Because the perennially high cases of sore throat resolve in a matter of days, initial treatments usually just entail the use of over-the-counter drugs to alleviate the pain. This is usually the most orthodox approach of most prescribed remedies. However, these remedies always have adverse side effects.
But if your sore throat lingers for several days without abatement or if it leads to worsening symptoms, difficulties in breathing or swallowing, or fever this should be a sign that you need to go to a doctor.
Sore throat that causes pain can be can be ideally resolved with acupuncture.
Sore throat can have various possible causes and acupuncture is an excellent way of addressing this condition regardless of its cause. In diagnosing sore throat the acupuncturist searches for patterns that may involve taking note of past and current symptoms, the variety of the patient’s pulses, the appearance of the tongue, the person’s dietary habits, and how the illness arose. The result is the application of acupuncture treatment on specific acupoints which may be different for each patient even if the patients have sore throat symptoms that superficially appear to be the same.
In treating sore throat, acupuncture can function as a form of preventive treatment. An NRS (non-randomized clinical study) done in 2013 was performed involving 228 patients undergoing elective surgery in a hospital in Teheran, Iran. The patients were divided into two groups. One group was designated the acupuncture group and this group received acupuncture treatments prior to surgery along with normal pre-operative care. The second group was given normal pre-operative care and nothing else. The study showed that within the first 24 hours post surgery the group treated with acupuncture had more than 50% resolution of their sore throat symptoms than that of the non-acupuncture group.
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