YOU LEAVE JOHN TESH OUT OF THIS!

Depending on the cause of your sore throat, I find "xhonzi's amazing baby aspirin and chew gum" remedy to work wonders. Take a stick of gum (flavour of your choice!) and chew it for about 10 seconds. Then take 3-4 "baby aspirin" (chewable 81 mg aspirin that you shouldn't give a baby (I guess)) and fold them into the gum and chew it. The aspirin slowly comes out of the gum and mixes into your saliva and medicates your throat. It's no replacement for Anti-biotics if you have strep, but it works on some of the nastier sore throats I've had over the years.