Well I have a weird disease for years now, where my throat is just a bit sore all the time. In summer it's not much of a problem, but now as it's getting colder it just feels swollen all the time. That's the reason I was wearing a scarf all the time in Scotland (I remember BoB asking about it) ...because it was really cold there! And I didn't want to catch that mysterious townsie-virus. My doctor tried to help me for a year or so, and then he said something like "yeah I guess you have to go living on the north pole, there it should be better as the air is much cleaner." Sure.
But when I catch a cold, I drink ginger tea (no I'm not dipping Ron Weasley in hot water), use tigerbalm and sleep as much as I can. To get myself sleepy, I just lie in bed and listen to Within Temptation, because that band always manages to make me sleep (not because they're so bad, but because the music is so harmonious). And I love to watch silly teen movies when I'm sick, I watched all the Twilight movies with fever haha