Me personally, I believe in Western, Eastern and some of the up there northern stuff, if you know what I mean. Have you heard of Throat Coat tea? I used it when my throat was full of the thick goo and hurting and it helped. I noticed it had slippery elm bark in it. It was purely coincidental but helped me giggle one day when someone sent me something about Essiac Tea. I was curious what was in the Throat Coat tea and grabbed the box. I don't know how it would work on others but it did soothe my throat. I was getting on the airplane each week just after treatment and I found that it was almost fretful to drink the stuff on an airplane. It seemed to cause the thick stuff at the back of the throat to give me the sensation of running out of air. I found over the (many) months that that same feeling comes and goes with post-nasal drip from allergies and nasty quality air.

Ed