Best cure I found for a cold is...1st feed the dog. Heat some tea, add honey, sugar, 10 hall's mentho cough drops, lemon juice and 1 cup of 151 whiskey or rum. Heat everything until the cough drops are melted. Drink as fast as possible get under the covers, you will sweat like a pig but when you wake up. You are cured. lol. My mother in law made that for me once I thought she was nuts. I wasn't sure what she put into it until after I woke up. Now even though I don't drink, I always have a bottle of whiskey handy to cure a cold.