Dietary Therapy for Pharyngitis: Recipes for Relief and Healing

March 11, 2024

Pharyngitis can cause great inconvenience to patients' bodies and lives, with symptoms such as difficulty expectorating, difficulty swallowing, dryness, foreign body sensation, and dryness. In addition to actively cooperating with doctors for treatment, patients can also use dietary therapy methods for auxiliary treatment in their daily diet.


One: Longevity Tremella Soup

Ingredients: 15g dried tremella, 15g wolfberry, 15g longan, 150g rock sugar. Method: Soak the tremella in warm water, wash off the sand, remove the black roots, blanch with boiling water, then soak in clear water and steam until cooked. Wash the wolfberry and steam with the diced longan in a small bowl. Boil 1500g of water and dissolve the rock sugar, then add the tremella, wolfberry, and longan. Boil for a moment and serve in a bowl.

Characteristics: The tremella is soft and the soup is sweet and sour.

Effects: Nourishes the kidneys, strengthens the body, and moistens the throat.

Two: Green Dragon White Tiger Soup

Ingredients: 5 green fruits, 1 radish. Method: Slice the radish and cook with the green fruits for 30 minutes, then strain the juice and use it as tea.

Effects: Clears heat, detoxifies, soothes the throat, and promotes saliva production. Used for dry cough and sore throat in autumn.


Three: Tremella Tomato Soup

Ingredients: 50g tremella (15g wild tremella), 100g tomatoes, sugar as needed. Method: Soak the tremella in water, wash it, then cook it in a clay pot until thick and soft. Peel and mash the tomatoes, then add them to the tremella soup and cook with the desired amount of sugar.

Effects: Tremella nourishes the lungs, tomatoes clear heat and detoxify, promote saliva production, and the addition of sugar makes the soup sweet and sour, rich in nutrients. This recipe has a regulating and therapeutic effect on patients with chronic tonsillitis, chronic pharyngitis, and long-lasting dry cough.

Four: Mung Bean Kelp Soup

Ingredients: 1 ounce mung beans, 1 ounce kelp, a little sugar.

Method: Cook the mung beans and kelp in a pot with water until soft, then add a little sugar for flavor. Drink it as tea every day. Watermelon juice: Cut open a watermelon and extract the juice, drink it as tea frequently. It can clear heat, relieve restlessness, nourish yin, and moisturize dryness, and is suitable for regular consumption.

Five: Sand Ginseng Steamed Duck

Ingredients: 1 old duck, 50g jade bamboo, 50g northern sand ginseng, ginger, Sichuan peppercorn, yellow wine, salt as needed. Method: Slaughter the old duck and remove the feathers and internal organs, clean the jade bamboo and northern sand ginseng, and put them in a pot with water, ginger, Sichuan peppercorn, yellow wine, and salt. Stew for two hours over low heat and serve.

Characteristics: The duck meat is fragrant and delicious with a slight bitterness.

Effects: Nourishes yin, clears heat, soothes the throat, moistens the intestines, and promotes bowel movements.

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