Honey for a sore throat.

**PrairieRose** · 02-09-2008, 09:47 AM

I just wanted to give 2 very enthusiastic

for using straight ol' out of the cupboard honey for a sore throat. I got up during the night, night before last with the worst case of pharangitis that I have ever had (I tend to get it over other bad sore throats). I've always had to have anti biotics to get over it and it seems to last forever. Anyway I thought, yep I gotta go see the dr. in the morning but it hurt so bad that I needed some relief asap. So I drank some warm cider (could barely swallow it down, took me a long time to sip on it to get it down), took some tylenol and then a spoon ful of plain honey. Went back to bed. When I got up in the morning my throat wasn't the least bit sore. I could not believe it. I had been hearing how honey was being used for many new (and probably very old) remedies these days and had even convinced my brother to use it on an appendectomy scar that he popped open (a fresh scar, happened last year when my mother was gravely ill) that wouldn't heal. The dr. said he was going to have to go back in a carve a little piece of it out and re stitch it. Brother tried the honey and in 3 days it was healed. Unbelievable. Anyway, so if you have a sore throat or have kids that do, try the spoon ful of honey before you go get anti biotics. Just remember not to give it to babies (it can cause botulism in babies under 2 years---I think).

**JustJoy** · 02-09-2008, 12:54 PM

I swear by honey! My son was home on leave a couple of weeks ago and had an awful cold, cough & scratchy throat. I forced him to take some honey...lol...and a few minutes later he said, "Wow mom...this stuff really works!" LOL! Needless to say I gave him the bottle of honey to take with him on his long car trip back to VA