Vicks Actaplus Wet + Dry 200ml

Vicks Acta Plus is not the conventional pharmaceutical syrup its shelf position suggests: it is an ayurvedic complementary medicine whose actives are herbal extracts, holy basil, liquorice root, turmeric, ginger, tailed pepper, aloe vera and levomenthol. The herbs are traditional demulcents and soothers, the liquorice and menthol give the familiar cough-syrup sensation, and the formulation is registered under South Africa's complementary medicine discipline rather than evaluated as a conventional medicine. Sold with that honesty, it is a soothing herbal syrup for wet and dry coughs with a famous name on the label. The 200ml family bottle is the value size for households that go through winter on it.

For households that want the Vicks name in a syrup and prefer a herbal, non-drowsy formulation, this covers the soothing role, with expectations set at herbal-demulcent level rather than drug level. It also fills the request for a non-drowsy family syrup honestly: nothing in it sedates, and nothing in it needs dose arithmetic against the flu medicines already in play.