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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP Curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Natural Medicine.

Here's a video that has a few ideas which may or may not be applicable to your friend's issue:


Minimum requirements:
  - Help your friend with their Sore throat problem
  - Refer to them by a number or pseudonym that you will continue to use for that friend throughout the Natural Medicine badge

To document completion of the BB, provide the following:
  - Your friend's pseudonym
  - Describe the issue your friend is struggling with
      - Symptoms
      - Duration
      - Severity
      - Medical diagnosis (if any)
 - Your suggestions for relief (including, but not limited to)
     - Behavioral
     - Food as medicine
     - Concoctions
 - Description of success (including, but not limited to)
     - What your friend actually did
     - How well it worked
     - How long it took to see results
 - Picture of you with friend on the first meeting
 - Picture of you with friend (giving a thumbs up) on your last meeting
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Here is my submission for the Natural Medicine Aspect - Straw - Quinn List - Help with a Sore Throat BB.

T22 (pseudonym) woke up with a sore throat and mentioned that she usually uses a combination of hot tea, rum, honey, and lemon but wanted to try something different.

I decided to create a sore throat gargle that I learned about during an online Herbal Medicine Chest Class I've been taking.  The gargle is a mixture of apple cider vinegar, Himalayan salt, and culinary sage steeped in hot water.  I'm not including the recipe since it is a proprietary class I took but it is from the Homesteading Family Herbal Medicine Chest Class.

 - Your suggestions for relief (including, but not limited to)
     - Behavioral: limit talking, rest
     - Food as medicine: broth and plenty of water
     - Concoctions: Sage & Salt Gargle twice a day

 - Description of success (including, but not limited to)
     - What your friend actually did: gargling with Sage & Salt Gargle, rest
     - How well it worked: initial gargle reduced pain
     - How long it took to see results: sore throat gone in two days

To document the completion of the BB, I have provided the following photos to supplement the above information:
 - Picture of you with friend on the first meeting
 - Picture of you with friend (giving a thumbs up) on your last meeting
 - Photos of creating conction
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T22 with a sore throat
T22 with a sore throat
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feeling better
feeling better
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ingredients
ingredients
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steeping sage
steeping sage
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ready for gargling
ready for gargling
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Note: I certify this BB complete!

 
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This guy, we'll call him Champion, has a sore throat. He and his parents cheered and hollered and screamed til their voices gave out at some all-important football game recently. Now he is a Champion... with a sore throat.

The very next day after the game, there was quite a rash of scratchy oral tissue and squeaky, groggy voices around here. Champions' voice was scant more than a whisper, preferring sign language to the discomfort of talking.

I recommended (and made for my Champion) a huge pot of Sore Throat Tea, made from mashmallow, Thyme, and Elderberries. Since sugar can be irritating to sore throats, I recommended it to be sweetened with honey and sipped throughout the day.

Champions throat felt better during the first cup, and since he could actually talk when he had taken a sip, he kept sipping it as directed. At least 4 cups that first day and a couple the next day. By the third day, his throat was fine. His dad's was still scratchy. Dad didn't use any tea. Hooray for sore throat tea!!
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The champion with a sore throat and a fantastic hairdo featuring a sweaty pillow and utter neglect
The champion with a sore throat and a fantastic hairdo featuring a sweaty pillow and utter neglect
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The champion 3 days later, after he ran into a hairbrush. His throat is not bothering him at all.
The champion 3 days later, after he ran into a hairbrush. His throat is not bothering him at all.
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Sore Throat Tea
Sore Throat Tea
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I helped Patient #3 with their Sore throat problem. It began upon waking and now it hurts too much to eat breakfast.

 - My suggestions for relief (including, but not limited to)
     - Behavioral:  rest and limit talking
     - Food as medicine: drink clear fluids and gargle 2x/day
     - Concoctions: 1) made tea with sage, chamomile, and slippery elm. 2) made a throat gargle with sage, vinegar, salt, and cayenne
 - Description of success (including, but not limited to)
     - What your friend actually did: Patient #3 drank as much tea as could be tolerated, rested their voice, and gargled in the morning and at night for 3 days.
     - How well it worked and how long it took to see results: Symptoms were significantly improved by the second day and gone by the third day.
   
 - Picture of you with friend on the first meeting
 - Picture of you with friend (giving a thumbs up) on your last meeting

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A woman with a boy who has a cough inside a house
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a woman with a boy who is giving two thumbsup in front of a white wall
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a tea for sore throat made from sage, chamomile, and slippery elm in a tea infuser and a cup on a rock countertop
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a sore throat gargle made from sage, vinegar, salt, and cayenne in a measuring cup with a glass jar of pink himalayan salt and a plastic jar of cayenne pepper on a stone counter in front of a book with the recipe
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a throat gargle in a glass jar on a stone countertop, a boy is gargling in the background
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Rebekah Harmon approved this submission.
Note: ooh! Cayenne! Spicy

 
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Friend M
Sore throat
- Symptoms: sore throat, mild headache, coughing up phlegm, tired
- Duration: one day of mild symptoms when I gave him suggestions
- Severity: not bad enough to go to a doctor
- Medical diagnosis: none
Suggestions
- Behavioral: rest
- Food as medicine: homemade chicken bone broth
- Concoctions: homemade echinacea honey (I heated honey in a double boiler at a low temp for 5 hours with dried echinachea) and cough/sore throat liquid from local health market
Description of Success
- He drank bone broth 2 nights in a row and slept a lot for 2 days. He put the echinacea honey in tea, and took the liquid a few times a day. He also took colloidal silver.
- It worked!
- It took a day or two to see results. But I think he recovered quicker because he started taking those things right when he started to have a sore throat.
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first meeting - not feeling so good
first meeting - not feeling so good
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last metting - all better!
last metting - all better!
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a picture of the echinachea infused honey when I made it
a picture of the echinachea infused honey when I made it
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Paul Fookes approved this submission.
Note: I certify this BB complete

 
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