I think it works with just about anything spicy. 

When I was scheduled to give my first big presentation at my first engineering job (not counting an internship), I came down with a fever.  I ran home, heated a bowl of gumbo, drenched it with Louisiana hot sauce, sweated out the fever, and went back to work fever free and able to give a great presentation.

Gumbo became my goto for sickness and especially fevers.  Sometimes when I don't have the good stuff, I just drown a bowl of canned chicken noodle soup in hot sauce and that will work almost as well.