I need major help with a minor problem!

[Griselda]

1.  My sister in law once advised me to eat a clove of garlic when I had a pretty bad sniffle and ear infection.  I did.  It brought tears to my eyes, but for the next few hours, my sinuses were clear.  I smelled of garlic and did not care, the Guinness and bread helped mitigate my problems. (Irish pub event.)
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Hey, Occhi, you don't need to *chew* the garlic if you're just taking it for medicinal purposes and don't want to chew. If it's not too big of a clove, and you don't want to taste it, you can generally just swallow it whole.

Of course, I had a sinus infection bad enough a couple of weeks ago that I spent some time eating wasabi with a spoon just for the ~5 minutes of relief it provided. The rebound was no fun, though. :angry:

I don't have any great cold remedy ideas myself. I tend not to believe in quick fixes myself, so I have to get better the hard way most of the time (wait it out). I do like to take emergen-C, and sometimes airborne (my coworkers swear by it), but mostly that's because they taste relatively good and I figure that it won't hurt.