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8	->''"Perhaps warm milk? Warm milk with honey to soothe the throat."''
9	-->-- '''The Chef''', ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'', "I Want My Voice Back"
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11	Oh no! Somebody's [[SickEpisode unwell]]! Or maybe they're injured or have strained their throat and have [[LostVoicePlot lost their voice]]. What do you do? Well according to this trope, you offer them a hot drink.
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13	Usually it's tea, especially herbal tea. Occasionally it's warm milk, although [[WarmMilkHelpsYouSleep that's more commonly associated with helping people go to sleep]]. It's also often boiled honey and lemon water if the character has any disease with a sore throat as a symptom, because [[TruthInTelevision honey really does help soothe sore throats, and lemons contain nutrients that can help the immune system]]. It may also be heated alcohol cocktail, such as a rum toddy. On rare occasions, it's hot chocolate (which is more associated with warming up and/or having fun), and it's hardly ever coffee.
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15	The character offering the hot drink is often very amicable and nurturing and could be the TeamMom. They might also be a NatureLover and/or an expert on plants or nature in general if the drink is made of [[HealingHerb natural herbal ingredients]] (which it often is). The drink might also be an [[GrandmasRecipe old family recipe]].
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17	The drink itself usually tastes either very good or [[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou very bad]], and it is not a HealingPotion but rather a normal drink, although sometimes healing potions might be poured into these drinks (sometimes overlapping with SlippingAMickey), invoking a practical version of the trope. Sometimes zigzagged with the CatchYourDeathOfCold trope, where it's hard to tell if the hot drink is to warm them up or to treat the cold or both. Hot drinks that are explicitly to warm people up don't count unless the person has full-blown hypothermia. Neither do cases where the character is just [[ComfortFood unhappy]] or tired.
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19	There is [[TruthInTelevision a grain of truth]] to this trope: if somebody has a ''minor'' illness, such as a cold, having a hot drink might help them stay hydrated and satisfy any chills they might have; the warm vapor from the drink might also loosen nasal congestion, and both the heat and the addition of honey will soothe a sore throat. However, it won't actually get rid of the disease, and if someone is seriously ill or injured, it's best to get a doctor. And of course, it's even more justified in the hypothermia instances as hypothermia outright ''comes from'' being cold, but simply warming the person up with no medical attention only works in mild cases and in severe cases, you should really let a doctor take over as warming them up too quickly could send them into shock, which could even ''kill'' them. The SaintBernardRescue trope of dogs bringing hot chocolate to snowbound victims is a fictional idea aimed at kids (the hot chocolate is s substitute for brandy, to make it kid-friendly).
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21	Compare FootBathTreatment, SoupIsMedicine, and IllnessBlanket for other medical idiosyncrasies. Can overlap with BritsLoveTea if it's associated with Britain and tea. See also HealingHerb, which could be an ingredient. May overlap with ThatOldTimePrescription. If the drink is a MagicAntidote (i.e. it works instantly) but it's supposed to be a normal drink, it's overlapping with HyperactiveMetabolism. Sometimes overlaps with NewTechnologyIsEvil if the drink is said to be better than regular medicine. Compare CalmingTea for when the drink is used to help deal with psychological rather than physical problems. See also INeedAFreakingDrink when a character turns to a harder beverage for comfort.
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28	[[folder:Advertising]]
29	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLTy66iWFFc this advert]] for ComicBook/{{Superman}} Hot Cocoa, Superman treats two children to cups of the titular product after rescuing them from [[ComicBook/TheFlash Captain Cold]].
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* In Chapter 99 of ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'', Komi brings Tadano ginger tea when the latter gets sick with a cold. In Chapter 168, she makes hot milk for Rei in an attempt to comfort the younger girl after hearing her crying.
34	* ''Manga/{{Suzuka}}'': In Episode 3, Suzuka makes a ''very'' lemony hot drink for Yamato when he gets sick (it was supposed to be a honey-and-lemon drink, but she didn't have any honey).
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37	[[folder:Comic Books]]
38	* In issue #13 of the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' comic book, Dale is [[IllnessBlanket wrapped in a blanket]] and given a hot drink when he catches a cold after nearly drowning in a gutter.
39	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' graphic novel "Mickey All-Stars", Mickey is given a hot drink after diving into frozen Antarctic waters and rescuing two stranded baby penguins.
40	* In the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' story "The Daltons Escape", Lucky Luke makes herbal tea for the Daltons when they get sick from eating soup that he drugged.
41	* In a ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'' comic story from "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories", Bumblelion gives Crocco some super-spicy herb tea when the reptile is pretending to have a broken leg.
42	* In one story of the ''ComicBook/{{Jackpot}}'' story "The Amazing Three", Tanya is struck by a horse. When she comes to, the woman the Three were helping gives her a hot drink to help her recover.
43	* After rescuing Wormy from drowning, ''ComicBook/{{Owly}}'' gives him a hot drink.
44	* ''ComicBook/DonaldDuck'':
45	** In one comic story, Donald tells his nephews to fetch Gladstone a cup of hot tea when the latter barges into their house and claims that he's taking possession of it. Subverted in that Gladstone isn't sick like Donald believes - he's talking about a bet made the previous summer, where Donald bet that he would sign over possession of his house to Gladstone if he (Donald) didn't swim in a lake on Christmas Day.
