[Jonty30]

I’ve read the two best cures is a bacon cheeseburger and the other one is a bottle of Sprite.

[Vigilanteman]

The Japanese have some wonderful concoctions. When I was a young salaryman who had just been on the job for less than a year, I went to work one day with a terrible headcold. It was a busy time of year and all hands were needed on deck, sick or well.

One of the girls in the office asked me to give her 400 yen and she would be back with a concoction which would cure me. She left the office and showed up about 15 minutes later with a small (maybe 30-40 ml) brownish bottle of a cold brown liquid which she told me to drink.

Since I knew they weren't trying to kill me, I obeyed and gulped it down. It tasted like bilge water smelled but I was fully functional in about 15 minutes. It was one of those drinks which I'd seen sold out of kiosks in the platforms of subway stations. To this day, I have no idea what it was, but it worked wonders.