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Two teaspoons of honey and warm tea are indeed quite effective in dealing with a sore throat but only if you do this a couple of times a day for a whole week. There are two effects that are at work here and one is the use of the antibiotic properties of honey and warmth from tea and the anti-inflammatory effect of tea itself. This may not be completely effective for all people who have a sore throat because a sore throat is a combination of infection and inflammation.
It is actually the inflammation that we all end up feeling. Infection and inflammation go hand in hand. This is because the latter is the body’s response to the former. Infection happens during the regular course of life when we breathe. Inevitably, at some point, we end up breathing in a bacteria or virus that will settle in the mucus-rich parts of the throat. Here, they start to proliferate and attack the cells of the tissue walls of the throat. The damaged cells send out chemical signals to the immune system that then call upon white blood cells and lymphocytes to the site of infection. White blood cells are used to deal with bacteria and fungi whereas it takes the stronger lymphocytes to deal with viruses. To get to the site of the infection, these cells travel through the blood stream following the chemical signal trail. They wriggle out of the blood stream, and into the affected tissue where they then go to work. This requires inflammation to increase the blood flow and the tissue to swell and allow the cells to wriggle through the intracellular space. Treating this problem, in addition to what you are already doing, is a matter of using antibiotics like garlic. Consume a whole bulb of garlic in a day and this will serve you well over the course of a week. The next treatment that you should undertake is to start consuming ginger, pepper, chili, and turmeric. Mash all of these into a soup and have it three times a day to reduce the inflammation and fight the infection as well. Warm water gargling also helps by increasing the surrounding temperature in the throat to a point where the invading bacteria and viruses cannot survive. This is basically the same as the effect of a fever on the affected region of the throat. These can be used as a substitute for medicines.
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