Well winter is coming, so if you get a cold.

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There is a drink you can make...lol just take some hot water and add it to your preferred liquor and add lemon, lime, garlic, pepper and honey, lots of honey once you think you have added enough honey add a bit more. and whatever else really based on your own taste. But I think the honey is very important so regardless of what else you put in the drink put lots of honey. And anyways its delicious and if you have a sore throat/cold it is quite soothing.

Colds aren't cureable anyways, just have to get through it...so why not enjoy a nice warm drink while recovering. But if you don't like liquor you can leave that part out and just do the citrus(lemon-lime) with hot water, honey and spices and that works to...just do not want to leave non-drinkers out of this because it works just as well without the alcohol.

There may be some snow, if you get my drift...

Sorry ... couldn't resist ...

I have a cold right now, but I've been using the more traditional methods of making my recovery more bearable. Resting, eating soup, drinking tea, and sucking on lozenges. I took some aspirin for the headachy, feverish way I felt the first couple of days and a decongestant spray to help me breathe easier. I don't know if I'd like this beverage if I tried it, even if I left out the alcohol. I'd rather have lemon tea with honey. But too much honey is overpowering.

We here in Canada can now just toke whenever we get a cold. It'll be gone by the time we are off the high!

I hate getting colds. They are the bain of your life. I have sinus problems anyway, so getting a cold just makes my whole face swell up. I often come prepared though; I buy tablets called Actifed that dry your sinuses out, which is a real relief when you have a cold. Ok, I still obviously have a sore throat, headache and muscle aches, but at least I can rest or sleep better without the stuffed up nose. Even breathing in steam is hard to shift the mucus when you have a cold.

I don't know why colds cause your nose to become stuffed up for. I know it's your immune system defending your body from the virus be or something, but I wish the mucus would build up or come out somewhere else, like your ears. Ok you might then be deaf, but at least you can breathe when you lay down. I breathe through my nose in bed and my boyfriend says I always have my mouth closed when I'm sleeping.

I'm not sure I will find a drink mixed with herbs very tasty. I'm funny like that with drink. If a drink doesn't taste nice, I won't drink it.

Another tip: I rub Carmex (the medicated petroleum lip balm tube) around my nose and surrounding skin when I have the runny nose symptom of a cold - it soothes the irritated skin and lubricates it for when you blow your nose.