Joe, I have a friend that's into holistic/natural cures and what not for whatever ails you and he always swore that gargling with warmed cider vinegar always cured him of sore throats and laryngitis.
Well- LeRoy-he shows up on my doorstep one day when I'm sick as a dog (sore throat and laryngitis) and somehow in my dulled senses, I allow him to talk me into gargling with some cider vinegar. While the vinegar is slowly warming on the stove, he gives me all the reasons why holistic/natural cures are the best-yada, yada, yada. (Like I'm in any condition to talk back :roll: ) While I'm gargling away, he goes on to tell me the proper method to gargle for sure fired effectiveness when I begin to feel a small trickle going down the back of my throat along about the time he says "Whatever you do, you don't what to swallow any of the vinegar." (NOW he tells me as my gag reflexes kick into overdrive). What vinegar was still in my mouth came out with an explosive reaction, the vinegar vapors taking what breath I did have away and my gag reflexes still running amok :shock: -well- a gasping, wheezing fat man does not a pretty picture make. :cry: Did it work? My throat was not only just sore, it was now on fire, I did however have a voice- not my everyday pleasant to listen to; lully babies to sleep voice- but a voice that sounded like rocks being shaken in the bottom of a very deep bucket. I did however manage to croak out an invitation to LeRoy to take advantage of my incapacitated state and beat feet for home before I could regain my wits and show him a rather creative place for him to store his bottle of cider vinegar. :twisted: Though I'm not a drinking man, I'll stick to Cousin Jack and his old #7 for whatever ails this ol' boy!! 8)