Interesting you should say that Bob - as a child with an annual flu and one time pneumonia I only ever wanted, craved, my mother's lemon drink, made with a heap of common white sugar and fresh lemons it always helped.
Now I take Aconite 12x or 30c and or Ferr Phos 6x (homeopathic preps) which ever is closest and I never get colds, flu or any URTIs (upper respiratory tract infections) however, different people need different remedies, those may not work for everyone. HNY Jane Here is a four hour cold cure using sugar! Go to health-science-spirit.com. Research from George Last shows that common sugar will cure a cold and even influenza. Also, if you want to shorten the duration of a cold get some zinc acetate lozenges (called Zinx). Google this for more info. They work, I've used them successfully a couple of times. Once at the first sign I took them and it never developed, another after a day of symptoms I took them (one dissolved in the mouth every two hours) and it was gone in two days with the symptoms greatly diminished.
