Throat salve

Our saliva is snazz-a-rific. It contains a painkiller stronger than morphine (no wonder kissing is so goddamn enjoyable). This home-brew ‘morphine’ is called opiorphin. Sadly we only produce reasonable amounts of opiorphin, but even a small bit of it can be mind-blowingly effective.

When we chew, we produce more saliva, and with it, more GYO painkiller. This can help explain why eating often alleviates a sore throat.

A delicious paradox, no? It doesn’t have to be a meal — these cough drops are enough to ramp up your salivary defences. Each one is designed to elicit a decent dose of analgesic substances. #moonwalk.

Add to this the immune-loving powers of cold-pressed coconut oil, fresh ginger, raw honey, cinnamon and probiotics, and you’ve got yourself a little love-grenade for your throat this winter.

Coconut oil has long been celebrated for its antibacterial ninja moves. The extra-virgin variety contains noticeable amounts of lauric acid, similarly found in breast milk. Coconut oil is one of the few foods to contain lauric acid, outside of mama’s gold-topped milk. Quite the boon for our adult immune systems.

Then there’s the added probiotics to help populate the mouth with an army of good bacteria in the fight against the dark side. And just when your throat’s flash-fire starts to smoulder, in march the mighty gingerols from fresh ginger, and cinnamon’s anti-inflammatory pals to put out the firestarters.

Give these cough drops a go. Aside from all that nutritional yah-yah, they taste pretty cosmic too.