Glad it isn't worse, as being unable to breath is bloody well bad enough.

I fondly recall getting those perles during a bout with pneumonia and thinking (at the time) that they were so good they should come in a sixpack.

In hte health food or teas section of your store, if you can find it, there's a tea by traditional Medicinals called Gypsy Cold Care. We go through it like mad during alergy attacks.