What causes yellow phlegm in your throat?

Lets not complicate, phlegm is nothing but thickened mucus. Isn’t it. All right. The yellow-greenish colour is the bile or digestive juice that the stomach produces to digest your food. So, mucus can be associated with COLD while bile-digestive acid is associated with HOT. When there is imbalance between the cold and heat in the body or if one of them increases, based on an individual's body mechanism, they will get phelgm.

So for some it mite be coz of cold, for others it is because of heat in the body as well. For eg: Most antibiotics or medicines - administered during cold to a person produces these kind of phelgm.

Reasons many - Oily food, sickness, mostly seen in people with low metabolism or lazy. Cold, but more so when there is too much heat in the body as well. Dust and pollution, ice creams. So suddenly you jump into a cold weather like drink ice cold water, have ice creams or suddenly you got excess heat after taking medicines or had oily food, you will get phelgm.

Simple remedy - Just have basil leaves or drink amla juice (do not drink more than what your body can take, else you might puke, start with limited quantity. Your phelgm will go in no time and without any side effects. Once you feel better you can stop.

Off late i also found something called Salt room therapy. While relaxing in one of treatment rooms, customers inhale the dry, salt-enriched air deep down into the lungs, where the healing benefits do their greatest healing. The salt loosens the mucus, which begins to clear quickly, and inflammation is reduced, which makes more room in the airways for you to breathe. Symptoms subside, sometimes for up to 12 months.

Dry salt air is more powerful than moist air. The negatively charged ions in salt improve our health and mood. Inhaling particles may reduce inflammation and mucus in the lungs, improving most respiratory conditions such as asthma, allergies, bronchitis, sinus congestion and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

See if you have it nearby or see if you can customize, like use a nebulizer at home. BUT MAKE SURE YOU KNOW HOW TO PREPARE THE RIGHT SALT WATER OR SALINE SOLUTION. PLUS ENSURE ITS HYGENIC AND YOU HAVE CONSULTED A DOCTOR WHILE CUSTOMIZING YOUR SALT ROOM THERAPY USING A NEBULIZER AT HOME.