If you're willing to try something completely bizarre, this is what the people at my old Chinese restaurant used to give me when I had bronchitis and it would stop it dead in its tracks:
Get one *large* hand of ginger. Peel and chop into fine slices (the idea is to maximize exposed surface area).
Take one bottle regular Coke. (Has to be regular, can't be either caffeine-free *or* diet.) Decant into a large pot, add the ginger, and boil for 10 minutes.
Drink hot, like tea.
It smells *vile* when it's cooking, tastes pretty good (it's *spicy*!), and will kill off pretty much anything up to and including walking pneumonia. I've fed it to other people and it works on them too, and when I asked my doctor, she blinked, thought about it for a minute, pulled out *her* recipe for "boiled things you drink when you have pneumonia" and allowed as how mine not only probably worked at least as well but almost certainly tasted better. (Hers had green onions and honey in it. Too weird for me.)
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Date: 2006-05-18 11:14 pm (UTC)Get one *large* hand of ginger. Peel and chop into fine slices (the idea is to maximize exposed surface area).
Take one bottle regular Coke. (Has to be regular, can't be either caffeine-free *or* diet.) Decant into a large pot, add the ginger, and boil for 10 minutes.
Drink hot, like tea.
It smells *vile* when it's cooking, tastes pretty good (it's *spicy*!), and will kill off pretty much anything up to and including walking pneumonia. I've fed it to other people and it works on them too, and when I asked my doctor, she blinked, thought about it for a minute, pulled out *her* recipe for "boiled things you drink when you have pneumonia" and allowed as how mine not only probably worked at least as well but almost certainly tasted better. (Hers had green onions and honey in it. Too weird for me.)
I hope you feel better soon!