I use muellin tea when I have a cough. It actually breaks up the mucus. I get it at the bulk amish store a few miles from my farm. The owners wife is an MD & they are all into the natural & herbal cures . I drink a cup if coffee in the morning but I add hot cocoa & cinnamon & organic cream to it. In summer I put it over ice. Don't drink much else but ice water the rest of the time