Voice Treatment

Optimum Voice

• To improve voice quality, squeeze 2 limes and mix the juice with a pinch or two of slaked lime and 1 tablespoon honey with a pinch of salt added. Drink this mixture 1x a week.
• To improve or clear voice, gargle with sage tea.
• Take 1 teaspoon honey everyday to soothe the throat and ease voice stress.
• To improve voice, gargle with sesame oil, hold in the mouth and rinse about vigorously. Spit out, then massage gums gently with the index finger. Do this 2x daily.
• Mix ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper and 3-4 drops of lemon juice cup in 1 cup boiling hot water. Stir and sip slowly warm to clear voice stress.
• Mix sea salt in water and use as gargle several times a day, or use lemon with honey instead to improve voice.
• Sip hot ginger tea slowly. Ginger tea is made by adding a few slices and peeled ginger root to 1 glass hot water.
• Simmer 4-5 cups water with slices of 3 large onions added. Strain. Drink 5-6 tsps of the mixture with 1 tbsp honey and a few drops lemon in 1 glass of warm water. Sip slowly. to ease congestion and reduce voice stress.

Hoarse voice

• Grind 2 peeled onions, strain for its juice and drink 2x daily for 2-3 days to clear a hoarse voice.
• Boil 1 tsp aniseed in 1 cup water until it thickens and gargle with it when warm.
• Make juice out of 10 basil leaves, add a little honey to it and lick the mixture.
• Eat ¼ teaspoon cardamom seeds with 1 tablespoon honey every day.
• Take a mixture of 1 teaspoon onion juice with 1 teaspoon honey.
• Soak a handful of tamarind pulp in 1 glass cold water. Strain the pulp and leave overnight or keep in the refrigerator. Drink it 2x daily until condition improves.
• Grind 3-4 limes in a blender with a little water, then heat it up. Breathe in the vapor with the mouth.
• Add 1 tsp each cinnamon and cardamom into 1 glass boiling water. Filter and use as a gargle when warm.
• Drink and gargle with comfrey, hops or licorice tea.

• Laryngitis

  • Take 1 tsp apple cider vinegar with ½ glass water every hour for seven hours to soothe the larynx and clear voice.
  • Mix the juice of 1 lime, a half thumb-sized ginger and 1 tbsp honey. Sip little by little.