46	** In the comic story "Donald Duck in Old California", Donald and his nephews are given a bowl of hot liquid herbs to drink after crashing their car into a rock.
47	* In one ''[[ComicBook/TheBeano Bash Street Kids]]'' comic strip, Teacher asks the pupils to give him some strong sweet tea after he looks through a telescope and, seeing Plug's face, mistakes it for that of a hideous space alien.
48	* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "Doctor Smurf", the titular Smurf recommends that Sickly Smurf drink some horehound tea for his "illness" (which doesn't actually exist).
49	* In the comic story "The Little People and the Sick Fawn", the titular fawn is cured of its illness by drinking a brew made from yop-yop leaves.
50	* Exploited in the ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' comic story "The Return of Zorro", when Zorro tells the woman he's helping to ask for some hot milk to quiet her nerves, which will enable him to slip out when the door is opened.
51	* In the ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'' comic story "Madeline and the Carousel", Miss Clavel tells Madeline to go to bed with a cup of chamomile tea after Madeline falls off of a carousel horse and hits her head.
52	* In the comic story "The Little People and the Giant", the Little People make the human sailor who washes up on their shore a cup of herb tea to soothe his sore head.
53	* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' comic story "The Gods Must Be Nosy", Courage makes a sick Muriel a cup of tea.
54	* In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGriffin'', Getafix's shaman friend makes him tea with fermented mare's milk in an attempt to help him get over his cold.
55	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' comic story "Dese, Dem and Dozzze", WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd makes himself some warm milk in an attempt to cure his insomnia. Thanks to Bugs, it becomes too hot for him to drink.
56	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' comic story "Tired and Tested", the Eager Young Space Cadet accidentally gives a sick Dodgers a cold remedy that puts him to sleep, and tries to wake him up by giving him coffee to drink.
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59	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
60	* In ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', one strip from a story arc which parodied ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' depicted Quincy as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Jason (playing Scrooge) wonders why the Ghost doesn't speak, and the next panel shows him giving the Ghost a hot drink while remarking that he never knew that ghosts could get laryngitis.
61	* In one ''ComicStrip/StoneSoup'' comic, Val asks Joan to make her some peppermint tea with honey when she (Val) is home sick.
62	* In ''Literature/TheMoomins'' comic story "Moomin's Winter Follies", Moomintroll catches a cold and is put to bed with a hot drink.
63	** In the comic story "Moomin the Colonist", after throwing a bucket of water over the squabbling Council, Moominmamma wraps them in [[IllnessBlanket blankets]] and gives them hot coffee to stop them from catching cold.
64	* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Nancy}}'' comic, Nancy comes home from school to find a sick Fritzi lying on the sofa with a hot drink in her hand.
65	* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip, Jon's visiting grandmother notices that Garfield is looking stiff and gives him a glass of hot horse liniment, before realising that it should have been a glass of hot lemon tea.
66	* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's Mom sees him coming inside from the snow, and meets him with a blanket and a cup of hot chocolate by the fire, causing him to comment "Nobody knows how to pamper like a Mom."
67	** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/10/18 another strip]], Calvin is home sick from school and spends the day in bed, reading comic books and drinking tea.
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70	[[folder:Fan Works]]
71	* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fanfiction:
72	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10876362/4/Fall Fall]]'', Legolas has been beaten up, so Aragorn and Gimli give him tea.
73	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6882002/1/The-Falls The Falls]]'', Legolas (again) is served lemon tea to help with his sore throat.
74	** This happens to Legolas for a third time in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1637531/1/A-New-Feeling-Sickness A New Feeling: Sickness]]'', although played with because it's actually an [[PlotAllergy allergic reaction]] they're treating. Legolas is allergic to some nuts, which make him have cramps and throw up among other symptoms, so Aragorn feeds him herbal tea.
75	** It happens to Legolas yet again in ''[[http://www.councilofelrond.com/fanfiction/resting-2/ Resting]]'', when he has a cold [[note]]Which is actually going against canon. Elves, including Legolas, are immune to all diseases.[[/note]]and they give him herbal tea.
76	** Happens to Frodo (for a change) in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1316095/1/A-Little-Walk A Little Walk]]'', when he gets sick due to a combination of being out in the rain and being thrown in jail (ItMakesSenseInContext), and is given both soup and tea to help him get better.
77	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4239985/1/Keep-Him-Secret-Keep-Him-Safe Keep Him Secret, Keep Him Safe]]'', Aragorn is given a drink of beef, herbs, and salt to stop him from getting dehydrated from his illness.
78	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/749092/1/Splashing-and-Sputtering Splashing and Spluttering]]'', Pippin and Gimli are both given hot drinks after falling into the river and getting chilled.
79	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1450724/1/Baggins-of-Hobbiton Baggins of Hobbiton]]'', Frodo is given hot tea after falling through an icy pond, then later that evening is given tea with honey to help his sore throat.
80	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3888127/1/What-Needs-Looking-After What Needs Looking After]]'', Frodo makes Sam a hot drink of mint and laurel with honey when the latter gets a cold.
