Day 1 of the common cold, herbal remedies. . do they work?

Day 1. I've got to get rid of the sickness as fast as possible. I went home early to start the recovery process. I still have to work tomorrow but this should help I hope.
This morning I started out with 2,000 mg emergen-c Vitamin C. Had my usual coffee, because I'm an addict, but supplemented with some Green Tea from Joe's. They have Mighty Leaf Teas. Normally I don't like Green Tea at all, but one day I tried some of Angela, a girl I work with, and I actually liked it. One big difference between all the green teas i had tried, and this tea, is that it was all Organic. Up until this point, I hadn't really even noticed to teas were organic or not. Now I'm pretty positive I can taste the difference in the 'aftertaste' of the tea. Back to the herbal remedies for the common cold.
I went to the grocery and bought up all the things that were said to be good for a cough.
Ginger
Onions
Garlic
Honey
Lemon
Grapes
White Pepper Salt
My favorite Superfood mix ( a big one)
Kombucha.
I also picked up some organic cough drops Organix that have wrappers made of cornstarch that are compostable. Cool. And lots of other good stuff in the drops too.

So far, I've had a bunch of grapes, which my throat did seem to like. Half of a Kombucha, and something that doesn't sound that great, but is actually fairly tasty.
A grape with Raw Honeyand Organic White Ground Pepper on top.
I also sucked on a cough drop, which made my throat happy until it was gone. I already want another one.
We'll see.
I'm pretty sure i'm either going to take a salt bath or go to sleep. I"m not quite sure which one yet.
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