Flat 7-UP has been my in-laws preferred method of medication for most ailments for decades.
To this day Mrs Showbizguru will still force it down our kids at the first sign of anything untoward.
But yet her mother is convinced Diet Coke causes cancer and the kids would be better off with the full fat version.
I've tried reasoning with them but when faced with simple country folk of Ireland it's a waste of time.