81	** In Chapter 22 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/711875/chapters/2147259 Episodes From Middle Earth]]'', Dori makes Bilbo medical tea when the hobbit gets sick from being underground for too long.
82	*** In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/711875/chapters/4036167 Chapter 28]] of the same story, Kili and Fili give Bilbo tea while he is suffering from a cold.
83	** In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15507765 Rising in Spring]]'', Frodo makes chamomile tea with honey for a sick Sam.
84	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/888118/1/I-Always-Know-You I Always Know You]]'', Merry is given herbal tea to help his sore throat when he gets sick.
85	** In ''[[http://www.larrkin.com/soul1.htm Noble Soul]]'', Aragorn makes a special athelas tea for Boromir and the hobbits when they fall into a lake and get wet.
86	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1268566/1/Old-Winyards-Finest-Hobbit-Ruination Old Winyards Finest Hobbit Ruination]]'', Bilbo makes peppermint tea for Frodo when the tween gets a hangover after drinking wine he mistook for cordial.
87	* In the ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11364061/1/Feeling-Better Feeling Better]]'', Riley gets sick and drinks "enough tea to [[NationalStereotypes choke a Brit]]".
88	* In the fifth chapter of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12129989/1/Protector Protector]]'', Starscream is given a cup of copper cocoa to help him calm down and warm up after he hears Enforcer sirens and has a flashback to the night he was almost sold by slavers.
89	* In the last drabble of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8874303/1/A-Drabble-A-Day-Keeps-The-Bonstys-At-Play A Drabble a Day Keeps the Bonstys Away]]'', [[WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Slickis]] offers to make Ickis a mug of hot unleaded crude oil after the latter falls through an icy pond and catches a cold.
90	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10717746/1/The-Second-Older-Brother The Second Older Brother]]'', [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Wakko]] makes peppermint tea for a sick Dot to help her get over her cold.
91	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1222142/1/A-Rainy-December A Rainy December]]'', [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold]] makes Helga chicken noodle soup and lemon tea when she gets sick. She returns the favour by making him vegetable soup and warm milk with honey when HE gets sick.
92	* Happens by accident in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5152963/1/Java Java]]'' - while trying to come up with an idea for a new coffee recipe, [[WesternAnimation/TopCat Brain]] is duped into mixing Tabasco sauce, chili powder, and cayenne pepper with coffee. It's accidentally served to a customer...who loves it, because he's been suffering from a horrible cold all week, and the spicy coffee cleared his sinuses.
93	* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5548853 Sun and Ice]]'', [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Arthur]] falls into an icy pond and is pulled out by Antonio, who takes him back to his caravan and gives him hot chocolate to help him warm up.
94	* In ''Fanfic/SimpleGifts'', Literature/SherlockHolmes gives Doctor Watson a cup of weak tea to help him shake off the flu.
95	* In the ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeries'', the events of "Divide and Conquer - Chaos and Hilarity" ends with Valmont catching cold after being part of a HumanSnowball, thus requiring him to be wrapped up in a blanket and drink hot chocolate.
96	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13828922/1/Take-Two-And-DON-T-Call-Me-in-the-Morning Take Two (And DON'T Call Me in the Morning!)]]'', [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015 Professor Von Slickstein]] gives Penny a cup of honey lemon tea when she's sick with flu. She also drinks a cup of tea (along with two large glasses of orange juice) while in bed.
97	* In ''Fanfic/TheUnwantedHaremOfNathanAdams'', [[VideoGame/YokaiWatch Insomi and Sandi]] make coffee and warm milk, respectively, for a sick Nate.
98	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12947441/1/Save-the-Date Save the Date]]'', [[WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife Xibalba]] makes peppermint tea for a hungover [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack]] the morning after the latter's stag night.
99	* Fanfic/TheKedaboryVerse:
100	** In ''Fanfic/AfterYamiko'', [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Alice]] offers [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Mepple]] some warm milk to help him relax after it's discovered that, because his Card Commune was in Nagisa's pocket during the battle against Yamiko, he is also suffering from the same Bad Energy poisoning as Nagisa.
101	** Inverted in ''Fanfic/DontCryForMeIveAlreadyWilted''; [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki]] uses a Cold Drink Cure, apple juice, to help [[Anime/SmilePrecure Joker]] with his nausea.
102	** In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/FragileHandleWithCare'', Robaire makes Tae-young tea for his throat while the latter has a cold.
103	** ''Fanfic/KedaborysElmoreChronicles'': In the November 15th installment of "The Voicemails", the youth center headmasters give the sick boys chamomile tea.
104	** In the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MaFille'', Von Kaiser makes Glass Joe ginger tea while he has the flu.
105	** ''Fanfic/TallPineTales'': In ''Paging Dr. Theresa'', Sandrine tells Theresa that chamomile tea always helps her feel better when she's sick.
106	** In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45646201 Tea and a Blanket]]", [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Karen]] makes tea for a feverish Komachi.
107	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3980146/1/Usagi-s-Struggles Usagi's Struggles]]'', [[Franchise/SailorMoon Usagi]] first drinks a cup of hot tea in order to help her sleep, then is given hot lemon tea after getting sick.
