You need the honey for your throat and to offset the lemon, the fresh-squeezed lemon for the vitamin C and to offset the honey, the tea for the caffeine, and the whisky to drown the virus. Works a treat especially if you alternate with very hot peppers. When I feel a cold coming on, I have very hot soup (hot temp and hot peppers) at lunch and a hot toddy after dinner, and the cold never materializes.