Broncosulfur

So, I started to get a bit of a chest cold and decided to go to a pharmacist to get medicine before it got to serious...Pharmacies here are funny. You go in and tell the pharmacist your symptoms and they can give you prescriptions! Caroline had a similar cold thing going on the week before, and SHE got this lovely, natural cough syrup that tasted just like honey. Mmmm. She asked the pharmacist if I could have that, and he said he had something that was better. So I got that. Later in the car, I open it up to take it, and IT SMELLS LIKE POO. Like, actual poo. I made everyone smell it and they agreed. They said I should taste a drop just to see if it tasted as bad as it smells. It didn't! It tasted sweet. So I took my dose. And when I exhaled, my mouth tasted like rotten eggs. I thought I might die. But I had to take it 3 times a day! Every time I had to take it I had a different chaser. It was never good. I tried: Medicine, followed by Fanta, followed by Pocket Coffee (Pocket Coffee is this Italian chocolate candy filled with a shot of espresso. We use them in one of our sketches). That was awful. I tried: Medicine, followed by a spoonful of honey, followed by red wine. Better. But still awful. Then I looked at the ingredients, and realized the Medicine is called BRONCOSULFUR. Why. Why would anyone put sulfur into a cough syrup that you drink? I've since stopped taking it. I just don't understand.