108	* In Chapter 10 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2210522/1/The-Ranma-Omake-Files-Innortal-Style The Ranma Omake Files: Innortal Style]]'', [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Kasumi]] makes medicated tea for Ranma after he sees his parents having sex and becomes traumatized.
109	* In ''Fanfic/TheSailorRainbowSeries'' story "All Hearts Can Melt", Darien makes hot cocoa for Lydia in an attempt to cheer her up when she is sad about missing Fiore.
110	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4831081/1/Nightmares Nightmares]]'', [[Manga/SailorMoon Haruka]] makes tea for the other Outer Senshi to help them recover from the shock of the nightmares they've suffered.
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113	[[folder:Films — Animation]]
114	* Mentioned by Captain Amelia on ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' after her longboat took a hit from the ship's deck gun. After a sloppy landing, she emerges from the overturned craft wincing in pain. As Doctor Doppler and Jim Hawkins try to assist her, Captain Amelia dismisses their aid, claiming, "A spot of tea, and I'll be right as rain." This brave facade is belied immediately when she mistakes Doppler for Hawkins.
115	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': When Homer is rescued from the freezing cold by an old Inuit woman, she feeds him a boiling-hot bowl of liquid. He leaps up screaming and [[FireBreathingDiner breathing fire]] before asking for more.
116	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' movie, the titular character and his [[RememberTheNewGuy three new bandmates, the Clayboys]] are kidnapped by the Blockheads and rendered unconscious by freezing them in a cell. When Gumby's friends arrive to save them, Goo revives Gumby with a mug of hot soup, and Prickle turns up the cell's thermostat.
117	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Ming gives Mei herbal tea in order to help with the period cramps she believes her daughter is suffering from.
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120	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
121	* In ''Film/LittleWomen1994'', Amy is sulking because her cold means she's not allowed to go to a play with her two oldest sisters. Beth, the third sister, promises to make her some ginger tea.
122	* In ''Film/{{Madeline}}'', Ms. Clavel ''suspects'' that Madeline is sick, and orders her to drink tea (as well as stay under the covers and eat soup.)
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125	[[folder:Literature]]
126	* In ''Bear Feels Sick'', Bear's friends encourage him to drink some tea when he's sick.
127	* Implied in ''Dear Substitute'' which shows the teacher lying in bed with tea, but she's never outright stated to be sick.
128	* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', Greg gets sick and he talks about how the only good thing about being sick is having someone fuss over you. The illustration shows Greg sick and his mother handing him a hot cup of something, saying, "Are you strong enough to hold this cup?".
129	* In the second ''Literature/DoctorDog'' book, Gerty Gumboyle gets given ginger tea to help with her motion sickness. As an interesting bit of trivia, ginger does indeed help get rid of nausea sometimes.
130	* ''[[Creator/WilkieCollins The Haunted Hotel]]'': Lord Montbarry, suffering from a cold, sends out his courier for lemons to make hot lemonade... and unwittingly sets off a chain of events that lead to both men's deaths.
131	* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Dumbledore prescribes bed rest and a mug of hot chocolate for Ginny to help her recover from being MindRaped by the memory of Tom Riddle.
132	* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Ron makes a cup of tea for a distraught Hagrid, claiming that it's what his mother does whenever someone's upset. It seems to work somewhat.
133	* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': In the first book of ''The Collegium Chronicles'', a severe blizzard hits Haven. Some people caught in the storm barely make it to shelter in time, and among other hypothermia treatments are given hot ([[SaintBernardRescue and alcoholic]]) drinks.
134	* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': CourtPhysician Caudicus advises the Maer Alveron to drink his medicine this way, while it is still hot from preparation. [[TheAce Kvothe]] knows that the temperature of a medicine has no effect on it working, leading him to suspect that [[spoiler: he is lying about his credentials and inadvertently poisoning the Maer]]. The truth is different: [[spoiler: Caudicus is exactly what he says he is, and is ''quite intentionally'' poisoning the Maer]].
135	* In ''[[Literature/{{Madeline}} Madeline's Rescue]]'', after Madeline almost drowns in the Seine, Miss Clavel puts her to bed and gives her chamomile tea.
136	* In the ''Literature/MorrisTheMoose'' book "Morris Has a Cold", Boris makes Morris tea to help with his cold.
137	* In ''Literature/PeterPan'', Slightly, posing as a doctor in John's hat, prescribes Wendy "beef tea out of a cup with a spout to it" for being shot. This is after claiming he's made her well by pretending to put "[[BuffySpeak a glass thing]]" in her mouth. Of course, everyone except Peter understands that he's not really a doctor.
138	* In ''Literature/PianoLessonsCanBeMurder'', Jerry's mother offers him hot chocolate under the belief that he's suffering from paranoia.
139	* In ''Literature/PostmanPatsDayInBed'', Mrs Goggins has Pat take an aspirin with a hot drink for his headache.
140	* In ''Literature/RamonaQuimby, Age 8'', when Ramona comes down with the stomach flu, her mother gives her "grown-up tea" for the first time in her life.
141	* ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'' ends with the sick Peter being given chamomile tea by his mother.
