Man... I don't get why people hate google. Google is just the search engine and it matters what results you read.

If I went into Google scholar links or if I read publications from nature, science, harvard, Stanford, etc. it's not the same as saying random blog.

In your Google search, the first few are random blogs and magazines but then there are more reputed sources like PBS that talk about how John Hopkins is actually using vinegar for certain specific things in relation to cancer. So what did you prove?

Maybe you are bad at learning from Google searches. Doesn't mean everyone is. I myself have a good science education, a bachelor and masters from the best engineering university in my country and hold 2 patents. Why be so condescending? I think I am able to read summaries from scientific articles or even regular articles from reputed sources and understand them.

Plus the original comment took such a strong stance that lemon and honey have no effect on cough. This is so easy to invalidate with even one instance. No scientist would take such an extreme stance. It takes a lot of research and studies to be able to conclusively say something like this.

Are you a doctor who has extensively studied this topic? If no. How are you so confident that lemon/honey cannot help with cold/cough? This wouldn't be the first time that medicine have been reverse engineered from common traditional practices.

Umm. Are you saying that sharing studies/literature is pointless? Because there might be others that disprove it? That's kind of a cop out...

The claim made by the other person is very clear and concise and something that can be tested easily. If the effect exists, should be seen in studies. If it doesn't, that can also be seen in studies.

Also if you think one can get this answer clearly from any doctor, then there must be literature around this available widely. After all, the doctor also learns from somewhere.

So I did some search and almost all articles from big universities are saying acid in lemon does help cut the mucus. Doctors also refer to these studies, right? So, maybe you need to comeback with some legitimate sources (including doctors) that say otherwise.

So, there are many studies that show that being cold makes you likely to catch cold.

There are double blind studies done with some people dipping their toes in cold water etc.

The hypothesis for reason is that the cold makes your immune system weaker temporarily especially in the nose. But that reason hasn't been proven. But the fact around feeling cold and catching cold is proven.

Sorry. Are you confident that lemon has no effect? Because other answers seem to say that citric acid cuts mucus.

Who's lying? And who has any sources to back them up?