Cough syrup

My MD friends tell me there’s no effective cough medication on the market. There are OTC and prescription medicines, but none of them have been proven to really work. That doesn’t mean that they won’t give you some level of subjective relief, but they’re not like asprin or pseudoephedrine (e.g., regular Sudafed)*.

We used to use more potent medicine. Who knows? Maybe this stuff below worked. I’m guessing it had some effect.

* Speaking of pseudoephedrine… Since it is a popular material for meth labs, it’s tightly controlled (not a big deal, just need to show your driver’s license). You can get the molecularly-related phenylephrine OTC (e.g., Sudafed PE), but again, it’s probably not effective.