142	* ''Literature/TheTalisman'': After Jack catches a cold, which he gradually develops a fever as a result of[[note]]Which is rather unusual as colds don't often warrant fevers except in kids.[[/note]], Wolf offers him a hot drink containing herbs he gathered. Jack is quite reluctant to drink it, and it tastes awful, but it does the trick and his condition improves.
143	* In ''Teddy Bears Cure a Cold'', William is given a honey-and-lemon drink when he's in bed with a cold.
144	* In the picture book ''Zebra's Hiccups'', Zebra is drenched in cold water, which stops his hiccups but gives him a terrible cold. He ends the story by going home to bed with a cup of hot cocoa.
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147	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
148	* ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland''
149	** In the episode [[LostVoicePlot "Lip-Sunk"]], while the other Wonderland characters [[LiteralMinded search for the Queen's lost voice]], Alice is [[OnlySaneMan sane enough]] to give her tea with lemon and honey.
150	** In the episode [[TheTonsillitisEpisode "Take My Tonsils... Please!"]], the March Hare finds the Mad Hatter drinking tea with honey. Even though the Hatter [[TrademarkFavoriteFood drinks tea all the time]], he doesn't usually put honey in it, so this makes the Hare realize that the Hatter's sore throat is worse than he's letting on.
151	* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' whenever someone is sad or sick, Sheldon says social convention requires giving them a hot beverage. Refusing it "is not an option".
152	* Evoked in ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'': When Bob Cratchit asks to go home from work early on Christmas Eve to be with his sick son Tiny Tim, Scrooge coldly retorts "I suggest Tiny Tim drink tea." Of course this is before the ghosts teach him that Tim's illness [[LittlestCancerPatient isn't the kind that tea can cure.]]
153	* ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'':
154	** In "Janet and Clarissa Inc.," Marshall and Ferguson both have [[TheTonsillitisEpisode tonsillitis]] and drink tea throughout the episode.
155	** In "The Flu," the sick Janet drinks tea with a towel over her head to breathe in the steam and clear her sinuses. When Clarissa [[HereWeGoAgain starts showing symptoms]] near the end, she tries to quickly cure herself by doing the same thing, but it doesn't work.
156	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]] uses this trope rather uniquely. The Doctor, suffering from severe [[ResurrectionSickness regeneration sickness]], is unconscious and can't be woken up. What fixes him up? Breathing in evaporated tea that dripped onto one of the lights beneath the TARDIS' floor. Only with BizarreAlienBiology, folks!
157	-->'''Doctor:''' Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.
158	* ''Series/HisDarkMaterials'': In "[[Recap/HisDarkMaterialsS1E6TheDaemonCages The Daemon Cages]]", Mrs. Coulter gives Lyra an infusion of Chamomile in order to calm her nerves after she was nearly sliced away from Pan.
159	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': In the episode "Eye On Tim", Jill has a bad cold, and Wilson makes her what he describes as "the quintessential hot toddy": his own special blend of lemon, honey, and oak-barrel Scotch whisky. [[IntoxicationEnsues It gets her drunk]].
160	* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Defied twice.
161	** Once where Hawkeye tries to convince the British medics not to give tea to patients with abdominal wounds, which can make things worse.
162	** Again, where Major Winchester, with a toothache but desperately trying to avoid seeing a dentist, tries a vile concoction of roots, herbs, and assorted vegetables that is an alleged Korean folk remedy. It does absolutely nothing for his toothache but makes the surrounding ground around The Swamp smell horrible after he throws the remainder out, unimpressed by its lack of efficacy and repelled by its taste.
163	* On ''Series/{{Psych}}'', as Lassiter recovers from a poisoning that nearly made him insane, Shawn hands him a coffee cup, which Lassie quickly drinks...and almost spits out. Turns out it's not coffee or tea, but gazpacho. Lassie doesn't think it's that bad.
164	* ''Series/TheRiddlers'': Discussed in the episode "In the Soup" - Mr. Grimly advises a sick Majorie to keep warm and drink lots of hot drinks. Also, in the in-universe story "Poorly Pandas", a sick panda is given a cup of warm milk.
165	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E3EnsignRo Ensign Ro]]", Picard offers Admiral Kennelly -- who is suffering a cold-like Cardassian virus -- a cup of ginger tea with honey at 80°C, which he states was his Aunt Adele's home remedy for the common cold.
166	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' features a hot alcoholic drink called Fanalian toddy. When Leeta gets a crush on Dr. Bashir, she [[PlayingSick pretends to be sick]] to get his attention. He is not fooled but jokingly offers her the toddy to make her "better".
167	* In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Seven of Nine is changing personality all the time[[labelnote:Why?]]Because she used to belong to a hivemind of {{cyborg}}s called the Borg who turn people into them. Nearby was a machine meant to fix malfunctioning Borg drones that tried to work on her but instead it gave her the personalities of other people assimilated by the Borg.[[/labelnote]] and Neelix hears that there is something wrong with her, assumes she's sick, and suggests using tea from his home planet to cure her.
168	* In one episode of ''Series/SesameEnglish'', Tingo comes down with a cold and is given a mug of hot tea by his friend Niki.
