I like my father-in-law, his advice is awesome. If I have a sniffle or let a single cough escape..he suggests I drink a fuckton of baijiu, get crocked, then sleep. The wife can't object since the I drink the brown baiju that aged in a jar containing turtles, snakes, twigs, and random strange things which somehow magically transforms it into medicine.
I cough a lot.....
For some reason I can't drink baijiu if I eat a sweet potato though.