No cure so you gotta rest. Nose is stuffed so you gotta mouth breathe. Throat is dry from mouth breathing. Dry throat makes it painful to swallow. Pain keeps you from sleeping and recovering. Lack of sleep leads to worse symptoms like piercing headaches. Need to rest to get rid of the headaches. Headache and swallowing is too painful to rest properly. Lack of rest perpetuates headaches, nose congestion, dry throat, painful swallowing.
What is this BS
Sure it is unpleasant. But you basically just have to rest for a day or two and your body will cure itself … I’d say that’s a pretty good response.
And thanks to our brains we also have medicine to combat most of these symptoms, making it really just a minor inconvenience.