169	* In the ''Series/GullahGullahIsland'' episode "Natalie's Sick", Ron gives Natalie a cup of tea after she gets sick.
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172	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
173	* ''Series/FraggleRock'': In "[[Recap/FraggleRockS3E5PebblePoxBlues Pebble Pox Blues]]", Bobber makes dooganberry tea for Wembley's pebble pox.
174	* ''Series/ThePuzzlePlace'': In the episode "I Love Kiki," when Kiki tries to talk to Julie but can't get any sound to come out, Julie assumes she has a sore throat and gives her herbal tea with honey. This does no good, though, because Kiki's throat is fine: she's just scared to admit to Julie that she [[BrokenTreasure broke her toy horse.]]
175	* ''Series/UnderTheUmbrellaTree'':
176	** In the episode, "Hamster Hullabaloo," part of Gloria, Iggy, and Jacob's efforts to keep Holly from finding out that Henry the hamster got loose involves Gloria [[PlayingSick pretending to have a cold.]] Holly goes to the kitchen to get her a cup of hot lemonade and a cookie to go with it... and finds Henry in the cookie jar.
177	** In another episode, when Holly has a sore throat and [[LostVoicePlot loses her voice]], she sends Gloria, Iggy, and Jacob out to buy lemons and honey so she can make herself a hot drink.
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180	[[folder:Video Games]]
181	* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy'': From the third game onwards, coffee is used to revive characters.
182	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' features a drink called "Emergen-tea medicine", which is essentially medicinal tea.
183	* In ''[[VideoGame/PuttPutt Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo]]'', Skeeter the snake has been rendered too cold to move, since he's coldblooded and stuck in the Zoo's Arcticland section. Putt-Putt has to give him some hot cocoa to warm him up so he can return to his part of the zoo.
184	* In ''VideoGame/SecretsOfDaVinciTheForbiddenManuscript'', when Babou loses her voice after singing for Valdo, he has to prepare a hot tincture of honey and lemon to ease her pain.
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186
187	[[folder:Web Comics]]
188	* The veterinarian from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' checks a soggy and wounded Florence Ambrose, and finds her body temperature to be a worrisome 31 degrees Celsius.[[note]]At first he suspects the thermometer, but understands otherwise when she tells him she [[OhCrap feels numb instead of cold]].[[/note]] The doc prepares a warm bath and a warm drink to raise Florence's temperature back to normal, beginning at strip #365.
189	* ''Webcomic/{{Jailbird}}'': In Chapter 3, Osprey brews a batch of herbal "Throat Soother" for the titular character, who lost their voice from overuse. Because plants are inherently magical in this world, so is the drink. There is even a cute [[http://an.oddlookingbird.com/comic/cooking-with-osprey-throat-soother recipe]] given for the drink.
190	* ''Webcomic/MyMilkToof'': In the "Sweet Wilting Tree" story, Lardee gives a wilting tree warm milk tea with lots of sugar to make it feel better.
191	* In one ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'' strip, a sick Ginger has a box of tissues and a mug of hot tea beside her.
192	* One ''Bear With Me'' strip shows Bear wrapped in an IllnessBlanket with a hot drink by his side after going out in the rain and getting sick.
193	* [[https://lemonheadandlollipup.tumblr.com/post/116817844150 This]] ''Webcomic/LemonheadAndLollipup'' comic has Lemonhead makes Lollipup a cup of herbal tea after Lollipup wakes up from a nightmare.
194	** Lollipup returns the favor [[https://lemonheadandlollipup.tumblr.com/post/172659420130 here]], when she makes tea for Lemonhead, who has just had a nightmare of her own.
195	** Implied in [[https://lemonheadandlollipup.tumblr.com/post/146217191350/sick-day-doodle-the-sketch-is-about-as-big this sketch]], which shows a sick bathrobe-clad Lollipup holding a cup of tea.
196	** In [[https://lemonheadandlollipup.tumblr.com/post/173265037040/this-is-the-longest-comic-ive-ever-done-shoutout this comic]], Lemonhead makes herself some peppermint tea after she has a nightmare, but gives it to Lollipup when the pup also has a nightmare.
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198
199	[[folder:Web Original]]
200	* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'':
201	** The disease Bubbles (a disease that involves hiccuping bubbles) can be cured with a certain herbal drink that's served in a mug.
202	** The disease Neoblues (whose symptoms mirror depression but it's a contagious disease) can ''potentially'' be cured with green tea.
203	* [[https://www.canstockphoto.com/set-sick-santa-claus-character-sitting-83028797.html This]] vector art of a sick Santa Claus depicts Santa wearing a face mask and holding a hot drink after getting the flu.
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205
206	[[folder:Web Videos]]
207	* During the twelfth annual ''WebVideo/DesertBusForHope'' ([=DB2018=]), Jacob told a story about a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szw9d0VJHsk trip to Ireland in which he was in extreme pain from an abscessed tooth]], and an old lady gave him a hot toddy that pretty much anesthetized him.
208	* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'': When the Emperor summons Helbrecht for the Imperial podcast he insists that the gravel-voiced High Marshal drink some tea. After a couple sips he throws the mug in [[ButtMonkey Boy's]] face, [[EyeScream gouging his eye out]].
