Alternative Treatment

After a lunch break, a pharmacist walked into his shop to find a man leaning against the wall.
“What’s wrong with him?” he asked his assistant.
“He came in for cough syrup but I couldn’t find any so I gave him an entire bottle of laxatives.”
”You idiot” said the pharmacist, “you can’t treat a cough with laxatives”
“Of course u can” the assistant replied. “Look at him, he’s too scared to cough now.”