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to a teapot, add--rose hips, red peppers, chopped ginger, ecinacea, and hibiscus flowers. Also, your favourite herbal tea. Fill the rest of the teapot with boiling water.

Drink it all with honey and lemon. (If it's after noon, you can add whisky too. *g*)

Make another pot.

Not only does it not taste half bad--sweet, sour, and spicy--but it's the most stunningly lovely red color you ever did see. And it clears the sinuses and soothes the throat and keeps you hydrated, too. (Unless you put the whisky in it: then there is no hydrating effect.)

We also recommend pickled garlic. And fistfuls of vitamins.