So, you've got an annoying sniffle, sore throat or pesky cough ... or Vicks. But remedies used by past kings of England could be just as soothing, experts claim. Although some ye olde cold cures ...

It's a cough and cold remedy fit for ... One is for soothing a head cold, the other for clearing congestion. 'Imagine a medieval Vicks VapoRub,' she says. The recipes, for a herbal head poultice ...

“The most popular of these remedies was the Croup & Pneumonia Salve, which Lunsford created to (soothe) his own young son’s severe cough,” Vicks wrote on its website. “Today we know this ...