Opens the airways up. Hot and sour soup is good too if it has enough hot in it.
Well, if you have a heart able to withstand the salt overdose!
I’m trying to reduce salt intake a little.
Sounds like a good cure. My dad had heart failure and was ordered not to eat salt, and he didn’t like that at all. I would make him food with homemade hot salsa that was spicy enough that he didn’t miss the salt. He appreciated it.