The "hot" cold medicines have always worked well for me, and Alka-Seltzer makes a fast acting cold medicine that has been good too. But these only treat the symptoms so you don't feel as miserable while it's running it's course. Lots of rest, lots of fresh air and don't forget to eat.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.