A good stuffy nose reliever is hot water, lemon, and honey. Squeeze a fresh lemon into a cup, add 2 tablespoons of honey to the hot water and lemon. 1  Add 3 tbsp [ tablespoons] of fresh fruit! [includes vitamin C]. 2  Drink. 3  This mixture will help get rid of a stuffy nose as well as help soothe a sore throat.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, more accurately referred to as linguistic relativity, posits that the language we use can influence and even control how we see the world, the categories we make, and the associations we make about those categories.
The more you use a language (through reading or learning new words somehow) the more your neurons your brain is making. With more paths in your brain the more information you can store. Thus language does play a role in critical thinking. Not much - the actual process of critical thinking, of distinguishing sound reasoning from unsound, is pre-verbal. Language only comes into play in importing the conditions to be critically thought about and exporting the results arrived at. This is my own on-the-fly opinion, not something I've proven or seen proven.