Remedies

When you have been coughing pathetically for a few weeks, you tend to collect lots of little remedies from well-meaning people. Various things I have been told recently:

To ease throat irritation, suck on cloves/honey mixed with crushed garlic/ginger mixed with black pepper/this really great lozenge that tastes really nice for a lozenge.

Only drink warm-hot drinks.

Chicken makes you cough.

Take birds nest.

Stay out of the wind.

Drink hot lemon juice with a bit of lemon zest and honey in it.

Eat lots of fruit.

Drink plenty of clear fluids.

Don't eat fruit. Especially oranges.

Take these antibiotics, they'll give you loose stools and abdominal cramps, but its only for 5 days.

Sleep on a towel.

Go to this chinese doctor, he'll scrape your back.