but my wife likes the hot honey-lemon better. Also, max ingest vitamin C (1000 mg a day) and Zinc (50 mg a day). If you hunt a little you can find 50 mg Zinc tablets in your natural food section. Also while there, you can find an herbal tea called Throat Coat. It's very soothing and has a numbing quality to it. It's a good tea to add the honey and lemon to. Good luck, drink a lot of fluid and get a good night's sleep. During cold and flu season I take the Vitamin C/Zinc regimen every day without fail. I work in a very large Pediatric clinic and haven't caught the bugs that have been going around catching everyone else in my office.