Human being is the most powerful creature in the world today may be not by strength but by brain it possesses. Talking in terms of medical science, we have created medicines for 90% of diseases and researches are still going on to conquer rest 10%. The most dangerous disease like cancer now has cure through medicine. But has anyone give it a thought that in early times when people use to get some health problem then how was it treated? Let’s discuss how in previous times people use to get cure and what medicine they use to have when fallen sick.Let’s take an example of problem related to bad throat or sore throat. It is a condition when you get feeling of inflammation and itchiness in your throat. Problem of sore throat is common now days and is irritating because it prohibits you from eating many things you like. It can occur due to dryness in throat, infection in throat mainly due to street foods which are unhygienic but loved by all, breathing cold air, dust, pollution, a person who has a habit of speaking to much generally face problem of sore throat, people who are suffering from thyroid can also face sore throat frequently if thyroid levels are not normal.
Symptoms of sore throat are swollen tonsils, itchiness, mild cough, bad taste of mouth, pain while swallowing, and harshness in voice pitch, in some cases mild fever. Now facing these symptoms we rush to doctor who after checking prescribes us antibiotics or we are smart enough to start antibiotics course own our own which is the correct medicine. But there are some people who want to avoid medicines and want to go for something which is natural and has no side effects. Generally old people fall into this category. So for them there are home made natural cure which our ancestors use to follow. You can mix honey with ginger juice and have it twice a day, gargle with lukewarm water 4-5 times a day to sooth the pain, boil basil leaves with ginger and drink that water 3-4 times in a day in not only decreases the pain but helps fighting bacteria, take one teaspoon of black pepper powder and eat with lukewarm water if cough is persistent. So these were some natural remedies.