One of the most effective ways to get rid of a cough and cold is to rest. This means getting extra sleep, up to 12 hours a night. Take a day off from work or school if you need to, which will have the added bonus of avoiding getting coworkers and classmates sick. Keeping the air humid can help make you feel better when you have a cold. You can use a vaporizer or humidifier. Another way to breathe humid air is by taking hot, steamy showers. Put essential oils in your humidifier, like eucalyptus oil. You can also place a cloth with eucalyptus oil on it in the shower with you. Let the water hit the cloth and release the scent. Drink plenty of warm fluids, especially water. Drink lots of water. At a minimum, try to drink eight to 10 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Drinking water helps with congestion and mucus. You can also drink juices, clear chicken broth, herbal teas, or vegetable broths. Avoid alcohol and caffeine. You can add honey and lemon to the water or tea. When you are sick, it is important to get the nutrients your body needs to heal itself. Good food full of vitamins and minerals also boosts your immune system, which can help you fight your cold. Make sure you are getting enough vitamin B complex, vitamin C, zinc, and copper. You can take supplements to make sure you get enough of these vitamins and minerals. Sipping, or eating, warm liquids like soup is a traditional remedy in many cultures. This includes chicken soup. Hot, spicy soups are used in Asian healing treatments. The soups include red pepper, lemongrass, and ginger. Spicy foods can promote sinus drainage and help ease cold symptoms. Garlic, onions, and mushrooms are foods that help with inflammation and provide anti-oxidants. The salt water helps reduce any swelling in your throat, making a cough less likely. Add one teaspoon of sea salt (or table salt if you don't have any sea salt) to about six ounces of water. Stir to dissolve and gargle. The sea salt may also help supply various minerals that can be useful for the immune system, like zinc, selenium, magnesium.
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One-sentence summary -- Get plenty of rest. Use a humidifier. Drink fluids. Eat a healthy diet. Eat soup. Gargle with warm salt water.

Q: Laughter itself is unconscious. While it's possible for us to keep ourselves from laughing (not always successfully), it is very hard for us to produce laughter on demand, and doing so will usually seem "forced". Fortunately, laughter is very contagious (we're about 30 times more likely to laugh in the presence of others), and in a social context, it's easy to start laughing when others are laughing. Studies have shown that three things make us laugh the most: a sense of superiority over someone else behaving "dumber" than us; a difference between our expectation of something and the actual result; or welcome relief from an anxiety. It's good to know that the less funny a place is, the easier it becomes to add the element of humorous surprise. It might be easier to get people to laugh about in an office workplace than to get people to laugh in a comedy club. This is why The Office, the originally a BBC 2 show that was remade by NBC, uses an office as its setting: it's about as boring as it gets. They even process paper. How boring is that?! We're not used to looking at an office as a funny place, so when it is funny, it's especially funny. A lot of the time, comedy comes from linguistic confusion (unintentional) or linguistic playfulness (intentional). We sometimes find things humorous when there's a gap between our words and our meanings. Freudian slips are linguistic errors that are believed to expose what you were really thinking rather than what you "meant" to say, and are often of a sexual nature. Witty wordplay is more intentional: "A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion." Or this one, where the words "hockey" and "fight" are switched: "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out." There's perhaps nothing in comedy more widely cited but more thoroughly misunderstood than irony. Irony occurs when there is a gap between our expectations of a statement, situation, or image and the actual experience of it. Comedian Jackie Mason illustrates irony with a joke: "My grandfather always said, 'Don't watch your money; watch your health.' So one day while I was watching my health, someone stole my money. It was my grandfather." This joke messes with one of our fundamental expectations: that grandparents are nice, friendly people who are utterly harmless, and that the advice they offer should be sincere.The joke is funny because, in it, we are presented with a grandparent who is rascally, thievish, and double-crossing. Being funny doesn't come in a "one-size-fits-all" package. What makes you funny is unique to you and the way you observe the world. Trust that you do have a funny bone; as babies we laugh from four months of age, and all children express humor naturally from kindergarten age, using humor to entertain themselves and others. It's already in you you just need to bring it out!
A: Learn a little about what makes you laugh. Learn to laugh in boring or unfunny circumstances. Learn to appreciate witty wordplay and puns. Appreciate irony. Trust in your inner sense of humor.

Article: Add 1 cup (237 ml) of water and 3 tablespoons (57 g) of sweetened condensed milk to a separate medium saucepan. Mix the two together well so they're fully combined. When the water and condensed milk are mixed, sprinkle 2 (1 oz./28 g) envelopes of unflavored gelatin over the mixture. Allow it to sit for 2 to 3 minutes so the gelatin has time to soak. After the gelatin has soaked for a couple of minutes, place the pan on the stove. Heat the mixture on medium, and whisk the ingredients together until they're combined. Continue heating the mixture until the gelatin dissolves, which should take about 5 minutes. Once the gelatin is dissolved, remove the pan from the heat. Add 1 cup (237 ml) of cold vanilla vodka and mix it in well. Set the pan aside for the moment. You can substitute plain vodka or even more peppermint schnapps for the vanilla vodka if you prefer. Make sure the spot where you leave the pan isn't too cold. You don't want the mixture to set up yet.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Combine the water and condensed milk. Add the gelatin to the condensed milk mixture and let it sit. Heat the mixture and mix it together. Stir in the vodka and set aside.