The doctor said that not all colds are suitable for drinking ginger soup and sweating. For the wind-heat cold, the human body has already felt the wind-heat, or the cold evil has turned into heat. If we take ginger warm medicine at this time, it will be like adding fuel to the fire, which will aggravate the internal heat. Beijing began to cool down sharply yesterday. As the weather turns cold, the number of cold patients increases. Many people like to have a coke and ginger soup before meals to prevent colds. However, experts warned that Coke Ginger Soup is also a good choice for treating colds: it is only suitable for cold-type colds. The doctor said that ginger is a pungent food, which can sweat and relieve exterior symptoms, dispel wind and dispel cold. Therefore, when encountering wind, rain and cold, drinking a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup, cola ginger soup or scallion soup in time has a good effect on treating colds. However, Chinese medicine believes that colds can be divided into wind-cold and wind-heat. The doctor said that not all colds are suitable for drinking ginger soup and sweating. For the wind-heat cold, the human body has already felt the wind-heat, or the cold evil has turned into heat. If we take ginger warm medicine at this time, it will be like adding fuel to the fire, which will aggravate the internal heat. So how to distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat colds when you have a cold? Director Li said, first of all, it depends on the cause. If it is cold, the patient will feel cold, runny nose and pale tongue coating. This type can choose to drink ginger soup; Patients with wind-heat often have fever symptoms, such as sore throat, yellow nose and dry stool. Such patients are advised to use pungent and cool drugs to soak in water, such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and isatis root, or take some Chinese patent medicines such as Yinqiao Jiedu granules to treat the symptoms.