to comfortable temperature and concentration.
• Gargle after eating, then abstain from eating for about an hour.
• Each procedure should be performed within a few minutes, use at least a glass of liquid.
• Rinse, throwing back his head and saying a long "ah."
• Do not swallow the solution, but spit it out.
• The effectiveness of rinses increases the simultaneous washing of the nose.

Can I chew a lemon in a sore throat?

Everyone is informed about the benefits of lemons in case of angina and colds, and hardly anyone who has become ill does not resort to this remedy. Indeed, sour citrus is an inexpensive, effective and pleasant additional method of treatment. And if you chew lemon in angina with zedra, then it can be a decisive factor in improving health. This procedure is recommended by Tibetan healers. Although we, of course, advise you to always contact the official doctors for any ailments.

You can chew the citrus at a time or two times. Essential oils and citric acid equally well cope with infectious agents and inflammation of the throat.

• With severe pain and rising temperature, a medium-sized lemon is covered with hot water, finely chopped and sprinkled with sugar. Eat all, after which you should expect a drop in heat and the cessation of pain.
• With a beginning angina, the scalded fruit is divided in two; The first portion is eaten with the skin, immediately, if desired, sweetening, the rest - after two hours.

Within an hour after each intake of fruit, you can not eat anything - so as not to negate the beneficial effect of the acids contained in the lemon.

Some patients do not eat lemon, complaining about the irritating effect of acid. This happens in people with a sensitive throat. For them, other methods of using lemon in angina are suitable: rinsings or teas, in which the concentration of lemon components is much weaker, but vitamins and organic acids are preserved.

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What can not be done with a sore throat?

Home methods, including lemon in angina, are actively used by many families who dislike pharmaceuticals and all kinds of chemistry in general. Most have their own methods of eating medicinal fruits and herbs. Do not object to them and otolaryngologists. But in order not to miss something important in the course of the disease, it is important to know what can not be done with a sore throat. So, you can not:

• To hope that "it will pass by itself" and neglect pain.
• Lie down or work, despite the deterioration of well-being.
• Ignore obvious signs of aggravation of the process: swelling, a sharp temperature jump, an increase in lymph nodes, the formation of pus.
• Limit candy and sweet tea.
• Strain your voice, talk a lot or whisper.
• Smoking, drinking alcohol, eating spicy and rough food, chewing gum.
• Use hot and cold, carbonated and acidic drinks.
• To be lazy, do not perform alternative or prescribed by a doctor procedures.
• To engage in self-medication, in particular, without a reason to take antibiotics. And if they are appointed by an expert, do not break discipline and dosage.

The danger is not so much angina, as probable complications. Running the process is fraught with complications: rheumatism, joint damage, heart muscle, kidneys. Therefore, it is important not to skip the onset of the disease and start treatment on time.

Lemon is not just a vitamin supplement to tea or the decoration of fish dishes. Acid citrus is effective as a therapeutic product. In particular, lemon with angina and colds shows excellent results. Available citrus each patient can use with advantage, using one way or another: teas, rinses, consumption alone or with other substances. And the constant presence of lemons in the diet helps to stay healthy in any season.