The kind of cold that makes you feverish, your head throb, your ears hurt, your throat burn and the snot tries to drown you every time you try to lie down ?
I came down with it a fortnight ago, I think I brought it home from the Black Isle. I shan't swear but it's tempting....ten days it took before I could breathe properly again
The hot toddy makes things feel a little better (well, not on my end it doesn't
), but steaming my face helped ease the congestion, mellow the headache and actually helped my ears to clear. Don't bother with menthol, it just irritates the already swollen tissues of a cold, try something like orange oil, that helps you want to breathe deeply in the steam.
Tea made from honey and meadowsweet helped too, but drinking a liquid made from grated onions, left covered overnight with brown sugar in a jar, soothed the throat better than lemon and honey. Rosehip syrup and whiskey is very good, and hot ribena was very pleasant too.
Chewing something cheugh, helps shift gummed up tubes, pine resin comes to mind if outdoors.
You can't be that bad if you want the missus to play
HWMBLT says I don't snore, but this cold left me sounding like, "A terribly polite chainsaw"
atb,
Toddy
. Any traditional type remedies that people can suggest? 
