Walk into any Japanese pharmacy and a range of Chaenomeles cough sweets will line the shelves, their equivalent to our honey and lemon.
Sex As you stock up for medicine this winter you may want to trade your cough sweets for condoms, as regular sex can boost your immune system.
The Anglo-Dutch household goods firm, which is also behind Finish dishwasher tablets, Harpic bleach and Strepsils cough sweets, said the deal provided an "attractive opportunity" to boost its presence in the health and personal care sector.
Reckitt, the household goods firm behind Finish dishwasher tablets, Harpic bleach and Strepsils cough sweets, posted full-year figures showing that strong sales volumes growth, plus a weak pound, had helped transform £1.1bn of net debt into a cash pile of £200m in 2009 as well as financing £648m of dividend payouts – 47% more than the previous year.
Braille menus are available on request in many UK chain restaurants such as Nando's and Pizza Express, but it's most obvious on medicine and pharmaceuticals - everything from cough sweets to blood pressure tablets.
But if decongestants, cough sweets and hot, lemon-flavoured drinks are the modern-day methods by which we tackle the familiar symptoms, humankind has a long tradition of searching out ways to soothing this most familiar of conditions.
Eat Cough Sweets Eat cold foods, but avoid anything too sweet like cupcakes.
Try not to eat too many of cough sweets (as in more then one per hour) as they can make your throat feel heavy and tired.
Purse: Everyone needs a purse of some kind in their bag, so try fitting these inside it: A compact mirror (for touch ups and to check out your face), A lip gloss tube, Hairbrush (absolutely essential), money, cards (if you have any that is), pads (for those unexpected moments), tissues, cough sweets and chewing gum -for the moments when you need it most.
