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Gargling helps loosen thick mucus and can also remove irritants like bacteria, viruses and allergens from your throat.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2022

A protocol that I co-wrote, “Soap and Water to Hands and Face, -Eye Rinse, Nasal Irrigation and Gargling with Saline for Covid-19 with anecdotal evidence,” was recently published in the peer review journal Rhinology Online.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2021

A: Gargling would help, and I agree she should get a bottle and put in by the sink.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2013

Gargling With Salt Water for Colds If you’ve ever gargled with salt water to ease a sore throat or cold symptoms, you know whether it made you feel better.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2010

Gargling the throat with a solution of ordinary extract of witch hazel, one part, and water two parts, also very useful.

From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Pinkham, Lydia Estes