I've been putting it in coffee or tea, with honey. It's medicine.

All your culinary herbs and spices have medicinal properties.

There's an okay book about that called "The Magic Teaspoon", the writing isn't that great because she tried to make it entertaining as well as informative, I would rather have had the straight information without the "evocative" padding - however, it is a good book about the medicinal properties of your kitchen spice rack.