1. Take appropriate amounts of ophiopogon, scrophularia, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, bignonia seed, and licorice; add 2 pieces of sea walnut and 2 pieces of rock sugar; steep with boiling water and drink as tea.
2. Cut fresh tender loofah into slices, mash and extract juice; consume one whole plant at once, drink immediately—has heat-clearing, detoxifying, swelling-reducing, and pain-relieving effects.
3. One fresh white radish, 10 green plums, small amount of rock sugar; boil with water and drink as tea, twice daily.
4. Wash amaranth, mash and extract juice, mix with sugar, take twice daily.
5. Wash sea walnut, place in teacup, add appropriate honey, pour boiling water over, cover and steep for 3 minutes before drinking.
6. Drink 1 cup of dilute salt water daily, or rinse throat with dilute salt water several times daily—effective for anti-inflammatory and pain relief, especially suitable for chronic pharyngitis patients.
7. Peel and core snow pear, chop into small pieces; wash and prepare monk fruit; boil together with appropriate water for 30 minutes, then drink.
8. Take 15 grams of honeysuckle and 3 grams of raw licorice, boil and use for gargling—can treat pharyngitis.
9. 250 grams each of licorice and platycodon, 250 grams of ophiopogon, 500 grams of achyranthes, 100 grams of green plum. Preparation: Grind all herbs into coarse powder, pack 10 grams per packet in plastic bags for storage. When using, place in a thermos, pour boiling water over, and drink as tea, 1–2 packets daily.
10. 10 grams each of honeysuckle, forsythia, rehmannia, ophiopogon, and platycodon; 6 grams each of prune and licorice; 3 sea walnuts. Boil and take as a decoction.
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