#Every virus that comes through thinks my upper respiratory is a fucking music festival

[quill-of-thoth]

Ranking suspicious herbal teas that claim to ease cold symptoms

Because all I have been able to eat this weekend is soup and tea Elderflower Spice: 3/10 the flavor of this tea is like if the ghost of toothpaste fucked a teabag that I steeped twenty times. Still better than my previous encounters with elderberry, which is its evolved form

Nettle Leaf: 4/10 I will be honest this is the most tea-like in my current stash of dubious herbs. Fine with enough sugar and steeped to dark brown. Claims to be good for aches and pains, this N of one has seen zero improvement correlated to it.

Licorice Chamomile Passionflower Valerian: 6/10 I did not read this package before I started drinking it. Valerian actually has some chemical effect on humans, so like. Don't take it as a supplement. There is not enough in this tea to do anything. Tastes pretty good if you like licorice. Licorice and Slippery Elm: 9/10 this one I feel like actually works to make my eustacian tubes not feel like they're being sanded every time I swallow. Docked one point because I don't fucking have any right now, in my hour of need (10 pm)