Cinnamon And Honey for Sore Throat Relief

Research suggests that the available published evidence does not directly evaluate cinnamon and honey as a combined treatment for sore throat relief, and the two studies identified here address only tangentially related topics. One is a systematic scoping review examining alternative medicine proposals for COVID-19 prevention and treatment, which found that none of the remedies surveyed — including those from Ayurvedic and traditional medicine systems that commonly feature ingredients like honey and cinnamon — had been tested in rigorous clinical trials. The other is a laboratory and tissue-model study examining the inflammatory mechanisms of sore throat and the effects of various treatments on those markers, which did not test cinnamon or honey specifically. Based on this body of literature, no scientific conclusions can be drawn about the effectiveness of cinnamon and honey for sore throat relief, and well-designed randomized controlled trials would be needed before any such claims could be substantiated.