Here let me give you honey lemon tea to soothe your sore throat:
Alternative try some Chinese mumbo jumbo drink I can vouch for, hot ginger lemon cola (doesn't necessarily have to be Coke, although for some reason Pepsi doesn't work as well and other colas seem to work fine):
You just need to peel the ginger cut it in pieces, squeeze the lemon and combine in a pot with the cola and boil it. It's quite a spicy (on the vein of cinnamon spicy) drink ...