Calling for Home Remedies

I need all your home remedies for a chest infection. I’m not sick enough to warrant seeing a doctor but I want this cleared now. Yesterday preferably … I keep barking like a seal pup and coughing up … well I won’t give the graphic image but it’s not pleasant. Next Tuesday I start rehearsing in the choir for the Hobart City Carols by Candlelight and I’d like to be finished with the barking and have a nice clear throat by then. So I need your home remedies. What are they? I’ll start some steam inhalations and I’ve heard vicks vaporub is good if you put it on your feet before bed. Sounds absurd … but it can’t hurt right?! So tell me your cures. Quickly!