Yea Doc
He WAS recommending hot tea 11 years ago.

The effects of the warm salt water or chicken soup would be to raise
body temp. Also some of the covalent  bonds that increase the
viscosity of the mucus are broken at higher temperatures allowing the
mucus to flow more readily.
The effect of the tannin the tea is to hydrolyze the fibrin mucus
produced from blood by staph and their buddies. Bacteria need the iron
in the blood, the plasma they use to make mucus to build home.
If your mucus is clear, glistening and springy, it originated in a
blood vessel, not a goblet cell. Goblet cells are of the same clan as
those that produce sweat, saliva, tears and milk. If you can cry and
spit your goblet cells are okay and don't produce this monster mucus.
In fact when they look at path samples from CS patients, what is seen
is flattened lenticular shaped cells called squamous cells.  The
normal cilia and goblet cells are gone, probably killed by the
original virus that opened the area to infection and digested by the
bacteria which attached and began bathing the area in digestive
enzymes so that the underlying tissue was/is never allowed to recover.
The sequence of viral infection followed by bacterial colonization was
first documented and reported by Couch at the CDC in the early 80's.
(The medical community just did not do anything much with the
information.)

The beneficial effect of the tea in addition to raising the
temperature is directly proportional to it's tannin content.
Blacker is better.
The mucus has a protein superstructure which holds water like a
sponge. The tannin in the tea breaks some of the protein bonds,
liberating the water and causing the "mucus" (which never saw the
inside of a goblet cell) to shrink. So yeah 8 cups of tea a day.
Okay.  Or the center membrane from between the pecan nutmeats. Even
more tannin there, cheaper and less taxing to the kidneys.

Another thing that  works, try using Pepto Bismol tablets as
lozenges.  Bismuth is enough like iron to confuse the bugs and get
them to turn loose a bit.
Expect no instant cures..
from the volume of the sinuses I think that by the time the colonies
occupy enough space to become a breathing problem the volume of the
goo mats is about the same as in one of your hands. It takes months of
patient treatment, continued after one can breath, continued after one
can smell,  to roll them back and reclaim the area.