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211	[[folder:Western Animation]]
212	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the opening scene of "Is There A Doctor in the House?" (the episode where Arthur and D.W.'s parents both get sick), Jane tries to drink a cup of tea to help her sore throat. The morning's chaos gives her no time, though, and she's forced to pour it down the drain.
213	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
214	** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]], after Zuko encounters Azula, in which Iroh is hit by her lightning strike, Zuko treats his uncle's injuries; one of which is by attempting to brew some tea for him, with emphasis on [[LethalChef attempting]].
215	** Later, in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEarthKing The Earth King]]", Iroh brews some tea for Zuko after he experiences an AngstComa after setting Appa free from Long Feng.
216	* In ''The Busy World of Creator/RichardScarry'' episode "Be My Valentine", both Lowly and Hilda are [[IllnessBlanket wrapped in blankets]] and given both {{Foot Bath Treatment}}s and hot cocoa after being pulled out of an icy pond.
217	** In "The Biggest Storm Ever", Mr. Gronkle and the beggars are wrapped in [[IllnessBlanket blankets]] and given hot cocoa (and a FootBathTreatment in Mr. Gronkle's case) after being rescued from the flood.
218	* In the ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' episode "Love Sick", Lazlo and Raj make Kaffizzle River Curry Pepper Tea for Clam in an attempt to cure his love sickness.
219	* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/CareBears1980s'' episode "No Business Like Snow Business," when Grumpy Bear has a cold, Baby Tugs gives him a cup of hot chocolate to go with his IllnessBlanket and FootBathTreatment.
220	* In the ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'' episode "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet Garbage Ballet]]", Owen makes Paige a cup of tea when the latter is sick.
221	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' episode "Spy vs Spy vs Spy", Zog gives Bean some "nighty-night knockout tea" when she is unable to get to sleep.
222	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' episode "Poorly Penny", Bronwyn advises Elvis to make Penny a hot drink with lemon and honey to help with her cold.
223	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'' episode "Yack Attack", Abby gets sick from drinking contaminated water and lies on the sofa under an IllnessBlanket while Petunia brings her a cup of tea.
224	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KatieAndOrbie'' episode [[TheTonsillitisEpisode "Sore Throat"]], Katie is given a hot lemony drink to help her sore throat.
225	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheKoalaBrothers'' episode "Ned Catches a Cold", Ned's friends give him a hot drink with honey and lemon to help him with his cold. Later, when [[HereWeGoAgain Mitzi catches a cold]], they give her the same drink.
226	* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' episode "Frog In My Throat," Mother Bear soothes Little Bear's sore, froggy throat by giving him hot lemonade with honey. And then she makes some for Duck, Owl and Hen too when [[HereWeGoAgain they show up with froggy throats too.]]
227	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'' episode "I Want My Voice Back", the princess [[LostVoicePlot loses her voice]] and is offered warm milk and honey. She is reluctant to drink it, but when she does, she ''instantly'' gets her voice back.
228	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'':
229	** In ''Madeline's Rescue'', as in the book and live-action film, Miss Clavel gives Madeline chamomile tea after she almost drowns in the Seine.
230	** In ''Madeline's Christmas'', when Miss Clavel and all the girls except Madeline catch a cold, one of Madeline's many duties while taking care of them involves bringing them tea and warm milk.
231	* In the ''Literature/MillyMolly'' episode "Class Concert", Molly loses her voice and Aunt Maude prescribes a "special cure" that is a hot drink to be drunk at bedtime that's a mixture of honey, lemons, and ginger. It works.
232	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E12NewNivagiCraneSong Crane Song]]," Walter offers Dr. Antigone some Labrador tea to treat her cold. It works wonders.
233	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'', [[GentleGiant Sandy]] has to find a magical flower to make an [[MagicAntidote antidote]] for Mk's earthquake causing hiccups.
234	* ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'': In the comic story "Mighty Moe" (an adaptation of "Captains Outrageous"), Magoo tries to give Waldo a cup of coffee in order to ward off a cough. Key word being "tries to" - not only does he mistake a seal for Waldo, he accidentally gives the seal cod liver oil instead of coffee.
235	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
236	** In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Three's a Crowd", Discord fakes having the "blue flu" and claims (in song) to need many things to cure him, including tea with honey.
237	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'': In "A Little Horse", Izzy tries brewing some magical tea to cure Pipp's illness, but after two failed attempts, she gives up looking for the cure and just brews her some chamomile tea [[ComfortFood to at least cheer her up.]]
238	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GhC6qKdQ8o this Finnish animation]], a bear falls into icy water and is given a hot drink, a FootBathTreatment, and an IllnessBlanket after being rescued.
239	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Escaping Expulsion", [[CatchYourDeathOfCold King gets a cold after being frozen in a combo spell of Eda's gone awry]] and is seen in an IllnessBlanket drinking a cup of hot cocoa.
240	* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Flu-In-U-Enza", the Enchanted Upchucks make a sick Rocko "Toe Jam Tea", consisting of hot water mixed with gunk scraped from between their toes. Luckily for Rocko, Spunky drinks it instead of him.
