DOLLY HELPS AILING MILEY CYRUS

Just heard MILEY CYRUS suffered such a terrible sore throat she nearly canceled her gig at the Country Music Television Awards, but DOLLY PARTON - the teen's bra-bustin' aunt on TV's "Hannah Montana" - came to the rescue with a home-brew magic elixir she concocted up in the Hills of Billy many years back to soothe her own pipes during her singing heyday.

Miley made a barf-y face when she whiffed the herbal tea concoction laced with ginger, lime juice, honey, GARLIC, and other secret ingredients - but Dolly's down-home recipe worked!

In just hours, Miley told an insider, her throat had healed - but her breath woulda skeered a dang skunk!