Hot tea with lemon and honey is wonderful stuff

[xiphias]

I woke up, I couldn't talk at all. One mug of hot tea with lemon and honey, I could talk in a glottal-fried croak. Two mugs, and my voice is, if not quite normal, at least usable. Why does hot tea with lemon and honey fix voices?

I suspect after a hot shower, I'll feel human enough to leave the house. And I will be able to make it to the gym today. I may not do a full workout, but, as my mother pointed out, the YMCA has a sauna. . .

Comments

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

The acid strips the mucus, the honey heals & soothes. I don't know why it has to be tea&em;so you can put lemon in it? Or maybe the tannins help, too.

If you're ever totally desperate for your voice to come back&em;like you *have* to sing for 45 minutes despite being all phlegmy & stuffed up&em;dissolve an aspirin down the back of your throat. Will strip it away and let you use your vocal cords. For about an hour. Then you're toast.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

dissolve an aspirin down the back of your throat.

Yigh glerk ugh! Um... yeah, I'd have to be pretty desperate to try that. Glaaaagh... asprin tastes nasty! ;P

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I think

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I think <ljuser=porcinea> has the right of it, chemically speaking. I'm dubious about the aspirin trick, which sounds gross. I do know this: you are not supposed to sing loudly when you have taken ibuprofen. Apparently it's bad for your vocal cords.

My personal favorite (albeit disgusting) trick for sore voices: gargling warm water with a pinch of salt in it. Ick ick ick ick, but it really does work.