What is your cold remedy of choice?

[shroomz]

Stuck full of a particularly nasty bout of manflu, I've been knocking back the blackcurrant lemsips as if they were shots of jaeger back when I was a wee lad. That got me wondering: what would OcUK do when you're full of the dreaded lurgy? OH likes a bit of the lemon and ginger, some folk like rubbing mustard on themselves, what do you do? Are you a pinnacle of stoic perseverance and just rawdog the snot and shivers?

 

[Ayahuasca]

NAC

 

[SimonRigga]

NO HOTLINKING!

Been using these for years.. I recommended to a couple of friends and now they swear by them.

HTH. R.

edit: apols.. no idea what hotlinking is.. I have now hosted the image myself.. if that's what hotlinking means.. i.e. don't use an image link from a google search kind of thing?!?! and also got rid of the external link to some pharmacy.. sry!!

 

[413x]

Man up!

 

[Yaayuh!]

Paracetamol and Ibuprofen every 4 hours but each staggered 2 hours.
Sleep.
Hydrate.

 

[Dis86]

Shrooms.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Spicy food.

 

[darael]

Hot honey and lemon from a jar of honey and lemon juice, rather than that powdered filth.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Lemsips during the day, few pints in the evening, and an early night.

 

[Maccy]

Paracetamol and Ibuprofen every 4 hours but each staggered 2 hours.
Sleep.
Hydrate.

This, with a Berocca in the morning too.

 

[slinxy]

I had TB as a kid and I get colds like no other...
Drink Lemsip... vicks vaporub in on the chest and under the noise.. put a spoon full in hot water in a bowl and put your face near it covering your head with a towel, that will clear up the chest. Hot baths/showers and plenty of sleep.

 

[shroomz]

I've smashed everything on the list (in responsible quantities), now to retreat to the den of suffering

 

[ttaskmaster]

I have it on good authority (Captain Picard's aunt Adele) that the best remedy is ginger tea with honey at 80ºC.
Doesn't cure it for me, but does seem to make it a little more tolerable. I've not tried it with Cardassian virii yet.

 

[RxR]

I like the odd cup of garlic tea

 

[Removed User 345456]

Whisky, sweat it out like a man!

 

[Haze]

Lemon and honey(lockets) full of win

 

[burtie]

Staying inside permanently so I don't get infected in the first place!

 

[Hades]

A lemsip but also squeeze more lemon juice and honey into it.

Also tea with honey in it.

 

[dave28]

None but if i am really really bad then i use lemsip max drink to try and help sleep better.

I believe more in prevention though, eating high vitamin fruit 365 days of the years

 

[Joop]

I would say the flu jab seems to work best for me, I find it helps reduce cold systems even though its for Flu and not cold virus.