Cream of chicken soup

Hot toddies to ease the sore throat.

Which drugs can't you take??

Hot, steamy showers. Warm blankets. Soup for your throat.

Orange Juice and Chicken Soup.

I never take medicine for a cold; they don't help cure it, they just alleviate symptoms and in my experience, not well enough to bother wasting money on it.

Three consecutive bong hits.

Yes to nostalgic comfort movies! Plus hot salty soup, ginger ale and, why not, saltines. All the nostalgic sick stuff. :P

Probably double check with your doctor before drinking alcohol if you're not allowed to take other drugs, as alcohol is also a drug.

I'd recommend soup and other hot drinks like tea or hot water with honey and lemon.

Also gargling salt water or iodine gargle or mouthwash can help a lot if you have a sore throat, or even better is sore throat spray with topical anti-inflammation such as Benzydamine, but I guess maybe check that with your doctor too 🤷

Videogames and naps

Hot showers (for steam), spicy food, pine-orange juice.

Lots of blankets/heat. Sweat it out.

For symptoms:

Mom made me a shot of whiskey, honey and lemon juice as a child. (We did not drink in my household. Ever.) Works a charm.

My wife makes me hover over a steaming bowl of salt water, towel over head. Does seem to work well. Can't hurt to expand your lungs with the heat and get some salt air in there, right? A trip to the beach, especially in the water, cures a great many ills.

The cure:

What breaks my fever is curling up in bed under a ton of blankets and knocking myself out. When I get to dreaming heavily I'll wake up soaked in sweat. Not mildly moist, I mean to say soaking wet, really gross, have to get up and towel off. That's how I know I'm on the other side and getting better.

Lots of hot liquids. my grandma picks linden blossoms during July, dries them and gives me for the winter colds. I've learnt that it contains natural compounds that makes your body sweat like crazy which is a good thing when you are sick.

also thyme, daisy, rasperry leaf teas

Not sure what constitutes cold medicin. I use over the counter pain killers that reduce fever. Plenty of water and sleep. Any activity that gets the blood pumping. Just for a little bit, makes me better for the rest of the day. I avoid decongestants unless I can't sleep. The more rarely they are used, the more effective and lasting they are.

I take 3 grams of vitamin C, some ibuprofen and zinc for the first symptoms, that often helps. If I get properly sick I drink plenty of ginger & lemon tea and eat berries and something easy like porridge. What helps a lot is rinsing the nasal cavity with warm salt water several times a day, I don't have a netipot so I just use a drinking bottle or something similar.

Get a lot of tissues if your nose is running. Sometimes I will lay down and listen to a podcast, other times I might try to do something at my desk.

Hope you feel better, OP.

For me what always worked is, drinking tea (usually cranberry tea), eat warm soup take hot shower and sleep. I never take any medications for this. so just drink water and tea, eat and sleep.

The only medicine I take is medical cannabis. Obviously if I was fucked up or whatever I'd take Babylon medicines but cannabis is the cure for what ails you probably 85% of the time

Kratom.

If I'm sick as a fucking dog I'll take some kratom. Bass boom bass bing I feel infinitely better. It's relatively energizing at lower dosss, more sedating at higher does (though I can't sleep on the stuff, so I'll only take it up to about 6 hours before bedtime).

It takes quite a while and huge fucking doses for dependence to build up, so I stop taking it when I'm not sick anymore.

Drink a gallon of water and go back to bed.