Sore throat
Notice
This does not replace a doctor. Information is for educational purposes only. Serious or persistent symptoms → see a qualified professional.
Folk use
Traditional and folk associations have not been clinically validated. They are not treatments.
Plants traditionally associated with Sore throat
- Khadira (black catechu / cutch tree)Acacia catechuClinicalCaution
- Purple coneflowerEchinacea angustifoliaClinicalCaution
- Kalgan / TormentilPotentilla erectaClinicalCaution
- AgrimonyAgrimonia eupatoriaClinical
- Kalmegh (King of Bitters)Andrographis paniculataClinicalCaution
- Liquorice / LicoriceGlycyrrhiza glabraClinicalDanger
- Bo he / Chinese mintMentha haplocalyxClinicalCaution
- SageSalvia officinalisClinicalDanger
- ThymeThymus vulgarisClinicalCaution
- Smooth sumacRhus glabraPreclinicalCaution
- Prickly ash (toothache tree)Zanthoxylum americanumPreclinicalCaution
- Sweet flag (North American calamus)Acorus americanusPreclinicalCaution
- Badan (Siberian tea / leather bergenia)Bergenia crassifoliaPreclinicalCaution
- MarshmallowAlthaea officinalisPreclinicalCaution
- BurdockArctium lappaPreclinicalCaution
- Common bistort / snakeweedBistorta officinalisPreclinicalCaution
- EucalyptusEucalyptus globulusPreclinicalDanger
- Gentian (Tibetan 'Bang Jian' group)Gentiana stramineaPreclinical
- Chinese liquoriceGlycyrrhiza uralensisPreclinicalCaution
- GoldensealHydrastis canadensisPreclinicalDanger
- Common mallowMalva sylvestrisPreclinicalCaution
- German ChamomileMatricaria chamomillaPreclinicalCaution
- Plantain (broadleaf) / Greater PlantainPlantago majorPreclinicalCaution
- Jie geng / balloon flowerPlatycodon grandiflorusPreclinicalCaution
- Self-HealPrunella vulgarisPreclinicalCaution
- Blackberry / brambleRubusPreclinical
- Wild thymeThymus serpyllumPreclinicalCaution
- LemonCitrus limonTraditional (systematized)
- Raspberry (Raspberry leaf)Rubus idaeusTraditional (systematized)
- Belleric myrobalanTerminalia belliricaTraditional (systematized)
- MulleinVerbascum thapsusTraditional (systematized)Caution
- New Jersey tea (red root)Ceanothus americanusFolk
- Rowan (mountain ash)Sorbus aucupariaFolkCaution
- Linden / lime blossomTiliaFolk