241	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "A Star is Torn", Lisa gives the family weak tea when they get sick from eating organic food.
242	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "A Little Smurf Confidence", Smurfette brings Weakling Smurf a hot cup of smurfberry juice while he's giving himself a FootBathTreatment after being fished out of a river.
243	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'' episode "Sick Day", Unikitty gives a sick Dr. Fox a cup of tea. Hawkodile also makes several cups to use as ammunition on a mutated Dr. Fox (ItMakesSenseInContext).
244	* ''WesternAnimation/VivaPinata'': In "Sick Day", Fergy makes twineberry tea and vineberry tea for a sick Paulie and Ella, respectively.
245	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'', Santa has a cold. While visiting Southtown USA in disguise, he befriends Iggy Thistlewhite's family (and convinces Iggy to believe in him) after Mrs. Thistlewhite hears him sneeze and invites him into the house for a hot drink.
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247
248	[[folder:Real Life]]
249	* The Hot Toddy is a popular drink used to alleviate cold and flu symptoms. It consists of hot tea mixed with honey, lemon, and brown liquor (usually some variety of whiskey but sometimes rum or brandy are used). The hot liquid and honey both work to soothe a sore throat. The alcohol helps ease the aches and pains associated with mild illness and makes it easier to sleep, which speeds up recovery time.
250	** In Russia a traditional variation of this folk remedy is a raspberry tea — a good measure of raspberry jam dissolved in a mug of hot tea (and the tea is actually optional), possibly with measure of some liquor, often herbal balsam, as it's believed that raspberry has anti-fever properties.
251	* Traditional medicine in many parts of the world prominently involves teas made from roots, leaves, bark, etc said to heal various ailments. While many have dubious medical value, others have been adapted by science-based medicine (i.e. willow bark tea to aspirin).
252	* Tea, and green tea in particular, experienced a surge in popularity in the 2010s in North America due to its supposed health benefits, notably its high antioxidant content.
253	* [=TheraFlu=] is a beverage that combines elements of medicine and hot tea and comes in different varieties intended to help with symptoms of cold and flu.
254	* Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser repeatedly asserted that in the British Army, a hot sweet cup of [[BritsLoveTea tea]] is the remedy for all ills except perhaps a bullet through the stomach - and he isn't sure about this last proviso. The British military's enthusiasm for tea ''does'' have practical benefits, however, being both a good prophylactic against hypothermia ''and'' a good incentive to make sure the water has been boiled properly. [[Series/{{MASH}} Hawkeye]] would agree with the bullet through the stomach remark, as pointed out above in Live-Action TV.
255	* Grog, or rum mixed with lemon or lime juice in hot water or milk[[note]]The latter is generally a bad idea, though, as adding lemon or lime juice to milk or cream will curdle it, making it at best unappetising and at worst emetic.[[/note]], was used by the British Navy to ward off scurvy.
256	** In the winter of 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier and several of his men developed scurvy while they were icebound in the St. Lawrence River. Some local Iroquois people gave them tea made from the needles and bark of a white cedar tree, and they recovered quickly. The remedy was effective because cedar and many other types of evergreen needles are rich in Vitamin C.
257	* There is, of course, the ancient urban legend that states that [[SaintBernardRescue St. Bernard dogs treated hypothermia patients with warm brandy]], famously represented by little barrels tied around their necks. Not only is this something that never happened in the entire history of using St. Bernards as rescue dogs, it was determined by researchers of all types (including [[JustForFun/TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters the MythBusters]]) that brandy is a very bad (even dangerous) fluid to give hypothermia sufferers because it has the side-effect of making veins expand, which worsens the human body's capacity to hold in heat.
258	* Many professional singers and speakers swear by hot tea with honey and lemon for soothing a strained throat or even treating a case of laryngitis. Creator/AndySerkis used a variant that he called "[[http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/chat/hotseat/newsid_2853000/2853041.stm#q16 Gollum Juice]]" (with ginger instead of tea) while working on ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. He claims he drank it "by the bucketload" every day, saving his voice.
259	* Lemsip (and unbranded equivalents) is a common cold and flu medication containing paracetamol which is designed to be taken in the form of a hot drink (it comes as sachets of powder to which you add hot, but not boiling, water).
260	* In Asia, ginger tea is an ideal drink for cold weather and is a remedy against sore throats due to the spiciness of the ginger root.
261	* Black coffee is a popular folk remedy for sobering a person up, but the only real remedy for alcohol intoxication is time.
262	* In general, hot drinks with things like honey, and chicken soup, can help quite a bit with illnesses like the common cold where there is no "cure" other than time. Sick people often prolong their illnesses by not eating, and not getting enough fluids (because feeling sick is not conducive to proper nutrition). Substances like this can help with mild dehydration, and provide needed nutrients, electrolytes, and vitamins that the body needs to actually fight the infection, along with making the person more comfortable so they can rest (which lets the immune system work faster). This is the main reason these types of hot drinks and soups are helpful for sick people. This obviously only works with minor colds and such, if you have a severe fever or anything else seriously wrong it's time to see a doctor.
263	* Elderflower tea can provide soothing relief and help with colds.
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