Help with Cold/Flu - PEP BB medicine.straw.cold

Here is my submission for the Natural Medicine Aspect - Straw - Quinn List - Help with Cold/Flu BB.

M06 (pseudonym) came to me with a mild chest cold that she had been experiencing for a couple of days.  Symptoms included a tight chest and a non-productive cough.

Recommendations:
    - Behavioral: avoid running errands or being outside while it is raining
    - Food as medicine: mullein leaf infusion - brewed fresh
    - Concoctions:  mullein leaf oil
             apply mullein oil to chest and cover with cloth or saran wrap to protect clothing if desired
   
 - Description of success (including, but not limited to)
     - What your friend actually did - mullein oil on chest and mullein tea
     - How well it worked - great: chest tightness dissappeared by next moring
     - How long it took to see results - next moring

To document the completion of the BB, I have provided the following photos to supplement the above information:
 - Me with friend on the first meeting
 - Bonus: brewing Mullein leaf tea
 - Me with friend (giving a thumbs up) on your last meeting

Pseudonym: Roo

Roo caught a cold. It stayed fairly mild, and congestion was her worst symptom. She also had a runny nose but couldn't tell me what other symptoms she had. The first evening, her description was, "I feel bad."

Behavioral: Roo is young and highly receptive, so I carefully chose my words when talking about the herbs and medicine. I explained how they gave her immune system a boost, to help her body heal itself.
Congestion interrupted her sleep a couple of times the first night, and I helped her sit up to sleep. We cuddled and rested as needed.

Food as medicine: Roo is opinionated about what she's willing to take by mouth. Her appetite remained good, and she drank a few small bowls of chicken broth along with her regular meals. She refused my normal teas for colds but asked for lemon balm tea, so we went with that.

I started giving Roo my homemade elderberry herbal syrup and cell salts at the first sign of symptoms. As symptoms progressed, I gave her homeopathic symptom-relief cold medicine since she refused other recommendations. For about 12 hours (halfway through the first night of the cold), she looked and sounded rough. After that, she was ready to run around and dance with occasional bouts of rest. She was really annoyed by the mucus, and that lasted for about 4 days.