WikiHow has a great recipe for DIY cough drops that needs very little more than corn syrup, sugar, and some food colour. You will need to get your hands on some loose medical herbs like comfrey leaf or greasy elm, which-okay, you may not have on hand-but you can simply find them in most enormous health food stores or on the web.

Once you have gathered your ingredients, it's merely a matter of boiling them together and dropping little blobs of the mix on a greased surface to chill.

Roll the drop in powdered sugar so they do not stick together, put them in a tiny tin or bag, and you are ready to go. Hit up the recipe at WikiHow for actual ingredient measurement and pointers on how to mix herbs.

We are not doctors, so we won't attest for the usefulness of home-made health cures but if you drink enough of your DIY cough syrup, at least you will not care that you are sick. Register Registering will give you a user profile and the power to add other users as buddies.